Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Annick 20 weeks, Luca 28 months

Annick:
- just all smiles and giggles, what a sweetheart
- sleeping better in the day
- blowing endless raspberries - ENDLESS
- a tooth emerging!  a real one this time, not like the false alarm of a couple of months ago
- discovering her legs - surely the feet are to follow soon

Luca:
- dropping his midday sleep - boo hoo!
- getting naughty and doesn't like to do things when told
- likes to sing along to his favourite songs (baa baa black sheep, the theme song from playschool, the crazy boat song Jason made up for the bath)
- an enthusiastic hugger when he feels like it!  and lovely almost kisses
- beginning to 'lie' - he used to faithfully report when Annick was sleeping or he had a dirty nappy, but now will say 'Annick ne dors pas' or 'no caca' when in fact the opposite is true

Luca, doing what big brothers do best - sitting on their little sisters.

Annick, doing what Annick does best - grabbing people by the skin and eating their noses.

Yay!  Jason's banana tree has a new leaf and is not actually dead!

I first used a computer when I was in grade 6.  We had one Apple IIE in the school and they wheeled it around on a trolley for each class to use once a week to make crosswords and create adding programs in BASIC.  When we wanted to get really exciting, we played Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

Got Annick some cute hair elastics for cuteness!  Unfortunately seem to have got crazy instead.

 
Little green ribbon hairclip much more successful!

I really don't know what is going on here.

Happy Annick on her rug.

Is this the best belly in the whole world?

Further tummy time improvements.

Luca learns his numbers and the time and colours and shapes, ALL AT THE SAME TIME.  Thanks Aldi!

Annick's summer hat!  Mama is making one in yellow too.

Ah koo is teasing,

Ah koo is prickly!

Luca is very pleased to join in the champagne toast.

Annick, ruining pretty photos since 2012.

Luca and his traditional babycino face.

We could hear Annick in the back of the car blowing raspberries all the way to the city.  When we got there, we found her sitting, smiling, a beautiful moustache of saliva foam adorning her top lip.

Luca goes to the Royal Melbourne Show!  He never actually went on this ride, burst into tears before it even started and had to be removed.  Angus was smarter and made it abundantly clear he wasn't getting on a flying elephant in the first place.

Sleeping car Annick.

Two elephant Luca.

Cheery lapsitting Annick.

And after the jump, this fortnight a bonus collection of awkward sibling photos!

Friday, September 07, 2012

Annick 18 weeks, Luca nearly 28 months



 


Spring has sprung!

Annick:
- a smiling, laughing little ray of sunshine
- in the space of a day, worked out how to use her hands
- GRABBY.  And PINCHY.
- nearly managing a roll, but not yet
- chubbing up!  At her four month checkup, 7.26kg already, practically double birthweight and heavier than Luca at the same age.  Extremely tall for a little baby too.
- another cold, boooo - making for bad sleep, but getting better

Luca:
- is defiantly resisting the word 'no'
- but likes using it a great deal himself
- picking up new words at a rapid pace
- showing that he understands that English and French are different languages
- likes to sing along to things, albeit tunelessly
- a cheeky, chuckly little monkey

Luca a un nouveau casque!

Annick's head whirl, still swirly four months in

Standing!

Luca at daycare, playing in the sand.

Annick and papa on Father's Day.

Luca helps mama in the kitchen, finding the beans.

Annick, papa and mama go out.

We visit the conservatory at the Fitzroy Gardens.

Annick in profile.

Luca dans le soleil!

She flopped over sideways not long after.

Luca knows how to keep things tidy.

Annick salopettes!

Luca is all about the alphabet at the moment.

Annick et mama x

Frere et soeur x

Annick et Ah Ma xxx

Little bear Annick

This fortnight's Annick expressions: