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Haircut, eating and robodad

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

So Ollie needed a haircut, as you will see in the “before” picture. You can also see how blonde he is which makes everyone who sees me with him assume his dad is blonde!
Before:

After:

Ollie has unfortunately reached that age where he refuses to eat unless he can do it himself. I let him [...]

learning to read…

Friday, January 25th, 2008

...or not.

Thomas was reading “Peer Gynt” by Ibsen this morning (God knows why – I had only just woken up) anyway, he pointed at it and said “This word here says puh…. (the letter “p”) puh… puh… puh… dog!

Needs work.

Last week as a kept woman…

Monday, January 21st, 2008

So, it’s raining. A LOT!

But I’m determined that the boys don’t grow up thinking rain is an excuse not to do anything. So out we went for a walk in. I got wet:

Ollie was snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug in the backpack avec rain hood:

...and Thomas didn’t care:

Sorry that last picture is so dark – it was [...]

News for the new year

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

So our big news is that Ollie has just about started “cruising”, which for all you non-technical-in-baby-talk types means that he can stagger around the room holding onto furniture. He’s still very new at this, and a bit precarious:

This means he might not bother crawling at all, because our living-room is small enough that [...]

swings and roundabouts

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I looked back in my blog of Thomas at Ollie’s age, to see what he was eating at the time, and of course I hadn’t recorded it, so i’m none-the-wiser. However I did notice that Thomas was already crawling a lot and pulling himself up to play the piano at this age! Ollie [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

So, hear we are for another 366 days of life. My aim for this year is to not be pregnant for the whole year! I also need to get rid of some of the fat I put on, so I have more than 1 pair of trousers I can fit. Otherwise [...]