Day 356 photo booth

Ginger took these photos of us yesterday using her new photo app in the photo, we took shocked ones, then funny before a normal one....

Day 349 Winters beauty

So it's winter, it's cold but this time if year is one if my favourites. Cosy nights in, warm tea and pyjamas. Cold outside but warm inside. Snow, white beauty. Even the morning frost can make ordinary day objects glisten like these cobwebs....

Day 295 Silhouettes

I've been going through my phone pictures today and realised I missed out sharing this photo. It's quite a nice picture if me and eldest daughter walking whilst the dark if night descends....

Day 284 Baby Tin Tin

Today's picture isn't actually one I took, it's one from my OH Gingers blog, she took this the other day and I thought it was a great capture and one you couldn't replicate again. Don't worry she was in no danger but our youngest daughter certainly looks like a baby Tintin here. It was featured yesterday in the official tin tin website so now she's a star, Hollywood beckons?

You can see more of Gingers work and blog here

Day 199 a bit of quiet

This is eldest daughter, she's in the garden shed. When I asked what she was doing she replied, "I'm having a bit of quiet" and then wiped her nose, classy lady.

Day 185 mini eggs

Lunch time, anyone for these mini eggs on bread?

Day 156 nice scenery part 2

Back in February I took a picture for my 366. It was of some scenery on my way to work. I stated then that I would take another picture later in the year, so today I followed through on that and took this....

As you can see its quite a pretty sight in the summer, the leaves are overlapping and it's nice and peaceful, perfect scenery to relax to before or after work.

Day 144 Spot the Difference

As any parents we obviously hopeour 2 girls grow close to each other and encourage them to play and do things together. Our eldest child loves being big sister and youngest child often loves it when her big sister is around and paying attention to her. However my girlfriend Peagreen Gwin pointed out the other day that they now not only seem close together but are starting to look at one another. This is a photo of eldest as a baby and youngest....

 

We obviously think they look quite a like, especially in the eyes...

 

 

Day 140 Haircut 100

Today I got my haircut, it's the first time in 8 months. So I went from this....

To this....

I also released that in my 366 picture gallery this is the first time I've included a picture of myself, an all round landmark day if you ask me!

Day 139 Sitting up

Baby girl is coming on thick and fast now, it seems everyday she is knocking something off on her list of accomplishments and firsts. This was her today getting ready for a trip out....

No longer do we require the lay down pram instead she is eager to see the whole world in a seated position and is very interested in what it all has to offer, of course like her big sister she has her very own Bunny Rabbit to accompany her....

Day 138 Ahhhhhh

Today I finished work for a nice long weekend, my first holiday of the year. I'm looking forward to it, but so is this guy....

Day 135 Cute & Innocent

Here she is, breaking her toy given to her by one of my friends, yet she is too cute and innocent to be mad at

Day 127 A striking resemblance

We saw an advert on TV yesterday for a new planet earth type show. As we watched (or should I say half ignored) the advert this popped up and my OH instantly said it looked like our youngest child TV ....

Day 117 Who's this bear ?

TV has a lot if cute clothes. And naturally as a proud Daddy I'm bound to say she looks cute and is undoubtedly the cutest Baby I have ever seen (I can't even count myself as I've never seen myself as a Baby) but today as we were going out we put her in this her bear outfit....

It even has little paws in the bottom of her feet. She was so happy wearing it, and it was such good timing when I put her in it as I had just finished eating my bowl of porridge which we all know from the famous fairy tale bears love to eat...

Day 113 skippy

Here is eldest trying to use a scarf as a skipping rope, unfortunately she couldn't quite grasp it and as it swooped round it would stop at her feet, step over it and swoop over her head again. Eventually she gave up and used it as a belt....

Day 112 A visit

Today mummy went off to Blogcamp in Birmingham. Leaving me with the girls. So I enlisted to help of Nana and my nephew CJ, along with his mam. So we took the kids to Winkies, a local play area for children.

Both ER and CJ enjoyed being able to run around,play and be crazy and loud. Meanwhile TV got lots of attention by her Nana and her auntie.

