Aqua beads

I ordered them for Anya’s birthday and over a month later they arrived! The anticipation and watching them expand for hours provided as much excitement as the play. They kept both A & M busy for the morning.
In the afternoon we went to the ‘bluebell wood’ as we know it to see if we could find the pond where we released our tadpoles and frogs a couple of years ago. We found it and sure enough there were frogs! Anya was thrilled but slightly anxious about getting back to the car after we had to cross a field of cows to get to the woods.
Max was in his element with a stick; whacking trees, fishing in the pond, scraping moss off rocks and poking us!