Jonny's Birthday

After the long drive Lucy snuggles up with Mummy

Aaaargh! It's a Yorkshire bear.

The Yorkshire Bear hunts Lucy and Mummy

Friday Tea

Lucy plays with Jonny's Hogwarts popup book

Aunty Tiss drags Lucy around the place

After all that excitement Lucy needs a sit down

The Millhouse

Looks like Jonny has smartened himself up a bit to visit the excellent "Millhouse" restaurant in Skidby near Hull. Lucy is very interested in her individual portion of butter.

Jonny attempts to keep his composure while Pink witters on about herself.

Uncky Kev and Aunty Sue are being entertained by Lucy.

Birthday (almost) boy Grandad is having a laugh with Stewby.

Lucy is fascinated by Mummy's meal of mussels and insists that she try one. To every ones surprise she loves them. More evidence that like perennial favorites manchego and smoked salmon, Lucy is a little lady with expensive tastes. Watch out boys, she isn't going to be a cheap date!

Lucy turns round to find someone has airburshed Jonny's face. He looks almost as mahogany as Aunty Pink.

Cheers!

Uncle Col is enraptured by Aunty Tissy's erudite articulation

Grandma and Stewby are less enraptured.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Tissy shows Grandma and Pink some photos. Grandma is trying to figure out where the film goes.

Lucy decides to help herself to some of Aunty Sue's dinner

Lucy realises that The Millhouse is a bit of posh so she raises her little finger

Presents

Lucy is a very lucky girl. She has got loads of presents for her birthday. Jonny, Uncky Kev, Aunty Tiss and Aunty Sue look at her haul with barely disguised avarice.

Lucy starts opening her presents

Wow! A train full of books

Can't go far wrong with PlayPeople. (Officially they are now called PlayMobil but we all know they are really PlayPeople. PlayMobil were only called PlayPeople in the UK in the 70s and 80s but since that is when Daddy and Aunty Pink grew up with them - they will be PlayPeople for ever - we will not pander to the croissant eating Euromonkeys)

It's also important to pretend to look at the cards to see who the presents are from before getting back to the good stuff.

Christmas Dinner

It's Christmas Day. Mummy, Grandad and Lucy are waiting to go out for Chritmas Dinner.

Aunty Pink and Mummy are getting into the Christmas spirit. Especially Aunty Pink.

Gramdma shows Uncky Kev how good she is at the hand jive.

Aunty Tiss is stunned by the display.

Lucy finds a new use for party poppers.

Grandma continues her hand jive tutorial

Lucy: "My cats got no nose". Jonny: "How does he smell?"

Lucy: "Like a bottom!"

Later in Leeds

Lucy is having a lovely spread out tea back at Aunty Sue and Uncle Kevs

Then work off some of that dinner with a ride on Jonny's old red train.

Then a nice cuddle with Grandad

Followed by attaching herself limpet like to her "favorite boy" Jonny

Then a nice story from Grandma

Aunty Tiss was there as well but somehow managed to avoid having her photo taken with Lucy. Not deliberately mind you, her child phobic reputation is not backed up by the evidence

Wrestling with Tiss

Aunty Tiss undermines her child hating reputation by engaging in a bout of wrestling with Lucy. Aunty Pink looks on in amusement while Stewby tries to avoid the enormous flapping feet flashing before his face.

Lucy emerges after a tight bout. They agree it was a draw.

Pink and Tiss

Pink eyes Lucy's new T-Shirt with some suspicion. Why is she sporting Gallic apparel?

Well - it is because Mummy has just run a 10k race in La Belle France. Specifically the Foulees de la Rouge Flamande in Bergues. So of course she got Lucy a present. Daddy got a present of some Belgian beer. Mummy knows Daddy well. We also got to share some magnificent french bread and cheese after Lucy had gone to bed. Yum.

Mummy arrived home to find that Aunty Tiss (provider of many of Lucy's favorite books) had popped over for a visit. Here she is bonding with Barney.

And here she is bonding with Lucy. Lucy was astonished that her Aunty was so clever as to get her a Madagascar T-Shirt. Librarians are a canny lot.

Lucy Fans

Aunty Pink is well known for loving having Lucy sitting on her lap.

It is rather more unusual to see the child phobic Aunty Tiss giving her a cuddle.

Aunty Tissy

Aunty Tiss and her friend Diane are visiting. Aunty Tissy takes a photo of her favorite niece.

Lucy is very impressed. Aunty Tiss brought her some Play-Doh. She likes making slugs. As you can see there was one tub of green and one tub of orange. Now there is one ball of brown!

Christmas Dinner

Ho ho ho. Christmas day has arrives and the family goes out for Christmas dinner. Being quite a sophisticated young lady Lucy kicks off with Palma ham and melon as a starter.

Then the main course arrives. That is a big plate of food for a little fella! She has basically got the same as the grownups (apart from her own bottle). Yum Yum.

Obviously she has to ensure that she is attired in the appropriate head wear.

By a strange coincidence Uncle Doody and Aunty Sue are sporting similar fashions.

Grandad pops over to help Lucy read her "In the Night Garden" comic. To be quite honest, he barely knows his Iggle Piggle from his Makka Pakka but having dragged brought 4 kids up he knows a thing or two about entertaining sprogs.

Aunty Pink joins in the Sponk wrangling duties. Jonny is amused.

Uncky Kev has the right idea. Yorkshire Bitter. Mummy prepares to tuck into a fine pint of Northern goodness.

Lucy sticks to her Iggle Piggle jigsaw.

Aunty Sue is a teacher so she has to practice looking disapprovingly over the top of her glasses every day. It is part of teacher lore. In the background, naughty school children Grandma and Aunty Tiss carry on chatting in class regardless.

Flouting the law, Lucy tries her hand on the one armed bandit. There is a clear notice saying over 18's only be we choose to interpret that as months.

Hold the Cherries!

After all the excitement Lucy has a nice glass of orange to calm down.