A few random pictures taken over the summer at some point!!!

A trip to the park. They loved being 'swung' lying down like that!

 This slide is really very high, and Isabella shot down it several times without hesitation!! If the first part up hadn't have been an upright ladder, Matteo would have been straight up there after her!!!

He attempted to jump on the bouncy things....not very successfully, so he resorted to picking and throwing grass instead!!!

Matteo had already had a 2 hour nap when he woke up but really wasn't happy - as soon as I sat down with him he was out for another hour and a half on me!!!

They were so pleased with this ride! They had no idea there was the option of music, movement and flashing lights until the next child got on it and put their money in!!!!

Another mammoth afternoon 
nap!!! 

Some little videos of the trampolining - they had a great time!!!

We were very lucky to squeeze in a visit from my friend who lives in Greece and was over visiting her parents with her children. She brought the eldest one up to stay with us and then we headed to her parents house where we topped the number of children up to 5!!! It was noisy, chaotic and we all loved it!

Matteo wasn't too sure of the trampolines at first, Isabella showed no reservations and was off!

Then he found a ball and was completely inseparable from it for the entire time! Never quite got to grips with 'jumping' but enjoyed kicking, chasing and falling!!!

Bathtime!

Poor little guy was feeling a little lonely when they jumped out!!!

Ahhh a bit of peace!! A packet of crisps and Peppa Pig and they were all calm....sort of!!!

Someone was still being very helpful instead of watching tv!

No photos for you today - I thought instead I would share some of the hilarious things Isabella has said, and continues to say, wrong or phrases that are just so funny and cute!
When she was first starting to talk we had to really work hard to decipher things she was saying, such as 'doosh' was actually 'shoes' and 'boof' was really 'food'. Now the mistakes are more along the lines of mixing up the order of syllables in a word, such as 'ephalent' (elephant), 'opotus' (octopus), 'basgeti' (spaghetti), 'pacooter' (computer) and 'ovolit' (all of it) which are all, I think, adorable!!! She also very rarely uses the word 'I' but says 'my' instead all the time!!!

We were walking down the street and Isabella said VERY loudly "oh my golly, skoose you Bella bottom" and even turned round to try an look at it!!!! Such a lady!!! 

Best comment of the day when explaining to Grandma and Grandpa skype about last night was that the "dummy bairy is bery bery bery naughty now and needs to go on a bery bery bery big giant time out right now because she took my dummy!!"

Walking to the childminders pointing out all the 'sparkly frost' to Isabella she said "Mummy, why did the stars come down and go on the top of the cars?"

I called Isabella a 'ratbag' (lovingly!!) and she replied "I not a bag Mummy, I a hat. Look, see it's like a hat" and she held up her unruly curls that haven't been brushed today!!! Nicely played Isabella.

We were in the pharmacy getting Matteo's anti-biotics when Isabella said "Mummy, where's the farmer?" to which I obviously replied "there's no farmer here darling" so she said "But Mummy, you said we going to go to the farm and see" hehehe she was so disappointed bless her!!!

Been painting some fingerprint caterpillars (or 'catopillows' as Isabella calls them!) when she did the first 2 segments and said "look, there's the cat and there's the pillow, now we need to do some cowpillows!!!"

We're sitting eating dinner and pretending to be animals - as you do - when Isabella said "look Mummy my a meerkat" so I asked her what noise a meerkat makes and she said "Hakuna Matata" hehe 

There was a female football coach at Isabella's football today and when she noticed she shouted "Mummy look, there's a lady there playing football. My not the only one now!!!" I didn't think she'd noticed she was the only girl playing football in a group with 15 boys!!!!

We were walking to football when Isabella went under a tree full of blossom flowers, when the wind blew the petals went everywhere and she shouted very excitedly "Wow Mummy, look it's raining flowers here. Is it a special rain just for me?" 

Just as Isabella was about to get into bed she told me that one of the kids at the childminders "put his tongue out at me" so I said "Oh we don't stick our tongues out at people as it's not nice" and she said "But it's not sticking because it doesn't got any glue on it!!"

Isabella was in the bath for a long time this morning and then she held up her hands, looked at her fingers and exclaimed "oh no Mummy, look my hands got all very old now" 

Since we have had appalling weather recently - not at all summery - we have made the most of Matteo's naptime and been busy creating various things, and here are a few!!!!

We made a little house and playground for the fairy's! Obviously I had to do quite a bit of this, but Isabella was very specific!

Painting the roundabout rails!
When the fairy's were drying the 'little people' moved in!! 

A pair of binoculars that she made, and then tested very thoroughly!!!

A bead teddy - much harder than it looks as they don't stay in place very well!

We made some playdough, pink, blue and black - ended up a grey mass!!! Matteo tried to eat most of it as well.

Simba.

                                   A zebra.

A card full of flowers!