Mini Break

After our short Mini break up north we are now back in sunny Buckinghamshire. We had a great visit with TJ and his family, even taking a day trip out to show Lily some of the English countryside - which she loves! Feeding the ducks and geese, seeing the sheeps and cows in the field, watching the large trout swim in the river and running around the fields! Lily adored the hills and rocks of the Peak District, and wished she had brought her wellies with us. Grandad had been wanting a tart so there was no where else to go but Bakewell :)

Stoke on Trent where TJ lives is an old industrial area of England most famous for the Potteries, like Wedgewood and Royal Doulton. If you go twenty minutes outside of this area you are in the most glorious countryside England has, with stone walls, romantic cottages and rolling farm land! It was great to share this side of England with Lily.

Our photos have been added to the end of the slide show to the right, so sorry if you have to look at all of the pictures to get to the new ones! I think if you click in the bottom corner of it it brings up all of the photos!

Now its the countdown to Alecia and Marks wedding next weekend. Only 6 days to go! My dress is being altered as we speak......shortened would be more accurate. And we are shoe shopping for Lily tomorrow!

The English Countryside

Lily Quotes

We were out for the day when Lily needed to go to the toilet. We found the nearest restroom, went inside and Lily became hysterical! She was crying and screaming and not making any sense at all. Finally as we were washing our hands I understood what she had been trying to tell us. She had been crying that "I have two legs..... I HAVE TWO LEGS MOMMY!"

She was upset as we had taken her into the toilets for the women with one leg!!

We spent a great day with Aunty Mandy and baby Archie today. It's really nice to be able to keep catch up with them whilst everyone else is working. So why the long face on Lily?? She wants a brother??! Yikes.....

We are going to stoke for a few days tomorrow to see T.J. so hopefully that will take her mind off of it.

Have added new pictures from today to the right!

Travelling with Lily this year was certainly very different from last year's trip. She was so much more aware of her surroundings and the process, even taking her shoes off before she was asked too at security. Our three hour wait in the airport flew by, but the flight was a little harder. Lily must have asked every ten minutes if we were landing yet, and got excited at every bit of turbulence, as this surely meant the plane was touching down!! It was a night flight but Lily would not sleep! Last year she was blissfully unaware, but this year she told me if she feel asleep she would miss England! I tried to explain that it wasn't like a bus and you can't miss your stop, but that didn't help. She was just too excited. I think we managed to catch a couple of hours rest but arrived in England very tired.
Lily's hair was all tangled from the flight so as we refreshed ourselves in the restroom I tried to get out the comb - only to be told that we were in England now and so Nanny was the only person allowed to touch her hair as she doesn't hurt!
Lily then fell asleep at 4pm, we tried to wake her a few hours later but she was obviously out for the night. A bomb could have gone off next to her and she wouldn't have known, unfortunately though she was up again by 10pm just as I wanted to crash. The next morning was funny, Lily got up and said 'Brrrrrrr' she went and got her cardigan, then asked Nanny to turn the air off?! She doesn't get that it is just COLD!

There's No Place Like Home

We are going home! Milton Keynes here we come!! Lily and I are leaving town on Friday after school and heading straight to Miami International airport. We are booked on Virgin Atlantic flight VS006 for anyone that wants to track the flight. We are leaving at 19.25 and arrive Saturday morning at 8.50am.

The flight is full and so I am sure it will not be much fun but Lily has lots of new games and coloring books to help keep her entertained. She is such a good flyer, and really has enjoyed the experience of travel so far....which is handy as she has been on more planes in her first four years than most people would go on in a life time!

Auntie La La and Uncle Marky Mark are meeting us once we get to London, and driving us the hour to get home to Nanny and Grandad.

We will keep the blog updated whilst we are away, and shall be back to Sunny Florida on October 2nd....hopefully any hurricanes that are going to hit this season will choose to do so whilst we are gone, and not as soon as we get back which is what usually happens :)

Poor Lily :(

last Thursday her school called me at work at 2.30pm, Lily was hysterical!? As she really isn't that funny there had to be a problem, so I did as every good mum would and dashed right over to school. The root of the problem........she was constipated! It had been about 4 days. The next 24 hours really wasn't the funnest either of us have ever had. We had tried everything; prune juice, fruit, water, apricots, laxatives even suppositories. All to no avail. So as the crying and screaming had been constant by 10pm we had put a call into her doctor, who helpfully suggested giving her an enema! OMG!!

As she has just passed out, I decided to wait!

But Friday was no different and so the deed had to be done. Poor Lily.

She sat on the couch and said in a very quiet voice "Mommy, never put anything up my bum ever again!"
I felt very bad, but at least she had Diego and Dora to help cheer her up!

Crew Unlimited Day Cruise to the Bahamas!!

The last weekend of summer - Labor Day