Evie's first smile and Isla is a tiger

Evie gave us her first proper smile this week, when she was having a cuddle with Isla and I, just before having some milk! She then had some smiles for Andrew when he came home. I'll try to photograph a smile next time!

Isla was very happy at the weekend to have her granny Margaret and grandad glasses to play with, especially enjoying having a new shopkeeper serving her. We enjoyed the bank holiday weekend, doing gardening and eating and playing outside. Evie did quite a bit of sleeping, which meant that I could take Isla for a bike ride.

Evie gave Pob a stroke one evening. The cats had their annual vet trip today and we found they had both lost a little weight since last year! Isla jumped on the vet scales too but didn't need the flea treatment.

Yesterday, Isla went to pre-school in the morning, and Evie went to the gym for a work-out:

It was a very tough work-out:

It was pretty tiring too:

We went to pick Isla up and found that a scary tiger cub had gobbled her up, so we took it home instead. We stopped for a picnic by the park on the way:

Lots of birthdays and a little holiday

The past couple of weeks we've had lots of birthday parties to go to, including Isla's! First of all, she went to her friend C's birthday party where there was an exciting bouncy castle:

Isla visited her grandparents with the huge collection of toy cars and enjoyed a yummy chicken pie for lunch:

Isla has been doing lots of crafts and drawings at home. Here is her drawing of a space ship like Mr Spoon's:

We made some chocolate cup cakes, and Isla was in charge of decorating them and testing them:

 Some of my beautiful Valentines's day flowers and flowers and vase from friends for my birthday:

We decided to do some painting. Isla enjoyed this a lot. We used some of her paintings to cut out big numbers to put on the front of birthday cards for her friends.

We also got out the sparkly jewels to do some sticking and also got out the felt tips:

Monty disappeared into a bush so Isla went searching one afternoon:

Holiday!

We went to Centre Parcs at the weekend, which was a nice break. Here are some photos from our time there:

Isla is 2!

On Tuesday it was Isla's second birthday. She did a lot of sliding that day, and had a little party for some of her friends. Here are some photos from her birthday: