Time for tea!

Alice having a little tea party with tiger, elephant, monkey and mummy

a few day trips this year

It's been a busy 2011 so far so here's a quick round up of some of the things we've been up too. With our new sealife centre annual passes (a bargin with tokens out of the paper) we all headed to Weymouth on a chilly day to check out the underwater delights. Alice loved the penguins, seals and the underwater tunnel with sharks and turtles swimming over her head. She was also thrilled with the many puddles!





The following day we headed to Upton country park with the dog. We took a lovely stroll along the boardwalk, until Otto decided to go for a swim! Alice fed the ducks, although was rather reluctant to throw the old bread in the water, preferring to sample the duck food herself. And she had a good run around in the leaves. Alice never stands still so getting a lovely shot of her is impossible!


With our other season ticket to Kingston Maurward animal park and gardens Alice and I went to see the animals and feed the chickens and geese.

spag hoops!

"What do you mean mummy? Where else should I be putting my spag hoops?"

What kind of child...?

Where did January go? Life just plods along and although Alice is up to so much and changing every day I very rarely have a camera on me to capture it.

So now she is fast approaching the official toddler (18months) what kind of little person is she going to become? Shy and graceful or spirited, chatty and a cheeky monkey? I fear it may be the latter!

Christmas 2010

Here are a selection of photos from our Christmas day. It was a lovely day, blue skies, crisp snow and very cold. Alice had been a good girl and Father Christmas left her some presents in her stocking. She really got into present unwrapping this year! We all went for a christmas morning walk around the field and enjoyed a big roast dinner at lunch. Lots of playing with new toys and Toby and I played Mousetrap (less than a £1 from the charity shop)!

Opening presents from Father Christmas



Snow snow snow




Toy duck for Otto ("I think it's dead now!")
Too much brownie mix?! or 12 weeks?(belly button already sticking out, oh joy!)

(For Matt!) Christmas lunch with all the trimmings Homemade brownies with homemade chocolate sauce.

First glimpse of snow...

Hand me downs- extreme!

We've all heard of sibling hand me downs...
Well Uncle Matt, you may recognise the all in one sleepsuit Alice is wearing...that's right it was yours when you were Alice's age (nearly 21 years ago)!She looks so adorable in it.