Gorgeous blue skies

Lego love

More fun and cheekiness on the beach

And then down to the water's edge

And into the water (apparently Leo can't detect the cold)

Reminded me of one of my favourite songs, a song about fatherhood amongst other things, sung here with Neil Finn. 

Jetty Island

Beach picnic north of Seattle today on Jetty Island. 

Danielle buried Leo, with bossy direction - "use the bucket and spade"

Can you see what it is yet?

Leo the merboy

Leo returned the favour

Leo got to play not just with Isobel, but also with June

Later we went for a coffee walk near home and Leo went for a run

Beach boy

Leo has been learning to dip bread in soup from Mummy and he excitedly squeals "dippy dippy dippy" when he does it. Today Leo decided to experiment with new flavours and tried out dipping orange into Weetabix. Dippy dippy dippy!

We explored up the east coast of Kent today. We began with lunch at a posh hotel in Sandwich, where Leo had his first roast beef and yorkshire pud dinner. Then we headed north to Botany Bay.

What's that?

Quick, to the shore!

I don't like the sand!

On second thoughts, I think I'd prefer to be carried atop some shoulders.

Coffee house boy

It was a cloudy start to the day so Leo suggested going back to our new favourite coffee shop in Wadebridge. Leo is enjoying books more than ever and he insisted that Daddy read one of the books he found in the coffee shop several times. Leo will now fetch one of his own books by name if you ask him to go and get it!

 After lunch we went for a walk to Daymer Bay. Leo napped most of the way and Ben helpfully pointed out the beach.

 We then went on a trip to a local farm to show Leo bunnies, goat, sheep and..wallabies! Mummy and Daddy enjoyed the zip-line the best.

 Leo thought it was a great spectator sport.

Coffee house boy

It was a cloudy start to the day so Leo suggested going back to our new favourite coffee shop in Wadebridge. Leo is enjoying books more than ever and he insisted that Daddy read one of the books he found in the coffee shop several times. Leo will now fetch one of his own books by name if you ask him to go and get it!

 After lunch we went for a walk to Daymer Bay. Leo napped most of the way and Ben helpfully pointed out the beach.

 We then went on a trip to a local farm to show Leo bunnies, goat, sheep and..wallabies! Mummy and Daddy enjoyed the zip-line the best.

 Leo thought it was a great spectator sport.

We had a whale of a time

Today was our last full day. The condo we rented was only available for the first 11 of our 12 nights, so tonight we're in another condo owned by the complex. They arranged it so we could just move in next door.

The new place is bigger but we liked the original one best. Here's the view in our first condo from the bedroom door down into the lounge with its double-height ceiling.

The carpet for Leo to roll around on was something else we liked about the first place.

But at least the new place has a super-duper one-and-a-half-person lounging chair.

After a stressful morning of moving, we decided to head back to Hapuna Beach for one last time. Leo had fun eating his hat.

 It was a cloudy afternoon, but who needs sunshine when you can watch Humpback whales spraying and diving from your deck chair or boogie board? They're just leaving Hawaii for Alaska. We couldn't get a shot of them on camera so you'll have to imagine!

 The sun came out just before we left - big smiles all around.