Friday 28th June 2019
P is 6 Yrs 3.5 Mths Old
R is 5 Yrs 3 Mths Old
J is 11.5 Mths Old
It's a few weeks since I last posted here...I've been busy

When I last posted here P had just lost her first tooth. Well, in the 2 weeks after that the tooth fairy was very busy because P lost 3 more of her teeth. She has now lost the two top ones and two bottom ones at the front and her adult/big teeth are already starting to grow in their place.
In the 2 week period that P lost her 4 teeth J was very busy growing new teeth and he now has 8 teeth! Every time P lost one J seemed to grow 2 more overnight

I told P that the tooth fairy must have been sprinkling her fairy dust on J while she was collecting Ps teeth from under her pillow

The tooth fairy left €5 under Ps pillow each time she visited and every single time P gave me the €5 and told me to buy myself something nice ...Ahhhh

Today is Day 9 of our two week family holiday to Italy. We are having a great time despite an unexpected heatwave across Europe. Yesterday it was 38c here! Thank God for the swimming pools and air conditioning !!
We spent the first 3 days of our holiday at an apartment with a beautiful olive tree walled garden in Torri del Benaco. One of those days we went on the cable car to Monte Baldo where the scenery was absolutely stunning and we sat right beside paragliders on the top of the mountain and watched them getting ready then literally running off the mountain and flying out over the lake. The kids were amazed and they loved it.
A great memory I will always have from Torri del Benaco was one night when we went for dinner by the harbor then we watched a really good band singing on the side of the street and R danced like crazy in the street then danced all the way home to our apartment much to the amusement of everyone who saw him

We are now staying in a bungalow at a campsite for 7 nights and then we have 4 nights in a villa in the mountains at Lake Iseo before we go home. Our bungalow here now is on the shore of Lake Garda and myself and DH have a beautiful view of the lake from our bed

We have a terrace off our bedroom and I imagined we would sit out on it at night sipping wine while the kids were tucked up in their beds/cot but the first night we sat out we were eaten alive by mosquitos despite having repellant on so we haven't braved it since

P and R are having a brilliant time here. They absolutely love the swimming pools so most of our day is spent there. We bought them snorkel masks and they have both gotten really good at snorkelling in the pool and swimming under water. R especially is not afraid of the water at all.
I had a very scary incident a few days ago at the pool. I was watching all 3 kids on my own while DH went to the loo and R went down a small waterslide with an inflatable ring around his waist and he landed upside down in the water and got stuck under the inflatable ring and he couldn't get to the surface. I was at the side of the pool with J on the ground and I was keeping an eye on R and P at the same time so I immediately saw what had happened to R. In 5 seconds flat I made sure J was safe, I screamed at a woman in the pool to help R (she had her back to him so didn't see what had happened) and I jumped into the pool with my shorts and t-shirt on and my mobile phone in my hand and rescued R from almost drowning

Once I got him to the side and made sure he was ok I burst into tears from the shock of it. Needless to say R was immediately banned from using the inflatable ring. He was absolutely fine once he had finished coughing up water...he just got a fright. During the incident my phone sunk to the bottom of the pool and a woman got it out for me. I thought it was a goner but by some miracle when I dried it out in the sun it was working perfectly

We have been to Gardaland amusement park twice since we got here. To he honest none of us really enjoyed it. It's too hot for it with the heatwave at the moment and we all agreed we much preferred the shows and amusements at Portaventura last year.
Another highlight of the trip was when I brought P to a pizza making class the other day and she learned how to make a mozzarella pizza which she got to bring home to eat. I'm bringing R to do the same class today

P and R love the mini disco that is on every evening and the show that is on after it. P is brilliant at copying the dancers on stage. I am amazed at how good she is at doing the Macarena

J is getting on well even though the heat has him zonked. He is really enjoying people watching and eating pasta. He also loves the swimming pool
