Friday, 24 July 2009
What a beautiful voice!!!
This is Alice singing a few different songs. The first one is one I made up; not the best lyricist in the world, but Alice likes it. Some nights she could eat us out of house and home, with the amount she puts away. So I call her a hungry bunny. She wanted me to make up a song about her being a hungry bunny. The song is: Alice is a hungry bunny (repeat twice, not the hundred times Alice does it), then I put my hands up to my mouth and shout, where does all the food go? In her tummeeeeee. The next one is "round and round the garden", then "My God is so big". She really does look very pleased with herself.
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Edinburgh Holiday
We're back from our much needed holiday. We spent a week just south of Edinburgh. The weather wasn't great, the cottage could've been better, I didn't feel all that great, but we still managed to have fun and a good time anyway. This is the view outside Alice's bedroom window.
This is the cottage we stayed in.
As you know (from our previous posts) Alice likes to jump. Well she realised that she can jump off things too. We spent the afternoon in Peebles, and spent most of it in this courtyard, which was part of the council buildings. She enjoyed running around and needed to run off some of the sugar in the lemon cake she'd just had.
Alice jumped a lot!!!
She spent quite a long time jumping off this curb!!!
There was also this bar to swing from. Maybe she's going to be a gymnast.
As you also know she has a very cute curl at the back of her head. This is how long her hair would be if it was straight!!!
We went to some gardens in Balerno and all Alice was interested in was jumping off the grass!!!!
We also went to this fab place in Dalkeith Country Park. It was a huge wooden play area with a slide about 10 metres high!!!! Alice wasn't interested in that, but she did enjoy this wee toddler tree house thingy. She walked round and round for ages, unfortunately there was nothing to jump from.
Alice sitting in the tree house thingy.
We met up with our niece Alexandra. Alex studied in Edinburgh and has lived there now for five years. She took us to this wee cafe in Portobello which had a soft play area in it. Alex wasn't a 100% sure how to get there, so had to phone her friend to get directions. Whilst on the phone she said she was in the car with her aunt, uncle and cousin. Stuart laughed, because he has acquired a lot of nieces and nephews since marrying me. I think he still finds it strange that he's an uncle and particularly to adults in their 20s. Alice was really looking forward to seeing "cousin Alex" and really enjoyed their time together. Love this picture of them.
Stuart said he was struck at how much they looked liked each other. Maybe it's the matching outfits!! Also (Alex, you'll like this) Stuart was struck at how blue Alex's eyes are!!!!! It was great to meet up, it was far too short and obviously last time we saw each other was under incredibly sad circumstances at my Dad's funeral. So it was lovely to meet up under better circumstances.
All in all, we had a good week. Laura, we now have a new catchphrase in our house. Out is good, but home is best!!!
This is the cottage we stayed in.
As you know (from our previous posts) Alice likes to jump. Well she realised that she can jump off things too. We spent the afternoon in Peebles, and spent most of it in this courtyard, which was part of the council buildings. She enjoyed running around and needed to run off some of the sugar in the lemon cake she'd just had.
Alice jumped a lot!!!
She spent quite a long time jumping off this curb!!!
There was also this bar to swing from. Maybe she's going to be a gymnast.
As you also know she has a very cute curl at the back of her head. This is how long her hair would be if it was straight!!!
We went to some gardens in Balerno and all Alice was interested in was jumping off the grass!!!!
We also went to this fab place in Dalkeith Country Park. It was a huge wooden play area with a slide about 10 metres high!!!! Alice wasn't interested in that, but she did enjoy this wee toddler tree house thingy. She walked round and round for ages, unfortunately there was nothing to jump from.
Alice sitting in the tree house thingy.
We met up with our niece Alexandra. Alex studied in Edinburgh and has lived there now for five years. She took us to this wee cafe in Portobello which had a soft play area in it. Alex wasn't a 100% sure how to get there, so had to phone her friend to get directions. Whilst on the phone she said she was in the car with her aunt, uncle and cousin. Stuart laughed, because he has acquired a lot of nieces and nephews since marrying me. I think he still finds it strange that he's an uncle and particularly to adults in their 20s. Alice was really looking forward to seeing "cousin Alex" and really enjoyed their time together. Love this picture of them.
Stuart said he was struck at how much they looked liked each other. Maybe it's the matching outfits!! Also (Alex, you'll like this) Stuart was struck at how blue Alex's eyes are!!!!! It was great to meet up, it was far too short and obviously last time we saw each other was under incredibly sad circumstances at my Dad's funeral. So it was lovely to meet up under better circumstances.
All in all, we had a good week. Laura, we now have a new catchphrase in our house. Out is good, but home is best!!!
Monday, 6 July 2009
Birds, Jumping and Chocolate
As you can see Alice is enjoying her slice of home-made chocolate cake. Mummy and Daddy also enjoyed the chocolate cake.
On Saturday morning we took the opportunity that the beautiful weather gave to us and visited the birds at Washington Wetlands Centre. For those of you who live in or around Newcastle and haven't been, it really is a fantastic place to visit. Alice really enjoyed walking round and seeing all the different birds.
At the end of circular walk they have an activity playground. You can play with water and there were ropes and slides etc to jump, climb and slide on.
Alice didn't really like this platform which moved, she wanted off it immediately it started moving. We also got to see lots of wee baby ducks, we thought Alice would be really impressed with them, but she wasn't.
A little video of Alice at Washington. I think her walk here is very reminiscent of the ducks. It wasn't meant to be, just how she walks when she's walking fast. Then Alice and Stuart working the waterwheel. Alice loves to jump. Today she tried to jump over Stuart's roll for his back. As you see she is giving it a good go, but doesn't quite manage it. Kank, the Kangaroo (and Kong the Joey, the names she's given them) jumps rather well too. She is given rather a lot of assistance from Alice though.
On Saturday morning we took the opportunity that the beautiful weather gave to us and visited the birds at Washington Wetlands Centre. For those of you who live in or around Newcastle and haven't been, it really is a fantastic place to visit. Alice really enjoyed walking round and seeing all the different birds.
At the end of circular walk they have an activity playground. You can play with water and there were ropes and slides etc to jump, climb and slide on. 
Alice didn't really like this platform which moved, she wanted off it immediately it started moving. We also got to see lots of wee baby ducks, we thought Alice would be really impressed with them, but she wasn't.
A little video of Alice at Washington. I think her walk here is very reminiscent of the ducks. It wasn't meant to be, just how she walks when she's walking fast. Then Alice and Stuart working the waterwheel. Alice loves to jump. Today she tried to jump over Stuart's roll for his back. As you see she is giving it a good go, but doesn't quite manage it. Kank, the Kangaroo (and Kong the Joey, the names she's given them) jumps rather well too. She is given rather a lot of assistance from Alice though.
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