Last week, Isla received an exciting package of some newly knitted cakes from granny Ilene! She also enjoyed a visit and trip out for lunch with granny Margaret and grandad. Whilst granny Margaret and grandad were visiting, we received a lovely parcel from our relatives Carolyn and John in Scotland with an awesome baby gro and matching toddler t-shirt of scottish highland dancers and some lovely scottish coasters too! A very exciting present from them, Isla wanted to try out the t-shirt straight-away.
Later in the week, we went out to the shops and stopped for lunch in Asda, where Isla got a Hello Kitty backpack to take things on holiday and to pre-school.
We've also been chilling out at home. Isla enjoyed reading our local magazine, especially the page with Evie's birth announcement on it as it had a photo of her holding her baby sister. She was famous when she went to pre-school this week as many people had seen it!
Wednesday and Thursday were very summery days. We went to the park a couple of times and enjoyed a visit from Natalie. At the park, Isla found that if she shouted 'Mummy!' she could hear her voice again and so she had heard an echo. She wanted to find her echo for the rest of the day, but couldn't find it in the garden, or in the house. We drew some drawings to figure out where her echo (or 'gecko' as Isla calls it) had gone! Evie had an extremely unsettled evening on Wednesday with probably lots of wind bothering her, but she eventually settled to sleep well after a few hours. Earlier in the day, we had been for her newborn hearing test and Isla had played in a giant sandpit in the middle of town! We went on a walk to look for animals and came across a combine harvester cutting a nearby field so we watched it for a while. Isla took her own baby doll and buggy on that walk, while I had Evie in her buggy and Natalie came along too.
We drove to meet our friends for a weekend near Gloucester. Our holiday house was in a very pretty valley, with horses across the fence, cows on the hills and sheep baaing outside. There were lots of apple and plum trees with fruit near our house, and Isla enjoyed picking an apple and eating it straight from the tree. We also ate some plums which were very sweet, but Isla was unsure of the taste. On Saturday, we went to Puzzlewood. There were lots of activities aimed at children before getting into the wood itself. The wood has been used to film some scenes from Merlin, Jack the Giant Slayer, Dr Who, Tree Fu Tom and also inspired The Lord of the Rings. The wood was a huge maze covered with ferns, rock formations and trees covered with lichen. We ended up going round in circles several times but eventually found our way out in time to have a pub lunch! Isla made friends with a lurcher called Alfie at the pub and enjoyed playing in the garden doing songs and looking about.
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