Hello Everyone!!
Sorry that it has been so long!! I know I had better get moving on a blog when I note that the Stott's have updated before I have!! We have been a very busy bunch!!
I am not sure when we last blogged but I do know that we had the house up for sale when I last saw most of you...well, our house is now officially sold which is good news (although we will miss it) however, we weren't looking forward to having to cover two mortgages for an extended period of time!! We took possession of our new house on none other than Friday the thirteeenth of April! We are slowly moving things from here to there with cars packed to the gills on each trip to Cambridge. We had our first official night in the house last night! I hope we will go on as we started...with Ollie and Emma sleeping the whole night without a peep!! This is not a really monumental moment for Ollie as he has been sleeping thru the night since he was nine weeks old..however, our lovely little girl seems to be a bit of a night hawk!! This past week when we were staying at Nannie and Grandad Halligan's house...Emma decided that 2-4 am was a good time to work on your laryngeal strength by screaming the house down. I think Nannie Frances is glad to see the backside of us as she never had a good nights sleep the whole time we were there and we gave her our cold in thanks for her hospitality!!
You will see from some of the photos that we had a visit to Windsor where we stayed with second cousins Hannah and Ava! Both girls were excellent pseudo-mum's helping out with Emma as often as possible! They even watched while she fed and encouraged her to drink up! Numerous difficult questions arose out of these feeding sessions. I am still not sure why only milk can come out of boobies why not solid foods! (I am actually quite glad myself of that little quirk of nature!!). While in Windsor we went to visit our friends Kristi and Pete Havens along with their son Noah (or rather "different Noah" as he will always be known by us, not because he is strange but rather because he is not Noah Stott) and their newest addition Hannah who is lovely!
Emma is now officially five months old. She is constantly smiling....which is a good thing. I keep telling her that if she wasn't soooo cute during the day I really might contemplate selling her to the gypsies should she not get this waking up in the night thing sorted!! She is very close to sitting up. In fact, sitting up is a great way to eat the latest and greatest discovery which is her toes! Very tasty treats it would seem as no sooner do you have her nappy off and those piggies are in there!! Given the fact that her truncal mobility is so good she has discovered the joy of the exersaucer and better yet the "jolly jumper" in fact as I write this blog she is hopping madly up and down in the door frame smiling from ear to ear!! She absolutely loves it which is great because Ollie just hung around in it and never really got into the jumping, not so Emma she took to it like a duck to water!! She has yet to start solids however, I don't think I am going to be able to hold out much longer. You are not able to hold on to her while you chew without her chewing with you and without having to wrestle whatever tasty morsel you have got away from her (as you will see from the photos, Adam was not about to let Emma have any of his white chocolate macadamia nut cookie that I had just made but, he broke a sweat in his attempt to keep her from it!!). I am hoping she will love her food as much as her big brother....it certainly looks as though she will!!
Ollie continues to impress us with his grasp of the English language. We have apparently been spending too much time at St. Frances' house as he is often saying, "Mummy....alleluia"! It may just be the Easter Celebrations that have inspired him...he will commonly ask me to sing Alleluia but, wisely if his dad starts to sing it he says, "no Daddy". He really seems to have grasped what Easter is all about as he told me one Sunday shortly after entering the pew that "Jesus is backa yife" interpretation, "Jesus is back to Life!". The priest is proud that someone seems to be listening. Now he did also chastize Jesus for being a "Cheeky monkey" as he had no socks on and also pointed out that Jesus was showing his boobies in church during the same mass. Oh yes and the stained glass window which depicts St. Francis of Assissi helping Jesus down from the cross with St. Francis' foot on a spherical rock like structure, this apparently really depicts Jesus playing football!! We have read the Stott's blog and note the extremely cool new train that Noah has recently inherited! I think Auntie Katey and Uncle Dave have now solved the problem re: the constant battles for turns with the pink umbrella stroller...however, Ollie has decided that he will definitely be having an "Ollie turn" on his visit in the fall! We too have inherited a toy that I think may inspire some differences of opinion regarding turns when Noah and Ellie are over. One very expensive haircut! I was taking Ollie for a haircut when I spied a garage sale (oddly enough at a house without a garage) anyway, we managed to come away with a massive tractor that one can ride on and operate...see the photos attached.....
Anyway folks...now the dreaded photo upload...
Hope you are all well. We are looking forward to Nannie Carols impending visit to "ollie's new house" as it is referred to! Only 18 days to go!!!
Take care...
Rachael, Adam, Ollie and Emma!
