Other things that Bluet does when Ilona is away

With Veronika's help, Bluet made an owl family which includes the 5 of us, and Hugo, our next door neighbour. Wilder is the baby owl in the nest:



Bluet's greatest wish for her holidays? To play outside at Nana and Wayne's house with Ilona and Dingo (pictured)



Bluet also chose her first book from the school library. I heartily approve this choice:




She also collected a lot of conkers. Here, some were finally put to good use and turned into a giraffe

And then....

.....we returned to Nana and Wayne's house, where Bluet once again had fun, but most importantly, Bluet's great Aunt Kathy gave Bluet a haircut, viz:

Before

During

After

From the back

Bluet also played some more in the garden. Here she is pretending to eat huckleberry nuts with a plastic spoon

   talking to the cat 

Riding a bicycle

  running around the library

And just generally exploring

She also got Wayne to read her 'Goodnight Moon' about 35 times. One time Nana asked her "Who wrote it? [Goodnight Moon] and Bluet said 'Wayne'. She also enjoyed this Curious George book, but not quite as much

As well as having a haircut, when we returned to St Louis on the way home, Emily painted Bluet and Lila's toes purple.

 

A long weekend

This weekend has been abnormally long and tiring as Emily is at a conference on the tropical island paradise of Hawaii. To entertain Bluet yesterday we walked to the library, where Bluet mostly looked for Maise books. Her favourite was the pop up one in the video below, which was rather cool, but I was loathe to borrow it as I am sure she would quickly destroy the pop ups that had not already been broken by a previous child borrower. In the afternoon we went to the children's museum, and played in the water, and in kidopolis, a corporate sponsored child run fake town where your child can learn to deliver parcels, work in a bank or drive a police car. This morning we went to the Zoo, where Bluet mainly enjoyed pressing buttons, and then this afternoon we hung out and did summersaults and made towers and read books. Finally, Bluet went to bed. Below you will find some photos, some videos, and my attempt to record a conversation with Bluet.

I walked in to Bluet's room, and found her reading her book to her dolly. Unfortunately my appearance distracted her, so I only got 6 second of video. Tonight I put Bluet to bed, and she was very quiet. I went in to check, and she was sitting by her bookshelf with 'owly' in her lap, reading Miffy books.