Ladies who lunch and Dads who build fences

Sophie's 11 weeks this Tuesday, we all can't believe where the time has gone. Seems like just yesterday Katie was shopping at Debenhams with Hilary during second stage labour. ;o)

At her last weigh in - I forgot to tell you - Sophie was 13lbs 1oz and that was a week and a half ago - she is still piling on the pounds but on the bright side Katie and I are getting really strong carrying her around all the time. She's doing great and last night slept for 6 hours, fed, then went back to bed for 6 hours. Tired wee girl. She's doing lots of dancing, dribbling and grabbing now and progressing just fine.

Sophie and Katie are officially ladies who lunch, you know, just hang around, meet up with friends, drink cups of tea, eat cake and complain about how busy they are. ;o)

Well, kind of, but without the complaints - they're certainly now flying solo and they've had plenty of lunch dates and meet ups - it's a sharp change of pace but they seem to be taking it in their stride. They even managed to get into my work for a wee visit - photos of that should be added to this post in the near future. (when I charge my phone)

Sophie meets Sally

"Mum - are we having another busy day?"

"Great, I love busy days."

Auntie Shirley, Emma and Alistair (Katie's cousins)

Emma holding Sophie

Dad has been out in the garden a lot this weekend after a mega busy first week back at work that meant he didn't have a lot of time on his hands to spend with the girls.

Gary from over the back garden was keen to get a fence up as his kids were getting rabbits but I had a lot of clearing to do before we got to the stage where the garden was ready.

Some of the positives? Well apart from exploring the bottom of the garden I got to see how many apples and plums are now growing - a pleasant surprise. Anyone know how to make plum jam and homebrew cider?

How do you like them apples?

The other positive is that having cleared out the garden it now looks amazing (ok so not amazing but more amazing than it did) - there is so much more space than we first thought. It's involved cutting back a lot of trees and bushes but it has been worth it. The fence is level by the way - the height of the ground changes to make it look off.

Sophie and Katie came out to inspect the work and start to plan where we were going to put the trampoline and the play centre, chute, swings and barbecue.

"Dad - you've been in the garden for two
days and this is all you've done?"