13/08/2013

Speedy little monkey!

Daniel is walking everywhere these days and doing it quickly as well!
Here he is in his new PJ's ready for bed :)

And here's one I took just before story time.


My babies ❤

12/08/2013

Sweet baby boy

Daniel was crawling around and stopped for a little rest :)



I love this little guy!

11/08/2013

11 months

Daniel was 11 months old yesterday. How is it possible that he's going to be ONE in just a month??

He's such a sweet, happy and fun by baby. He walks all over the place now and is getting better at not bumping his head when he loses balance. He loves Ava and Graham and always wants to be around us.

He's very tall, wearing 18 months sized clothing (sometimes 24 months!)

He loves airplanes and laughs when he sees them. If he hears one from inside the house he looks for a window and points.

I think he might have said "boat" this week while looking at his boat mobile :)




07/08/2013

Giant baby on the loose!

Agh!

We took the kids to Bourton-on-the-water and walked around the miniature village which is an exact replica of the town itself. Ava loved it, especially the church that played music of a choir singing.

"I can see youuu!"

I'll huff and I'll puff...



"Anybody home?"

Feeding the ducks by the beautiful river

It was a long day.

30/07/2013

We've got a walker!

Daniel took his first steps today :)




09/07/2013

Daniel's update

How frustrating!

I wrote a huge post updating on the kids a few weeks ago and it never saved! :(

Now I need to try and remember everything.


Daniel at 8 months:


- got his first two teeth! Bottom centre right and then left two days apart (poor kid)
- learned how to sit up from laying down
- learned how to crawl
- pulled himself up from sitting to standing


Daniel at 9 months:


- walks holding hands
- two upper centre teeth (a few days apart)
- climbs up stairs
- speedy crawling
- stands for several seconds by himself!
- recognises the words: daddy, Ava, and boat
- watches airplanes in the sky
- slaps everything
- claps his hands
- waves at people

He's a very big boy! He eats pretty much everything and is beginning to outgrow 12-18 month size clothing. He weighs approximately 24lbs.

19/03/2013

Here are some of my recent favourite photos.

Ava reading Daniel a story before school.



Ava and her Teddy at the playground.



Ava bundled Daniel up on the couch. He loved it!



My babies <3



When I was doing my hair the other morning I set Daniel on the floor by my feet to keep an eye on him and Ava sat down beside him with a book to read him a story.



My happy baby boy! He's such a sweet little guy.


Well, a quick update on the two of them these days:

Ava is 100cm tall (my own measurements so give or take a cm!) and about 30lbs. She wears most size 3-4 clothing but often jeans are too short in the leg and too big around the waist. We have found one pair that fits perfectly though! The rest of the time she looks like she's ready for the floods. Size 7 shoes.

She's really starting to love her brother and seems to have forgotten what life was like before he arrived. She loves when he laughs at her.

She goes to preschool 4 days a week (3 hours on Mondays and Fridays and 5 hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays when she stays for lunch which she absolutely loves.)

She has a reward chart now and we use stickers to encourage good behaviour. When she fills up the princess castle chart with stickers, she will be allowed to go to Peppa pig world!

Daniel is growing so quickly that it's scary. He's six months old now and wears 9-12 month sized clothing. We haven't had him weighed since the last update so I don't know how much he weighs these days but he's quite solid! He wears size 4+ diapers as well.

We have started introducing him to real food and he has breakfast lunch and dinner most days. He doesn't like vegetables at all but absolutely loves fruit.

He has learned how to sit on the floor without falling over (the occasional wobble does happen though) and he enjoys playing with toys while he's sitting.

He doesn't sleep very often anymore, having an average of two naps a day and then sleeps around 6:30pm until the morning (with several wake ups in between!) ever since he had a bad cough several weeks ago, he has stopped sleeping through the night :(

We removed his dummy when the cough went away but had to give it back 5 days later because I wasn't able to stay awake trying to comfort him back to sleep every time he woke up. I'm not sure when we'll take it away again... Maybe once he starts sleeping through the night again?

Well, that's the latest from here!

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