Cold: virus and weather

We have had the lurgey again. This time it was Spike and Dude who came down with it. They are mostly over it, and just full of snot and coughing (as opposed to full of snot, coughing, fever and lethargy). Here's one of poor little Dude, who fell asleep on the landing half way up the stairs... Couldn't even make it to his bed. Must sleep now...

We have also had snow... ok, so only half an inch, and nothing like the exciting thickness that the Canadian cousins had been enjoying, but still very exciting. Exciting enough to stir Dude from his lethargy and send him hurtling outside to play... only to come back in 5 minutes later and spend the rest of the day on the sofa with a fleecy blanket absolutely exhausted!

Pip made a very impressive (?) mini snowman. Well, very impressive considering what he had to work with!

He also got the Chief Scout's Bronze Award at Beavers the other night... highest award a Beaver Scout can get! It means that he had got all of the Challenge Badges. Very proud mummy... Considering that I was a Brownie in my time, and a sixer, and only managed to get 2 badges. We were a very lax group and mostly just played games! So to have a son whose arms are covered in badges rather makes up for my underachievement.