Catching up on July & August 2011

Well, I have been away for 3 weeks now visiting Romania.   Mummy and I are now looking forward to coming home, even though it has been nice for her to see her friends and for me to meet my extended family.

Before we went away Daddy took us all to Kew Gardens in London for a nice day out.  I loved it as I love touching plants and going anywhere where I can have a ride in the pushchair, there is lots going on and people give me attention.

I like to be up on my feet as much as possible now and get a bit annoyed if I have to be strapped into a chair or pushchair for too long!

While I was away Daddy went to see uncle M and family up in Cambridge.  He went to Wicken Fen on Sunday and had a nice walk with Uncle M and Oliver.  The old wind pump had sails on it and was working.

Here is Uncle M stalking dragonflies

We walked quite a long way to a big lookout tower, which Oliver climbed like a monkey.

July 2011

Its all been happening with Mummy and Daddy working a lot and having a new shower installed in their bathroom.

Daddy had me for a whole day last week and took me to music bugs where I sing and play instruments to music.  Mummy keeps taking me to rhyme time and messy play each week.  I have also been at nursery and to my childminder a few times and I love them both.

I am really growing fast and within a week just outgrew all my 6-9 month clothes.  In fact I am in 12-18 mont clothes now!  Not only that but I can move around very fast...Mummy and Daddy say I'm like a seal. I get bored of sitting down and always try to stand up when I can.  Usually I pull myself up on the stair rails or anything else I can get a grip of.

This is me having a bath.....I'm tricky to wash now as I just keep standing up!

Nana and Graddad got Mummy and Daddy a lovely little acer tree which they planted in the front to replace a little tree that died.  We love it and have put some bark down to keep the ground moist.

We also have 2 lovely sunflowers growing in the back garden.  They self-set after we fed the birds with seeds during the winter and Spring.

Cornwall 17th-22nd June 2011

This post is a bit late but Daddy has been very busy.  We went to Cornwall for 5 nights and stayed in a lovely caravan at Little Dinham on the Camel Estuary.  Daddy took me to places that he came to when he was a little boy many years ago and camped with Nana and Granddad.  I was very good travelling both ways in Daddy's car and fell asleep some of the way.  Even when I was awake it was good fun.

The caravan was lovely with plenty of room for me to play on the floor and on the sofas.  As there was no bath I had a shower with Mummy or Daddy each evening.

The first day we went to Port Isaac and had a long walk around.  It  was windy and quite cold but we had fun.  After that we went to a cafe and farm shop just out of town, where I had lunch and played with the lovely little soft truck that Daddy got me.

After this we went for a walk to St Enodoc Church which was fun in my backpack.  there was a wedding on so we stayed in the churchyard.  It was still windy but quite sunny some of the time.  I got a bit grumpy and hungry so Mummy gave me a bottle and I fell asleep.

The next day we went to Pentire Farm and walked to Pentire Point and The Rumps, which was quite hard work for Daddy as he was carrying me in my backpack.  I loved it and was calling out.

When we got home I had some more fun and we all went in the pool at the campsite.  I was a bit unsure at first as it was colder than the usual pool I swim in, but after splashig about and having a shoulder ride I went swimming and even went right under a few times.  Daddy says I'm like a little torpedo when I kick like crazy!  I'm also very strong, as I was bashing him on the head when he gave me a shoulder ride, because I was so excited.

Daddy went out later and took some long exposure photos using a special filter.  The exposures were about a minute long so the sea went all misty.

The next day it was really wet and we went to Padstow.  After walking around the harbour we went in a couple of coffee shops where i had fun as old ladies were making faces at me.

Waiting for the Rock Ferry!

 The last day we went to Lanhydrock House which was amazing.  I loved being pushed around the grounds and having lunch.  I'm ever so good when I eat out now as I sit in a high chair and get lots of attention.

That evening we had a fantastic meal at the Maltster's Arms in Chapel Amble.  The next day we had to come home...I would love to go again.  Here is the caravan we stayed in.  It was 30 feet long and 12 feet wide, so it was very big.