Photo a Day : 28 March 2012

Tonight was haircut night for Emily and me.  We go round to Mary's house where she has her utility room set out as a mini salon.  We always have a good natter and catch up with what's been going on.  Emily is growing her hair and is pleased with how long it's getting. She had a little bit more shape cut into the front tonight. As for me, I tend to just have a trim and get mine back under control ;o) 

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Last ones from Monday

As I said in a previous post, we spent most of Monday outside in the garden. Here are some more photos from our day ...

 This little truck had the toys for the sand pit in it and it's been a big hit as Alice likes to pull it around the patio (sometimes while making choo choo sounds??)

 My nephew, Max, is staying with us and he and Alice had fun playing peek a boo through the slats of the bench.

 Hello, beautiful!! <3 xx

 From when she was little, Alice has enjoyed playing with my clothes pegs.  Monday was no different and she spent ages playing with these two pegs on the chair.

 We then had a period of water play, which resulted in Alice getting soaked through and Grandma also getting a bit wet  ;o).

 After the water play we came inside to get Alice into something dry and to play and read books for a while. I even managed to tie her hair up in little pigtails - though they didn't stay in for too long.

 Big smile for Grandpa :o)

 And then it was back outside again for a while.

If you've stuck with me through all these photos, thank you ;o)  

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A few more photos from Monday :)

I've got a few more photos to share from Monday.  The first two are just because they're quite cute and I like them :)

 When we remind Alice that we don't pick all the petals off the flowers, she bends over and "sniffs" them instead :)

 These next photos make me smile/laugh each time I look at them because I can still picture and hear Alice ...

 It all started because Hugh had brought his exercise bench outside to do his workout because the weather was so nice.

You can see by the look on Alice's face that she wasn't quite sure what Uncle Hugh was doing. And as he was lifting his weights, he'd make a Shhhh noise.  Alice continued watching for a while and then turned to me and went .....

 Shhh .. (putting her finger to her lips ;o) ) ... and started giggling! This continued throughout that segment of Hugh's routine and at times he could hardly carry on because we were laughing so much.

 And when he finished, she gave him a round of applause!

Then she'd run up to the workout bench and give it a pat and then run away from Hugh.  It was soo funny!  She is so cute and keeps us in stitches with some of the things she does :)

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Photo a Day

Sunday  25 March 2012

Our clocks went forward on Sunday, never my favourite time of year as I hate losing an hour's sleep! However, we had another beautiful day and my parents came round for an early dinner (though by the time it was ready it wasn't that early ;o) ). We sat outside to begin with until it got too chilly. I merrily took photos of the cats in the garden and I got this photo of Hugh making himself a pizza when he'd got home earlier in the afternoon, but I didn't actually take any photos of Mum and Dad! I'm not doing so well with this photo taking at the moment :o(


Monday : 26 March 2012

We had so much fun on Monday. The temperature went up to 20C+ and Alice and I spent a lot of time out in the garden.  We put the garden umbrellas up so that we had some shade for her to play in and I also applied sun lotion a few times.  I did well taking photos this day and ended up with about 50 of Alice :o) (doting Grandma perhaps?) so chosing one for my photo a day was quite difficult.  I think an extra page may be added to Project Life this week because I love them all.  Some of you may have seen more on my Facebook page already.

Monday : 27 March 2012 

I've been on the go most of the day today - I think I was at home for about an hour today and the rest of the time was spent out and about doing stuff. However, after an early dinner, Emily and I went to her school for a talk on the World Challenge the school is planning for 2014.  They are taking 18 children to Uganda for 4 weeks.  Emily, and a couple of her friends, were interested in finding out more. The talk today was just to let them know what the trek entails and what sort of things they might expect to do. It was very interesting and has certainly given Emily food for thought. The next step, should she want to take part, is to write a letter of application to the school explaining why she would like to go, what she thinks she'd get out of it and how she might go about the fundraising. From the applicants received, the school then have to choose the 18 children who are going to go. Not an easy task. For those who are chosen, I have no doubt it will be a life changing experience and one they will never forget.  Emily now has to think carefully, taking into account all they've been told, and decide whether she is going to apply or not. 

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