Gymnasium

The snow is melting, replaced by rain. Fortunately this Sunday the ETH Sports Hall was open for kids 0-8 years old to let out all their excess energy. As our kids have a lot of excess energy (and because it was free, and relatively near our house), I took them there in the morning. Because Bluet always has to wear a dress, they were the only two kids wearing dresses in the entire place (until Ilona took hers off)



They actually waited to get on this swing. Why they needed to take their shoes off, I have no idea

A walk down the river

A couple of Sundays ago, we went to the playground by the river with animals; sadly most of  the animals (chickens, goats and rabbits) had gone away for the winter, but we still enjoyed the pigs. You may recognize it from last year - we haven't been there for a while. As you can see it is beginning to get cold, and as it was 9AM, we had the whole place to ourselves for a while

Compare and contrast, the same swing (at the flag playground) today and September last year

A family Sunday in the park

We went to the park this afternoon to read our books whilst Bluet slept. Unfortunately she had other ideas, although there was just enough time to catch up on the news (of the world). Still, she did look very sweet.

What Bluet likes to look at. Maybe she'll be a botanist

Some things

Hello, I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday. We are - Bluet is sleeping, Emily is running and I am writing this. So some updates: Bluet is now able to smile at you in response to your smile (although for some unknown reason, she prefers to smile at Mum rather than Dad - it took ages for me to get my first smile this morning whereas Emily had hers within seconds). She is also rapidly outgrowing her clothes so yesterday (for the first time) we actually went and bought her some; we haven't bought anything up to now not because we don't dress her (although numerous photos here may give the impression she usually wears just nappies)
but because everyone has been very generous in donating small items of clothing.

This video features some of those generously gifted clothes:

She is also almost giggling, almost reading books, and very interested in Zebras. And she does some form of baby pilates every time we lay her on the floor. Videos will hopefully be forthcoming, but she isn't great at performing on cue - the vid below was supposed to be her exercising, but instead turned into a sneeze - never work with kids or animals, eh?