Tattie Hols

Yes it's the holidays again or school holidays I should say. We haven't been anywhere, feels like we have just come from a long holiday in SA but it wasn't really.
The first term of school is over already and although we took off from a rocky unsure start, the boys have settled well into school and are on the up. Dylan has made a nice group of friends and Kieran is starting to make them, I think. Still a bit hard to get names from him. Dylan is making steady progress with his reading but the teacher has said from the 2nd term she expects alot more form him being older than his peers so I hope he will rise to her expectations and excel.

We have been really busy, unpacking all our old things and then keeping the boys entertained. We had a little party for the boys last week and invited 10 kids and 5 mums. The house was full but they all had fun inside and outside. I made a big milk tart and a chocolate cake which was enjoyed by all plus everyone brought a little something too. Way too many calories.
My heating has been fixed now just in time. Last week we had great weather but this week has been awful, cold, windy and there's snow on the hills already.
Back to last week anyway, One of Dylan's' school friends came to play on Wed and on Thursday he went to play at another friend while we went visiting at one too. On Friday Dylan and Ewan went fishing for the last of the season( didn't catch a thing) and I went shopping with Kieran.
Saturday we all rode to Tain on our bicycles and even Kieran did it although he stopped every 5 minutes to pick a flower, eat a wild berry, take a pee, pick another flower, ring his bike bell while stationary, say hello to the cows, you get the picture but he managed it. Took us about 30-45 min instead of 10-15min. He was good and moved out of the way for cars/tractors when needed. Sunday we went on the Aldie Burn forest walk which was lovely and even the weather held up for us. The boys loved it so hopefully we'll go again and try a few new walks too. On Monday we took the boys for lunch and to see Dolphin Tale at the cinema so we have had a lovely time.
Now the weather is pouring rain, windy and we have no plans to go anywhere. Apart from visiting the library we are going stay indoors , hope we don't go crazy though.
So that's all for now, no pics yet. Sorry. Have a good week. :-)