Day 152 artistic license

Today we had a trip out. As we were sat in a coffee shop having our lunch we got out a notebook and pen to keep eldest occupied to draw. Myself and her worked as a team to draw a picture of her, I drew the head and she took over from there...

Meanwhile mummy drew a more professional version of our Picasso inspired version....

Day 151 Brick

PeaGreenGwin broke her phone the other night. Whilst drink she thought it would be a good idea to throw her phone down the toilet. So today she has bought herself a swanky new modern mobile...

Day 150 2 sisters

Aren't they cute, here they are enjoying each others company, eldest is playing her little sister a song in her xylophone...

Day 149 it's mine

Baby girl is now starting to hold her bottle and feed herself. However she often gets herself into some pickles, like today, rolling into her front, she's still adamant she can eat in this position....

Day 148 Where a Bear

Surely this is wrong a bear wearing a bear shaped hat? Uh oh....

The wonderful outdoors

So Britain has been blessed with sunshine. No doubt that this will be our summer compact into a few days of sunny rays. Up and down the country will see many dust of there summer cosies, and see many pasty bodies see there fleeting moments of the golden sun.

For us we took the opportunity of good weather to take the girls out and do some fun activities. I have been working late shifts this week, which mean finishing work rather late but the upside to this being I don't start work until late afternoon allowing us precious time to actually go do things.

On Wednesday we decided a trip to the park was necessary, we put youngest child in her pram seat and got both children sun creamed up, but forgetting myself as I am rather susceptible to the sun, I turn red faster than the carpet does when you've spilt black currant juice on it! The local park was great fun, it had a section for toddlers and a section for older children. Naturally myself and mummy had to try out the rides for our eldest child, starting with.....

Alas all this heat was too much for youngest who we ensured was in the cool shade in her pram and covered up, she decided to have a siesta....

Once we'd tested the rides for you fest it was only rude that we not test the older rides, naturally to ensure they were safe for other girls and boys but also for our eldest child when she gets older....

However at the park there was danger, there was a very hungry crocodile who needed feeding, unfortunately the crocodile ate me, and then decided to snack on our eldest child, who didn't look too worried about it all....

Once the danger from the crocodile was over youngest child decided it was time for her to wake up and join in on the fun. She woke up gave one of her trademark cute smiles to us and mummy got her out of her pram. Enjoying the sun, the park has an even smaller slide for toddlers, Granted our youngest isn't a toddler, but mummy decided that TV could experience her first slide, mummy grasp tightly to her, but she didn't seem too keen on the experience...

 Once the park was done, we were all feeling the heat, so we decided to stop by a shop and get some ices creams in. We then sat in the cool shade of a nearby tree and enjoyed our ice creams...

 Mummy made eldest a daisy chain necklace and showed her the art of blowing the needles off a dandelion clock which she has now seized upon every chance now....

The next day saw the sun shining again. This time I was off work so it meant we could spend the whole day together as a family and enjoy of what we hope won't be our British summer, but instead just the start of it. Usually on a Thursday we take the children to a ballet class at a nearby play facility. However this mornings class was cancelled as there was only eldest and another child who actually turned up, we guess that most people decided against it as they wanted to take advantage of the sun. No trouble we thought as we were planning on going out in there afternoon after the class we can just go do that now.

Knaresborough is a very beautiful olde town, it's just 5 minutes away from us and has a lovely river flowing through it and some very nice scenes.We decided that it would be nice to park the car up and go for a walk through Knaresborough. As we walked we got to see some very beautiful houses, some showing their age with thatched roof's and some with some artwork...



















Our destination in Knaresborough was to visit the castle, it's an old castle remains, and has some breathtaking fews of the river and Knaresborough. As we arrived we had a look around the ruins and accidentally walked into the middle of a tour which we then quickly left, but I was still punished as I was placed in the stocks...

Once free of these I managed to relax and take in the glorious view. The OH went off and bought some local Fish and Chips for us all to enjoy for our tea as we sat on the grass taking in the local scenery and just enjoying the weather...

Eldest child couldn't decide what she wanted to do one minute she was running around, the next relaxing and the next enjoying the view....

I hope you all have enjoyed the lovely weather, and lets all hope this is just the start of a great British summer!

Day 147 Garden Weather

Another glorious day so why not spend it in the garden? Unfortunately we don't have the best of gardens, we've no grass so it's not the best. However we are blessed with a lovely neighbour who has a garden. She also has a grandson who our eldest child enjoys playing with. That said our eldest daughter has been busy playing in the neighbours garden which is much nicer for her. With the neighbours grandson they managed to create a lot of mess, play in a paddling pool and a game of throw the ball to each other (hitting each other in the head repeatedly)....

Meanwhile we say close by relaxing with the youngest in her parasol....

And before we leave you on this fine day eldest decided to leave you with a curtsy....

Day 146 Bling

Eldest child this morning was asked to go get her clothes after her breakfast. A task once feared at what she'd chosen has recently became a task she has managed to co-ordinate herself quite nicely with her clothes. Not this morning however as she came downstairs still in her pyjamas, not carrying any of her clothes but instead with all her toy jewellery on....

Day 145 Crocodiles

Obviously with the nice weather we decided to take advantage of the sunshine and take the girls to the park to play. However with the visit came this sign, whoopsie we accidentally fed the crocodile our eldest child, never mind she looked happy....

Running to the Zombie beats

Around a month again I was tagged in a twitter post by Musodad. He had suggested to another blogger to ask myself and a few other music bloggers about guest posting. The challenge was set Rhiannon from a Hell of a woman was facing the challenge of from couch to 10k which you can read about here and, after reading up in her challenge and what she wanted bloggers to guest write I though it was a great idea.

As I started writing I started initially offering help and advice, which, I am sure would help people. Myself, I am a keen runner and a qualified personal trainer, I enjoy it and find it very relaxing. Yet as I was writing my original draft I noticed it sounded samey, your typical advice that you. Could get from any book or website.

I then scrapped my idea and decided to put my professional head away and instead write about, what I feel are the rules of creating a good playlist to rub to, my twist to this was the fear of a zombie race taking over the world in the not too distant future.

Please read my guest post here, and while you are there please read up on a hell of a woman's challenge here. You can also follow Rhiannon on twitter @The_Last_Slayer

Enjoy and good luck running away from all those zombies, as Shaun of the dead taught us remember you can survive by decapitating them!

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 143 mucky pup

Baby girl is certainly starting to enjoy the delights of a non milk exclusive diet. Here she is today after her latest meal if plum and banana, very nice. Not only did she make a mess of herself but also of mummy and the sofa, i'm sure there's much more mess to come...

Day 142 funny picture

I'm purely using this photo as my pic of the day as it was sent to me by a friend and made me laugh, and after all isn't that part of this project to have a laugh and enjoy things....

Day 141 calm down

Baby girls hair has grown dramatically over night....

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 137 planning

Work, it's something we all do. Up until a few months ago I use to enjoy doing rotas. I would never say they were ever fun but it would give me satisfaction when they were done and I found it a good way of puzzle solving. Recently they've been a nightmare, I've been under staffed and so it's been hard to ensure we have been staffed accordingly. Hopefully soon enough i'll be fully staffed and it'll be a lot easier, fingers crossed....

Day 136 yummy toast

Youngest child has been slowly learning the delights of a non milk diet. We tried various different porridge and purees and she is finally starting to enjoy eating something other than milk. This morning however she decided to steal some of mummy's nutella on toast, whilst naturally making a slight mess of her self....

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