A week of Tina, soya lattes, baby chino and bridey shopping.

We have been lucky enough to have the Beautiful, Wonderful, Lovely soon to be Mrs Tina staying with us for the last week. She was stranded here due to the tragic train crash in Belgium last Monday preventing the Eurostar from taking her back home to Nico and 'Gobie'. We were going to have her from Monday to Sunday but instead we got to have her from last Tuesday until this morning.
We took her to the Tube today so she could go off to the airport and waved until she disappeared down the escalator before we went off to singing with Harriette (we had coffee and chino first because we missed her).
We loved having you here Beautiful Aunty. Come back soon.

Photos tomorrow when we find the cable for the card reader.

Chinos with Fiona.

We met up with Fiona this afternoon, she signed my passport application and photos. It is always lovely to see the beautiful Miss Fi. Alpha claimed her as his own. Mumma 'Alf will you sit next to Fiona so she can drink her coffee?' Alpha 'No. Sit here on MY Fiona lap!'

'Mummy Alfie stuck!'

Little Mr Independent trying to take his clothes off to be ready for the running bath last night... trapped by those pesky neck buttons.

Kuya Alfie.

Lunch today at Lola Jo's house. All the Lola's were there and so was Alpha's little cousin Baby Geva. I think he will be a great big brother.

See the pink socks.. Alf picked them himself. 'Mine favorite pink socks!'

Friday in the park.

It was a cold, grey and wet this morning but we had to go out for a run. We tied a string to our rescue truck and pulled it along behind the buggy while Alpha prefected his one footed, one handed skate board balancing act.

We met up with our friend Johnny on the swings and ran about abit until it was time for Johnny, his Daddy and his Nanna to go off home for lunch and get ready to meet Wee Baby Brother.

Alpha and I spent 'a tiny bit' longer in the park trundling rescue car across the grass and through puddles before the rain forced us to head to the charity shop. We came home with a great assortment of 17 matchbox cars, a red swing top cooler box to keep them all in, a new digger book, a vintage acrylic jumper for Alf, tiny pink shoes for Baby Sister, and two lovely old childrens books with beautiful pictures. (Mumma's favorites being the old cement mixer, green tractor and red combine harvester, Alf's favorite is the 'new Nico car', 'tiny rescue car' and a tiny smart car he has named 'Alfie car'.

On our way home Alpha spotted an orange digger with caterpillar wheels like the "digger on it's side in the half dug drain" in the digger book Granma Binny sent for his birthday. We watched it for awhile and chatted to the workmen and headed slowly, slowly home pulling 'tiny rescue car' in the back of Rescue Car.

Thursday.

We went to our friend Harriette's special Owl Song singing session today. I remembered to take the camera but I forgot to take the SD card out of the card reader yesterday so no pics to show you. Mumma Margo called at 11.15am to tell us all her exciting news. A brand new freshly popped baby cry in the background.

We did some drawings and made this little friend. We spoke to Aunty Tina on the web cam. We spent a few hours filling in forms for a new passport and a new visa. We played cars and 'Rescue Truck' with our newest opp-shop find.

Brother or Sister?

Alfie's little best friend Johnny will get to meet his new baby Brother or Sister today. Mumma Margo is finally having a c-section after a long wait. Good luck Mumma and all our love.
Johnny hasn't been very excited by the idea but I am sure he will love him/her when they finally meet in person. Alfie thinks Johnny is getting a sister. Johnny just pulls this face when you ask him about the baby. We cant wait to meet you Baby.

NEWS UPDATE: Margo and Jonathan's new baby BOY was born at 10.30am 8 pounds 6.
Mumma and Baby are both doing well. Dadad is very proud. Johnny has a brother!
Much love to you all.

I can cook.

Alfie and Daddy are cooking dinner tonight.

Alfie has been making 'dinner' alot lately. This weekend Daddy is going to help Alfie turn our bread bin into a little oven to cook all his tasty treats in.

Tea and toast for dinner yesterday.

It is cold outside.

A recent family outing to the park.

It is cold outside today. Sunny but cold, so cold infact that snowflakes are falling from the sky... very small and soft, so small and soft that little hands in scary dragon mittons find them hard to catch. We are very glad that we have a new goretex jacket (thanks Nala for your christmas money) and our £1 padded outdoor trousers from the charity shop to keep our adventurous little Beast warm. We also have a great new sheep skin buggy snuggle but little Beast wont go into the buggy now he has a 'skate board' (buggy board). Franky rides in the buggy until Little sister comes and then 'Little Sister go in there.. Alfie a big boy'.

Tissue??

Grey morning drawing.

From the Big Freeze.

Early January.

The canal froze over. Our friend Johnny was frozen.

Alfie froze..'It is COLD today Mummy.'

Frozen bird foot prints.

Culpepper Community Garden.

Adventures in our bath tub.

Swimming Lessons.

' Hello Baby Sister.'

'Cooking dinner for you!'

Baby Sleep.

My heart fill with love for this little creature when I watch him sleeping soundly. Right now he is cuddled up to his Daddy and they are snoring away together in our bed.

I have just loaded 6 months of photos onto my shiny new computer. More of our adventures will be appearing here someday soon.