Bluet's Fashion Tips

Step one:

Fall asleep in your pram at a jaunty angle for 30-40 mins

Step two:

Wake up with awesome hair

Bluet and the records

Learning about the value of music

5,000 Hits, you say?

In the post preceding this one you can see what I found in the vaults - a lost post of Emily's from the 3rd of June - no idea why it never went up then, but nice to see now. She looks very different these days, even though that was just a few months ago.

(Actually, the blog software put it where it was originally written - you can view it here : http://bluet2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/bluet-in-action.html)

And here is a more recent picture of Bluet hanging out with her friend Caroline at the Blue Point Brewery. Although it isn't clear from the photo, Bluet has started to respond to other babies, reaching out to touch/grab them (the other baby in the mirror remains the one that makes her laugh the most).

An Experiment

Tonight we try an experiment. Usually Bluet eats around 18:30, has a bath (a description of which may be posted when we get our 5,000 visitor), listens to a story (perhaps 'that's not my tractor' - the attention span is too short for Dr Seuss). Then by 19:00 she is fast asleep in bed.

Bluet asleep in own bed. Note thumb in mouth and essential rabbit

Tonight we are going to go to a birthday party for a friend of mine at work, starting at 19:00. Our plan, such as it is, is to head down there a little early, and let Bluet go to sleep in their bedroom. Then, once we are ready to leave the party, we will try and not wake her whilst walking across the city to the uptown bus. This will fail, but hopefully she won't scream all the way home, disturbing the revellers returning from their nights out. One hope is that this interruption to her sleep will help her adjust to the loss of daylight savings time (American 'British Summer Time'), and thus she will no longer be waking up at 5.30 in the morning. A second hope is that it works brilliantly and we can employ this tactic for future parties.

A good night's sleep restores energy

How could a baby that looks like this be any trouble?

Take me home. now.

Ready For Winter

Ideally, we'd all have one of these sleeping bag type things to keep us warm whenever we go out.

Destruction and Carnage

Bluet at the marathon