Reading to Bruce

Mia likes to read her books to Bruce, I'm not too sure what he thinks of them!

A Christmas Celebration at Janes'

Here are some nice photos of the girls sitting in front of the Christmas tree at Janes house. Happy Christmas everyone

Fun in the snow

Here are some photos of Mia, Ewan and Erica enjoying playing in the snow at the park, just after they met Santa at the library.

Victorians!

When I went away a couple of weeks ago Del and Mia went to the Victorian Festival of Christmas. Here's some photos of them dressed up as Victorians! They look the part don't they!
Mia also met Father Christmas but she didn't look very happy in that picture!

Newspapers over breakfast

Mia likes nothing better than catching up on the news over breakfast!

Mia at 18 months

I've been a bit rubbish at posting on here recently and plan to do some catch up posts with some photos from our holiday to Bournemouth and of Mia's first haircut. But for the time being here are some photos from today of Mia as a big 18 month old!

Snacking

This is what Mia does while I'm trying to prepare breakfast, poor starving child!

A bank holiday day out in Brighton

We decided to go to Brighton for the day on the bank holiday. We went on the train which Mia seemed to enjoy (certainly more than she ever enjoys the car!). Mia liked taking in the sights and sounds of the Brighton streets.
One of the reasons for heading to Brighton was to see Ruth, Andy and Ronald who were cycling down from London, however the trip took them longer than they thought and they only arrived at 3.45 and our train home was at 4pm! It was good to see them even though it was brief!

A visit from Ness and Jim

Nessa and Jim and Nessa's 20 week baby bump visited last weekend. We had a really good time with them. On sunday morning there was a free art event at Southsea Skatepark, there was lots of artwork on display and if you liked it you could take it home with you. It was supposed to be limited to one per person but we got a bit carried away (as you can see in the photo)!

Storytime

Mia really enjoys storytime. We've had various guest readers recently, including Anna and Jim

Playing with Dre

We went to the Aquarium with with Clare and Andre today (while Del was in London on a stag do). Mia and Dre had lots of fun looking at the fish and even more fun playing outside in the water fountains. But most of all Mia enjoyed feeding snacks to Dre!

A visit from Emily

Emily visit for a couple of days this week and it was lovely to see her. As always she was a wonderful guest. Here are a couple of pics of Mia having fun with her.

Life's a beach

We've been making the most of the lovely weather when it's been happening and heading to the beach. Here are some photos of Mia hanging out with her friends. They're all real beach babes!

A holiday in BW

We had a weeks holiday in Bishop Wilton and had a wonderful time. Mia was better on the journey that we could have imagined which was a relief. She only cried for the last hour of the journey up!
Mia experienced her first Bishop Wilton show. She was so excited she woke at 4am on show day! She certainly seemed to enjoy herself and was quite overwhelmed by all the dogs she saw, especially as she has just learnt the sign for dog! Del did really well in the photo competition at the show - 3 1sts, 1 2nd, and 1 3rd and the best in show cup. I didn't take any photos at the show but here are a few from our stay.
Mia loved the swing even more this time. She even fell asleep in it a couple of times. And she liked the new grown up swing.