Alice at Wells

This is a pretty picture of Alice outside Wells Cathedral, south east of Bristol.

The Zoo

We went to Noah's Ark Zoo near Bristol and saw these pigs. Much to Stuart's disappointment Alice cried and didn't like them at all. Tee hee!!! Can you guess who's writing the blogs yet?

Alice with both feet in her mouth, not a very lady-like position, but then Stuart would say something unfunny like, "just take one look at her mother".

Some pretty pics

We visited some friends of Pauline's in Penarth (just outside Cardiff). Their house was the one used for Dr Who; Stuart could hardly contain himself and wanted a photo of Alice in her pram where the TARDIS had been. Pauline said no, it was a bit sad.
Stuart and Alice, later on that evening.
Alice playing with Lion, who is now called Aslan, according to Stuart.

Pretty pic of Alice

Alice's First Holiday

Alice has been trying to do this for quite a while, but on Sunday she managed for the first time to get her foot in her mouth. No doubt it won't be the last time she puts her foot in it!!

A typing we will go.

Alice has learned a new skill today. She was typing on the computer all by herself. Of course she needed a bit of help sitting at the computer to do her typing. She's not sure whether to write a novel or follow mummy's footsteps into the wonderful world of Drama and write scripts. This is only a first draft you understand, it'll take a lot of re-writing, but we're sure she'll get there.

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We're so proud!!!

Garden and Visitors

This is Alice's first time in the garden when Pauline was hanging out the washing. The sun actually stayed out long enough to dry some clothes. There's no real shade in our garden during the day except behind the neighbour's shrub.

Alice's Nana and Grandpa came to visit this week too. They were really pleased to see their granddaughter. Stuart and his dad did loads of DIY jobs that have been put off since Alice's birth.

Can you get me up please?

A month ago Alice hated being in this ring and would cry as soon as we put her into it. Now she really enjoys moving around in it and curling herself up in a ball. She can normally move herself back into a seated position, but not from here. The other photo is just a cute wee picture of her. Disturbingly, she is trying to crawl when we put her on her tummy. She lifts her knees right up under her bottom, pushes her bottom in the air and tries to move forward. Thankfully her arms aren't strong enough to hold her weight and so she can't move anywhere... yet!!! We don't think it's going to be too long before she's mobile. We'll have to re-think the whole layout of the house and move everything up. We thought we might get a good few months yet without having to do this. That's progress for you.

Please don't go, mummy!!

Alice has taken to holding on to mummy like her life depends on it. Sitting down, standing up; it's quite a strong grip too.

She seems to be settling down after her "not wanting to feed" phase. Thankfully she is feeding again, but not quite so ferociously as before. Apparently, when they are born life is all about the food, but after about week 16 life is much more interesting than that and who cares about food.

What Statisticians do for a living

This was ordered from the Cadbury website: a 5000g bar of Dairy Milk (see the link below). The bar contains 32 "chunks", each of which is equivalent to three normal small bars of Dairy Milk. It helpfully says on the back that this bar should be one person's allowance of Dairy Milk for six months. We worked that out as half a standard bar per day. Not quite sure where a chocolate allowance is mentioned in government health guidelines.....

The bar isn't out of it's foil wrapper yet. Promise.

Buy your own bar!!

A new toy

We bought Alice a new box for her toys at the weekend. The front room was starting to look like a toy shop.

Not too many pictures recently as we've been having a trying time with her. She's decided she doesn't want to eat and screams when we bring the bottle anywhere near her mouth. The Health Visitor thinks it's developmental and says that at around 16 weeks they tend to have a bad patch and come out of it around 20 weeks. Hurrah!! Quite a few people have suggested she may be teething. If she is, we do hope this tooth comes through soon, so we can get her back on track again. If only they could talk and tell us what's wrong.

Sunday best

Had to quickly share this one. It was a happy moment from today. Pauline is just upstairs putting A to bed; not too many happy moments there!

New toys for Alice

In the last week Alice has started getting in to some more grown up toys. These contraptions are meant for babies over three months. So, she just qualifies.

We tried her on the inflatable ring a few weeks ago. Being as it's really meant for sitting up in (something she's not quite there with yet!), she didn't like it as there was no where to put her head when she got tired. However, since we've let the ring deflate a bit, she's now got the perfect lounging position.

Pauline tried out the door swing for the first time this week. Alice was a bit unsure to start with; just standing still and flailing whenever she overbalanced. It didn't take too long to get the hang of though. Now she's bouncing around just fine and enjoying every minute! But doesn't she look tiny!