Annick - nearly one whole year old!
- nodding and saying 'yeah'
- maybe even saying 'bain'!
- lots of animal sounds, especially 'woof woof'
- another cold with the change in the weather
- walking along on her own behind a little pushcar
- pointy pointy point
- lots and lots of '...MWAH!' kisses.
Luca
- all clear from the speech pathologist on his language skills: good talking and listening Luca!
- sadly caught Annick's cold
- having almost coherent conversations with mama over the phone
Mama: Hello?
Luca: (silence)
Mama: Hello?
Luca: I has a measuring tape!
Mama: Wow, that's nice! What are you measuring?
Luca: I measuring... tape.
Mama: Erm... OK. Are you measuring anything else?
(muffled prompting in background)
Luca: ...I measuring table
Mama: How long is the table?
Luca: Four... two... seven... kilos!
- favourite toys at the moment: duplo (still), aeroplanes, boxes he can put stuff in
- whenever someone laughs, demands to know "what is funny mama? WHAT IS FUNNY?"
- knows his birthday is coming and is in denial that Annick's comes first
Also this fortnight, mama returns to work :(
Annick walking with her little car!
Annick feeding herself.
Annick pointing up a storm!
Annick nodding - some practise required here.
Meanwhile, Luca is still all about the duplo. When asked what he would like for his birthday, he says, "more duplo. And a kitchen for cooking."
Fingers and papa are both still very important.
Annick has discovered vegemite.
Luca still loves his babycino.
Mama getting the cuddles in before she has to go back to work.
Luca messing around like the cheeky monkey he is.
Ball!
Annick is also very interested in shoes and tries to put mama's, papa's and Luca's on whenever she has the chance. So mama took out her very own Nonno Shoes and they fit!
Annick's birthday cake! Mama might have forgotten to take photos at her special early birthday party, but at least you now know what the cake looked like. Guess which bit Luca helped with!
Pre-birthday party kisses from papa.
Yummy birthday card from Terry koo and Uncle Kevin.
Sometimes Annick sucks duplo Lady's head and reads books.
Both Annick and Luca LOVE looking at themselves all distorted and bulgy while taking a bath.
At least, we are pretty sure she was trying to say 'bain'. She had a go at 'bath' too.
Luca's first word (for sures) was 'bas', so clearly they have both plumped for words that sound like something they can already say, but are delighted to find actually means something.
Both kidlets nearly 1 and 3! Arg! And capable of making beautiful pictures for Ah Ma's birthday.
Annick:
- loves going up and down the stairs
- squatting, trying to stand on her own
- pointing like a champion
- gives coco bongs on request
- loves drawing with crayons
- makes all the cat and dog noises in Hairy Maclary while we read
- still the drama queen - throws herself on the floor to show you how upset she is that a) you have put her on the ground, b) Luca looks like he might touch her, c) she is only wearing one sock
- exploring exploring exploring!
Luca:
- talking up a storm
- 'loves' everything:
- Mama: do you want to watch this DVD?
- Luca: I LOVE DVDs!
- Mama (mutters to self): hmm, I hope this is DVD is region 4
- Luca: I LOVE region 4!
- helps mama around the house - sets the table, loads the washing machine, unpacks the dishwasher (sort of)
- loves songs (last request on the ipod: One More Night by Phil Collins) and singing nursery rhymes (the one that goes 'Everything fell down lady!' we worked out was London Bridge)
- favourite books right now: Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (STILL), Inside Outside Upside Down by the Berenstains, Maisy (also STILL), Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper
Mmmmmmmm... corn.
Hello Ah Kong!
Annick is 'helping'.
Luca's bedtime buddies - Little Yellow Bear, Bigheaded Rabbit, Jemima and Humpty.
Annick's favourite part of the house, the bottom kitchen drawer.
Why yes, probably.
Mama does some sewing - a dress for Ee Hui & Kath's wedding next week and a coat for the winter.
Look at these funny people! They need to be wearing sequinned baby cheetah t-shirts like all the best people are.
Annick:
- settling into creche really well, although bringing home household-crushing viruses
- crawling and kneeling and standing and climbing...
- "mama mama mama" and occasionally "papa papa"
- gives big squishy KISSES
- LOVES pushing trucks and cars and trains about
- is particularly fond of the kitchen drawers, especially the one with the plastic bowls in it
- l'explorateuse
- tipped a chair on top of herself and gave herself a bloody nose
Luca:
- also settling into creche well, maybe even better than he was at the old one
- awesome speech development over the past few weeks! Speaking in past tense, explaining processes, describing things - good work ti-gars!
- fallen victim the worst of everyone to the Annick virus, poor poppet
- so good at independent play, especially if given a selection of boxes and tubes and totally random household objects
- all about mama again
- still learning 'ne frappe pas'...
Like brother like sister - Luca and Annick at 11 months.
Mmm - le melon d'eau!
Les histoires avec papa - le livre prefere de Luca au moment: 365 Pingouins par Jean-Luc Fromental et Joelle Jolivet.
Hi!
Confortable ensemble.
Vroum vroum!
Ooh, duplo!
Le beau garcon - il aura 3 ans bientot!
Still all about the fingers and the eyebrows (or 'eyebwowns')
Exploring at Abbotsford Convent!
Et, bien sur, la tortanille et le pastiera pour Paques. Miam!
