Lovely, strong Legoland

Such are the adjectives Ferdy used to depict Legoland, where we went today. Not, perhaps my choice although I think strong is quite a good way of describing lego.

Ferdy's learning about adjectives at the moment so we wrote down as many as we could think of, looked at some books and pointed them out, and listened (quite a lot of times) to a rather catchy song from Grammaropolis about them.

We walked through the Christmas market to get to Legoland and, spotting the nativity scene, Ferdy told us all about the story of the nativity.

The best bit about Legoland was the vast scene of Birmingham which filled a whole room, and lit up when the lights went down for night time. We spent quite a lot of time looking at all the 2500 minifigures and the scenes in which they were working and playing.

Both boys also really enjoyed making lego cars and speeding them down the track.

Sadly for Mum, however, the cafe was awful so, once we'd done everything (which included going on rides, building houses and watching a 4D film), we decided to go to Birmingham Central Library to have lunch there and look at some books.

It's debatable whether Ferdy was happier racing cars down a track at Legoland (cost for one adult and two kids = £28) or going up and down, on his own, on the escalators at Central Library (cost for one adult and two kids = 0p).

The childrens' library has a huge selection of books, many of which I had to read. We also managed to find a phonics book on the sounds er and ir which Ferdy is learning this week, for him to read to me.

After a tiring day we boarded a very busy train home, but luckily for me and the rest of the people in our carriage, Ferdy (the Storyteller) was able to recount almost the entire collection of Aesop's Fables, his current bedtime stories of choice.