2013: Week 41

Saturday 5 October

As well as it being Dad's birthday weekend, Jen's gospel choir gave a concert at Mum & Dad's church this evening. It started at 7pm, and because we all wanted to see at least some of the concert, we brought Daisy with us and Jon took her home at the interval. She did really well, considering it started at bedtime. She sat on the steps with Aggie and Ellie and clapped on cue. The only slightly embarrassing moment was when she shouted 'Is it nearly finished?' but other than that, she did great :).

Sunday 6 October

Mum & Dad's lounge is a really good size, which is what made this set-up all the more funny: both of them squeezing round the table leg to play dominoes while Daisy had all the room in the world :).

Monday 7 October

'Helping' Grandpa open his birthday present at the weekend. It was beer, so unfortunately she couldn't help him drink it too...

Tuesday 8 October

Work began on our back garden today. This was the lie of the land this morning before work got underway. 

Wednesday 9 October

Daisy tries her hand at hide-and-seek.  Not many places to hide in a changing cubicle at the swimming pool...

Thursday 10 October

This is the most finished of the rooms in our house, and the only one with pictures on the wall.  Apologies for the potty front and centre :).

Friday 11 October

A good few days' work - the patio has been edged and flags are waiting to be laid.

2013: Week 40

As with last week, a bunch of photos that were probably all taken this week (ish) but, as you'll see from the clothes, possibly not following the usual rules of a picture a day...

Saturday 28 September

Just a small selection of the masterpieces that Daisy brought home from playschool this week. And so it begins ;).

Sunday 29 September

Imelda Marcos. Actually, strictly speaking, I would be the Mrs Marcos in that analogy, and Daisy would be the cheeky monkey who sneaked into her closet and had a shoe party :).

Monday 30 September

One of the many positions Daisy has adopted this week to watch TV...

Tuesday 1 October

... and another...

Wednesday 2 October

Perfecting the art of eating spaghetti.

Thursday 3 October

A day early with this photo (or a day late, depending on your point of view). It was Grandpa's birthday yesterday so we went up to spend the weekend with them. This was roughly photo number 312 - I swear Dad's as bad as Daisy at looking at the camera :).

Friday 4 October

Playing peekaboo with Jen - who isn't much better at camera etiquette, to be honest. Maybe it's in the genes...

2013: Week 39

Moving week this week, so not much photo-taking going on. Here's a bunch of photos that may or may not have been taken this week...

Saturday 21 September

Daisy has a couple of hair bands but every time I've tried to get her to wear one, she's either thrown a paddy or taken it straight off as soon as I've put it on. So I was pleasantly surprised when she came up to me wearing this :).

Sunday 22 September

I love this picture of Daisy and her friend Bella at the soft play place. Just having a rest...

Monday 23 September

I took this last week at the last toddler session we went to in St Neots. Daisy took it upon herself to read Julia a book :).

Tuesday 24 September

Caption competition time...

Wednesday 25 September

Our first night in the new house! We've been here in Ipswich since Sunday but there were too many workmen around at the beginning of the week, still working on the house, so we stayed at Jon's Mum's house while they're on holiday. We managed to make up enough beds to sleep here tonight, though. Here's the most finished of the rooms at the moment...

Thursday 26 September

This is one side of the office...

Friday 27 September

... and this, unfortunately, is the other side. Lots of work still to do here :).

2013: Week 38

Saturday 14 September

The nappy fairy came to visit Daisy overnight, and took all her nappies away. While Jon was on potty duty this morning, I went across to pick up the photos from our photoshoot a couple of weeks ago.

Sunday 15 September

7... 8... 9... 10! Ready or not, here I come!

Monday 16 September

Daisy has taken to potty training like a duck to water. She's already going to the potty on her own, without me reminding her :).

Tuesday 17 September

PC Daisy :).

Wednesday 18 September

While I was skyping with Jon this afternoon, he noticed that Daisy was measuring up the lounge in the background...

Thursday 19 September

Back to Ipswich last night for playschool today and tomorrow. Today she was only there for the morning, and was very excited about playing with Finn when she got back to Nanny's house.

Friday 20 September

No photos today, so here's another from the photoshoot the other week.

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...