A long trip for dad.

Dad had a long journey today - he was off to Inverness to tutor the pro-youth footballers at the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium. The bus was 3 and a half hours up, I tutored for 2 hours and then headed straight back down.

The bus company made it all sound so glamorous - free tea and coffee - free wi-fi, air conditioned coach. Sounds great - until you realise that coffee served on a bus is honking, that once you upload or download anything the free wi-fi locks you out and on the return trip they were going to put you on an older style coach that didn't have wi-fi or air conditioning. At least they still managed to find some rubbish coffee for the way back.

The girls were left to fend for themselves today and by all accounts had a wonderful time - Mum took Sophie to the shops for breakfast and then over to Gran and Grandad's for some playtime to allow Mum to do a wee bit of shopping for Sophie's birthday.

Yesterday when we were all together we had another great wee Saturday - we went up to Mugdock country park where Sophie made herself at home on the wee red sofa in the cafe. She enjoyed blowing bubbles in her water using her straw - and she enjoyed a wee packet of potato snacks.

 

 

 Whilst at Mugdock we also had a look around the  stables where Mummy used to work. Sophie loved saying hello to all the horses. She fed a couple of them carrots and talked about how lovely they were. By the end of the visit she wanted to get on a horse - we have told her that she may get a shot of a pony (well, sit on one) when we go on holiday.

 

A visitor came to see Sophie on Friday - Katie's friend Joanne's wee one - Blake Brown (Joanne is a brown too)

Blake loved cuddling Sophie and playing with her toys - Sophie enjoyed the visit.

 

 

  

 

Another friend of Sophie's is Olivia - they have been friends since birth and are quite the girls about town heading off to gymnastics together. 

 

All in all another fast week - and we are rapidly approaching Sophie's 2nd birthday and with that we will be about 8 weeks away from a second wee bundle of fun arriving into our lives. Hope you are all well - see you all son hopefully.

p.s. - i have went into last week's post and added some text if you are interested in looking back. ;o)