Summer flu and chickens!

OK, I spent most of the night with Robert and Richard last night. Robert couldn't sleep cause he was too hot, and he woke Richard who then too couldn't get back to sleep. Robert would have loved to come in "mummy's bed", but had I done that, I would have had two boys in bed with me and no room left for me - plus all the arguing over who gets to share Mummy's pillow! So between 2.30 and 3.30am I was in and out of their bedroom!
I have to add, Robert really was hot 39.8°C (103.5°F). So this morning we went off to the doctors, she checked him there for scarlet fever, but thankfully, that is not what he has got, he just has an annoying summer flu. We have some medicine for it, and hopefully in a couple of days he will be feeling better. At this moment I think he is feeling better, cause again they are not settling down to sleep! grrr....

Richard went to Kindergarden on his own this morning. He looked a bit sad as I waved bye-bye. And apparently it took him quite some time after I had gone to stop crying poor thing. In fact the first thing he told me was "I stopped crying, Mummy" - oops. After 3 weeks at home with Mummy it is going to take some getting used to being back there again. And to start it off without Robert did not help!

I let the boys play on the terrace this afternoon, I didn't want Robert doing any running if I could avoid it. Well they were in and out, and they haven't yet mastered the art of shutting the fly door. But as today the flies aren't so bad, I didn't mind too much.
Well, at one point they were both back indoors with me, about to do a jigsaw, when I turned and looked into the hall, I must have seen some movement. Well, I had a HUGE surprise, there in the door way stood Henny and Penny - two of our new chickens! They had cheekily walked right in! We then had to chase them back out again, one found her way out easily but the other cheeky chicken, went into the kitchen and hid from me, Robert and Richard under the kitchen table. Very hard to get her out from there, especially with the help of Robert and Richard who only really succeeded in chasing her back under, when I managed to get her a little way to the kitchen door!
then there was more clucking and whilst I left the boys in the kitchen I went to see, what it was all about, and there were the other 4 chickens on their way to my lounge!! AGH. Brainwave then, once they were outside, I got the boys to guard the door from the terrace and tackled Henny in the kitchen on my own. Worked a treat. I caught her and took her back outside.!
Hilarious!
Now, guess what the first thing I did, when I saw the chickens - yep, grabbed the camera! So watch this space, I feel a layout coming on - possibly my first with quite a bit of journalling on it. We'll see! Well, here it is! My first real journalling layout!

The journalling reads:
This afternoon we were sat in the lounge enjoying "Bob the Builder", when out of the corner of my eye I caught a movement! Imagine my surprise when I turned to see two of our chickens walking in as if they owned the place! (Of course my first instinct was to grab the camera!)

Credits:
Barnyard Banter and Add-on by ScrapShana at BTST

That wasn't the end of the chicken stories, a little while later the boys from next door rang the door bell. Henny or Penny not quite sure which (Henny I think) was out the front of the house walking along the path. The neighbours boys had tried to catch her and failed, so they rang for help.
This time I locked the chickens back up in their run! So much for letting them roam the garden! (we hoped they would solve our fly problem!)

Enough giggling for now. Time to scrap it!
Bye 4 now