2013: Week 37

Saturday 7 September

Daisy and Dee watching 'Minnie's Bow-toons' on the iPad - or, as Daisy calls it, the 'big phone'.

Sunday 8 September

We went to a christening today for a friend's son, and Jon was asked to be his godfather. I made this christening present for them.

Monday 9 September

A couple more photos from yesterday, as I have a few lovely ones. Daisy got this beautiful dress from Grandma and Grandad for her birthday the other week, and we thought it would be perfect for a christening (even though it already has pasta sauce stains around the neck). She loved wearing it, which made a change as she didn't wear the Sleeping Beauty dress that Daddy bought her to wear at Disneyland. This dress went down a treat - but she insisted on accessorising with her umbrella, even though it wasn't raining :).

Tuesday 10 September

Daisy is really starting to get quite vain, but it's very funny to watch :).

Wednesday 11 September

I had to go into work today at the church across the road to teach another lady to do the job that I do as she'll be taking over when we move (less than two weeks!). We each had to bring our kids with us, but they gave us very little trouble once I broke out Mickey Mouse Clubhouse :).

Thursday 12 September

We drove across to Ipswich again yesterday afternoon so Daisy could go to playschool this morning and all day tomorrow. Nanny looks after Finn on a Thursday, so Daisy was happy to see him when she got home from playschool - his presence made up for the fact that she wasn't staying at playschool to eat her lunch today, but she did still ask to eat from her lunchbox at Nanny's house. Finn is going through a bit of a pinching phase at the moment, but apparently when he left with Nanny to go home, he spent the rest of the day saying 'Daisy my friend. No pinch.'

Friday 13 September

I spent the time while Daisy was at playschool today (and yesterday) putting undercoat on the upstairs door frames in our new house, which is coming on in leaps and bounds now. This is the outside shot, which hasn't changed all that much in the last month or so, as all the work is happening inside, but the guys on the left of the shot are putting up a new fence around the perimeter. Not long now!

2013: Week 36

Saturday 31 August

Just having a rest from playing on the mat by sleeping under it.

Sunday 1 September

Mum, Dad and I did a geocache today that I've been wanting to do for a while. It involves walking the length of the two main roads in Eaton Socon and picking up clues from blue plaques on various buildings, then working out the location of the geocache. It was a lovely walk, and the final cache, when we eventually did find it, was ingenious :).


Monday 2 September

I got Mummy's shoes on!

Tuesday 3 September

I remembered to take my phone with me when we went swimming this afternoon, and I even remembered to take it out and grab a photo of Daisy wearing her new Minnie towel while eating her Marties...

Wednesday 4 September

Daisy and I drove to Ipswich this morning so she could go to a taster session at her new playschool this afternoon. The first person we spoke to happened to be Daisy's Key Worker, and she spent almost the whole hour and a half with us so Daisy got to know her before starting playschool proper tomorrow. There were a few tears at the beginning (it wouldn't be Daisy if there weren't), but she did really well and had a great time.

Thursday 5 September

Daisy had a great morning at playschool today, and when we got back to Nanny's house, Finn was there, so they played together for a couple of hours before Nanny took him home. They had loads of toys to choose from, and they chose to play with laundry baskets...

Friday 6 September

How cute is this child???

2013: Week 35

Saturday 24 August

Three years old! I couldn't choose just one photo from today, so you get three :). We had a lovely day despite the drizzly weather, opening presents, playing with presents, making Smarties cookies...

Sunday 25 August

The plan today was to have Jon's family over, but when we woke up and it was still raining we changed our plans as our house isn't big enough to accommodate everyone if we can't use the garden. So we packed up the cake and the bunting and took Daisy's birthday party to Ipswich. She had a lovely afternoon and didn't even cry when everyone sang Happy Birthday :). She wore her new Merida dress and got Brave on Blu-Ray, so she was happy :).

Monday 26 August

One of Daisy's other presents was a set of roller skates, which she spent most of today wearing. I took this shot while she was mimicking along to the skating scene in her Christmas Mickey DVD, where Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck enter a skating contest. This was a flourish near the end, I think.

Tuesday 27 August

Daisy got hot chocolate and a cookie when she got home from nursery, because Mummy's a soft touch...

Wednesday 28 August

We had some professional photos taken this morning, and I was under strict orders not to spend too much money, so we just got four shots, but I can't wait to pick them up in a couple of weeks. While we waited to view them, Daisy made friends with Iggle Piggle.

Thursday 29 August

It was Daisy's last day at nursery today, before she starts Play School in Ipswich next week. I love this photo of her with Lisa and Ashley :).

Friday 30 August

The SmartPhone Generation starts young...

2013: Week 34

Saturday 17 August

This is a shot from Keswick the other week. Grandpa & Jen took Daisy to the park while Nanna & I ran some errands, and apparently before we got there, Daisy was sitting on the rock and singing 'Part of Your World' from the Little Mermaid, but she wouldn't do it again, especially not when she saw me get the camera out, so this was the best I could get :).

