Enjoying the Summer weather

Grannie Pam visited us last week, and was greeted with a great big smile when William when he first saw her. She brought a whole second suitcase with her to transport all the presents she’d been asked to deliver from Australia! Wow – it was like Christmas had arrived.


We had our 6 week check up last week too. Sophie is feeding well and gaining weight nicely. She is interacting a lot more while awake, looking at faces, stretching her legs, following you move with her eyes. I love the cute smiles!!! She has just started them properly recently. I now spend hours just staring into her face! I love her blue eyes too. William’s were brown from day 1, so I’m appreciating Sophie’s while they are still blue. They look lovely when she wears a blue top. She continues to make lots of little noises – sighs, murmers, squeeks, hmmmms, gurgles. Her fingers sometimes grab things put in them and she likes to hold on to my top while I feed her.

Andrew and I recently took the kids to Wood Festival, which is a very chilled out, family-friendly local festival. Sophie's first music festival at the age of 6 weeks (William probably beat here there, as he was at Towersey at about 4 weeks of age, I think). We got the bus there, as it is very eco-friendly. There was a solar powered stage and a tent where you could watch movies powered by people riding bicycles. The festival was very kid friendly, and although a very warm day we had lots of fun. We spent a fair bit of time in tents, yurts and teepees, to be out of sun. William played in the kids tent, which had a paddling pool (so he got nudey!) and crafty stuff on the go all day. He also had fun playing with musical instruments and we all went to a workshop where he and Andrew made a ballonaphone instrument out of rubbish. I want to try camping there next year.....we could hire a yurt to sleep in!


We spent a couple of days this weekend by and on the river. Simon and his friend Ben cam to stay on Sunday, to help me look after the kids while Andrew was working. It was lovely weather so we walked to the Isis Tavern and hung out, watching the world float by while we played in the garden. Then on Monday we all went punting, which William really enjoyed, especially as he helped with the paddle. Then a picnic lunch at the Botanical Gardens was also most enjoyable, as the irises are looking lovely right now. We ate our food under a pine tree planted in 1800.