Daisy's first digital camera

Daisy amongst many other things, got a Kid-Tough™ Digital Camera for her Christmas present and she absolutely loves it.
Or should I say loved it, it was her favourite present until we opened the Pandora's box of baby paraphernalia that came from Grandma Bonjour which consists of a buggy, a highchair, a baby travel cot, a baby carrier and another baby to add to the collection of which i think currently stands at five (six including this new one) and that doesn't include the three that I have squirreled away in the box for charity.
And i hasten to add, that WE have only bought her one dolly, when Iris was born, which is apparently what you are supposed to do to stop your toddler throwing the new baby down the stairs.

If anyone is reading this who is at all likely to buy Daisy or Iris a present in the next 20 years, please don't buy another dolly.
I just know my dad's going to be laughing his socks off at this because he constantly threatened us three girls (i have two sisters) with a 'Billy Goat Machine', which was an invention in his mind where a machine came in and ate up all the toys that were left lying around on the floor.
In fact his constant talk of his precious 'Billy Goat Machine' led me to go out one Christmas when I was about 12 and buy him a dustpan and brush with a homemade label on it saying 'DIY - Billy Goat Machine'.

Anyway though, yes Daisy loves her new baby dolly set, we even let her push her buggy to the park and she did push it all the way to the park, and she then proceeded to let her dolly go on the slide, the see-saw, the roundabout etc…

But back to my original point, whilst she did love her digital camera, she took lots of photo's and here are some of them:

A trip into London town

Today we went all the way into London town. This is the first time i've been into town in a long while, i don't think i came in at all whilst i was pregnant with Iris cos i was either a) too tired or b) couldn't be arsed quite frankly, but i really enjoyed it today.


We went to Covent Garden and it felt very Christmassy indeed, there was an old fashioned 'Merry go round' there which we both took Daisy on, she loved it and wanted to go on it again and again but twice was enough.

There was a huge Christmas Tree up down the other end of Covent Garden but it wasn't dark so I don’t think we experienced the true beauty of all the lights, but it was nice all the same.



We also went into daddy's work and met all of daddy's work mates, they all seemed very nice and the offices are very posh. The office has it's own astro turf corner with plastic daffodils coming up out of hidden plug sockets, it also has little furry plastic bunnies and caterpillars which were a huge hit, Daisy kept organising them all into lines facing her, she is obviously queen of the bunnies.




And here is Iris, on the same day, doing what she does best at the minute, suck her thumb. She has taken to sucking either of her thumbs at every opportunity, although her left is probably a little more of a favourite. When you try to prise her thumb out of her mouth, to dress her for instance, she moves her head to try to keep the thumb still in her mouth, so sweet.
I must take more thumb photos quick in case she looses interest in her thumb.

Bouncing with Lulu

Here is a video of Daisy and Lulu bouncing on Lucy's sofa (Lulu's mummy).

You can just hear the 'wack wack' of Pingu playing in the background.

Lots of photo's of Lulu somewhere on Flickr, i just havent' worked out how Flickr actually works yet.

and i thought i understood technology.

Funny old Daisy

Mostly today Daisy has been an angel, she has not wee'd herself, she has amused herself in her room with her baby Flossie (aka Baby Born), she had read books to her Chicken (seen under her arm in the pic below) and she has been very helpful and loving towards her little sister Iris.

She has also been very very funny today, like insisting on wearing her piggy mask to bed with her as you can see from this photograph.
Bless.








We have been learning Christmas songs at 'Musical Bumps' this morning.
This one is currently favourite:

When Santa got stuck up the chimney,
He began to shout:
"You girls and boys,
Won't get any toys,
If you don't pull me out!"

"My beard is black,
There's soot in my sack,
My nose is tickling too!"

When Santa got stuck up the chimney,
"Aaachooo, achoo, achoo!"

Once she is completely word perfect then i'll video it, so watch this space.

Here is a little photograph of Iris looking a bit surprised, i think her nose is a bit yellow because of the flash, or at least it doesn't look yellow in real life.


I'm not very good with these built in flashes i tend to turn them off straight away but i'm beginning to realise that they are necessary if you don't want all your photographs blurry.

Iris is huge

Look how big she is, this pram is supposed to fit her until she is 6 months old but i don't see that happening seeing as she is nearly filling it and she is only 3.5 months old.

She had been trying to lift her head a lot whilst laying down in the pram, so i thought she might be ready to go into the bigger seat. I swapped from the pram mode to the seat mode last week for a couple of days but her neck seemed to flop forward when i went up and down kerbs, so i've swapped it back again and she actually seems happier in it.

Once she starts kicking her way out of it which will probably be in January some time, then i'll swap it back to the seat.

Daisy thought it was brilliant that Iris was sitting up cos she could see her, strangely she hasn't noticed that i've swapped it back again.

stuff and stuff

Not much to report really, both Daisy and Iris have been ill over the past month, both had coughs and colds, unfortunately Iris's cough and cold developed into Bronchiolitis which was a bit nasty, she was basically sick after every feed and lost a little bit of weight, but i'm sure she's put it all back on again now, she's huge.

Daisy is now much better but Iris after getting better, now seems to have another cough and cold and is beginning to be a bit sick again, oh dear.

Roll on the summer.

Happy Birthday Grandad-by-the-sea

Today it is Grandad-by-the-sea's bithday.

He is a whole year wiser than he was last year.

Here is a photograph of him taken in June at cousin Lucy and her husband Paul's wedding.

What a spring chicken he is.