Iris' birthday

Oh i forgot to mention that it was Iris' birthday whilst we were away in London.
She was 3.
Happy birthday to big girl Iris.

Here she is reading her favourite book which we bought just before we left the big smoke under the promise that we would probably get a dog.
We haven't gotten a dog, yet.
Probably won't get a dog for a while.

This book is one of those little Collins books of 130 popular breeds of dogs.
Both girls love this book, Iris especially loves this book at the moment.
She likes to find Tilly and Bentley dogs in there, and then show me her favourite dog, which changes quite often. Barney dog isn't in there for some reason.

Monster at the bottom of our garden

Daisy and Iris were allowed to play with mud at the bottom of our garden.
Iris remained clean, and Daisy did not.





For your information Dad, that huge pile of twigs & branches & brambles & suitable bonfire material that you can see below on the right is no more.
We have had a lovely big bonfire and we thought of you.

Playing with a bit of polystyrene

These photographs were taken a little while ago when we had some sunny weather.
I can confirm the weather in Somerset is yuk at the moment, it's cold, dull, and rain is imminent.

I think this bit of polystyrene must have come with the play house, it looks like it had something to do with the windows.
Talking of which we took out one of the panes of glass (plastic) whilst it was very hot, and now we can't find that last pane of glass. bum.

The girls found this in the shop somewhere and enjoyed playing and posing with the polystyrene window. The polystyrene window has now been broken up and chucked away.

Here is Iris with a mucky face.
This is the girls interpretation of something yuk.
This is the girls interpretation of something happy.
This is the girls interpretation of something very sad.
This is the girls interpretation of something very shocking.
And this is just Daisy.

Wow where has the time gone?

Such a lot has been happening and i had temporarily forgotten all about this little blog, but i have now returned.

What have we done these last three weeks you ask?
* We visited London and saw some lovely friends.
* We visited Kent and saw more lovely friends.
* We traveled back to Somerset to allow Daisy to start her new year as a 1st Year and Iris to start at nursery for the first time. Big girls now
* We dumped the big/small girls off at Auntie Emma's and traveled back up to London to stay one night at Gordon & Lucy's on route to Nick & Helen's wedding in Suffolk.
* We went to a marvelous wedding in Suffolk.
* We drove all the way from Suffolk to Somerset, and it wasn't too bad, i guess it was about 4 and a half hours, maybe a smidge more.
* Nana and Grandad came to stay and blitzed the back of our garden. (i really should have done a before and after shot, and i forgot, i damn well forgot.)

That seems quite a lot to have done in three weeks.

Here are a couple of photographs of the girls on their first day back at school/nursery.

We're back

photos to come soon, i promise.