All singing, all dancing...

I am writing this to a background theme of the songs from Mamma Mia and two dizzy children, spinning around the lounge! It's a good way to relieve tension, we've discovered, and is a great way to energise us all and blow away the cobwebs.

So here are some photos of the fun we've been having. We've also had some bits which weren't fun but we didn't take photos of those as I thought it'd make a miserable post - maybe we'll do that one day when we're bored, lol!

This is the gorgeous meal Chloe cooked for us - she planned it and made it all by herself and it was delicious:

Vegetable Risotto and chocolate cake! We went to Phil's cousin's wedding last week - it was a really lovely family day and we were very proud to have such happy, smiling and funny children with us! They had a great time dancing with their aunties and finding frogs in the grounds of the reception venue - and Finn gave up during the meal and just took some time to chill out:

On his back is his relaxed pose, on his tummy is full-on tantrum sulk - already, and he's only 15 months!! He's got a few words now, 'bu-bye', 'nunnight', 'daddeee' and 'hiya' (usually with a pretend phone by his ear, lol) are the extent of his range but are very, very sweet!

We've just had a lovely week in Cornwall, in a cottage my parents rented for a fortnight - I'm sure they were more exhausted at the end of the holiday than the beginning but at least they had a peaceful week before we arrived! We were supposed to go to Wales to visit my grandparents this week, but I had mastitis at the weekend so have been recovering, and it's actually been lovely to have the time at home. I've done a lot of the work for the first module on my doula course, it's very intense and there's a lot of it, but it's going to be a wonderful experience and I can't wait for the first weekend.

A lovely tom cat has adopted us and we're waiting to see if anyone claims him but secretly hoping we can adopt him too! And we're off to Exmoor tomorrow, which will be lovely (but we need some sunshine as we're borrowing a caravan and want to play in the stream all week!) - got to pack now, lots of board games and a guitar for our evenings. Can't wait!