What Iris is up to

I thought i would tell you what Iris is up to at the moment.
She's now just over 7 months and is just sitting up on her own, although she still falls backwards or sideways regularly and even ends up on her belly sometimes.
She is trying to speak a lot, most of the time it is gobble-de-gook but other times you can clearly make out 'da da' 'ma ma' and even 'aiiisssssiee' much to Daisy's delight.
Before we went to Devon she wasn't very into solid food, but the sea air must have given her an appetite cos now she's well up for food, so much so that i need to find the children's cookery books and start cooking some nice meals for her rather than just vegetables or fruit mushed up.


Here is a slideshow of some photos of Iris:


Here is a video of Iris talking:

Girls in the pub

Here is a pic of the girls in the bar of Auntie Vicky's hotel Quayside Hotel

The sea, the sea & mussels

Here are some photos of the wonderful sea in Brixham, you can see the lighthouse at the end of the breakwater.










Also a couple of photos of Daisy looking at the lighthouse.













And another pic of Daisy and Iris with Nana & Grandad upstairs from where the mussels are cleaned.





Oooh that reminds me i must dig out those photos i took of Dad and Nick and Steve on the boat pulling up mussels.
Remind me Dad.

Pennywell Farm

Pennywell farm photos and info coming very soon.
http://www.pennywellfarm.co.uk/

Devon - The Zoo

We are in Devon on a little holiday staying with Nana and Grandad by-the-sea.
It's been fun fun fun since we got here, if a little tiring.
Daisy is missing Daddy quite a bit as am i, but we can't go back yet cos we're having a bit of work done in the kitchen which will be very exciting when we come back.

Today's post is backdated to the day we went to the Zoo.
Firstly here are photos of us people at the zoo: Daisy, Iris, Vicky, Nana and me.

Daisy & Iris in the armchair

Here are the girls in the armchair having fun.

































Daisy is somewhat delighted that Iris likes sucking Daisy's thumb as well as her own.

A walk around Tottenham marshes.

It was a sunny day and we decided to go for a walk around Tottenham Marshes.
Friends of Tottenham Marshes website
Tottenham Marshes is right next to the River Lea, which is just up a bit from where the 2012 Olympics will take place.
Money is apparently being pumped all the way up here too.

Here are some photo's from our lovely walk.

Marc and Daisy walking along the canal.








Barges moored on the canal.



















Iris in the backpack















Daisy picking up sticks.











Gas works.

Something up with my blog on Safari

i've fixed it... i think
i went into the settings and changed it to display only the last 7 days of posts rather than 14 and it is now showing the left hand nav.

horay.

...
not sure what it is, but if your using Safari, then you might not be able to see anything down the left hand side, it still works in Firefox and Netscape.
trying to figure it out...

Iris making noises

Here is a video of Iris doing some rather loud noises.
She is kind of happy but rather quickly her happy noises turn into rather frustrated shouty noises.
The video is quite long and rather loud if your sound is turned up.

Iris in a basket

Guess who's in the basket with the clean washing and giggling away to herself?







It's Iris.

Snowy fun

Here are some more snowy pictures. Winnie, Daisy and Lex roaring at me for some reason that i cannot remember, maybe because it was so cold.
The man in the shot is Gordon, Lex's daddy.










We didn't build the snowman, we found him, Kate (not pictured) added the gold buttons which were actually chocolate coin wrappers that i had brought along.
We decided it was treacherous enough getting to the park, and we were all freezing so the last thing we wanted to do was to build another snowman when this fine specimen was already here.

Millfields Park









Our back garden

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Here is a photograph i took out the window at 4.30 in the morning whilst sitting on the toilet, the snow was softly falling and our street for once was silent and deserted.
I like the orange tinge from the street light.

And here it is at 8.30 in the morning, not quite so pretty.

Daisy and Iris

Here are the results from my first photoshoot with my new lights.









First shots are of Daisy doing her finest impression of the three wise monkeys and then generally being a cheeky monkey, she sure does have a naughty little face.


Second shots are Iris blowing raspberries (her new thing) which usually ends up in a very wet top.

Betty Rae

Here is a photograph of Iris (5 months) with her new pal Betty Rae (5 weeks) who came over for a quick photoshoot.
Betty who hadn't been registered at that point, is also known as Elsbeth.
Betty in very pretty and bears no resemblence at all to the popular current programme 'Ugly Betty'.

Betty is Campbell's baby sister.
Campbell is one of Daisy's good friends and they get on really well.





Shonagh, doesn't she look like Campbell in this one?

Happy birthday Auntie Emma

Here is a picture Daisy has drawn for Auntie Emma's birthday, or should i say some writing that Daisy has done for the occasion of Auntie Emma's birthday.
In fact i guess we could call it a card.


And to prove that this piece of art was done especially for Auntie Emma, here is a video (below) of Daisy creating her art.



When i uploaded this video, youtube must have been very busy because i couldn't see it, hopefully it will appear soon.

Our local 'one o'clock club'

I'm not saying where we live is rough or anything but...

Here is the local one o'clock club situated at the bottom of Springfield Park, right next to the Canal/River Lea.
I've never actually been to it cos it burnt down some time before i ever discovered it, which is a shame cos the next nearest one is about a 30-40 min walk away in Clissold Park.

But hey it does make an amusing photograph.

Serious lack of new photo's

Oops, i have been failing to photograph these wonderful girls of late.
I will endeavor to rectify this situation asap.

In the meantime here are two photographs of Daisy, one at 6 months the other at 2 years and 6 months.