Sophie's 1st Xmas

Sophie's had a lovely 1st Xmas. We spent Xmas Day at Granny and Grandad Emm's with Uncle Richard, Auntie Nina, Ellie & Harry. Then did it all again on Boxing Day at Darrol and Jodie's with Lola, Grandad and Nanny Hoole.  Uncle Wayne and Auntie Tina joined us by skype to see prezzies being enjoyed!

If anyone wants a copy of any of these pics, please let me know

This is Sophie's swimming partner and general play pal, Tommy

More Xmas Party Pics

One of my new mum-friend's husband is a photographer

and came along to our Postnatal Xmas Party with his camera

and took these lovely pics

Sophie's 1st Xmas Party

Mr & Mrs Claus!  Sophie and her friend William (host of Halloween Party!)

Thanks for my presents but I like this crocodile!

Sophie with her Secret Santa Prezzies - A handmade 'S' for her room

and a My 1st Xmas cuddly Gingerbread Man

Xmas Mayhem!

Special Cards!

Thank you Granny and Granddad and Uncle Wayne and Auntie Tina

for my own special Crimbo Cards!

Xmas has come early!

Sophie's loving her new walker/rocker. Those feet don't stop!

Sophie hits Costa

I love going to Costa with my Nan and Grandad

Harrison's 1st Birthday

Here's a few piccies from our recent visit to Richard and Nina's to celebrate Harry's birthday

Halloween with Lola & Sophie

We had a little party on Saturday with Lola where we were very creative carving pumpkins, and making all the Halloween things in the CBBC magazine - Lola's wizard hat!! Beautiful.

Sophie's 1st Halloween Party

Here's Sophie with her swimming pal Tommy

From left: Lois, Sophie, Holly, William (Host) Macy and Lawrence

Clockwise from Sophie - Finlay, Lois, Zander, Thomas, Lawrence, Holly, Grace and William

We had a Halloween party with our Post Natal Group today.  Everyone looked sooooo cute!!

Back to normal!

Sophie was ill last week but has today got her appetite back! She's finished her grapes, now on to the bowl!

Beach Fun at Home!

Sophie, Mum and I went to Moors Valley park on Friday and Sophie was scared of the sand and swings so we had a beach party at home today with porridge oats to get her used to bits between her toes!!

She loved it! As you can see, I'm making great use of our old tablecloth!

Sweet Potato is definitely a hit

Me and My New Dress

Daddy went shopping!!

Some random cute Sophie pics

Here's some pics that I haven't put on here before.

We have started solids - well purees!

16th Sept - We had baby rice for tea.  Horrible stuff but Sophie seems to like it, we think!!

Lola and Sophie 4th Sept

Lola visited today and got cosy with Sophie under the quilt

Sophie's 1st camping trip!

We went to Redcliffe Farm, Wareham at end of August for Sophie's first trip in the caravan

This was Sophie's favourite spot to survey every going on inside and out!

Darran and Sophie relaxing 

It was a bit chilly one evening, so we got to make use of the snowsuit!

A few recent pics

I've been a bit rubbish with updating the blog lately so here's a few pics and vids

Sophie really likes her cosy cow sit-up ring which we acquired recently -

this vid was taken on 22nd August

and here she is posing for me!

Sitting up!

Sophie's now sitting all by herself at 22 weeks

Gurning !!

Sophie's found she had a tongue and likes bogeys!!

Artistic genius in the making!!

I gave Sophie a pen today to see how she liked it. I have the same patterns on my arm and her leg! She liked it!

All grown up in my pink chair

Sophie's new highchair arrived today

Cool kid or what!

We all had a lovely time on Sunday for a Hoole family day

where Sophie got to meet her Uncle Wayne and Auntie Tina.

Look at me!

I bought Sophie a cup to drink her water from,

she took to it immediately and thinks it's great fun!

Sophie's now 4 months old!!

Sophie's 4 months old now and really starting to show some character!

Sophie & her Bumbo

Sophie now loves to sit in her bumbo seat as you can see,

it keeps all her favourite toys close to hand!

Like Father like Daughter!!

Sophie loves to watch the racing on TV with her Daddy!

That's any racing, Formula 1, Tour de France...!!

Lazy Days in the Sunshine!

I was making the most of the lovely sunshine this week by doing

a bit of gardening - what a lot of help these two were!!

Lola is 3!!

Lola really loved having Sophie over for her birthday party and helped to give her a bottle!

and here's Darrol getting some cuddle time with his new little sister!

Grandad and Great Grandad TRYING to wear birthday girl out!!

Sophie loves her bath every evening, just screams her head off during the journey from bath to towel!

Garden Wildlife

Here's one of our many resident frogs having a little rest on our new mini rockery