November happenings

I realise it's been a month since I last blogged, this past month has just been a blur of crochet and sniffly noses!

So here's a quick recap of our household over the last month:

I managed to successfully organise a baby shower for my good friends C and A who are having a baby due at the end of December. This was the cumulation of months of pinteresting, crafting and discussion so will have its own blog soon! 

End of October saw an old school friend L come down to Bristol from Leeds to visit. It was her first time seeing Pebble. L is very good at English (did a related degree) and bought these sweet books for Nemo she had when she was a child. 

They are such sweet stories with lovely illustrations. 

We went to the zoo on the Sunday and actually saw the lions

Nemo loved the lions and the monkeys best 

 

pebble wasn't so impressed! 

But she was quite taken by the butterflies 

The next weekend was bonfire night and  Nemo watched 3 displays in total. On the Thursday Nemo spent ages watching a display just down the road from the living room window. On Friday we went out our church's display and on Saturday we went to a display with our friends C and A having the baby in December. It was funny because 2 years ago we went to a display with them apart from Nemo was a young baby in a carrier, whereas this time C had a plus 1 in the form of a rather large bump, Pebble was the baby in a carrier and Nemo was running about! 

What I was pretty impressed with is that in the first photo I'm actually breastfeeding Pebble! First time round I never quite mastered the sling feeding thing but I'm pretty good at it now! 

Nemo loved the fireworks and kept saying "good firework". Pebble was moderately impressed too! 

Hubby had some meetings in Leicester so that week we stayed at my Parents house for a couple of nights. Dad was away but Nemo and Pebbble enjoyed seeing Grandma, even if they were a bit grumpy that day! 

Whilst we were there we went for an eventful walk. As you can see we took Poppy's ball (which Nemo has inherited due to Poppy's lack of interest!) Nemo was walking around with the ball when this yellow Lab ran up to us, we was pretty young and very playful and took the ball from Nemo. Cue Nemo bursting into tears, the older lady who owned the dog was mortified and started chasing after her dog, the dog who thought this was a great game proceeded to run around whilst his owner desperately ran around after him. I couldn't help but laugh it was so funny! 

I eventually managed to get the ball from the dog by distracting him with a stick but he had rather destroyed the ball.

The poor woman was so mortified I lied and told her the ball already had a hole in it! 

My Dad came down for the day last week. Nemo was very excited he was coming, he now knows who I'm talking about when I say Grandma and Grandad which is really sweet. He loves to repeatedly play voice messages from them left on our answer phone. We went to @ Bristol which is a great interactive science museum. Most of it is above Nemo's age however he enjoyed pressing various buttons and it has this awesome builders yard with rubber bricks, wheel barrows, hard hats and hi vis jackets!

This year I persuaded by husband to get the kids Christmas jumpers. Nemo's lights up and Pebble's plays Christmas music! 

The rest of November really consisted runny noses and bugs. Between me and the children we've been tag teaming it!

 I was determined to try and finished my attic24 harmony blanket so I could start my Christmas crafting. 

Well I really put my mind to it and taa daa! 

I love it! It's been moving around the house but it mainly living on our bed. 

I've been doing some other crafts now that's finished but I think I've gone on long enough now!