Sunday 18 August

Daisy hasn't quite grasped that when I ask her to look at the camera and she says she is doing, I know when she's lying...

Monday 19 August

This isn't a great quality shot as it was taken on my phone, but we have so few photographs taken together that I had to get this one in. I took it at the soft play place (still known to Daisy as the funfair) this morning.

Tuesday 20 August

This afternoon we took a walk to the river to feed the ducks, but we took a quick detour to say hello to the cat in the house opposite ours on the way.

Wednesday 21 August

Nanna & Grandpa arrived this lunchtime! We spent some time this afternoon playing in the paddling pool, and as Daisy wouldn't take her dress off, it got ever so slightly wet. Nanna got quite wet too :).

Thursday 22 August

Love you!

Friday 23 August

This afternoon we went to Priory Park, which is the other side of St Neots and somewhere I hadn't been before, but it had plenty of playground areas and, more importantly, a couple of geocache locations, so we went treasure hunting :).

2013: Week 33

I barely took any photos this week, as Daisy was away all week, so most of these are photos that were taken of her but not by me, and one or two are photos that I took while we were in Keswick but didn't make the cut for that week's post :).

Saturday 10 August

Daisy's Grandma and Grandad bought her this beautiful dress for her birthday, and a Minnie Mouse umbrella, which she insisted on taking out with her today. In 25 degree heat :).

Sunday 11 August

I took this photo when we arrived at Keswick the other week. Daisy had been awake for most of the journey, but she'd held tightly onto two microfibre cleaning cloths that Mum had given me for the whole time, and she wasn't about to let go of them just because she was now asleep...

Monday 12 August

Not a new outfit, but certainly a new hair band. I'm not sure how long it stayed on her head after the photo was taken, though.

Tuesday 13 August

At last, the day she'd been waiting for had finally arrived! She and Daddy got the Eurostar to Mickey's Castle today (aka Disneyland Paris). She met quite a few of the characters and, surprisingly, wasn't all that scared by most of them, Tigger being the exception to that rule. Here she is chatting to Pluto...

Wednesday 14 August

Girl's got style.

Thursday 15 August

High five, Geppetto!

Friday 16 August

Last day at Mickey's Castle today, before getting the train home this afternoon. As for me, I spent the day in a spa with Clare, but she wasn't too keen on me putting up the photo of her wearing a bath robe and eating lunch with no make-up on. I was going to show the only other photo I took today, of a voucher for a complimentary return trip to the spa any time before 31st November 2013 (!!), but I decided this picture of Daisy, which Daddy actually took a few weeks ago, trumped anything else I could offer, by a long way :).

2013: Week 32

Saturday 3 August

I have two friends from the North East who didn't know each other when we all lived there but who both now live in Warwick, so I put them in touch with each other, and today Jon, Daisy and I drove over there to spend the day with them and their families. We had a really lovely day, eating a picnic in the garden, then going to St Nicholas' Park for an afternoon of playgrounds, paddling and ice creams.

Sunday 4 August

Another photo from yesterday as I didn't take any today - the aforementioned ice creams :).

Monday 5 August

Daisy is still adamant that she doesn't want to use the potty, but that didn't stop her from pulling down her trousers and sitting on it voluntarily this morning while I was in the kitchen...

Tuesday 6 August

Apparently Jon was never told that if the wind changed his face would stay like that, so he taught Daisy how to do it too :).

Wednesday 7 August

Daisy and I spent most of today playing with the family next-door. I love this shot of her coming down the slide from the tree house.

Thursday 8 August

It's been a week of facial expressions this week...

Friday 9 August

I took Daisy to London today to spend just over a week with Daddy. His parents came down from Manchester and they had an early birthday party for her, and Uncle James, Auntie Sam and Jack also went round, taking cakes with them, which made for one very happy almost-three-year-old!

2013: Week 31

Saturday 27 July

In honour of our six-month versary (not anniversary, as anni means year), a photo of us after we returned from a lovely meal at the Turkish restaurant in St Neots - the first time in two and a half years that I'd been to a restaurant here, not counting takeaways. The food was indeed lovely; the service not so much, but it didn't spoil a great evening.

Sunday 28 July

Daisy's at Daddy's this weekend but he e-mailed this picture over. Love it!

Monday 29 July

Doesn't everyone wear a swimsuit and wellies to jump in puddles in July???

Tuesday 30 July

Daisy had a visit from her friend Teddy today, plus his Mummy and baby brother. Unfortunately the weather wasn't anywhere near as warm as when we visited them a few weeks ago, but that didn't stop the two of them from playing in the paddling pool and getting up to mischief.

Wednesday 31 July

My crazy-haired monster :).

Thursday 1 August

Looks serious. Maybe Peppa Pig's Daddy has been pulled over for speeding, or Mickey and Minnie have had a fight...

Friday 2 August

The weather was lovely again today, so we spent most of the day in the garden. Nekked, as Daisy says :).