zonked out!

Ikey has missed his daytime sleep 3 days in a row. Yesterday he seemed to be coping ok after 2 visits to the park is beautiful hot springtime weather. He sat down to watch a bit of Thomas while I was cooking his dinner and when I looked in to the sitting room to check on him, he was snoozing in a crumpled heap on a cushion - aaah bless!!

Rosa is developing at a scary rate at the moment - she immediately rolls on to her tummy when we put her on the mat now, and she gradually migrates across it by pulling up her legs under her. She can push up really well on her arms now too, and sits quite straight, though with no balance at all! she loves watching and laughing at Ike, who gives her toys and says 'there you go Rosa'! She is finally taking a bottlw quite well now too so I have dropped the dinnertime feed. She ate carrots for lunch, without much enthusiasm!

New lens

I told Isaac to tell Clare that I was going to buy a new lens for my camera. He refused and then retorted "Nee nee nee nee nee nee nee niet doen". Huh, charming.

what a sensible chap. he is changing as fast as ever. he said the other day 'lkey get out of the highchair and go and play with digger'. seems quite a long sentence for a 21 month old! his memory is getting better too (or he is able to show us that it is anyway). we were at the kinderkookcafe the other day with Julia (30 wks pregnant) and Joop, and ike took his lego motorbike. we couldn't find it when we went to leave, so we looked around everywhere and ask ikey repeatedly where it was. eventually he ran out into the garden and across to a bike that he had been trying to get on to - and produced the lego motorbike from behind it!

oh yes, and he keeps saying 'uncle james is a bit lazy' - wonder who taught him that! he also said for ages 'uncle dave did a smelly fart'. we have been trying to scramble this one with other things that 'uncle dave did' as he is a pageboy at Uncle Dave's wedding in a couple of months and we dont want him to be proclaiming about farts as he walks down the aisle....

poor little rosa - doesn't get much of a mention does she. well she is talking too - and squawking! and she is very busy teething poor thing :(

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Breakfast

Was delicious this morning - Clare made fritters (like american pancakes) with banana, fruit and greek yoghurt. OMG lekker.

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That monkey na eatin sosig

That's Isaac's version of a moneky eating sausage when we read the 8 silly monkey book. "No Bob de bouwer, no noddy" is what we say a lot, and he repeats it back. He's really into his telly now, which we have to limit. At weekends I get up and let Clare have a lie-in, I tend to do stuff on my laptop and gradually wake up with a cuppa t, while Isaac ingests, Tweenies, Balamory, Teletubbies and this morning even Batman!

Rosa is getting really interactive and giggly. She grabs things quite well now, and holds her hands together. She can also see quite a long way - smiling at Clare from at least 10 feet away. We went to Leigh and Richard's for dinner yesterday which was really nice. Rosa was sitting on Richard's lap doing some kind of chest flex exercise, she is SO strong!

Today were going swimming, we havent used the car for about a month so hope it starts...

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Ike and Daddy

Clare and Rosa are in UK for the weekend, so it's me and Isaac for the weekend (Thursday till Sunday night). Yesterday we went exploring in the park in the morning, and then Dave and Marvin came over in the afternoon. They even brought pressies for the kids! Ike got an Elmo (from Sesame street) which he seems pretty pleased with.

Now he is annoyed, I think the train set broke or something, better go...

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Rosa at 8 weeks

Rosa's first blog post, and it's not going to be a long one. Poor Rosa. MWUAH Rosa, or even MWURosa!

She is really starting to look lovely now, more and more awake and alert - and demanding attention. She makes funny noises like she is breathing in while squawking when something surprises her.

She also tracks things quite well now with her eyes, and grabs hold of rings / toys attached to her baby gym. She giggled once the other day, and smiles and coos a lot when we talk to her. Happy days innit. She can almost hold something approaching a crawl position as well - very strong head and neck!

In terms of general behaviour, she is very good at sleeping in the evening now. She goes down at around 7pm and doesn't usually wake up till around 2 or 3 for food - but sometimes has bad nights, not often recently though.

She's lovely and chubby, and today she blew her first bubble. Well done Dosa!

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Happy brrr brrras

Isaac was trying to pronounce the name of a book, not sure what it was actually called but instead of Happy Christmas it came out as Happy brrr brrrras - like someone making the sound of a phone ringing. Very cute and seriously funny.

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