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