A busy week!

I apologise that you have to cran your neck to look at some of these pictures and the video. My computer wasn't letting me rotate them today.


Look who is pushing me to the Teddy Bears picnic. Where is Mummy? I mean she shouldn't just let anyone take me to picnics even if they are soft and cuddly!


With Daddy at Rundale Palace

With my neighbours, Sophie and Mia

I have just discovered a love of vacuum cleaning

Love to swing

Off to the Teddy Bears picnic

Going up the stairs by myself

With Eva. Eva is my neighbour and she is 8 months. we have a lot of fun. I poke her in the eyes, she pushes me over. Best friends. Here I am singing to Eva, she really appreciates it when I do.

I just love drawers. Mummy and Daddy NEED to tidy up!

Climbing the stairs at the palace

Mummy has told me many times this week that I'm just a 'cheeky monkey.' I'm not sure what she means. She always seems to say it after I have just started my exploring. Like looking in lots of drawers, and then today after I managed to catapult my lunch onto the wall. I was only practising eating by myself but mummy seemed to find it very funny.

I am getting very fast at crawling now and really like it when Mummy and Daddy chase me. It makes me laugh a lot and sometimes I have to stop to catch my breath. We went to a palace yesterday. It was really pretty and we had to wear these funny shoes over our normal shoes. I spent most of the day trying to get them off!

Mummy and I finally passed one of our doctors visits with Doctor 'scary.' She was very happy with me as I'm now up to 8.4kg and 74cm. And I only weeeeed on her once! She should thank her lucky stars I say....

Watching rugby with Mummy and Daddy

All Blacks vs Australia - we won!

Try time!

This was funny, Mummy and Daddy didn't realise that I had poked my head out of the back of the stroller when I as supposed to be sleeping!

Busted!

Im not sure about this, will I learn from this one?

Playing with Harry at playgroup

Racing Victor!

Mummy is very happy this Monday. You see our team won in the weekend. Mummy sure does get excited as you can see by the pictures. I was a perfect angel though, I could tell that Mummy needed me to sit just as intensly as her and watch the All Blacks. Funny game though, Im not sure what I think of it all really.

Lots of playing this week, lots of crawling with my friends, lots of standing up in my cot and my favourite.... attempting to eat raw potatoes STILL!

I have to go now, Im off to a Teddy Bears picnic in half an hour so I must find Marco, my teddy, I wonder where I put him last?......

I love taking all the books off the bottom shelf every day, its like my own little routine

Any similarities?

Loving the trampolines with Mummy

Trying to escape my playpen

On the move at the park





Back where I belong

The highlights of my week have been:

• Finding the potatoes and taking a big bite out of a very dirty one. I don't know why mummy laughed so much, I found it quite tasty.
• Eating my bubble bath, I don't know where it does when I put it to my mouth but it tickles a lot.
• Jumping on the trampolines with Mummy, I was laughing so much I nearly forgot to take a breath.
• Being back in the sand where I belong.
• Being back with my Riga friends though some of them are leaving so today I have to play extra hard with Charlotta and Lucas because I will miss them a lot.
• Discovering my love of pots and spatulas to make a lot of music.
• Pulling the books off the bookshelf at least three times daily. I just love to read!

We have a very busy weekend so tune in next week to see what we have been up to.....

What a week!

Seeing where Mummy and Daddy got married

Reading with Daddy

Floating, with a little bit of help

On the move at Marseille Airport

Brushing my own teeth

My first baguette

At the beach

Reading with Granny Moo

Loving the waves

Standing up is more fun (What is daddy doing behind me?)

on the move again

Having a very rare 'quiet' moment

oooh icy cold!

Loving my plum

Loving to climb

and swing with mummy

Why can't they be warmer?

Ready for the pool

Daytime sleeps are so much nicer outside

My first exploration into sitting up in my cot intead of sleeping

What a surprise for Mummy - my first upright moment all by myself

just waiting

I'm just logging in to let you know that Mummy has to write today as I'm too busy off and about. Mummy doesn't do much with her day except walk with me and stop me from jamming my fingers into drawers so Ive decided that it is her turn to write the blog this week. Ciao, see you next week! ( oh and just an aside, I had another 'accident' in the bath this week, very funny especially seeing Daddy's face, I mean 'a guys gotta go when a guys gotta go'. I haven't quite managed to catch mummy or daddy in the bath with me while these 'accidents' happen but I'm sure it wont be long!)

Jasper has had an incredibly amazing week, development wise. In just one week he has now changed his crawling style from snake, iguana style to the more conventional on all four knees. We have felt a little sorry for him as it has all been hard surfaces, he has particularly enjoyed crawling on concrete, wooden floors and tiles, no soft surfaces for him! As a result his knees are rather rough and scratched, not that that bothers him. He managed to sit himself up from lying down for the first time this week and now enjoys doing that every time we sit him down. He would rather stand when we put him in his cot for sleep time and one night we were woken to him screaming his head off. I raced downstairs only to find him upright, wedged on a 45 degree angle, hanging onto the side of the cot for dear life, obviously unsure how to get himself back down. Goodness knows how he got himself into such an angle at 3am!

To the amusement of everyone he enjoyed his first taste of asparagus this week as finger food. He munched his way happily through three stalks while opening the other side of his mouth for Barny to continue feeding him his dinner.

He loves stairs especially walking up them, holding Barny's hand coupled with pulling himself up on EVERYTHING - the favourites appeared to be the brick fire place, the telephone table and the side of his paddling pool. He spent nearly every day in his paddling pool, happily playing by himself, even finding it more fun at times to crawl around investigating all the nature life that had joined him in the pool. Leaves appear to be his favourite this holiday, most of them going down his throat!

We took him for his first swim at the beach, on the Mediterranean coast. He LOVED the waves, the salty taste and getting mouthfuls of water. He kicked happily around, with our help and in his floating seat. A great success.

Swimming has been a lot of fun also. He found out that if he put one 'noodle' under each arm he could float unaided for a short moment. He really enjoyed the pool this week and was less reluctant to try new things with us. Being dunked under is not his favourite experience however, maybe it is the way that we do it!

Eating his first iceblock (all fruit no naughties!) was quite an experience, he was hysterical with his facials. He obviously liked the taste but had to endure the icy cold feeling!

So a great week, nice that Barny could experience it as well. I have a feeling it won't be long until he is running around leaving me in his wake. Enjoy the holiday snaps...