Old Car Seat and Actual Walking!

What a difference a year makes!!! Alice finally made it to the required 20lbs and moved out of her car seat and into a new car seat this week. She is facing forwards in the car now and really enjoys being high enough to look out the window on car journeys.

























Also as you can see Alice is now taking more than a few very wobbly steps. Apparently it's quite text book to walk by 13 months. So next thing will be to buy her some proper wee shoes. Non-pink of course, so that's Clarks out then.

Tadpoles!!

Here are the tadpoles in our pond. Took Alice out today to have a look and she didn't seem all that impressed with the 1000s there are swimming around. Every black dot you can see is a tadpole. Wondering how many will make it to full blown frog. You'll need to double click on the first one to see them.

New Orleans Jazz in New Orleans

Here's a video of Stuart's Dad (playing the banjo) on his recent trip to New Orleans.



His band (the Liberty Hall Stompers) went across to play in the French Quarter Festival .

Spoons and Walking

Here is a wee video of Alice taking a couple of steps. She is very tentative, as you can see. We spend most of our days with her walking backwards and forwards with this walker.

She also wanted a spoon the other day too, when we were giving her some yoghurt. As we've gone down the BLW route she eats everything with her fingers and doesn't have anything where she would need a spoon. Yoghurt is about the only thing we feed to her, not any more. She does not want us to feed her with the spoon at all, she has to do it and also has to put the spoon in the tub as well. Hence this picture.















An update on our frog spawn. We have tadpoles!!!!! Hurrah, they survived. Not sure why this year. The pond is full of them.

Quite a few firsts

Alice took three steps on her own yesterday!!! She seemed really happy and pleased with herself too. She can stand for ages on her own and stands up and down without holding onto anything. She really does just need the confidence to take those steps and walk. We also put her hair in pig-tails for the first time yesterday. She seemed to enjoy having them put in and they didn't bother her at all. She also has another tooth, so that's 5 now. Also she can now say da-dee and hiya and quite a few other sounds, like ka-ka for stinker (when her nappy needs to be changed) etc. Just a couple of cute wee pics of her pig-tails.

Jelly and the Aquarium

Alice finally got to try some of her red grape jelly. She seemed to enjoy trying to put it in her mouth more than actually eating it. No doubt next year will be very different.


































As a birthday treat, Nana and Grandpa took us all to the Aquarium, which is just along the coast from us. Alice enjoyed looking at all the fish, the seals and the frogs, unfortunately the otters were asleep. Not sure if the trip was really for Alice's enjoyment or Daddy's though.