This week

We tend to have the TV on first thing in the morning and we watch Daybreak. I like to see what's on the news and find out what the weather's doing and we quite enjoy the banter of the presenters. It's fairly light hearted and often gives us a laugh which, in my book anyway, is a good way to start the day.

There tends to be an item that would appeal to children just before 8am and on Wednesday they had The Wiggles on. As soon as they started singing they had Alice's attention :).  Later that morning Claire thought she would see if there any other programmes which Alice might like to see how she'd react. The next programme coming up was Dora the Explorer so we switched over and waited for it to start. It was so funny, Alice pushed herself up to standing at the end of the couch and was glued to the TV! She waved her arms around and chuckled and fake coughed (her latest attention seeking/happy thing to do lol!) Needless to say I had to get a photo to catch her reaction to her first chidren's programme :)

 More serious once Dora had finished

 Yesterday morning when I went outside I couldn't get over how many roses had come into bloom! The scent from this rose bush is wonderful - we can smell it as we walk out the back door and I wish I could bottle the perfume!

Close up of one in bloom

 Another day or so and this one will be the same :) 

Then a final photo of Alice just before she and Claire went in to town this morning. She also got to wear the little cardigan I finished the other day, for the first time. :)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend
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Sunday

Today has been a quiet day for Emily and myself. Yesterday, Emily had a tummy bug which made her quite ill but, fortunately, it seems to have been a 24 hour bug as she was feeling a bit better today though still quite weak. That's not really surprising as she didn't eat anything yesterday and has only had an apple and a few spoons of rice today. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a better day and she'll be eating a little bit more. 

 Today she made it downstairs and was back on her laptop for a while :)

 I had a walk round the garden looking at the plants that are flowering at the moment. This clematis is flowering for the first time - it was planted last year but didn't flower and we've been waiting to see whether we would get any this year or not. Looks like we're in luck!

I'm not sure whether you can see the flowers in this photo clearly enough. It's a bush we have under our kitchen window and each year around this time it has masses of these tiny pink/lilac flowers and the most amazing scent. The flowers don't last for long but while they are out the smell from them is wonderful. We don't know what this plant is so if anyone has any idea, I'd love to know.

 This photo was taken on Friday when we were watching the Royal Wedding - Alice was the most patriotic of us all in her red, white and blue outfit.

 Today she was in a little summer outfit as they were going out to visit friends after Craig/Daddy finished his football match.

She is now sitting on her own (though we like to be near by - just in case) and is starting to take an interest in her toys. She loves anything that plays music and one of the ways Claire can get her off to sleep is by singing to her.

I hope you all enjoy the Bank Holiday tomorrow - have you got anything nice planned?
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Thursday evening

I think these are likely to be the last roses we have for this year. The yellow rose has flowered three times and the peach one is on it's second round. 

 The scent from these roses is wonderful and as the bush is right outside our back door, I like nothing better than to walk outside and smell them :o)

 This little peach rose was bought after Jon's mother passed away. It's flowered each year but this year it hasn't looked as healthy as in previous years. I think it may need a good trim next year so we can get it back in good "health".

And finally, this arrived in the post the other day. I'm so looking foward to getting some time so I can sit down and watch it - not sure when that will happen though!

Finally, we heard tonight that Jon's brother Nick had a heart attack today. He's in hospital and they've put a stent in to open the arteries. We've been told he's likely to be in hospital for at least the next four days. Please keep him in your thoughts/prayers.  Thank you x
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A little late

Claire's photo on the 20th is a little late this month though it was actually taken on the 20th, I just haven't got round to posting it until today. As you can see, baby is getting bigger and there's not really much doubt that Claire's pregnant now ;). Lots of movement from baby and lots of shopping from Mummy at the moment. I'll have to post a photo of latest baby buys soon. And to end off, just a few photos from our garden. The one above was taken late one evening, I liked the way the glow from the kitchen windows helped to light the flowers. And a couple more shots of our sunflowers. They are opening slowly but surely and are beautiful. These remind me of dahlias with all their petals but I'm sure one we can see the sunflower seeds that'll change :) Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your families.

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