Morning walk (and pony ride)

We were all feeling much revived this morning after a good long sleep (the husband managed to get a full 10 hours!) 

I took the boys off to visit some friends, we went to see them last week.  The boys love helping to groom their pony and have a little ride.  The eldest is looking pretty good riding - hasn't quite mastered rising trot, but is very good at sitting trot, to give him credit!  The youngest didn't have a good ride, as the toy car he was clutching was taken away so that he would hold on with both hands, so he just cried about that, despite having been super excited about having a ride.  

We all went out for a walk (with their four dogs), the eldest did brilliantly, running around with the dogs, throwing sticks and generally loving it.  The youngest took advantage of my shoulders for most of the walk (hence the picture with everyone in front of us).  

The youngest crashed and burned mid-afternoon and desperately needed a sleep, so he very willingly had a cuddle, some milk and tucked himself up in his brothers bed.  The eldest declared he wanted to draw a picture for his brother and spent about an hour sat at his table drawing pictures.  Very kind of him.  '

Been one of those busy, but productive days.  Which is good, given the write off yesterday ended up being.