Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Annick 30 weeks, Luca nearly 31 months

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Annick:
- pushing herself up onto her hands and knees!  And in the process moving backwards.
- sick :(
- sprouted her two front teeth
- standing well with support!  She may have been able to do this weeks ago, but I forgot to check until now
- much like a cat, zeroes in to whatever you are reading, then sits on it and cleans herself with her tongue reaches out to grab it for the purpose of eating it

Luca:
- also sick :(
- a little translator - say something to him in French he will do an impeccable translation into English.  But not the other way round.
- favourite song at the moment: Jolene
- favourite words at the moment: 'voila!', 'Christmas tree', 'this one'
- new big boy bed!

Annick is still enthusiastic about getting stuff in her mouth.

Another heartwarming sibling photo.

A rare all family photo!

Annick has spent much of the last fortnight with a booger sticking out of one nostril.  Or sometimes both, when particularly ambitious.

She has also been doing this!

And this!
Luca got a brand new bed!  He's only fallen out of it one time.

Mama's baby jewellery, the Next Generation

Sippy cup!

Luca helps mama put together IKEA furniture.  Might as well teach him how to do it early.

Luca and papa read Tintin on the NEWLY UPHOLSTERED SOFA.

Hello there

I think you'll find these spaghettis are mine, Ah Ma.

Luca makes gingerbread - "like Maisy!"

Rolling out the dough.

Making the pretty.

Miam!

Ah koo, Aunty Jess and Luca make decorations for the tree.

Annick does a pre-test of the pearl garlands, you know, just to be sure.

Luca Chan - tree coutourier.

We go to Scienceworks!  Luca manoeuvres the digger.

But his FAVOURITE BIT was the pretend cafe and espresso machine.  JUST LIKE PAPA.

Afterwards we had fish and chips on the Williamstown foreshore, next to the cannons.

And went to look at the boats in the marina.

Saturday, December 01, 2012

Twinkle twinkle


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Annick 28 weeks, Luca 30 months

Pineapple!

Annick:
- sitting up on her own - in the space of a day went from floppy ragdoll who had to be lashed to her high chair to muscular self-sitting dynamo!
- EATING LIKE A RAVENOUS WILDEBEEST.  Has taken to finger food like a champion.
- sleeping better both during the day and sometimes even at night
- just one adorable bundle of giggly delightfulness

Luca:
- singing!  Mostly nursery rhymes interspersed with Phil Collins and Cohen's Hallelujah.
- building!  with blocks and duplo.
- favourite words at the moment: 'look!', 'Luca's', 'oiseau', 'fire engine', 'house'
- everything belongs to him - "look!  it's my dog!  he is sleeping in my doghouse.  that's my tree."  ALL LIES.
- whingy whingy mcwhingy
- but still a squishy little poppet of sweetness

Awesome sitting skills.

Patiently awaiting her turn with the Tintin.

Building a dining chair fort!

That's her thumb.

Such a ray of sunshine!

Enjoying the bucolic view from our rural balcony.

Luca helps mama with the laundry.  It only takes about one hour to load the machine, by the time he has put in the clothes one by one, identifying each piece's owner, taking everything out halfway through, then putting everything back.

Super tummy time skills!

Luca is all about the vehicles.

Luca, Celine and Robert discuss current affairs.

And now a montage of Annick doing what she does best.

Rusk
Carrots.
More carrots (Annick's patented eating style - *open mouth* *food goes here*)

Yoghurt and banana.

Just banana.

Peach.

Cherry.

Pasta.

Miam!

Some things we have been eating.

Spring vegetable pasta, erm... some sort of white wine.

Seared tuna, Romesco.

Salmon, cucumber salsa, beans.

Waffles made with BIRTHDAY WAFFLE MAKER.

Short mac, South of Johnston.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Conversations

Sorry, photos soon, but here are Luca and Annick having a sibling discourse.


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Luca's music

This is why you shouldn't leave your children's music education to your mother and your husband, because this is the mixtape I have had to make for my mother containing all of Luca's favourite songs.  So far it contains:

- C Moon by Paul McCartney
- La Bamba by Trini Lopez
- Jolene by Dolly Parton
- One More Night by Phil Collins
- Orinoco Flow by Enya
- Islands in the Stream by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
- Je Reve a Rio by Robert Charlebois
- Party for Everybody by those Russian nanas at this year's Eurovision



You've not heard that Phil Collins classic till you've heard it sung by a squeaky 2.5 year old with limited language skills while you're driving down the Eastern Freeway.