Here we are again at the start of a brand new year. I hope it's a good one for all my internet buddies and their families!
I hope this post doesn't take too long to load up for you. It's pretty photo heavy as I have a lot to show you.
Christmas was especially good fun this year with this being the first Christmas where Riley has been old enough to understand some of what's going on. I haven't actually got any Christmas day photo's for you as we video'd it and forgot to take photo's too. Oops! I can tell you that Riley had a fab time though and was really quite disappointed when he came downstairs on Boxing Day and Father Christmas hadn't left him more presents! Sorry son, you'll have to wait a whole year before he visits you again.
On Monday (29th) we took Riley on a very special outing to see his first live show. The MEN Arena (Manchester Evening News Arena) had a two day showing of CBeebies Live. I booked the tickets in September and was a little dubious really. I thought maybe he'd be a little too young and lack the concentration to sit through a full show. How wrong was I! He loved it! All 1 hour 45 minutes of it. The young chap was in his element. Here are some photo's. They're not wonderful because of the distance we were from the stage and obviously because it was dark, but they are clear enough to see. All are clickable.

Riley entranced at CBeebies Live

The large giraffe (I couldn't work out if it was animatronic or a costume with people inside.

Riley laughed his head off at this elephant. He thought it was great.

Having a great time!

The Tweenies. They sang Riley's favourite song - Horsey, Horsey, don't you stop. He couldn't believe it. They knew HIS song. He was hooting with excitement.

And if I thought he was excited before, it was nothing compared to when his favourite characters came on stage - The Teletubbies!

Justin Fletcher as Mr Tumble. Justin is an excellent presenter on CBeebies and he also teaches the kids sign language too. If you can get CBeebies on your TV and you have young children, try and watch out for his show - Something Special. It really is something special and your kids will love it.

The Koala Brothers and another of the CBeebies presenters - Andy.

Characters from Lazy Town, Jakers and Boo.
It's pretty cold around these parts at the moment and we're told it's going to get colder. I don't think the temperature has risen above zero for 4 or 5 days now. I know some of you live where it is much, much colder, but this is COLD to us here in the UK. Today we wrapped up warm and took a walk in the park. Yep, more photo's to show you ...

The white foreground in this photo is actually the duck pond, totally frozen over.



I have published some more photo's on my
photo blog. If you're not already sick of looking at photo's then pop over and take a look. There are some cute close up ones of Riley.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Labels: Days Out, Family, Fun, Riley