Maybe we should have called her Sally...

Our lovely little bean is no longer so little, in fact, at just over 10 months, she is wearing clothes for 18 month olds! Our 'long tall Sally' stands currently at 74 cm tall for those of you with wall charts keeping track of her progress.

Can we have a vote please, Tim thinks I made up the saying 'long tall Sally', and is worried people may think we regret calling her Ana. May I say this is not the case. Have you heard the saying?

Oh, and the exciting news of the day is we've had our first on-line jewellery sale - yay!!! And we're booked in to sell at a Christmas craft fair in a few weeks - exciting!

P.S. Lara is so tired that she put a half-eaten avocado in the kitchen drawer the other day and almost tried to put the clingfilm in the fridge before the hygiene police stepped in.

(I'm the hygiene police - Gav - I bet you'd never have guessed that!)

(For those of you who don't know Gav, germs die on sight of him. He cleaned up after the cleaners in college.)

Stairs!

Having mastered speed crawling (usually towards anything dangerous/ dirty), Ana has found herself a new challenge - the Kilimanjaro of the Farewell household. With the draughts howling down them they can feel like the great north face of Everest, but are in reality our stairs. She has managed to get onto the first step a couple of times, and we are sure it won't be long before she is able to get much further, and another stairgate will need to be invested in to keep the little cherub out of mischeif : )

Lara's business is up and running!

We are pleased to announce that, yes, just in time for Christmas, Lara's jewellery design business is now up and running. For those of you who haven't had a chance to see it yet - you can reach it at www.larafarewell.co.uk and do please let us know what you think of it!

The necklace shown here was crafted a night or so ago - so not up on the website yet - but keep checking (and PLEASE tell your friends!!!!) as new designs come on most days.

Oh, and if any of your friends would like to buy something, here is voucher code that you can give them to give them 10% off. Just enter friends into the voucher box at the checkout.

Thanks, all. (and apologies for the lack of Ana in this picture...)

Ana just won't sit still!

The other day we found that getting 4 babies (and their mummys!) to sit vaguely still for the camera was a bit of a mission! Here was Ana making a streak across the carpet to get her daddy and his camera. This was the group formerly known as the 'bumpy ladies' (due to our pregnant tummies) when I was working. Getting together for coffee was certainly less noisy before the babies arrived, but not quite so much fun!

Not only Ana gets to enjoy the playground...

We wanted to play on the monkey bars but we found they were created for shorter people than us, so decided to see if we could dangle off them without touching the ground instead; chin-ups anyone?

Playing on the swings

Our daughter is destined to like roller-coasters, swing-boats and all manner of fairground rides if her recent enjoyment of pram-racing and swings are anything to go by! When we tried to take her out she would not let go, and her hands had to be prised from the chains.

Excited Girl!

Bowling last weekend was rather exciting for our little daughter... shown here with "crazy" Uncle Dom and Aunty Crystal. The lights. The music. The cries of dismay as Daddy's bowling ball missed all the pins again... such fun!