Girls can never have too many clothes!

I continue with my new hobby of dress-making. The girls are modeling my two favourites. In the top photo Emilia is wearing a skirt I made, although it can't be seen too well. It's green with small flowers on and has 3 tiers (sounds impressive??!). In the bottom photo Esther is wearing a blue top with white spots, it suits her!

They are also embracing my hobby and Emilia regularly asks me to make her something when she's going to bed!

I haven't made anything for Andy yet, any suggestions?

School Trip

We went on Emilia's Pre-School trip to the West Midlands Safari Park last week. It was a fun day out with a coach load of excited children plus a couple of cars with the teachers. (Why ever didn't they want to go on the coach??)

We saw lots of animals, including lions, tigers, giraffes, cheetahs, wolves and wallabys. If you ask Emilia what she saw there, she will reply; 'We didn't see any monkeys'. Esther would have liked to get out of the caoch among the animals, Emilia was more interested in trying to spot her teachers in their cars.

After the animals came the funfair. There were plenty of rides for the younger children to enjoy. Emilia and her friends had lots of fun. The trip ended with the obligatory ice-creams and a very tired journey home!

Weekend walking

So, we took a walk on Saturday, to Kinver Edge, not far from where we live. It was nice apart from the showers. Emilia stood (carefully) on the roof of an old brick shelter to have her photo taken. Andy has cleverly remastered it to make it look brighter!

On Sunday Esther impressed the congregation at church by taking her very first unaided steps infront of everyone, earning herself a round of applause. She hasn't done it again though, so everyone who thought she was going to walk well before Emilia did (17.5 months) may be forced to eat their words, watch this space!

Finally, drawing has become a favourite activity for both girls recently. They like to sit at their little table in the dining room and scribble away to their hearts' content.

Hope '08

This week is a week of hope in Stourbridge. Organised by Andy and others from the Churches Together in Stourbridge group. It began at the carnival on Sunday, yesterday was a day of prayer for the town and today we have been cleaning up the streets ready for 'Stourbridge in Bloom'. Even little people helped!

Busy Weekend!

All the Scotts have had a busy weekend! On Saturday Andy and Emilia went to London, to celebrate the commissioning of his cousins in the Salvation Army. Emilia was impressed with her trip on the Underground and the sight of London taxis! Shona and Esther took a more laid back trip on a barge, with other friends from Church. It was very entertaining. Esther particularly enjoyed the locks, and spent much of the 4 hour trip trying to jump out of the boat and into the water!

Esther entertaing everyone on the boat!

Drifting along!

On Sunday we all took part in the Stourbridge Carnival, helping on the Church stall (Shona painted lots of faces) and also in the parade where Emilia represented Japan in the Church's Olympic 'float', she would have liked to keep her costume! She got first choice of what to wear - there have to be some perks of being a minister's child! They won the prize for the best entry in the parade, and everyone had fun, despite the rain/thunderstorms!

Emilia dressed for the parade!