NCT girls and boys round for lunch

Here is a photograph of some of the little one's from NCT classes when i was pregnant with Daisy, I didn't bother having them with Iris cos i figured i'd remember what to do.

From left to right is: Daisy, Iris, Cambell, Ruby and Lila (Delilah). Mums on the other side of the camera were Shonagh (Cambells mum and soon to have another one due end of Dec), Elenor (Ruby's mum and soon to have another one due Feb) and Emma (Lila's mum, not soon to have another one because she's sensible)

Here is a video of what they were doing in the above photograph, watching Toy Story. The only one who moves is Iris, they others are all completely transfixed.

(may take a while to upload onto youtube)

Auntie Emma and Uncle Paul

Auntie Emma and Uncle Paul 'the newly weds' came up to visit on Friday night through to Sunday afternoon, which was very nice.


On Sat we had a bbq'd guinea fowl which was bloomin tasty, then on Sunday we had guinea fowl pie, yum yum.

Here are some photographs to prove they visited.


Here is a photo of Daisy with some glasses on her ears.

Paradise Park

We went to Paradise Park and saw a few animals: tigers, lions, jaguars, red pandas, aligator, camels, zebras, and many many more.
It was quite a rainy day but we were prepared with rain coats and hats so it didn't really matter, in fact it was to our benefit cos the park was practically empty, horay.
it might be nice to go back another day when it is sunny though.

I didn't take that many pics of animals mostly cos it was raining too much, here are a few pics of animals, the grey blurry animal i can't remember the name of but it was quite cute.






















Oh and there was a nice old fire engine.

My brave brave girl

Yesterday (Sunday) was Marc's birthday but the girls were poorly so we couldn't really do anything to celebrate. Both girls were/are snotty and have a chesty cough, they sound like they've been smoking Lambert & Butler's for 40 years.
So anyway seeing as they seemed a bit better today, we went down to The Tate Modern this morning to look at Carsten Höller's slides.
I had to give Iris a feed so Marc took Daisy off to look at the slides and he discovered that children could go down as long as they were over .9 of a meter and Daisy is 95cms so she could go on.
Marc went down first leaving the safety lady at the top to help Daisy down, she had to get into a bag and lie down and then be launched off by this lady, and Marc said she looked a bit surprised at the bottom.
There are two identical smaller slides on the first floor and this is one of them, Daisy actually went down the other one.


Once Iris was finished i had a go down one of the these smaller slides and the drop is very steep, you shoot down very quickly so i'd say pretty scary for a two and a half year old. However Daisy said she wanted another go, so Marc went down first and then i lauched her down and her little face looked terrified as she went down, Marc said she did look a bit scared when she came out at the bottom.
She's such a brave little thing, i think she wanted to go because she loves slides but she'd never encountered big slides like these before.


What with all that excitement she decided she wanted to do a wee, so here she is eating a box of raisins and pulling a lovely face sitting on her travel potty of which she didn't actually do a wee at all.
In the background you can see the tallest slide which apparently takes 90 sec's to come down.
We didn't go on the bigger ones because the queue was too long.

Iris

Here is a photograph of me and Iris about to go out for a walk, she is in a borrowed snow suit that fits her very snugly at the moment.

And another photograph of Iris sitting up with the help of my hand.

Stripey girls

Here is a photograph of Daisy and Iris in matching stripes.

On yer bike

Daisy had a ride on Lucy's bike, and she really loved it.

Random shots

Here are some random shots taken over the last couple of days.
Daisy in her fairy wings refusing to look at the camera.
Iris on her tummy, and a rare shot of me with Iris.

Sparklers

On Sunday we went over to visit Ged, Roni & Ruby, Lisa & Florence in Forest Gate to watch the firework display, it was happening directly opposite Ged’s flat. It was pretty good actually, lots of noise, flashing lights and where we stood it looked like they were going off above our heads.

Daisy and Daddy held a sparkler or two, the second one was more fun than the first.
Iris slept through the whole thing in a sling.

A visit from Grandad Tony

Here are some photo's from when Grandad Tony came to visit