Jimbo on babysitting duty

I left Jim to his own devices for the weekend and went off to London for a girly weekend with Kate and Dee. He managed to have lots of fun without me:-( Tried out Dawn and Craigs Taga bike which looked like lots of fun and took Em out for coffee. She came through the weekend unscathed other than slightly sunburnt legs - naughty daddy forgot to put cream on them. Feeding is coming along she will now hold the spoon or fork herself and eat off it as long as its loaded for her. Maybe we will have it conquered by the time number two arrives!

New Forest

Had a fab weekend with the girls while the boys camped in the new forest. Thankfully the best weekends weather so far in the last month or so. We visited them daily with supplies but definately chose the more sensible option. Ollie loved his first ever camping experience and maybe next time we may join them, but then again maybe not.

Feeding Joy

This month has so far been all about food. My quest to get Emily feeding herself with a spoon and Emilys determination not to make life that easy! We are starting to get somewhere after a good couple of weeks of spoon throwing, making more mess than i thought possible and grumpiness. We also bought a new easy clean highchair to calm my nerves. Emily will pretend to feed with a spoon but wo betide if i try and help or load a spoon of food for her. After persevering, she is just starting to at least try and get some food on the spoon herself and seems to take a fork being loaded a bit better than a spoon. Anyway we will keep the blog updated with progress.

Having a swinging time!

Emily's Granny M wanted some more video clips so here they are:

Visit to the Jacksons

Em and I went to Purley to see Auntie Gem, Uncle Tye and the cousins we had a fab time had a lovely day at Godstone Farm.

More screening and cant believe my baby is growing up

Ems first birthday brought the joys of a thyroid function test and visit to the opthalmologist (eye man) no problems indicated at either, so another sigh of relief. Em graduated to the toddler room at nursery which i found hard, she was the only non mobile kiddy there and new nursery staff to get used to. Within two weeks in typical Em style she started crawling and has two brand new sparkling teeth is louder than ever and learning lots of new tricks including ball throwing and shelf emptying.

1st Birthday

We travelled up north for the twins christening and celebrated Ems birthday with granny and grandpa Maltby. Em was totally spoilt as ever got lots of lovely pressies and had a fab weekend.