So another year in the life of Master Thomas J. Scannell rolls around and I can quite definitely declare that he is now four. He assures us that he is now a grown up and is no longer a baby in any way. Furthermore, he has decreed that the booster seat he uses at the dinner table is no longer necessary and he intends - in the very near future - to ride his brand new bike to school.
This is a photo of Tommy, Hannah, Sonny and I taken today at the National Railway Museum in York - the destination for Tommy’s birthday treat. I’ll add some more pictures later. Tommy is calling for his bath to be filled!
So, we’re back, our blogs up again (mostly) and life continues for us in sunny Kisumu. There are a few changes though. Just as we returned, school broke up for Summer. Now I have tommy with me for the whole day. I’m in the process of arranging rotating play dates so that he doesn’t get too bored and I don’t go loopy. Luckily we now have another resident in the house, Omundi, who Tommy can play with. I’ll let Hannah talk about that later though (she promises to actually put a post up later today). If you look in the side bar, there should be a little picture of Omundi there. If you click on it, it will take you to our Flickr account where you can see larger versions of the images and comment on them, if you like.
So, what do we do of a day? It can’t all be sitting on the swing chair of an afternoon sipping G&Ts whilst the sun sets can it?
This is what the Scannell half of the Scannell/Brown household gets up to on your average weekday. Having written it now, it seems a bit un-exciting (no lion wrestling or anything) but please read on if you’ve a spare 10 minutes!
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After our driest Christmas since we were both about nine, we celebrated David’s birthday with lashings of Tusker, Kenya’s number one beer (at least in our opinion).
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