An attempt to be back!

I'm not going to try to catch up on all the little things that have been missed during my break from blogging, but just will focus on the highlights. The major January EVENT was Evie's birthday, which culminated in a CINDERELLA BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!! It was the best day of her life, I'm pretty sure.

Evie is escorted down to her birthday party by none other than Cinderella (the Welsh version):
Millie wore her Cinderella dress to the ball....uh, party...too!
A princess curtsy with Cinderella after her fabulous party (pictures of which I will spare you. There were lots of two year olds, lots of balloons, a parachute, some magic and some fairy dust...and cake!).
As you can see, Evie also has taken an interest in Snow White...and the magical healing powers of Love's first kiss (because every little girl loves her Daddy first)!
Millie loves Daddy, too (see shirt):
And, speaking of Millie, she has suddenly blossomed into a very happy baby (except for right now because I put her down in her crib for the purpose of writing this blog):

She also has decided that facing forward in the sling is the way to go. Today we took a family walk into the Heath and Millie looked out and around, until it got too windy and was nap time, at which point she was forced to face me again:
There is a lot of 'gazing lovingly' going on in this household lately. Everyone is getting into the spirit of Valentine's Day!

A family walk scowl:

As usual, on a windy day, we forgot to bring our kite, but we did enjoy looking at other people's kites. Evie was particularly interested in an octopus kite. The best part about it was hearing Evie try to say "octopus."
The red blur ran down Parliament Hill:

Future Horticulturist?

In the background there was a minor poop explosion, which had to be dealt with, so Jim and Evie broke out the infamous pink ball:

It was a nice, if slightly windy and slightly too long family walk. Here's hoping that spring weather comes to London soon! Millie wants to show off her chubby thighs!