Tuesday, May 04, 2010

A morning at Thornton Abbey...

Dylan was really excited to see the "castle" at Thornton Abbey, though I had to coax him to climb up onto the wall.  This was, of course, after we had already "watered" the dandelions.  Oh the joys of the newly potty trained...
Martin and the kids dressed up in monk attire...
For this scene, Martin was playing the "naughty monk."
The sun was beautiful, shining through the gothic windows onto Edith's glorious red hair.
The two of us played together at this window while Martin took our delightful son for yet another toilet break!
When the boys re-joined us, we took advantage of the light for a photo of the kids together.  Awww, how sweet!
I just liked this one because Dylan looks like he's praying and also looks absolutely angelic.
Dylan had so much fun exploring all the twisty turning passages of the Thornton Abbey gatehouse.  It was a big adventure for him (though slightly terrifying for us at times).
We also explored the ruins of the Abbey, and Dylan was fascinated.  He kept asking us why the church was "broken."  And he loved crashing Lightening McQueen off the ruins.
There were some other people at the ruins, and we took advantage of their presence to get a very rare photo of all of us together.  The happy, bank holiday sight-seeing family.


1 comment:

Greg, Ang & 4 kidlets said...

Love the last one of you all together!

We're sorry to hear about Edie- hope you guys find out what's wrong so it can be fixed:) Hopefully it was a one time thing???