the weekend

having the first dry day since Christmas day on Saturday, we decided to take Mia to Roath Park to test drive her new roller skates. I've decided it will be easier to teach Mia to skate by having a pair myself, an idea that Huw has vetoed until the baby is born - spoilsport!! Chris and Ian decided to come too, so we met at the park. Mia was surprisingly good on these skates to be fair and managed not to fall over once. She did resemble Bambi on ice at first, but soon got to grips with it and was off on her own in no time. She didn't do quite so well up hill but it's a learning curve and she'll do better when i get mine!! Ian and i have decided that Huw can have a bike that attaches a seat for the baby so that he can come around the parks with us while we skate. I took our new camera to get some practice in but Mia moved too fast for me to keep up.
Deciding that we were all hungry, we called into the Hungry Horse and had a lovely meal together before taking our tired daughter number one home to watch a film before bed.
Mia also became a brownie this week, she seems to be growing up so fast. She's very thrilled that she is no longer a rainbow but is not so excited about the Brownie uniform!!!

Sunday, Mia went swimming with her dad and the four of us went over to the Vale. Huw and Ian went off to play a game of golf and Chris and i went for a sauna and swim. Unfortunately the pool was rather packed with the newbies ( it is January after all ), and a swimming class at the bottom. So we decided we'd go in the fast lane as there were only two men in there. it turns out that they were alternating members of Cardiff City football team in the fast lane, with Chris and i getting in the way with our breast strokes. They were very nice about sharing the lane with us. The jacuzzi was far too hot today and i couldnt stick it for very long.
afterwards, Huw and I toddled off for sunday lunch whilst Ian and Chris went home for a rest.
anyway, here are some shots for our maiden voyage witht he new camera.