Sales Extravaganza!!

Well..we start our photo's on Wednesday when David took Emma out for a stroll whilst I had a lovely lie-in. Emma is seen wearing her lovely woolley hat from Kath. She seems to love it so much that she is seen below stretching it to ensure she will fit into it for ever!!
After lots of beauty sleep for me and seagull feeding for Dave & Emma, we headed off to try metal detecting. The story behind this is the loss of Dave's wedding ring. We went back to the place where we obtained our Xmas tree & were lucky enough to find the following:
a. 6 rusty nails, of varying length & girth.
b. 1 hinge bracket.
c. 1 item of horse tackle.
d. 1 piece of rusting sheet metal.

A cornucopia of crap, observed by a stinky old mare (not Helen you cheeky lot!)


After our bounty of treasure was unearthed we decided to celebrate (!!) by having a lovely lunch at Bottelino's in Nailsea. Emma succeeded in creating a butternut squash facial whilst we enjoyed our italian pasta!



We headed into Bristol to spy out some bargains. Out of the three of us, Emma obtained the greatest stash of goodies. Stay tuned to the Blog to check out her new threads!

We stopped in on the Mezzanine Cafe in the House of Fraser. There was a mirrored wall in the cafe, where Emma spent a good half hour scrambling over the leather sofa to smile and squeal at herself in delight. Our eardrums have just about stopped ringing now! Emma seems to have developed her range of sound and noises this week, leaving us in a confused state. Every noise now sounds like Emma to our ears - drills, cat squeaks, door squeaks, TV noises - all catch our attention as they sound so like Emma!

Emma & I had great fun on thursday when some friends from the antenatal crowd visited. The UFO walker went down a storm with both of the junior guests, almost creating a bit of rivalry. It produced many grins and giggles & furious peddling of little legs!

We had a rare treat on friday, courtesy of Leila. We went for a curry at the Red Rose while she babysat Emma. The sad thing was that we were back by half nine...we're not as young as we used to be you know!!!

Today we went for a walk along the sea-front to Hill Road to stock up on recyclable nappies & to have a refreshing cup of tea in the cellar. Emma played for the galleries as usual & received a great amount of coo-ing.

In the last week or so we have noticed a few developments with Emma. She continues to have a very sweet tooth, but is far more accepting of savouries and is tucking into meat with no complaints. She has also started to enjoy some drinks other than water. She downed a cup of pear juice today & yesterday with relish. Still no sign of using formula milk and bottles though. Thank goodness her teeth haven't come down yet!!

Emma is also starting to spend longer period sitting and lying on her front. She loses balance if she is concentrating very hard on something else, or gets excited!

Welcome 2007

Since New Year's Day we've been taking it easy apart from an exciting trip to the Theatre on Saturday. Here are some photos of our exploits.
Firstly Emma guided her stroller beside the christmas tree and started patting the baubles.


Then Tigger found a lovely spot in a beam of light in which to lie and clean himself.


Emma discovered how to open a drawer.

The orchid has been producing lots of flowers. Here are five demi johns of peach wine that has been produced from a job lot of peaches I got at the market in September. It is very promising!

On Wednesday we met with Bryony and Andrew before they head back to Portsmouth. We went to The Cellar for a chat. Emma enjoyed sharing some of her new toys with them.

Notice Bryony shying away from the limelight by hiding behind Emma!

After work on Saturday we headed straight to the Old Vic to watch the Three Musketeers. It was an excellent presentation. After a gentle build it was action packed and had some very amusing parts too. Emma came along and sat on our knees. She was very good despite a little squiffle at 4pm when she'd normally have a breast feed, one of three she has a day.

Poor Leila wasn't feeling so well yesterday with a bad back. Get well soon! Didn't stop me taking a few pictures of her whilst in pain!

New Years Eve Shenanigans

Hello Blog Readers. A few weeks of shenanigans for you to catch up with. An unsettled Emma at Rob and Leila's meant New Year's celebrations were cut a bit short. We had a pleasant meeting with Bryony ans Andrew. This weekend just gone we went to see The Three Musketeers at The Old Vic in Bristol. So here are the photos...

Firstly a walk taken by Helen, Robin and Emma before New Years. They went around Poet's Walk and ended up in the pub!






It was lovely to have a half day off the 30th, then the whole of New Years Eve off it being a Sunday. On Saturday we helped Emma do some ironing board surfing:

Emma chased Tigger in her stroller, finally cornering him by the cat flap.

Then played with her new dressable doll, thanks to Dawn at the pharmacy.

Then chilled on the sofa with mum, followed by a play with a snowman rattle from Gwyn at the pharmacy.

In the evening with met with Rob, Leila and Helen's Uncle John and Aunt Shirley (Gruncle and Graunt to Emma). We went to The Cellar at the top of Hill Road for wine and tapas.


Afterwards we went came back to our house for some trivial pursuit and granny racing.

On New Years Eve we went out AGAIN! This time to The Priory at Portbury. It's a pub that has an amazingly fast kitchen and the food is always really good. Leila's friend from the surgery, Wendy met with us too, with her husband Cliff.



We saw midnight in back at Rob and Leila's after another game of trivial pursuit, but Emma hadn't settled upstairs in her travel cot and we kept having to comfort her. We took her home soon after midnight. Here she is pulling a party popper in between tears.