T-shirt

What a t-shirt. Shipped from USA, no less. She seems so happy in it that I think it shows she's got an innate grasp of mathematics. I reckon we have a wee statistician on our hands here. If only she can make it through all those drama classes.....
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SOLIDS!!!!!

A big day in the life and advancement of Alice. Her high chair arrived today. I tried her on a wee bit of banana, if you click on the pic itself you'll see a wee bit ended up on her nose.
We're going to be doing something new called baby-led weaning. This is where you go straight from milk to finger foods. You cut out purees completely and don't feed them, they feed themselves. So she had a chunk of banana and seemed to quite enjoy it. She won't actually eat any just yet, but will eventually. The first wee while is her tasting the food and exploring the new textures. She did really well at picking it up and putting it straight into her mouth. As you can see she's really proud of herself. I'm being supported by the Health Visitor (who did this with her own children and guided parents through in her old job) and the nursery nurse. They would like me to do a talk to other parents in our area as I'm the first one to give it a go. So we'll see how we get on, loads of pictures and videos in the mean time.

Will let you know how we get on. We're going to start in earnest on Monday, once we've bought the shower curtain to go on to the carpet.

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Remember that you can see all of our holiday snaps by clicking on the right hand side on September. Also that if you click on the picture itself a larger version comes up.

Alice at the helm

We decided that getting home on Friday was going to take a long time (we were right, just under 10 hours) and so let Alice have a turn too. She did have a few problems in that she couldn't quite reach the pedals, the gears or see over the steering wheel. Maybe next year.

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.