Busy social life

With the crawler in action we have had to put a fireguard up. She would always go to the fireplace and try to pull parts of it off. She helped Daddy put it up! She has her own tool box and it came in handy for something!!

Sophie has had a busy weekend socialising. She met up with her friends from the baby massage group and we went to a play centre. Unfortunately it was during her normal nap time so instead of playing she had some sleeping to do! She still had a fun time playing though.

She also attended Cassius' first birthday party which was also at a soft play centre. She had her first taste of ice cream with sprinkles...

Her favourite thing was getting a balloon!

Today she has her first day at the nursery, but it's only for two hours and Mummy will be there too. Then on Friday she will be at nursery without Mummy or Daddy for two hours. She starts nursery properly next week.

Crawler part 2

A video of the crawler getting better. But she still has some practising to do!!!

Crawler

This is the crawler just a few days into learning how to crawl. She is far from good at it, but still gets to her toy in the end!

another vid to follow of how she is progressing now.

long time no blog

It has been a long while since the last blog post, mainly because every time we try to upload a video it fails!

Last month we went to Paula and Lee's wedding. Sophie was a little star all the way through, and went home at bedtime with Grandma and Grandad while Mummy and Daddy stayed out a bit later
She grabbed a fascinator from the Groom's Mother, doesn't she look sweet?

Sophie had her first bonfire night, which is also her cousin Kelton's birthday. She was wearing the hat that her Grandma had knitted for her. She liked the fireworks and didn't cry at all.

Ooooh fireworks....

But as nice as the fireworks were, she picked up Chickenpox from her cousin Kaden. Poor spotty baby! On the plus side, Mummy brought her a new In the Night Garden toy to play with! She has been not too bad with the pox, just needed to sleep more, and felt a bit grumpy. We were lucky that she caught it before Mummy goes back to work.

Today is Sophie's 8 month birthday. Every month we take a photo of her next to her Piglet. She's getting bigger! Looks like we'll need to lower her cot now as she has just started to climb up on the edge. Look at that smile.... I'm not really poorly!!

Sophie's first holiday

More videos and pictures...

This was last night, we put Sophie back in her door bouncer as we've not done it for ages. She loves standing, so the bouncer is lots of fun for her. She even worked out how to bounce a little bit!

We've recently come back from our holiday to north Nottinghamshire, where we had amazing weather! It was so hot, it was like being abroad. Luckily Sophie slept through the night still despite it being so warm. Also, she had caught a cold from her friend William, but she still slept well despite that too.

Here is a video of her on the swings. She loves it!

Packing for our holiday...

Walking on our first day of holiday. It was the only day it rained, but it was still fairly warm. We had to shelter her from the wind and the rain. Normally she would have a little sleep in the carrier, but she insisted on staying awake for the entire walk. Once we got home, she was exhausted and had a quick feed before having a nap.It then started raining torrentially! We had got home with minutes to spare otherwise we would have been soaked.

We went to an indoor gold simulator on one of the days. The babies enjoyed a roll about on the floor, chasing a Pepsi bottle and eating a beer mat. They're easily pleased!

Mummy and Emma went to Sundown Adventure Land with the babies. It is a mini themepark for children under 10 years old. Despite the babies being quite young still, we really wanted to go. We had a really great time, and can't wait to go again when they're a bit older.

Riding on a bouncy see-saw thing in a country park

On the last day we went on a boat ride down the river Trent. The weather was still amazing, and it was nice being on the boat, especially as we got a bit of a breeze as we went.

It was all a bit exhausting for Sophie who had a little sleep on the boat...

We had a brilliant holiday, but it went so quickly. We were so lucky with the weather and the cottage we stayed in was gorgeous and spacious enough for the babies.

And finally, this was the video we tried to upload for the last post... it is her new game in her shiny new Ikea highchair. Look at the anticipation in her eyes!!

Clear out of the Camcorder

Daddy brought this home from his travels.  Its Stanley the Snail, Sophie goes on one at a baby group, so when Daddy saw this he got it for her.  Look at her face!

We should have more videos but they wont upload for now... so we'll try again another time.

We're off on holiday for a week, so will probably have more after then.

Hindu wedding, Northampton Scarecrows and Olympic Torch

It has been a busy old time for Miss Sophie recently. Despite not yet having any teeth come through yet, her teething symptoms have stopped for the last week, after four weeks of horrible crying and being miserable all the time.

She is about a month into weaning and now enjoying a lot of food. She is a little piglet most of the time and suprises us how much she eats. She had a week or so where she was off food totally, but she was feeling under the weather that week so not suprising really.

Sarah had her 30th birthday party, with a 70s theme, and we had to risk interfering with Sophie's routine so that we could go. She didn't get much sleep and for the following week was a little terror as she was tired, and not feeling very well, but it was nice for her to be involved in the party.

This weekend we went to Bhavin and Nimisha's wedding in Northampton which meant buying a pretty Sari for Mummy and a gorgeous dress for Sophie. Sophie was in a lovely mood all day and enjoyed plenty of cuddles from friends.

We quite like this family picture:

On the way home we stopped off at a Scarecrow festival in the village we were staying in, there were apparently 200 scarecrows in the village, a lot of them were really good! It was lovely weather and it was nice strolling around looking at them all. If we had more time it would have been good to stop for a cake and cup of tea, but we wanted to get home in time for bedtime for Sophie.

These Mr Men scarecrows were pretty good:

 And Peppa Pig scarecrows....

The scarecrow festival was made even better by the fact the Olympic Torch was there on display in the local school and they were allowing people to have their picture taken with it. Sophie squealed in delight as she got to feel the torch! The picture shows how happy she is!