Welcome….

to this lovely little thing..

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dont you love that position in the first picture, they curly little bean, cant straighten out cos they have had so many months of being squished…i love it so…<sigh>

This is my niece, my brothers second child who arrived after quite a lot of false starts…last Friday evening time. They have called her Ruth. Welcome sweet girl, we are happy to have you…..x
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a little bit inspirational

we went to London at the weekend, i mentioned that right? The reason we went was to watch some friends dedicate their little boy Toby. Also they are leaving to work in South Africa with a cool project called Sweet home farm in Johannesburg. Ben and Barry (the dad) are from the same part of the world and I lived in the same house as Barry before i got married and he is just a lovely guy. Anyway on Sunday we went along to his Son's dedication in London and I was just blown away when Barry got up to speak…He is a very 'articulate' guy anyway and so he was funny and too the point and obviously in his comfort zone up in front of people..but it wasnt that actually that grabbed me..it was the way he spoke about his Son, the way he could barely keep his eyes from watching all that he was doing. I have never seen a father so openly 'in love' with his child and it just totally touched my heart and made me feel very proud to call such a wonderful family, my friends. In a world where so many children's experience of a father can range from tragically abusive to totally absent it is just so incredibly reassuring to know that their are men who will set the standard to a new generation,,,We will miss them but wish them all the blessings on their new adventure….

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6 months….

has it really been half a year….??

Our lovely little Matilda who at six months old…

  • Has got that James baby look….but looks more like big brother, i think, than the girls… 
  • Does this flicking things with her fingers when she is either feeding or going to sleep..its cute… 
  • Continues to grow blonde hair and continues to have blue eyes 
  • Digs the baby bjorn or the backpac carrier but is no fan of the buggy…i think we may have created that one..oops:) 
  • Is getting super tolerant of the 'love' she receives from her siblings. She doesnt seem much less jumpy but she just has stopped wailing when they make noise now, which is a really good thing.. 
  • Doesn't roll yet, wiggles, squirms but has no desire to get her nose near the floor..cant say i blame her. 
  • Sitting very well, although not reliably…getting a bit savvy for the bumbo and starting to arch her back when she is in it..time to take it off the kitchen table mama…AHEM!!! 
  • Grabby grabby grabby…. 
  • Likes the non milky variety of foodstuffs..has tried some rice cakes, breadsticks and this week the joys of carrot and baby rice and liking it all so far. Her weaning speed is in direct correlation with my desire to chop and squash a ton of veggies…so pretty slow! 
  • Is actually just pretty good natured, she is used to a floor show so gets a bit lonesome when the 'bigs' are not around with the entertainment. 
  • Has, the past couple of nights, slept without needing any midnight appearances…we like :)  
  • Still is called 'B-tilda' by Poppy.  
  • Yet to get teeth, although that is nothing new in our family….we do teeth…late! 
  • Is pretty much always sleep deprived in the day, im always waking her up to do school or nursery run..she is probably looking forward to the school holiday more than me!!     
  • Has had one go in the door bouncy thingy..seemed to like it…but getting them into those things is the most incredible FAFF..someone invent a better way…per-lease. 
  • Has been swimming with mama twice now and first time had a blast, second time fell asleep just outside the pool and so spent most of the lesson with a kind of  'Wha?' look on her face…. 
  • gives me a bit of a pang now when i have to scroll waaaay back in iphoto to get to her newborn pics…although that might be more of a reflection of how many pictures i take rather than time passing…ah well… 

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Hello from the road

That is the m6 and the m1. We(that is three of us) are travelling to old London town to wave off some wonderful friends of ours who are heading to Africa. The bigs are still at home being cared for by nanan and grandad. Which really means a weekend of doing exactly what they want!! Haha….Hello from the road

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riding the train…

There is a little park near here where some of the, shall we say, older generation run a little mini railway for the kids, its been tucked away, hidden for years and lots of people will visit the park for years and years and never know about it. Its been there since the days of the Beatles and the gents who run it stand and chat to you about the past and all things train, they run it on a donation only basis and they are there every.single.sunday. We discovered it when Isaac was…um..about 4 i think, maybe a little bit younger actually and it is probably in one of his all time top 5 places to go. On this particular sunday he rode it 15 times!! ………….

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