Anyway while we were over that neck of the woods we took the dog a walk along the river. We were here last year and had a cache left we wanted to pick up. They have a trail of fairy doors, small doors at the bottom of the trees made and decorated by local children. Some of them are fairly plain doors, others a bit more elaborate. This one caught my eye. Sadly people keep stealing them so they need to keep replacing them. A great addition to the walk if you have children with you as they add interest to the walk finding them.
Finished another of the Toy Story characters for Minky's blanket.
Monday
Our schools are back which means after school activities are back, and so we dropped Bob at gymnastics and walked the dog. Hubby was picking and eating blackberries as we went round, this is when having oral allergy syndrome is a pain as I cannot eat raw fruit, they looked delicious.
Tuesday
Meet Mia, aka Ziggy, born by c section at 1.48 am this morning. DD2 had had to go in for two pm to be induced but they were not happy with baby's heartbeat. After careful monitoring and trying to start her labour off they decided at midnight that they did not think Ziggy would cope with stronger contractions as she was struggling with the gentler ones and they decided on a c-section. This is why DD2 was in a hospital ninety miles away from home as her local hospital only deal with straight forward births and they would have transferred her anyway.
From newest grandchild to eldest grandchild. Fifi had to give evidence as a witness in court today. She did herself proud. She had asked for me to go along as her mum was also giving evidence and so at some point they needed to be split up, so I was able to sit with Fifi before and after. I also had Spud while DD1 gave evidence as she could not take her into court but had to take her with her. Was quite nice to get to spend some time with Spud as she always gets overshadowed by those bigger and noisier than her. Here Fifi was catching pokemon while her mum was out of the room.
Thursday
DD2 is out of hospital and gone to stay with family to save her the long drive home after her section. So we went round for a visit and did a few things while we were in the area. Here are mum and dad out with Ziggy for her first walk in the pram.
Friday
Had made a apple crumble for hubby the other night. I always make excess crumble mix as is saves well in the freezer and cooks from frozen. I was cooking up fruit for adding to my breakfast and so I made a mixed fruit crumble for myself.
Saturday
Our speeds are certainly much faster than they were. Notice a difference if using the fire stick and the computer at the same time, so well worth the phone call. I know in comparison to some of you this is pathetic speeds but one of the draw backs of living rural. The speed might improve as it settles down as we were told to expect 40-50 Mbps.
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, may I proudly present to you Mia, my newest granddaughter.
Mia was born at 01.48 on Tuesday 23rd August by cesarean section as she was not coping well with mild contractions and they were worried about her heart beat being erratic. DD2 had kept me updated, and I was updating our side of the family. She phoned at 00.50 to say they were taking her for a section and then again at 02.50 to say she had a daughter. She certainly has a powerful set of lungs as well as a head full of hair. She weighed in at 7lb 12 oz.
I was surprised how well she was opening her eyes and seemed to be listening to every word I said when I was up visiting.
love the hair.
eyes open
sleeping peacefully
with the proud dad
DD1 took the older children up to meet their new niece on Tuesday evening.
with Bob
with Spud
with Fifi
They got home from hospital on Wednesday afternoon and we popped over again on Thursday afternoon. I got to give her a bottle, daughter is breast feeding her but her milk was not in so she is supplementing her for a day or two. She then snuggled in and fell asleep.
We have had some imo far to hot weather here this week, but it has lead to some nice sunsets. As is was too hot to walk the dog during the day we have taken some evening walks with her. Shame about the midgies spoiling an other wise nice walk.
Swithered over which picture to add as took a few very similar that I liked but opted for this one
Well Ziggy is still not here, he/she seems to have taken a liking to the current home and in no desperate rush to leave. But regardless she has to report to the hospital for 2pm on Monday, and the plan is to start her on Monday. In reality this is not a bad thing as the hospital is approx ninety miles away from her home and a long way to go if in labour, and more to the point a long way to go back if you are not well enough in labour when you get there. So next week will see pictures of Ziggy.
This week has been a week of beautiful weather, some days 24 and 25 oC, far to warm for my liking. The fan has come back into action both day and night. Lots of evening walks with the dog as too warm during the day to take her out.
I seem to lead a tedious life, work, walk dog and craft seems to be it lately.
Sunday
This weeks sewing, Minky's is coming along nicely now that is five characters done with three more to do.
