More cute things (Anna)

- pulling a pan out of the cupboard, toddling over to another cupboard, putting the pan on a shelf, patting it reassuringly, waving, saying "bye bye" and closing the door. 

- I was talking to her about her Grandad and joking that she needs to learn to say "Hi Grandad. Can I make you a cup of coffee?" before we go to Europe in four weeks time.  I asked her if she could say "coffee" and she started doing her silly fake cough. For the rest of the evening, every time I mentioned Grandad, she coughed. 

Lots more cute stuff, too, but no time. 

Back in the swing of things (Anna)

The longer we don't post, the harder it is, because there's so much to catch up on. Granny Heath's visit. Emma's several weeks of being sick. Caroline back at work, etc,etc. And I don't know if we still have any readers left anyway. 

So, in the interests of getting our momentum back, here's a quick post. 

10 adorable things that Emma is doing at the moment. 

- putting her lips on our cheeks and saying "Ma"; also blowing good night kisses

- pointing at cars and proclaiming gleefully "bus!"

- putting the TV remote to her ear and saying " 'ello"

- sitting on our laps with a plastic spoon and feeding us

- sharing her pacifier with us when she thinks we need comforting

- pretending to be asleep on our bed and then wriggling off and running away

- insisting on walking to the park rather than being carried

- passing us her favourite books to read...for the 20th time in 5 minutes

- doing the sign for help when she needs something (a relief from the grunting noise she was making before)

- bouncing up and down and dancing when she hears music

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMMA!!!!

Countdown (Anna)

One more sleep until Granny Heath arrives from Australia for lots of cuddles, stories and play-time. (Oh, Mum, we forgot to tell you, Caroline and I are going on holiday and leaving you on Emma duty for the next three weeks...;))

Four more sleeps until Emma becomes the daughter of parents who have a one-year-old. Rough translation: Emma turns one on Saturday!!

Measuring things in sleeps is a little tricky, of course. Emma will have approximately 12 sleeps (if we're lucky) before her birthday, while we might might considerably fewer than 4 if we are kept awake by some random munchkin who decides that the witching hour (known in our house as the "bitching hour") is the best time to practice her singing. But, it's ok. We're confident that once she turns one, she'll never wake us up in the middle of the night. Ever again. Right? Right?

My hero (Anna)

Ok. Caroline is officially my hero. She's just given up precious hours of her last days of mat. leave to download photos...

I should mention that our photo collection is very arbitrary. We are notorious for forgetting to take the camera, or running out of memory because we take too much video. It's a common part of our evenings and weekends to turn to each other and say, "Did we forget the camera AGAIN!!" And we have almost no photos of daily events like storytime, playgym, and time with friends. Oh well. I guess it gives us latitude to make things up in the future when we're trying to convince Emma that we really ARE wonderful parents ;)

But, anyway - thanks, Caroline!!

Catching up - A month in pictures

Emma at home.




Emma in slumberland.



Emma at the farm.

Emma at the aquarium.




Emma with Auntie Michelle.

A baby on the move!

These were some of her early attempts at walking a fewweeks ago. She's already much more stable.

The camera doesn't quite capture how much we were both hovering as she did this manoeuvre!