Picnic in Hyde Park Sun Aug10th

Today we spent about three hours to ready ourselves for a picnic in Hyde Park to meet Simon, his wife and their new little baby Amalie as in the movie Amalie. Everything went well on departure. Oona fell asleep in the pram, Kiefer fell asleep in the baby Bjorn on Sonja and we gathered our nappies, bottles, snacks and umbrellas and caught the bus. Alex had to drop in at work so we met him there. We took the bus and walked thru the huge beautiful park which I had never seen before with Oona skipping ahead.

We met at the children's area and the area reminded me a bit of Tivoli. Of course not so elaborate or cutesy but beautifully landscaped with lots of activity centres. They even had a pirate ship. Oona can actually balance on the big kids swing. (Maybe I mentioned that)

We met Simon's family and friends and everyone sat around on blankets under a big tree. Lots of other groups doing the same. A Philippino group with lots of kids picniced under  tree next to us and the little kids came and had watergun water fights  with out little kids.

What a diverse group of nationalities here. I love to watch moms and kid or dads and kids of all shapes, sizes and colors.

Kiefer made the biggest, messiest poo ever in the park, or so Sonja said. He looked very contented afterwards. Oona gives  him lots of kisses. She really is wonderful to him.

Lucky with the weather as rain started at 4.30 and we dashed for the car and home.

Made Xmas fish filets and Oona refused to eat anything but ice-cream. I think she had too many doritos at the the park. Oona jumps around, sings, falls off the kitchen chair, sweeps the kitchen floor and does anything else to delay bath and bed time. We popped a soother into Kiefer's mouth and he stopped crying immediately!

Tired.

~I~