CJ decided to part take on what has become mine and ERs weekly funny face competition....

And of course ER had to have hers taken....

Meanwhile TV was getting plenty of hugs and attention by Nana...

I'm guessing it won't be too long before she's up and playing with her sister and cousin. Meanwhile ER's trusty sidekick Rabbit guarded her shoes by wearing them whilst also getting ready 8 months ahead of time for Christmas by wearing a Santa coat...

After playing at Winkies for a good 3 hours we headed home so we could wave Nana and CJ off. A lively day spent with great family, we hope mummy had a nice relaxing day at her blogfest.

Day 88 Stop Thief There's been a Robbery

Due to the lovely weather e were having we decided to have a stroll out into town today and had lunch on one of the benches in ton. It was great, I have a chicken and Chroizo Pasty, Mummy had a Steak Pasty and eldest plumped for the cheese roll. We all enjoyed it until eldest dropped hers on the floor by accident and a opportunist pigeon decided to steal it.....

Life's a beach

Last weekend saw us embrace the sunny weather and hit the seaside with the kids. Although the weekend started with a sombre affair for my OH having to attend a family funeral it gave me time to look after the girls by myself, something I don't get much to do.

We decided this was the perfect opportunity to go shopping for mummy's mothers day and birthday pressies. We got our tools and started work, eventually we ended up making this rather nifty looking card for mummy....

The next day mummy again left me with the girls as she went to the salon to be pampered for her birthday. I fed the children whilst youngest decided to have a 3 hour nap straight after hampering our days activities. After this we headed towards Scarborough to grab a bit to eat before meeting up with mummy who looked very relaxed and refreshed after her mornings worth of pampering. We then headed towards the seaside, this was the first time youngest had ever been to the seaside, and the first time I've took eldest there. In Scarborough there's the old tram that takes you down, we opted for this route, although I can never remember going on this as a child myself....

As we reached the bottom if the hill we decided to nip into one if the arcades.....

But eldest was a little scared of them....

As we reached the seafront a thousand memories came flooding back. I hadn't been to Scarborough since I was about 10, but can remember walking along the seafront scaring my mum half to death thinking I've run off when I was busy playing on the games in the arcades trying to persuade her to give me some more money. We then went to get an ice cream, mummy insisted on going to a certain ice cream shop that she'd always go to as a little girl so we each plumped for our individual tastes, mummy went for a full lemon ice cream....

I went for a strawberry topped Ice cream....

And eldest went for a milk lolly....

Youngest didn't think much about daddy's ice cream....

And eldest didn't think much of mummy's....

But as we strolled along the seafront with our ice creams, in what then turned typical colder weather mummy then said, "oh wait, that's the ice cream shop!" she'd made us go to the wrong place, silly ! On our way back we let eldest walk along the beach which she enjoyed but myself and youngest had to walk on the Path as the wheels to the pram wouldn't move in the sand. So eldest was looking cute walking hand in hand with mummy....

As walking on the sand, the temptation is too great not to play with it and allow the small grains slip through her fingers so eldest must pick up the sand and throw it around, I'm just surprised she didn't get any in her eye....

And of course just was the girls get off the beach and back onto tarmac, they must get rid of all the sand that has collected in their shoes, after all we love the beach but we don;t ant to take it home with us....

On our way home both girls had a nice sleep as of course the day was long , and I couldn't resist but take a picture of eldest as she slept, she'll probably kill me for this photo one day when she's older....

We promised her another trip back to the seaside so she can build a sandcastle next time, that'll be interesting!

Day 73 it's a rocky road

When I arrived home from a long day at work my wonderful OH greeted me with a lovely surprise, home made Ricky road and a cuppa, lovely

Day 72 Mmmmm Apple Cereal

Today TV had her first taste of proper(ish) food. We fed her special baby apple cereal. She of course made a mess of herself, getting most of it around her face rather than eating it, and couldn't grasp the fact that it was a spoon and not a bottle and tried to suck the spoon. But other than this is was a relative success and she looked like she enjoyed it.....