And so it begins again...

For those of you who don't know yet... we are moving house again. Brett has taken a job in Oxford, so we are frantically house hunting in order to move before he starts on 1st April. Blogging is taking a bit of a back seat at the moment for obvious reasons, but I will still try to post from time to time. Things will be back to normal soon after we move I hope!

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Thanks, but I will do it myself

I have been really trying to encourage Emma to use a spoon at the moment. However, the only thing she will use it for is yogurt. I normally load the spoon with yogurt, and give the spoon to Emma. Then, she either picks the yogurt up off the spoon and licks her fingers, drops the spoon on the floor, splats it down on her tray, or just eats it. She is getting better every time though!

Another recent development is a new favourite game of putting stuff in boxes. I keep finding little toys inside her stacking cups, and she has a noah's ark with loads of animals to put in it that she got for her birthday which she adores.

So, I thought I would put these two skills together. I loaded the spoon with yogurt, and gave it to Emma. She ate the yogurt, and wanted to give the spoon back to me. But I told her to put it back in the pot, and she did! She can't reload the spoon yet, but it is a big step in the right direction.

Its funny how such little things make me so proud!

Another sewing show off

Brett got me a shiny new sewing machine for my birthday. I finished my first project today! It reverses to teal silk with a pink hood. It is super comfy, and I am really pleased with it.

Slingmeet

Here are a couple of pics from the last slingmeet, courtesy of Lorna! :-)
It was a lovely meet - great people, beautiful babies, and loads of slings to play with!

First up, I got to try on a beautiful Violet and White indio. It is a wrap I have loved the look of for such a long time, but it is so hard to get hold of. It was all the soft and lovely snuggliness that I thought it would be! Suits me doesn't it! Shame that I have missed the boat for Christmas, birthday and valentines day. Maybe mother's day?? (Brett - are you listening?)

Sorry for Emma having a finger up her nose! It seems to be her favourite thing to do at the moment!























And here is a stash pic from the table! :-) I should have counted them!

Such a busy time!

I can't believe it is more than a week already since my last post. I don't seem to have sat down for a minute! I did another slingmeet yesterday, which went really well. I think we may need to use the bigger room next time! There were some lovely ladies and gorgeous babies there, and I had a great time. I need to get the March one organised now...

Belated thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes and presents for Emma. She had such a lovely time.

Here she is modelling her new birthday skirt. This is actually the first skirt she has ever owned. Because I carry her most of the time, I have always dressed her in trousers. Just recently I started buying dresses for her, and now I am hooked. This skirt is a definate new favourite of mine though! (Thanks Mrs B. xxx)
















Emma's walking is getting better all the time, and she seems to be getting a little more mischevous every day.

Emma's first year

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A year already!

It is Emma's birthday tomorrow. I can't believe a year has gone by already. And what a year it has been. I wanted to do photos for every month, but there are so many to choose from! I'll see what I can come up with tonight.

I made my first birthday cake today. It sank a bit in the middle, but that is ok because I filled it up with butter icing! :-) I personally think it is a work of art!

4 posts in 1 day - happy birthday to me!

It is not very often that I make four posts in one day! But this last one will be short. :-) It is my birthday today, so I just wanted to say thanks very much to everyone who sent me lovely gifts.

Brett got me a shiny new sewing machine, so maybe that will tempt me away from my lap top more often! And it is only 10.30, but I am feeling a little sick from eating so many chocolates!

Tomorrow my brother is coming to babysit while Brett and I go out for dinner. It will be the first time in a very very long time that we have been able to go out together, so I am really looking forward to it!

Musical genius

This toy was supposed to be a birthday present for Emma, but she seemed so down in the dumps earlier in the week that I handed it over. (How much of a walk over am I?!) She absolutely loves it, although I do have to limit the amount of time I let her play on it because it is really loud. This is not a great video of it, but it is the only one I have at the moment. Ladies and Gentlemen take your seats - Emma would like to play you a (very very short) little song!

Loving the camera

Emma showing that she is definately not camera shy!
And a bit of walking too. She is getting better every day at cruising around the furniture.

Chatterbox video

It has been a while since I put any videos on the site, so a few are coming up.

Here is Emma being a bit of a chatter box.