Be my, be my baby

Big congratulations to Andy and Aine - little (not that little 9lb 6oz!) Oscar Christopher arrived yesterday. Their house will no doubt be overflowing with penguin related baby paraphenailia shortly. Mummy and baby doing well, no word on Daddy! James is going to be a great big brother and they should start hiring him out very soon. Will post photos when we see them all.

Today we had probably our last visit with the Magees before the baby comes. I had a chuckle to myself as I handed over bags full of kit, cleared a big space in the under stairs cupboard! Its nice to see first-timer parents-to-be, makes you realise how far you've come! James is living down here now too so Joe had someone to follow around and check out spiders webs with.
We were at P & G's at the weekend. They very kindly took the children off our hands on Saturday so that Simon and I could go to a local country house hotel with a lovely spa. Relaxing time all round. We also got to go out for dinner in the evening so it was like being on holiday! The children had a great time in their beautiful garden and Joe discovered a new love for picking and eating unripe tomatoes - which he has carried on with, back home.
Sylvie needed yet another hair cut last week - think I'll need to buy shares in Toni & Guy at this rate!

The hurting

Managed to drop a chair on my big toe yesterday. Didn't break anything but ordered to rest and keep foot iced and elevated - as you can imagine, quite difficult with Joe and Sylvie bombing about, so they've gone to the emergency nursery today. Feeling massively guilty about it but I'm sure they'll be fine and as I could hardly walk we didn't have much choice. Now have a dark blue toe.

We have been addicted to the Olympics. Joe's personal fave has been the swimming, especially the butterfly. He has been running around the house perfecting his stroke. Gymnastics went down very well too, had quite an energising effect on his jumping! It has convinced me that we should try and get tickets for something in 2012.

Joe has moved upstairs at nursery to the older children's room. He's having a ball so far and has been coming home with a new trick every day. I think he is happier with the older children, and the toys and the things they do seem less babyish, so no danger of him getting bored. Am trying to get him a place at football training this winter, think it would be good for him. Sylvie starts in the baby room on the 22nd September. We've been dropping by to have a look in and she seems quite excited by it all. One of her top teeth is coming through, the poor thing has been really suffering with teething pain, much more than Joe was. But she babbles almost constantly like Joe did, except with a smile on her face!

We went to see Andy and Aine at the weekend. Their new arrival is due imminently. Joe keeps asking when the little baby is coming to see AndyAine and inspected all the new toys and thoroughly tested their childproofing!