August Sunshine

We have had a couple of weekends of lovely weather which hwas been great and in true Dolben style we have seized the day as much as possible.  We have been to Oakwell Park a couple of times, Wilton Park and out playing on the trampoline as much as we can before the autumn kicks in.

Hannah is getting such a big girl now, she is so independant and loves doing what she considers "big girl" stuff likes drawing, colouring and making a bee-line for anything little that has been put out of her way.  She still loves climbing and is very robust but just of late she has been very cuddly and has learnt that a mummy kiss can fix almost any bump or scrape.

 Emily is a beautful sweet sensative girl, she loves her little sister very much but gets very frustrated when Hannah copies her every move, even yawning which really gets on Emilys nerves hehe

 Emily is getting allot braver too, im not sure if it is an age thing or that she sees Hannah being very brave and trying new things, she really enjoys playing with Liam too now they can chat away to each other, they really enjoyed climbing on the spider web.

 Hannah is trampoline mad like her sister, this leads to many arguments as Emily bounces much harder than Hannah which makes her fall over.  She thinks its funny the first couple of times but gets tired of having to get back up and gets frustrated and cross. She does have her own 5ft trampoline but thats not good enough for her she wants to go on the big one like Emily so we try to take it in turns now.

Hannah is saying quite a few words now like Nanna Mummy Gaddy Gargar (grandad) Dog, Ball, weeze (please) and when you say "love you" she blows you a kiss.  She likes to say bye and knows all the farm animal noises.

We are getting ready for Emily starting school in a few weeks, im absolubtly dreading it, im going to miss her like crazy, she seems fairly excited about it so far but is worried she will miss me.  Im sure she will be fine, i just hope she makes some nice friends because she is easily led and gets a little bit too giddy at times.
She is a super smart cookie and knows her numbers to ten and beyond, she can write up to ten and knows the first 3 sections of her phonics already so i hope she will impress the teachers :0)