Learning to Roll

For the last week or so, Ana has been learning how to roll, both to and from her back. This is very exciting for us, though our friends with older kids are telling us to start moving things up and out of reach...

But our Ana would never grab anything she wasn't meant to...

Little button nose

We'll let this photo speak for itself!

Crokinole Question

Ok, a question for you Canadians out there (or others who know Crokinole).

My cunning shot (black) ended up on top of Lara's white one -never had this happened before. This was quite good (for me) as it meant mine was impossible to hit! Is this a valid play, or should my piece have been removed?

Answer carefully, for the happiness of at least one Tim depends on your answer.

Angelic little sleeper...

With an expression like this; the sheer joy of going to bed, who would have thought we would be appreciating a book called "Solving your child's sleep problems"?

We're trying to wean her off waking up every two hours for a feed in the night, and actually, it seems to be going quite well. We're leaving her half an hour longer each night between feeds (now up to 3.5 hours) and she seems to be responding ok to it.

By the end of next week (we hope) she'll be sleeping through the night.

Somehow that seems unrealistic, but what a goal to aim for! (Your prayers are appreciated!)

Teething

"Who, me?" she seems to be saying as she stuffs our fingers, once more, into her mouth.

Most things seems to end up in there these days. To her there seems nothing wrong with giving any old thing (or finger) a good chew.

We'll be holding her, playing away, and then all of a sudden, you'll realise that she has wingled your finger back into her mouth! Very cute, but very slobbery.

Coco pops and Ana... a messy combination

On the morning of my birthday, greatly desiring to be 'young' I decided to have some coco pops. Ana, who redefines 'young' decided that she, rather than I, should be eating the coco pops. A raging battle ensued. I tried to keep the bowl beyond the reach of her small arms. But she had been practicing lunging whilst I was at work, and once she had distracted me by some cunning means, she leapt forward, grabbed the bowl and poured it all over herself, myself, the table, chair and carpet...

As Ana had put on her party dress that morning, she now has a pretty white and pink (and chocolate-coloured) party dress...

Ain't she cute?

Notice how I was cut out of the picture?

And yes, I do want another cake! (It was YUMMY!)

Tim's birthday cake

Now, not being the best person at baking cakes I decided to opt for an easy chocolate recipe... apart from the state of the kitchen all seemed to be going well - the cake had risen beautifully and smelt delicious. Then I made my big mistake, I should have just left it in the tin. I'm sure we could have eaten it straight out of the tin, it would have been fine! But no, I turned it out and the cake ended up in lots of little bits. Here's me making the icing to stick it all back together. Tim says it was yummy though (I think he wants me to bake another...)