I think we may need to buy a gnawing toy for Princess. The idiot hamster waits until Holly has gone to bed to emerge and go mental, running in her wheel and gnawing at the cage in an entertaining but ultimately futile attempt to either escape or sharpen her teeth, we're not sure.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Garden Detectives
Holly's favourite outing at the moment is to the Garden Detectives exhibit at the National Museum. She visited with nursery the other week, and was keen to go back on Monday. It's a fun wee exhibit, with plenty of hands-on, crawling-under-things, peeping-through-holes and dressing up stuff for the wee ones. Here are a few phone pics.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
We're All Together Again
Sunday was the leavers' barbecue at Holly's nursery. The sun and rain played a wee game of hide and seek, but the main thing was that we all got together for a wee sing-song and all the kids got a leaver's certificate, a reward scarcely adequate for sitting though Magic Max's performance. Actually that's unfair, the kids enjoyed it enormously. The day before, Princess was out and about (an almost daily occurrence in fact) and we took a wee snap to record Holly's growing confidence in handling her. Louis, meanwhile, napped peacefully, looking good in his pale blue top.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Social Climber
On the way home from Glentress, we popped into Craigleith "retail park" for a spot of light shopping - from the sublime to the ridiculous, you might very well say. The shopping was fruitless, but we visited the wee park there, where Holly was able to demonstrate her monkeying skills...
Into The Woods
What with starting school and our holidays coming up, this will be one of the last Mondays I spend with both Holly and Louis, so when the sun shone in the morning I thought we'd make a day of it and head to Glentress with the trailer. We took the green trail, and the hoots and yelps of delight from behind me were a joy to hear. Not wanting to push my luck too far, after the green loop we headed for the Hub Café for panini and energy drinks and then home. A pretty successful outing, I reckon. Next time we'll get Helen along too...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Trees; A Crowd
This was the weekend of TreeFest, and on Sunday we found a good window in the weather to meet the Evanses and hang out with the hippies, country folk, eco-warriors and opportunists. The 7Stanes mountain bike display team were there, along with working horses, a fire engine, yurts, tipis, drums and arts and crafts by the bucketload. We ran into Niall and Laura, who documented the event better than I have, as well as a few other chums. Here are a few pics anyway.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Jammy Dodgers
Wednesday at Grandma & Papa's, and we still hadn't done anything with the strawberries we picked on Monday. Holly and Papa knocked up a batch of jam, and the toast consumption chez nous has risen more than somewhat as a result. Louis, in the meantime, went to the doctor's - again - and celebrated with a tankard of (probably) milk.
Monday, July 13, 2009
PYO
Today we popped out to Craigie's to do a bit of fruit picking. The raspberries aren't quite at their best yet but the strawberries were superb. Holly loved it, and ended up doing most of the picking, because Louis really didn't enjoy it much at all. Perhaps he's tired or sickening for something, because after his nap I left him in the living room and went to make dinner. 20 minutes later, I returned to find him asleep on the floor...
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Siesta
With all the sunny weather we've been having recently, we try to encourage Louis to wear his hat at all times. This is taking it a bit far though. He's generally a bit grumpy after his nap, and this one was no exception. I tried to ease his journey into wakefulness by carrying him like a baby while singing loudly (and badly) at him. He seemed to enjoy it.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Princess
It's been a week, so it's time for Princess the hamster's blog debut. She's a timid wee thing, but that's to be expected. She and Holly are gradually getting used to each other though. Odd that hamsters are popular pets for kids, and yet they sleep during the day and wake up at night, mainly (it seems) to run noisily in their wheels while we're trying to watch The Wire...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Roar of the Greasepaint Pt II
Look at those eyes...
The face-painting theme continued at Grandma and Papa's on Wednesday, with Papa gamely picking up the brush. Holly seems to prefer the *process* of having her face painted to the end result, as she's always ready to start again as soon as the job's finished...
The face-painting theme continued at Grandma and Papa's on Wednesday, with Papa gamely picking up the brush. Holly seems to prefer the *process* of having her face painted to the end result, as she's always ready to start again as soon as the job's finished...
Monday, July 06, 2009
The Roar of the Greasepaint
Things calmed down a little after the party, with a bit of relaxing and playing with birthday presents on Sunday. We headed out to the Early Learning Centre on Monday, to spend the voucher Holly received from Dave & Paula. After much deliberation, Holly plumped for a face painting kit, and couldn't wait to get started when we got home. Louis, in the meantime, has been showing signs of being ready for potty training, so I bought him a few pairs of pants, which Holly hijacked and turned into a rather odd "pants party". Family logged into flickr will also see Louis' preferred occupation of naked jumping on the much-abused settee.
The video below was Holly's idea, to show Dave & Paula what she'd bought with their voucher.
The video below was Holly's idea, to show Dave & Paula what she'd bought with their voucher.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Buried Fish
After a hectic day on Saturday, and with Grandma Pat still in town, Helen and I headed out to Andrew and Amy's place in Dalkeith, there to meet with Pete and Anna & Al & Fi for a spot of dinner. Andrew and Pete were chefs for the evening, and had concocted a scheme which involved burying a 33" salmon with a bunch of glowing embers. "Turn up at 8," they intoned, "that's when we'll be eating." We arrived as directed, and dinner was served promptly at 10:30. I'm not complaining, it was a very pleasant evening of al fresco drinking and chat, and dinner was splendid when it arrived. Just watch out for the timing on those underground ovens...
Five Star
Long overdue, here are a few snaps from Holly's birthday on July 1st and her subsequent party on the 4th. She was up early on the big day, and tore straight into her presents, most of which were hamster-related and thus something of a giveaway. Grandma Pat & Grandad John turned up later on, and they all went to the zoo with Grandma Sheila and Papa Gordon. I don't have any pictures of that though. On the Saturday, her party was at Almond Valley, and went really rather well. The weather was favourable, a good number of her pals were able to make it, and a splendid time was had by all.
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