What's new at our place?

We finally have a bath for the kids! They are loving it as well, although Riley doesn't like to share his toys and Jemma likes splashing so much, we all want to leave the room including Riley!

Jemma has become SUCH a character in the last couple of weeks. She is definitely not a baby anymore and I think we are in for a shock. She explores much more than Riley and if we thought Riley was sharp and determined, I think he has met his match! She takes her bib off herself, likes to scoop food out of her mouth and feed the dog. She is trying to talk and says "Ta", "ta ta" and calls for "Paddy" and "Riley" - imitating us we think. For someone who crawls using their elbows, she is fast and she appeared at the top of the stairs the other day while I was down hanging the washing out. I had to move pretty quick and now the gate has appeared! She is such a hard case- we think she will be lots of fun! She has no fear and will try anything.

Riley went fishing for the first time today and unfortunately no fish were caught. He inherited his Dad's first rod and he was so keen to practice his spinning, he had a birds nest before he left the house. Although his attention span was short, Dad was very proud of how good he was.

We have a remote controlled train from the toy library at the moment which he LOVES so we are pretty pleased. We think he will like his Christmas present. He likes to read all the toy catalogues when they arrive and then tell me we need to go to the shop to buy 'my train' or 'my dora toy' or 'my fifi toy'. We can fill in half an hour wandering toy aisles while he looks at everything.