The Sad Saga of the Duck-Godzilla Umbrella

We've been having a bit of rain recently but since its been pretty mild I have been taking Frost and Wren out walking. He loves using his duck umbrella. Its made by a company called Pylones and had a duck head and a duck foot handle and has purpled feathers inside the plastic canopy.


Unfortunately, when I shut the door of the minivan one night the duck umbrella was in the door and it broke with a mighty crunch. The damage was cosmetic but as you can see from the picture below, it was quite tragic. I felt very bad to have broken it but Wren said "its okay, Mummy okay? need GLUE" and we tried to get over it. For a few days duck-head lived a life apart from the umbrella - while Frost kept suggesting I glue it. To my mind this was clearly impossible.
To make the best of a bad situation, I suggested we put a dinosaur head on the umbrella to fix it. Wren is very happy with the godzilla head Josh attached this evening.


Skateboarding
Today, we walked to Top Pot for donuts and Frost brought his skateboard with him. On the first slight incline he rolled down without falling off. He was very tentative and wanted lots of reassurance about how well he was doing. After a few rolls he learned how to steer the board and went down some steeper hills. He was very pleased and after the donuts he hopped on his board with great confidence. He even learned to steer to avoid holes in the sidewalk. After each descent Wren ran down the hill towards Frost to "bring him back".