Pickles and Tea Parties

This morning Alice had quite the lie in, not waking up until 8:30. This has become quite a trend she's starting to wake up around 7 - 8 whereas she used to be waking up at anytime from about 6am. Trust me I am not complaining, I'm enjoying these lie ins whilst they last!

I decided that we needed to get out today so I text my cousin Theresa to see if she was free at all today. She was so we went to Pickles, a local soft play area, at about 10am. Theresa has 2 kids, Tyler, who is 5 and Alyssa, who is 3. Tyler was at school so Alice got to play with Alyssa at Pickles. They had such a fun time, some of the time with each other and who knows who when they weren't together. I'm not technically supposed to take pictures but I managed to get one of Alice, eating a double chocolate chip muffin, just to show that we had been! Unfortunately didn't manage any of Theresa or Alyssa.

We ended up staying there for an hour and a half. By the time Alice came out of the play area she was all hot and sweaty! She really did have so much fun, at one point I realised I hadn't seen her for about half an hour. By the time we got home she was quite ready for a nap!

In the afternoon my friends Sam and Abbi popped over to say hi. Alice has only met Abbi once before so she wasn't too sure of her at first but was very quick to drag Sam all over the house! Soon enough she had us all sitting down for a tea party.

And what would a tea party be like if we didn't get Bunny to join in too! Sam was quite pleased he managed to get Bunny to hold her own tea cup.

I love how she can make any adult do as she pleases. You really can't say no to such a cute little face!

That was our day, extremely fun-filled if I do say so myself!

Claire
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Pizza Night

Today has been a particularly wet and dreary day so I decided early on we would have a day indoors, Alice still isn't 100% so keeping her indoors isn't such a bad idea at the moment.

Whilst Alice went off for a nap I spent my time getting the last bits of the bills and direct debits sorted and finishing anything left off from our flat. Luckily all these calls haven't raised my phone bill through the roof, I have a habit of checking it after every phone call! But I am glad to say that they are all sorted now and they are all out of the way now. Christmas can finally be enjoyed properly without the weight of knowing I needed this all to be done!

After Alice woke up from her nap she has started to want to play in her room for a bit but today we stayed up to play in there for over an hour. I think she is starting to feel that little bit more comfortable in her new room! She loves playing with the towering blocks and we count as we stack them all up, but I think her favourite bit, as I think is the same with most kids, is knocking them all over!

Next we had to go through all of her books to decide which one we should read, eventually she found a little Finding Nemo book which we had to read countless amounts of times! Luckily it's only a very short book so it wasn't too bad.

We have been getting Christmas cards through our door so I decided I should put them up. Only a little collection so far but still worthy enough to show off :) I absolutely love getting Christmas cards through the door.

I found this picture on my camera as I was uploading the pictures. Someone must have gotten a hold of my camera whilst I was out of the room but it's not a bad one of her feet, even with the finger or thumb going across the lens ;)

I thought I would make a start on my Christmas decorations book and see how they turned out. I was quite impressed with my snowflake and woven hearts.

And then little miss found the snowflake and it didn't last very long :( That will teach me for leaving pieces of paper on the floor whilst she is around!

After Alice went down for bed I had my friends, Sam and Abbi, over for some Domino's pizza and a good ol' catch up. I don't really get to see Abbi an awful lot but as soon as we are back in the same room it's pretty much just like old times. I have been friends with these two for about 8 years and it's lovely when we do manage to all get together. Sam and I meet up a lot more but when Abbi can join us it's just like we are back at school :)

Hope you've all had a great day.

Claire
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