Funny faces and tiny feet

We had a return to summery weather for some of this week, British summery weather, that is, rather than the Mediterranean summery weather of July! Andrew took the opportunity to take Isla to the park quite a bit, which she really enjoyed. Especially going on the swings. If we had a suitable branch in our garden, I think we'd definitely put up a swing however now the tree behind our house has finally been cut back properly, we don't have any big branches to swing from anymore. So trips to the park instead!

Here are Evie's tiny baby feet:

Evie is looking around a lot more in the last couple of days, so Andrew thought that she'd appreciate a few more things to look at so setup the play mat for her. She is also getting a bit stronger at holding her head up and so we've started her fitness regime of tummy time on the play mat - she doesn't really enjoy this much yet and makes lots of grunting sounds at us. She enjoys grunting quite a lot, especially during the night.

Our garden centre/park visit was great, except for the huge number of wasps following us about and landing on us. They didn't bother Isla at all, as she was enjoying riding the tractors so much. Evie was kept covered up inside her pram with a sunshield as a good wasp deterrent. Isla also went on the swing of course. She went so high on the swing that it caused a granny pushing her grandchild at the next swing to look quite amazed. I think her grandchild was jealous at not going so high.

A new sandpit had sprung up at the garden centre, and Isla could probably have stayed there most of the morning playing. However, we were caught out by the good weather and forgotten the sun cream and summery clothes so had to move inside for a bit. The sandpit was almost as good as being at the beach though.

Isla's second trip to the park that same day was also very good, and was my first proper trip out into the village since having Evie. It was lovely to bump into friends in the village and introduce them to the new baby. Isla enjoyed the zip wire with her dad, as well as the swings again! Now if we had room for a zip wire in our garden, that would be really good!

At dinner time, Evie decided that she had to be held at all times, while Isla showed me some of her funny faces!

This morning, Isla helped her dad with the supermarket shop while Evie tried out her chair for a different view of the world. She had quite an active morning with not much sleeping, unusually for her, although she drifted off after lunch when Isla and Andrew went for a bike ride to......... the park!