Tired boys in the laundry

The laundry this afternoon was a little heavier than normal.... the entertainment after our walk was the clothes pegs and laundry basket.  I like children that are easily entertained. 

Big day.  The boys went to the childminder for the first time.  I was of course worried that they would be ok, and of course, they were absolutely fine.  Maybe better than fine - I think they had a great time.  The childminder seems fantastic (with better advice on a few things than the health visitor a couple of weeks ago), very pragmatic and great with the boys - clearly a pre-requisite of being a good childminder. 

I had a wonderful morning, I got more done in my two and a half hours than I could probably normally do in about a week.  Despite being just so strange coming back into the house without them - and then leaving the house in two seconds as I didn't have to load the boys into the car.  

As expected, the boys were just so tired this afternoon.  One was asleep by the time we were home, the other went to bed as soon as we got back.  And three hours later, I went up to wake them up.  All the normal end of the day chores were already done, thanks to my bonus time from such a long nap..  After that, a bit of a quiet rest of the day - I ended up carrying both boys for most of our walk and there were tears at bed time, so they were still tired despite the huge sleep.