End of the school year

This last couple weeks have flown past in a blur of end of school madness. We have attended a whole bunch of things for the last time before going to Canada; a couple parties at people's houses, cricket games, music group, baby play group just to mention a couple.

Here is Sophie making friends with the dogs at Benny's party last Friday...






Stephen giving Sophie a drink (!!) after the cricket game....



And some of the mums and babies at the play group...







Sophie also ate speghetti bolognese for the first time and loved smearing it all over! Any tips on how to get speghetti sauce off clothes?



It has also been a strange week due to Stephen and I leaving Sophie with Charlotte Tuesday evening while we attended Vanessa's concert in London, and me returning to work Wednesday and Friday. Work wasn't quite as bad as it could have been and it was actually nicer than I thought to be able to leave Sophie in David's care while I had something else to occupy my brain and time.

Now that school is over for the next 5 weeks we are both looking forward to going to canada and having a long break where Sophie can learn to swim in the river and maybe to walk!?!

Stephen and Tara

In the park

The weather has finally turned for the better! After 300% more rain in June than normal, the sun has once again began to show its face. Yesterday we all went to the park after church to take advantage of the beautiful day. Stephen and Uncle David took turns holding Sophie on their shoulders on the walk over and I pushed the empty buggy. Sophie liked being up so high as she felt like a big girl!

In keeping with feeling like a big girl, Sophie then tried out the big girl swings with her daddy.

And here are a few pictures from Saturday in the garden.

Fun times in a pretty dress

The sun has finally come out and with it more pretty dresses! Here is Sophie on the swings yesterday...

Sophie has discovered how to stand up by herself using her toy basket!

And here she is with her uncle David.

On the move... sort of!

Not crawling yet but not far off... !!!!!

A Trip to the (English) Cottage

Stephen's Grandma has been visiting his aunt, Wendy, and uncle, Chris, at their cottage in Essex (which dates back to circa 1750!). Accordingly, Stephen, Sophie and I all bundled into the car yesterday and headed over to see them. It was only their second time seeing Sophie (yes, I know that whe has seen her relatives who live abroad more often....) so it was very special.