Christmas 2013

Just a few snaps of some of the gifts we received this Christmas. 

The Flood.

If any of you have seen the news this Christmas you will of seen major flooding in parts of the UK and that over 100,000 homes were without electricity. 

We were part of that figure. Unfortunately our Christmas ended up clouded by floods, no heating or light and constant worry about whether our home was going to be under 3ft of water when we got home. 

We had to leave our town on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because we had no power so couldn't cook, didn't have any heating, lighting, wifi, phone etc. It was awful. Honestly I didn't appreciate electricity enough until it was gone. 

We were fortunate that our home didn't get flooded and that although our Christmas wasn't spent at home we live close to our family and could spend our holiday with then. 

Here are some pictures of our town on Christmas Day. 

This is the main road leading out of our town. 

This was a field before the river burst it's banks. 

This is the access to our train station which was completely flooded also. 

The water levels have dropped a lot now so fingers crossed we can hold off with the rain. 

I hope you have all had a happy Christmas and enjoy the new year celebrations. 

Mia 13 month update

This month Mia is starting to become a little more confident standing unaided. We have started practising walking while she holds our hands. She can now walk just holding one hand rather than two. 

She is loving books this month, the turnig of the pages is what she loves the most haha! She is also starting to play more with we soft toys and dolls. She cuddles them which is so cute! She also loves musical instruments - I wonder if we have a young musician on our hands?! 

She has still got 6 teeth and is now wearing 6-9 month clothes. She's loves anything she's not supposed to have such as iPads and iPhones! Haha! She even knows how to use the middle button on the iPhone!

She's started saying 'oh' a lot and pointing at everything. 

Christmas is coming!