Birthday parties and adventures to Peppa World.

Apologies once again for missing the blog last week - (mainly to my Auntie Jean to whom I said I would try to not miss another week - only to do so the very next week)

Let's get started though - it's been a busy couple of weeks.....

First of all we can start with Sophie's dinosaur egg that she got for her birthday - all she had to do was leave it in water and over the course of a couple of days - when she went away on holiday (more of that later) I kept a close eye and sent through progress photos every day - and when Sophie got home the dinosaur popped out. The name?? Mr. Dinosaur.

 

Sophie continues to be hugely entertaining and very funny - always wanting to make us laugh - I don't think she meant to make Mum laugh so much however when she got stuck in a box. she certainly wasn't impressed that Mum's reaction was to take a photo!

Ok - so let's get to the holiday - Sophie, Lauchlan and Mum left on the Thursday to catch a plane down to see Noan and David - and of course, a visit to Peppa Pig. They left Dad at home (more of that later) and had a wonderful time full of laughs and giggles. Good times - Thanks to Noan and David for making the trip so much fun for them all.

The picture above is Sophie looking very confident before her very first roller coaster ride - let's just say that she wasn't smiling all the way round - a lesson learned that sometimes being scared is supposed to be fun. More practice required I think.

 

On the way home to see Daddy

Meanwhile, whilst everyone was having fun, Daddy had been very busy indeed - Mummy and Daddy had wanted to get the front room painted now that there was a fireplace to be proud of.  

Now, unless you have done some painting and decorating in your time you probably don't realise that preparing the room, filling and sanding holes etc is by far the most time consuming part - closely followed by tidying up. After two nights of sanding and filling - and demolishing part of the built in Unit in the living room Daddy was ready to paint. By 11.30am on Saturday Daddy was considering quitting his job and becoming a painter/decorator. By 2.30pm Daddy was considering throwing the paint out the window. by 4.30pm on Sunday Daddy was considering never painting anything ever again. Here are some progress shots for you.

 

Lauchlan continues to amaze us by how much he eats and how much of a mess he makes -he loves every minute of it though - and so do we.

 

 

Lauchlan is also getting ready to ditch crawling and start walking - this could spell trouble. He turns 10 months next week.

 

 

 

It is the season of birthdays as I mentioned earlier - one of the simultaneously great and terrible things about keeping in touch with all the babies born at the same time -is that all the birthdays happens within a crazy two or three week period -  the terriblet part is "cake overload" which also happens to be the greatest bit for Sophie.

The photos that follow are all from this weekends birthday celebrations - there are some other really good ones that I am getting sent through so I will hopefully put them all into another post this week (optimisitic I know!)

More to follow soon I hope - with some explanations of the birthdays.....