Friday = Isabella Day (74)

We enjoyed another lovely day with Isabella, who started with some colouring.

Something makes this activity hilarious.

Then it was into the kitchen for some cooking - blueberry popups.

The poor child is exhausted after a hectic few days at 'pre-school'.

Fish fingers and beans for lunch, with sadness when all the beans had been extracted from the pan.

Better move on to the popups...

Then the tent (Terra Nova Hyperspace) came out again, and readings from grandad's old 'Thomas the Tank Engine' books staved off a mid afternoon snooze.

Grandad, however, did manage a nap, and he awoke to this view of Isabella and Grandma relaxing outside as the tent had got too hot for them.

Then camera shy Markus arrived to spend the night with us after pizzas at Rudy's - and an early departure for a 6am flight that got him home to Dornbirn by 1:30pm. Sue took Isabella to Wythenshawe Park for a session in the playground. But exhaustion had finally taken its toll and the child refused to wake up, so they had no choice but to go home to Didsbury, a happy and well behaved girl.