Dear Katie And Sophie.....

I think you know you are my favourite cousins. Every single time we get together we always have the best time and I just wish that we lived much closer to each other. Mummy really misses your Mummy and Daddy too and says that she doesn't like that we don't see other enough.

Thank you so much for inviting us to your house yesterday and taking us to your school. Your school is so nice and very very tiny compared to mine. I loved seeing all of your work up on the wall.

I think that you know what part of the day was my favourite. It was after tea when we took Earl and April out for a ride. I love riding and it was such fun to ride with you. I have really been missing my riding lessons and it felt so great to be on a horse. Please tell your Mum that we said thank you. It was funny when my Dad got on her wasn't it? My mum is a chicken and says she won't get on a horse again but next time I am going to beg her to because she shouldn't be scared of a horse because that is just silly. Your horses are so gentle.

Here are some pictures of all of us.

Thank you so much
love from
Lily and Rosie
And mummy and Daddy too.

Katie and her Grandma (my auntie Pat)

Lily and Katie braving frigid water
Swingball
boing
Rosie and Sophie

Lily taking her little cousin home after she fell off of her bike. This horse is ginormous, half arab half Thoroughbred and is the sweetest girl about. Lily felt totally at ease on this gentle giant.

Rosie on April

I'm ready MamaLily on Earl
Getting ready to go fast

Yes this really is Jacob on a horse

Snicker snickerSally and Rosie. Sally is amazing beyond words with horses and so great with the girls on them. Thank you.
When Sophie fell off of her bike Jacob rode it for a while.

Just Add Water

Children don't come with instructions but one thing is for sure it doesn't matter what country or continent you are on if they did one of of them would be: just add water to have fun. Today was a cousins and water day here at Nannie and Grandpa's house. This house truly is a child's dream come true. Firstly it would appear that the word "no' does not exist and secondly every thing a child needs to have fun is either here or magically appears. On Friday Jeannes son Chris came for a visit and in true boy style left the toilet seat up so when Rosie Posie used the loo she fell in! Poor little thing was screaming, Mama Mama at the top of her lungs and I ran in to see just her head and arms showing. The toilets over here are much higher so Rosie has a hard time getting on them so she didn't notice the seat was "missing" so within the hour Grandpa had made her a step stool to aid her in her needs. Bam, just like that.

In their garden they have a lovely summer house which for the next 3 weeks has been turned into a "clubhouse" for kidlets complete with kid size tables and chairs etc etc. Today it was filled with juice, cookies, cakes and chips and anything else that makes a child's face light up. Ice creams and popsicles were served twice and that was the extent of lunch! I nearly had a heart attack but my father said it won't hurt them just once leave them alone! He was right and they loved it. They helped them selves to all the goodies and splashed around in the pool taking it in turns to teach each other English and American games Like Marco Polo and What Time Is It Mr Wolf?. I really don't know how long they played for but it was hours.

Even though neither of my girls were tired they were both fast asleep by 8pm.

The myth, the man and the legend, and myself

Nannies bottom and Rosie
Tiffy Lu, Lily and Elise
Erin
My sister asking who splashed her???

Simply A Beautiful Life.

Today was a park day. This morning I took the girls to the park for a couple of hours and then this afternoon nannie and I took them and baby cousin Erin to another park to feed the ducks and play some more. It was pure bliss and the girls were in heaven and probably walked further than they have ever walked in their lives. Lily ate Nannie and Grandpa out of house and home tonight she even ate food straight off of Auntie Sally's plate.
Getting to spend so much time with my sister is fantastic. Tomorrow we are going to do a little shoppy together. This evening we ran a quick errand together, just one, just for a minute, and laughed so hard so much. I love her. She is fantastic with the girls and just loves them to bits. Anyhoo on to the pictures.

rosie and Erin feeding the ducks

Nannie and Erin
Lily in a spin
Reaching the top
Rosie on the horse. This is the exact same horse that was there when I was Rosie's age. It is such a dinosaur.

Beautiful wild flowers

Swan sitting on her eggs
Rocket ship


I have no idea how this keeps happening but it is after midnight again so I am going to go to bed.