Mr Potato Haed
Monday
Loved the light on the water and thought the swan reflection was nice.
swans reflected on water
Tuesday
An amazing sunset tonight. On the hill is Barnweil Monument surrounded by trees.
Barnweil Monument on the hill
Wednesday
Another nice evening and another walk. This time round the field. There were dozens of these out but every time I tried to photograph one a daft dog ran in the way.
Thursday
Dinky wanted to go for a walk with Lilly, so we took a slow stroll along the back road. Daughter and the four youngest. Far too hot to be out but they enjoyed the walk.
Minky has wandered away.
Friday
Thankfully back to rain today. The twins keep wanting to play with the older children's pokeballs. But they are not designed to be abused played with by a toddler, so I decided to crochet a couple. This is the first one, took me about two hours. Well a grandparent needs to stay up to date.
a pokeball.
Saturday
Changed over our BT package, getting much better for less money, how come they do not tell you of existing customer special offers unless you phone to cancel part of the package you are on? Here is the new router ready for the rest of the change over on Monday.
Accompanied the daughter and the five grandchildren to the beach park the other day. Minky wanted to play on the big equipment, the baby stuff is no fun for the mischievous fun loving two year old. So he went up the cargo net to play on the slide, He was only allowed up the one level.
While I was watching him climb I spotted the shadow.
DD2 is now overdue and Ziggy has passed his/her evacuation date with no signs yet of being ready to leave the warm cosy environment they are in. Hopefully next weekend will see the first pics of Ziggy.
update - DD2 saw her midwife on Monday and Ziggy not low enough for her to do a sweep. She to get induced on Monday if baby does not appear naturally before that.
Sunday
Picked this up from DD3 who picked it up when she had been in Oban with DD2. This is from the wedding last year, the photographer they used on the day did nit have an option for extra copies and so they used various pictures to make up wedding albums for us and the other parents. Lots of great pics from the day. The book is beautiful and great quality printing and paper.
Monday
This was the car being brought back to the local garage for repair.Luckily enough I had remembered to renew my breakdown cover as this was the first day of the new policy year. Have always had breakdown cover but very rarely needed it and think this is the first tme I have ever had a car recovered. Lets just say it was ouch to pay for. But need to keep it on the road so have no choice.
Tuesday
Had a few things to do in the town that I was going tp put off until Wednesday as I did not have a car. but DD1 needed a babysitter for Wednesday so she agreed to run me into the town and come back for me. Hubby watched the kids while she ran me in and she brought them all when she picked me up and we went to play at the beach park. Fifi spent most of the time hunting for pokemon.Love how the buckets and spades kept the older two amused.
Wednesday.
Took the kids to the park while I was babysitting them, at least it stayed dry for us for a change.
Minky bless him played with the zip wire and spent more time chasing it than on it but still had lots of fun.
Thursday
Visit day today, so Fifi came round to sit with Lilly. Getting on quite well with Minky's cross stitching that I am doing.
Friday
I was sent this very pretty sonic toothbrush a few weeks ago. Was not really sure how to use it as I was surprised they don't actually move much as in the way a conventional electric toothbrush does. It just seems to buzz and you have to do the work moving it backwards and forwards and up and down. For my liking I have to say I found the bristles a bit soft for my liking, But the results were quite impressive, and I hate grubby furry teeth. It is a great size for popping into your bag and would be handy in a hospital bag. Runs on one supplied AA battery and also comes complete with a spare head. But I would recommend travelling with it with the battery out as the on/off button is not covered by the case and is very easy to switch on by accident.
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Saturday
A nice wee win that turned up during the week, a great cross stitch kit, can never have too many of them.
My daughter has finally got round to getting a new car seat for Dinky which means now she has two seats compatible with my car and I can take the twins out. So the other week while I was looking after them I got the seats transferred to my car and we went round to a local country estate and went for a run round.
found a puddle
and another puddle
cheeky face
yet another puddle
hands can go in puddles as well.
jump in the puddle
picking weeds and grass for their pockets
hiding in the grass
playing monsters in the lane
hunting for lions
ooops he fell over
with the flower she picked
picking leaves
kicking the water over his sister
wandering along
watching the river
Minky with his flower
Despite the wellies they were very wet time we got back to the car so their bottom half got stripped off and the puddles poured out of their wellies before they went back in their car seats.
We did not cover a huge mileage in our ninety minutes but had lots of fun.
