As it's summer holidays for Daddy as well as the kids, Sam's sister Katie-Jane brought Scarlett (5 years) and Huxley (almost 4 years) down to Bristol one day this week.
I had to work so unfortunately I missed seeing them, but by all accounts the kids had a great time playing in the park and eating lunch together.
Eve with her beautiful older cousin, Scarlett
Now that Eve is so much older it's great that they can now play alongside each other.
Eve and Huxley enjoying the swings
Eve loves climbing fences at the moment. I often find her doing this when I pick her up from nursery.
We were teaching Eve how to walk along thin things, one foot in front of the other.
Now she can walk along the whole plank of wood.
Hard at work with the train set
Daddy made yummy pasta for everyone
After many weeks of Eve getting terribly upset at bath time we have reverted back to the small jug for washing her hair. As she doesn't like water on her face I used to use this little jug when she was smaller to rinse her hair. I changed to a larger jug a few months ago when she seemed to have grown so much.
Now that we are using the little jug she seems a bit happier. She's also loving her new bath buddy, whom she named Tora. This dragon spits water and fire when you press the tummy. It's really good as I squirt the water in her face and she mainly laughs though sometimes she gets a bit cross. I think this will help her get used to having water on her face and not feeling so scared about it.
I wish we had time to take her swimming each week, but it's so difficult with the hours that we work. Maybe during the winter we'll try and go swimming on Saturday mornings, when the weather is too bad for us to be outside. The few times that she went swimming last year she enjoyed, though she looked worried. She loves playing in the bath, it's just the hair washing that is tricky. I know it will all come together soon though.
I'm going to buy her a plastic baby doll (preferably with hair), that we can wash in the bath. The ones we have all have fabric bodies. I think this will help Eve get to grips with having her own hair washed.
This morning as we were getting ready for nursery, Eve was pushing her pram around the kitchen. I asked her where was her baby? She looked at me and said, 'where is she?!' and went running off to find her doll. She's formulating sentences and connecting things easily. When we got up this morning she said, 'window - raining.'
When I dropped her off at nursery, one of the nursery girls said to Eve, 'oh look Eve, here's Eli, he's been asking for you this morning.' Eli walked straight over to Eve and gave her a hug. Eve had a big grin on her face. It was so cute, and sent me off to work with a spring in my step!
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