Baby Boom!

Katie and Sophie this week continued to meet up with the rapidly increasing number of new Mums and wee babies around this area. I'm sure this might be some peoples idea of absolute hell but a room full of babies seems to be fun for Sophie and the Mummy company is fun for Katie as well.

We had a package delivered from Amazon this week - it was a case for my new phone and a box of nappies - but it came in a huge box which I left in the dining room until I got round to putting it in the recycling.

Unfortunately Sophie got her hands on it first and thought she would surprise her Mum. Great fun.

We're continuing to get into some sort of firmer routine now and Saturday mornings are all about Dad and Sophie getting some time together and letting Mum catch up on some sleep. 

This week instead of drinking pots of coffee and watching really awful Saturday morning television together, Sophie and I decided to pay Gran and Grandad a surprise visit. We even managed to catch up with Great Aunt Jean and Auntie Karen who's been really busy travelling around starring in her play. 

We drank pots of coffee but there was no TV and I had some gluten free square sausages which were a treat.

What a great morning - and then when we went home and got Mum. We went for a walk then headed off to the swimming. 

Sophie was in bed tonight by 6.30pm - a bit of a record, busy days seem to have some real benefits.

Sophie and the gluten free crackers

This week Sophie discovered gluten free crackers and found out for herself that the box tastes better than the actual crackers.

September weekend visits

So I've got a new phone, blah blah blah - long overdue but it means the quality and frequency of photos will hopefully improve. Although it might mean on occasion that there are photos and no real explanation/story but I'm sure you're not bothered by that. ;o)

September weekend holiday is almost over already, and we've not managed to do all the things wanted to do due to Sophie and myself having a cold but we've still had a busy time.

Noan visited on Thursday and it was wonderful for her to get to see Sophie - hopefully we'll all get to catch up again soon, perhaps we need a wee road trip down south at some stage.

Katie and Sophie also met up with Joanne and Mhairi - here are the photos of all the acton:

There were also a number of visitors to the house this last week, Finlay and Sarah Jayne along with their Mums (Marie and Lorna). Finlay is currently wearing a really cool helmet on the advice of the Docs - not because he is doing any BMX tricks. Sophie tried hard to keep up with the older kids but she was all tired out.

Finlay, Sarah Jayne and a sleeping Sophie

Last but by no means least, Sophie met up with Chantal in the trendy west end of Glasgow yesterday while Dad took a wander into Glasgow to see if a walk would help his cold (which it did)

We ended the day with a visit to Gran and Grandad's for dinner which was going really well until we stayed up past Sophie's bedtime and she had to be taken home for sleeptime.

Tummy time

Ok,  the novelty will wear off eventually but here's one of this mornings tummy time.

Spot the difference?

I'll need to dig out a photo of the garden from when we first arrived in February but  I've demolished yet another bush today.

Daddy day care

"A new phone? Will you put it away for two minutes?!"

Sophie has a wee cold this week and stayed in today while Mum went to baby and mothers group on her own!

Daddy is off from school for the September weekend and did the looking after - we went a walk into Milngavie and when we started Dad had sunglasses on, and by the time we got home, Daddy was soaking wet and needed to change his troosers.

Doing the garden two weeks ago

A hard shift in the garden and Sophie comes out to have a look

Phone post practice

New phone and the September weekend

I'm now on my September weekend holiday and I have a new phone. one I can blog from and everything. Expect more photos and posts but probably worse spelling and grammar. ; o)

A week of Yes and No.

This week was the week where Scotland was going to vote for independence and life was going to be a massive new adventure for the whole country - but then Scotland decided not to bother and life kind of just went back to normal.

Don't worry, I'm going to keep politics out of the blog, it's not the place for those types of discussions, we're only here for a bit of a laugh. Here is a photo of Sophie and I voting anyway, just for posterity. The guy with the dog was our local Yes campaigner.

Sophie votes for more sleep -
 the motion was passed
and I had to clear it up ;o)

Sophie had some more visitors this week - she finally got the chance to catch up with Great Uncle Robin and Great Aunt Judy. Unfortunately I was at work but they all had a great catch up and I am sure I will get to see them soon.

We've also been shooting some video this week - we have quite a lot but just haven't posted any here yet - it turns out the videos I have shot need to be compressed to fit on here - so I will be back with some videos in the very near future.

Here are some photos from bathtime instead. As you can see from the photos, Sophie continues to pile on the pounds - she is now over 15lbs ;o)

This week was also a week in which Katie had a works night out in Glasgow on Friday night to catch up with colleagues. We were also able to have my Mum over to baby sit Sophie on Saturday night and let Katie and I go out to a leaving party for our dear friends Alan and Pam who are moving down to England-shire for a new exciting job opportunity. Sad to see them go but excited for them and can't wait to go and see them.

I've been busy again in the house and garden - after a weekend of mulching last week I have been continuing the clean up job outside. I have also been re-grouting the bathroom, fixing the toilet roll holder and fixing the plasterwork. Another busy week what with staying up all night to see the referendum results roll in.

Here's the progress in the garden, I'll spare you the photos of the toilet roll holder and the grout ;o)

Anyway - that's the end of the week - feels like this week lasted for a really long time, next weekend I get a long weekend with the September holiday, I think I may be looking forward to it much more than usual for some reason.

Sophie, all dressed up and trying
to eat a bottle of lucozade.

To finish - here's a photo of Sophie this morning with a banana......

"Does this meet EU regulations?"