Whizz kids

She goes down the slide now! Lunch after was a nightmare wouldn't eat the ham cheese sandwich only ate quavers, krispie square and froob style yoghurt! Hmmm sweet tooth then. She's getting quite feisty, cries instantly and very dramatically if you don't let her have what she wants. Just a phase I tell myself!!

Gwen walking video

Chris called me the other day saying she was doing quite a bit of walking to him out on the deck so i went out and filmed. The longest walk which was about 6/7 steps was just before this film and  I think she had done enough walking by then so only managed some small walks but still good to have a record of it!!

Zoo and paddling pool for the first time.

We went to Paignton Zoo on Sunday as it was a lovely sunny day. We took a picnic and found this lovely picnic area where a few families were lounging in the sun. Gwen I've noticed is quite a sociable thing and crawled off to see this family, they were't exactly next to us as you can see from the picture below. The children eventually started to talk to her, she sat waiting patiently by them as the two older kids were play fighting and then the youngest of the 3 came over and started to say hello. I can only imagine she was giving them her lovely cheeky grin. They were leaving as you can see in the picture so I took sneaky picture as it quite a cute scene. Gwen then stayed there for a fair while just watching them go. 

Hers she is sat alone, quite happy, didn't even notice that she was alone it seemed. We called her and she looked left and  right and eventually found us behind her and crawled back over!

Trying to get a nice picture with Gwen is quite difficult now! She doen;s tlook that impressed in this one!

This is the closest we got to getting one of her with Chris, the rest she is writing around trying to get out of his grip.

Here we are with the goats, Chris says he would like one, and he's really serious about it!!

After the zoo we went shopping and I umm'd about whether to get a paddling pool, there was one with no picture for only £3 so I got it. It was great, we blew it up when we got home and I put her in this swimming cossie for the first time. She loved it, she played in the for ages with her tea set..

After a while I thought that water looks a bit murky and then got the dreaded whiff! She had only gone and messed all up her back, the swim nappy did not hold it all in, it was seeping out the sides! Suffice to say it was just yukk!!!! A two person job for me and Chris! I really hope she wasn't drinking the water after she did it! But she seems fine a few days later so no harm done obviously!

She took a few steps

This morning Gwen took her first tentative steps towards me from daddy and then took some towards him not long after! Maybe the supportive shoes we got her are strengthening her ankles! We also had a picnic in the garden with Charlie and the girls and Lucy and her two. They played in the fairy garden making all sorts with twine and sticks. Which reminds me to update my fairy garden blog

Oh and I put her hair in bunches for the first time. Cute!

New garden pergola thing

Chris is getting busy in the garden. Sunny here, it wasn't in Paignton today as I went to get my hair done, it was raining in fact. But sunny all day in Brixham so Gwen has had lots of garden time!

Here it is in it's early stages

Here with the side bed all finished 

Chris did the edges with a jigsaw, his dad didn't believe he had really done it himself and I had to tell him as he wouldn't believe Chris. 

Izzy and Vicki came to visit, Gwen kept eating mud but Izzy didn't! Oh dear what have we got on our hands!

It's nearly done now, so picture of flower bed- kind of a before and when all in bloom i'll update. You can see the potatoes growing in background.

New lounge

Today the carpet is going down! At last!!!

Gwens funny feet

We now have an appointment to see consultant about Gwens feet. They are all over the place and roll in quite badly. Poor thing, but at least she doesn't know any different.

We got her some shoes from ebay, supportive 'piedro' ankle boots and after a few days of wearing them on and off she took a few steps so maybe they are helping..