Quick update

It was Eli and Zac's fifth birthday a couple of weeks ago and they had a birthday party at Auntie Joyce's. Megan and Eve were there, so Michaela was very delighted. She thought she could play like the big kids and luckily for her, they were all really good with her. Here she is with Eve, Ronan and Megan.
Auntie Carol's birthday present from Australia arrived and Mommy mentioned to Michaela that we could maybe wait for Daddy to get home to open it. Well, she got her tool (a pronged fork from her play kitchen) and managed to open the parcel herself, even opening the card from it's envelope!
Michaela has finally learned to go down the slide at the play park by herself. But she has to go down on her belly. Mommy spent ages trying to get a good photo of her actually going down the slide and this is the best I could get. She goes down very fast!
And finally, another belly shot. This is Mommy at 30 weeks. Sometimes I get fooled into thinking I'm not that big, but then I see myself from the side! People comment that it looks like I've got a football or basketball stuffed up my top. I suppose that's better than all the weight going everywhere....
Potty training is going quite well. Usually the accidents we have are to do with pooping, but I'm sure we'll get there eventually. Michaela is just loving getting to play outside and is really good about listening to instructions. When we go to the clothes line, we don't have to worry about her leaving the garden and running onto the road. And she's still good at getting off the road if a car's coming - something she learned when we were in California.

Other than that, not much going on. We're just starting to prepare for the twins coming. Mommy goes to Aberdeen in just over two weeks, so it's all starting to sink in now!

My mind is blank

I suppose there's lots to catch up on with the blog. The months of May and June were very hectic with birthday parties. It seemed like we were going to a birthday party every weekend (apart from one weekend where we had three!). So, turns out Michaela loves to sing happy birthday and eat birthday cake!

On Father's Day, we took a trip up to Mossbank to see Auld Daa and Granny Mam. Uncle Michael happened to be there too, much to Michaela's delight! She's taken quite a shine to Uncle Michael recently, so was pleased to be able to take him out into the garden.
She also got to take Granny Mam out to the garden because Granny Mam just loves to spoil Michaela!

A few weekends ago, Auntie Julie, Uncle Ingram and baby Lottie were down from Unst, so we went along Cunningsburgh to see them. This is the best picture we managed to get of Eve, Michaela and Lottie.
And on another weekend, Michaela got to spend time bouncing on the trampoline at Granny Pat's. You can see how much fun she was having!
This past weekend, we had Phoebe's first birthday party to go to. On the way, Michaela and Daddy had to get off the road for the sheep going by.
They did eventually make it to the party, where most of Michaela's pals were there to play in the garden. It was such a beautiful day, the kids just ran around outside for ages having a great time.

Then on the same day, Daddy and Michaela visited Auntie Jean and Uncle Hop before the big 5th of July barbeque (couldn't fit it in on the 4th!). Here's the best picture of Michaela and Luca playing. Daddy said they moved around far too fast for him to get any good photos.
Michaela also helped out by watering Auntie Jean's plants, while Uncle Hop is in the background barbequeing for us all.
It was the first day Michaela got to play with her sandbox she got from Auntie Laura and her gang for her birthday. She loved it, so the next day, Daddy and Michaela went to the beach to collect stones and shells to put in it too.
Since Saturday was such a lovely day, Daddy and Michaela were outside from about 10am until 7pm. Unfortunately for Daddy, he's got sunburn, but Mommy and Michaela have got lovely tanned arms.

Michaela loves to follow Mommy and Daddy around with her mini-Dyson when we're doing the house cleaning - wonder how long that'll last?!?

We're working on potty training Michaela at the moment. Think it's probably a silly time to do it, because according to all the books, she'll just regress when the twins come, but she seems quite keen to work on it. We do have accidents every day, but in general, she's pretty good about it. It's not quite been two weeks, so we'll see how we get on.

Mommy's belly is growing quite rapidly, so we'll try to get another belly shot on the blog soon. We've had the 28 week scan and regular visits to the midwife and all's going well.