Luca and Jaca

Ok, this is a long overdue family baby special... and we now have 2:
Baby Jacob (Louis's cousin) was born July 7th. As we waited for his arrival, I asked Louis:
"What do you think Auntie Chichi and Uncle Joejoe's baby will be called?" and he would reply "George"... then when I told him that it was named Baby Jacob, he looked at me with big eyes and went "I don't know this name"... Indeed there are no Jacob in his nursery class, but there is a George!
And so last Sunday we went to visit Baby Jaca (as Lou calls him) and he's totally gorgeous!! Louis wanted to hold him and so he did!

Baby number 2 is no longer a baby, but ever since Caroline and Paul had baby Luca nearly a year ago now, this is how we have called him: "Baby Luca". Even now, Louis will come out of the bath, get wrapped in a towel and say "Do Baby Luca, Mummy" and I have to scoop him up like a baby and swing him saying "oh hello Baby Luca" which he finds hilarious ("noooo, I'm LOUIS"). So here he is, with Mum Caroline, in NYC's Madison Square Park...

English Summer (not!)

Well, the English summer is officially over: it lasted about a week, which culminated in the hottest weekend so far this year a few weeks back (with 33 degrees). Nanny Steph and Grandad Wayney came over for a bbq and Louis used his new giant paddling pool. Nanny got very wet when Louis threw an entire bucket of water from the pool onto her (she didn't mind, though!); we ate our pudding in the garden and we took Bertie for a walk. It felt like holidays...