Baby Kayley is here.............

A bit out of date order, but so exciting, that Sam's little friend to be Kayley Jane Thomas arrived on Saturday 15th December a staggering 4 weeks early!!!!

To say that Rebecca and Gavin were shocked was an understatement, but they are so pleased she is here!

We are so pleased she finally has a name a week or so later!

Sam and I toddled off to visit the new arrival and check on the new Mummy :) a few days after the event and I even managed to get a photo of them together. I'm sure this will be the cause of much excitement as they get older!

I am so excited for Sam that she will have such close friends of similar ages between Alexandria and Kayley :) What a lucky girl indeed!

So here is the first official photo of Samantha & Kayley together :)

Now that I have finally updated this blog, I am going to wake up a very tired hubby and get ready for a day of shopping :) Pumpkin Patch here I come!

Santa has come and gone....

We have officially survived our first Christmas as parents. Samantha certainly seemed to enjoy herself and it was lovely to see her spoilt rotten by our family.

We have adopted the 3 present rule. She gets 3 presents from us and they fall into 3 seperate categories. 1. Something to wear, 2. Something to read and 3. Something to play with. This hopefully will enable us to get her quality rather than quantity and cover all bases at the same time :)

So for Christmas she got a pretty dress, a bubble machine, a gum ball machine and a leap pad. This more than covers the 3!

She had a fantastic time opening all her presents and had an even better time playing with her cousins on Christmas day.

There is just something so nice about her having such a big family of cousins to play with. She gets such a kick out of them, and they just adore her!

So here is the dress ......

And the first present being opened.....

Mum & Dad were happy when the day was over, as it was exhausting! But man, it is true what they say about Christmas being more special with a baby.

What a wonderful day :) Now I can start saving for next year........:(

Forgive me.....:(

It has been such a long time since I posted in here. Completely my fault, just feeling a bit groundhogged recently. (For those of you wondering what that is it is when you feel like you are living the same day, over and over and over and over.................................)

So we have officially completed the dolphin dive at swimming now. Sam is a star as usual and takes it all in her stride :) Ray came to swimming at the last lesson before christmas and got to watch her doing her thing. He was most impressed. Proves that it really is something that needs to be seen to be believed! So here you go. No underwater shots unfortunatley as Daddy wasn't fast enough...