What do you mean?

We graduated from the infamous 'why?' question when the boys were about 3/3.5, but nobody ever told me about "what?" "what do you mean?" and "I don't get it mom, what?". Owen is really trying to understand EVERYTHING he hears and he wants to hear EVERYTHING you talk about. Its made our reunion here a bit challenging to have any sort of full real adult conversations. It also shows me its another stage in our life as a family; its always changing.

Today the boys and I decided to get out of Crawley and go into London for the day. We hopped a train after breakfast and headed toward Victoria Station. Our first stop was Buckingham Palace, which was blockaded as they were cleaning up from the Diamond Jubilee extravaganza. We caught a small glimpse and decided to come back another day for the changing of the guard and all the other sites.

From there we headed to Hyde Park (which is enormous) and spent a good chunk of our day playing at the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Park. It is inspired by Peter Pan and the boys had a great time climbing to the look out, exploring the ship and building sand turtles and crocodiles.

After a late lunch, we took the tube toward Piccadilly Circus and the famous Hamleys toy shop. There are 6 floors of toys and we looked at them all! Of course, we couldn't walk out empty handed, I couldn't resist.

After making our way from the toy shop, we took our first double decker bus ride along the designer shop lined streets back to the train station. I told Jer he was lucky the boys were with me...I could have done some serious damage! :)

I am starting to understand the draw of London. I'm also grateful that I will have many opportunities to explore it even more. There is just so much to see and do.