It seems of recent weeks even though the first of babyhood are far behind us, the first have not left us as last week saw Joshua go on his first nursery outing.
Joshua at the moment goes to a really lovely local private nursery and has been going there for the last year. I have no doubt that the nursery have helped him come on in leaps and bounds … it is also the place that I have had to regularly pick him up for a physical extraction at his allotted end time as he cries and throws a paddy when home time comes.
When the nursery was looking for helpers for the trip to Wheelgate Family Theme Park I jumped at the chance.
When Beth was Joshua’s age I was working full-time and was a single parent so struggled to be involved in anything that her nursery were organising. Hence the excitement of being able to rearrange my normal working day to go and help … the joy of working for yourself!
When we arrived at the nursery the air was electric! with 28 pre schools, who many of them had been up since 5am according to the parents .. all excited and raring to go!
After an amazing amount of packing, organising, sorting and loading onto coaches the whole of the nursery including staff and helpers loaded onto 3 buses and set off the short journey to Wheelgate.
One of the other reasons I really was looking forward to visiting was that we live locally to this place and yet we had never ever visited before! I am now kicking myself as the park itself was amazing, it was well laid out, had some lovely rides and it also has the most amazing outdoor splash pool which the children adored! … although having said that the adults were equally as excited in the splash pool!
The whole day was fantastically thought out and I even had 3 little guys to guide too (although we all stayed pretty much as a group) we even had time for a tasty ice cream before loading the very happy and truly exhausted preschoolers onto the coach.
It really was fantastic to be able to share another first with my Son and also to bring back some memories of my childcare worker days (a was a nursery nurse in my teens, before deciding children weren’t for me! .. oh how things change)
I wonder what other firsts I will get over the next few weeks?! … I know it will hold annual passes for us all for Wheelgate thats a fact!
Awww, first nursery trip. It is brilliant that you could reorganise your working schedule to be there with him! Being there for their 1sts: that’s what life is all about!
thanks Mel, it was so fantastic to see him interacting with his little friends x
What a great day out hon. Must have been fab to be a helper and get to experience Joshua’s trip first hand 🙂 #MagicMoments
it really was, although i was shattered i went to bed with a smile on my face x
Fab first for your both, he’s growing up so fast x
thanks Jeannette, your so right every time i blink he is gets bigger!
Looks like a fabulous place to visit, so great that you both got to experience it!
Thanks Izzie, i am so going to go again with him 🙂
Ah that explains your Silent Sunday pic. What a fun nursery trip. I think anything with planes or cars would be amazing in Zs book 🙂
awww thanks lovely 🙂
Oh, that looks like a great place to visit. And how lovely to have been able to be there on Joshua’s first trip x
thanks lovely it was a great experience to share with him
Ahhh What a lovely day out! Looks so sweet. I did a nursery trip with my girl last year to the zoo. I think it’s really lovely when they organise things like that. Thanks for hosting this fab linky! xxx
aww thanks lovely its my pleasure to host 🙂
Sounds like a great day out. We find local places quite a lot, that we have never visited and then wonder why xx
its so true for us .. we then ask ourselves how we could have driven past it for 10 years and never known! x
This place looks like lots of fun! Great photos too missus x
thanks lovely xx
It’s lovely that you got the chance to go too. I recently went on my son’s reception trip and it was just a joy to see him interact with his friends.
#MagicMoments
it so isn’t it! i am so pleased i made the effort to go 🙂
Sounds like a lovely nursery and what a great day out to organise. Perfect that you had the chance to go along too
its was a fantastic trip! .. and the nursery is amazing! xx
How lovely to be able to share such a special first with your little man. Looks like a great day out, and I love the sound of the splash park!
the splash park is amazing!
Aww! Looks like a great place to visit and sounds like you all had a fab time x
awww thanks Kim xx
That looks a lovely place to visit, I love school trips, really sad we didn’t have any this year 🙁
Really enjoyed Wheelgate park last year. It’s fun & looks like Joshua is having fun x
its the first time we have been it was amazing! x
This summer is the first time we haven’t had annual passes for Wheelgate, it is a great day out for the kids and we have spent so many hours there and had some great picnics and memories. So glad you had a great time 🙂
we ought to go together! i cant believe we haven’t been there before!
Nice post and looks a fun day! It’s a little bit too far for us to go when the baby is with us next month, but it’s on the way up to the parents (or grandparents should I say) who are in Yorkshire, so maybe we can stop via there some day. P.S. do you think they’ll notice if I steal the dinosaur for my garden?
OMG funny you should say that about the dino .. i did say that to one of the nursery staff!
Ahhh so glad you could be there for a big 1st!!! Looks amazing. Always great not to miss out! Lovely post. Thanks for hosting dear. #magicmoments
thanks Jenny its great to be able to rearrange work to make sure i can be there for some of his firsts. with Beth i worked 70-80 hours a week as a single mum so this is amazing this time round
I’m sure this used to be called ‘Wonderland’ – I used to take my toddler group there for our annual trip. We went 3 years running because there was so much to do and it was such good value. Looks like it’s changed a lot, but those 2 facts are the same! 🙂
I think you might be right i seem to remember it was called something before wheelgate x
We don’t have trips like this but I would love to have one! You are so right about how pretty the place is too! Thanks for sharing this #magicmoments
This looks like such a lovely day out and so great that you got to share it with him x
thanks lovely it was so special i could work round the trip and get to go with him x
That looks like a fab day out!