It's playtime!

And finally, Bluet and Ilona have started playing together. This mainly consisted (the one time it happened) of Bluet spinning round the spinning thing on the jungle gym, whilst Ilona kind of listened and watched. Still, it's a start

Birthday Parties, Grandparents and DIY

This weekend was a busy one. On Friday Emily's parents flew in to town. We were worried for a while they wouldn't make it because of a winter storm warning that had closed all Houston schools, but apparently planes are hardier than kids. Anyway, Bluet was delighted to have visitors (her teacher, who babysat on Saturday, asked 'Where is Wayne' and Bluet said 'We lost him'). While they were here Bluet helped with a bit of DIY, played with playdoh and silly putty, and went for a walk in the park.

On Sunday she attended a Birthday party, the first time she has been to one where she knew the child, rather than us knowing the parents. They had a bouncy castle, which Bluet loved, and also one of these things to practise baseball

And last night Ilona slept for 9 hours, or something. 

Oh,and I saw my dream car. Twice

Laughing at polka dots

Emily's phone

I also managed to recently get my hands on Emily's phone for long enough to download and upload some photographs. Let's see what is going on


Well, here are two different approaches to child rearing. I prefer to spin Bluet round and round and round, whilst Emily likes to play aeroplanes:

Here is Bluet with her 'whiskers'

Emily is better at getting Ilona to smile than I am

 
Bluet eating a new foodstuff. Or maybe it is a David Blaine style magic trick?

Emily took Bluet to Target. For entertainments, Bluet was given a book to draw in. This is a picture of Ilona sucking her dummy

Here is Ilona not sucking a dummy

and here is me with Ilona

Ilona progress

Ilona is getting bigger and has started to enjoy playing, smiling and even sleeping for up to 6 hours at a time (at night). Here is a video. More pictures to come

Ilona Sleeping

Ilona News

Here are some very sweet pictures Emily took yesterday when she took Ilona for a walk to try and lull her to sleep and a brief video

Spot the Difference

One from the vaults:

One for today:

Playtime

Ilona has been getting better at this whole eating-sleeping thing, she's even started to incorporate some play into her routine. We've also seen a couple of smiles, but they almost certainly weren't real, intentional ones.

Of course, Bluet did not like all the attention Ilona was getting from the camera, so asked to be photographed sitting in this chair

Talking

I realised that we haven't had any recordings of Bluet talking on here recently. It is a shame as we are losing her charming mispronunciations - such as pernana, perjamas, acoucacku etc. I shall have to make a list. Anyway here is some up to date Bluet talk for you:
 

Plasters

Here is a slightly old video of Bluet playing with one of her favourite things, the plaster

Happy New Year!

Is it really a week since boxing day already? I am not sure what we have done in the last week, but we certainly need a holiday to recover from our holiday. Needless to say, we did not manage to stay up until midnight, so we celebrated British New Year at 6PM on NYE.

Here are some more pictures of Ilona, she seems to be growing pretty fast - she has already grown out of some of her baby clothes. There are also some photos of Bluet playing in the leaves in the garden, and pretending to be a DJ; whilst you're looking, why not check out her new hair cut?