2012: Week 47

Saturday 17 November

Today we saw New York in both the daylight and the dark, from the top of the Rockefeller Center and Empire State Building respectively. We also did a tour of Yankee Stadium and a bus tour of famous New York TV and movie sites and had dinner in a lovely French bistro. Here we are at the 'Top of the Rock'.

Sunday 18 November

Today we did a 'Food on Foot' Tour of Hell's Kitchen then did some shopping this afternoon. Not much to take photos of there, so here's a shot of us yesterday at Yankee Stadium.

Monday 19 November

One of my favourite views in the world :).

Tuesday 20 November

My fifth visit to New York, and I finally got to take a horse and carriage ride round Central Park. The weather this weekend was perfect - chilly but not too cold, sunny and bright, and no rain! Jon loved his first trip to the US, and wants to go to Boston or Washington DC next. Not sure when that will be, but we'll make it back eventually!

Wednesday 21 November

Much as we loved our weekend away, it was nice to see Daisy again. She's showing no signs of getting any better at travelling - she was sick in Rob's car this morning on the way home, so it's probably no wonder she looks a bit green in this photo.

Thursday 22 November

I didn't take any photos today, but we went to Southampton to visit friends for the weekend and I have loads of good photos, so here are a couple, and I'll do two more next week. Here's Daisy making music.

Friday 23 November

Beautiful Hattie. Peekaboo!

Twenty-Seven Months

I've totally let these monthly updates get out of hand, and the longer I leave it, the less I want to do it because I've forgotten what she's learned this month.  So this one is gleaned from the videos I shot of her in the past month; only a couple of them unfortunately, but in my opinion they're hilarious :).

I only made three notes this month about what she can do. The first is that she's learned to count backwards from ten to one.  I didn't teach her it, and I know they only count forwards as far as number five in the group she's in at nursery, so I asked her where she'd learned it, and she said 'It's from Goofy on Mars', which is a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode. See, TV can be educational! Every time I've got the video camera out and asked her to count backwards, though, she's refused. Typical ;).

Secondly, she can count forwards to twenty - just about.  She's very confident but she almost always misses out number sixteen. Oh well. It's not that important, is it?

Thirdly, she's slowly learning the art of sharing. We quite often hear 'And now it's my turn...', 'And now it's your turn...' etc. But more often we hear 'No Mummy! It's mine!'

Here she is singing along to the theme tune from one of her favourite shows, Timmy Time: -

And, although I am ashamed to admit it, here she is putting into practice some choice words she learned from me...

Whoops! Actually every time she goes up pick up that particular bottle she says 'I go get on evans sake.' Double whoops!

2012: Week 46

Saturday 10 November

Daisy tried pancakes for the first time this morning and loved them. Something to add to the 'foods I like' list, at least. A shame, but not a surprise, that it's not something nutritious...

Sunday 11 November

Just call me Sherlock Holmes.

Monday 12 November

Daisy decided she wanted to take the cough medicine downstairs this morning. Not sure why. Don't think she knew either.

Tuesday 13 November

Just catching up on some important reading.

Wednesday 14 November

Toast! Yay!

Thursday 15 November

More toast, this time accompanied by an interesting hair style.

Friday 16 November

Jon and I flew to New York today so no photos, but here's one of the latest addition to my collection, courtesy of the husband of the lady who runs the toddler group on Wednesday.

2012: Week 45

Saturday 3 November

Thumbs up! Until yesterday, when you asked her to do thumbs up, she would extend both her thumb and her first finger, so it looked more like she was doing 'gun'. She's cracked it now, though!

Sunday 4 November

Jen arrived this afternoon for a 2-day visit. She had to take a couple of days off work and come down in the week as we don't have any free weekends left between now and Christmas...

Monday 5 November

Daisy showing Jen something very technical regarding the plastic fruit display from the greengrocer's stall.

Tuesday 6 November

I wanted to get a picture of Daisy lying on the cushion as I was changing her nappy because her hair looked lovely, but as ever, she moved...

Wednesday 7 November

When I went to get Daisy up from her nap today she was already awake, and apparently quite happy to stay where she was :).

Thursday 8 November

This was clearly post-nursery, as a pre-nursery photo would show her with tears running down her cheeks... Actually she's been getting a lot better about going to nursery, but we had a bit of a regression this morning.  She just kept saying 'I can't like nursery', which made me smile and cry in equal measure :).

Friday 9 November

No pictures today, so here's one of the more recent additions to my collection.  Looking forward to a San Diego one next week too.

2012: Week 44

Saturday 27 October

Bed hair.

Sunday 28 October

Daisy got the latest issue of Peppa Pig magazine yesterday, and loved colouring in the pictures with magic paint :).

Monday 29 October

After we got home today, I put the coats in the cupboard then turned round to put Daisy's slippers on but apparently she'd already found some footwear :).

Tuesday 30 October

We had a mini photo-shoot in the park this afternoon using Jen's hybrid camera (which I love). This is one of my favourites.

Wednesday 31 October

We went into St Neots this morning and outside the hardware store were these two sheep - £200 each; no wonder they've been there since I can remember. Daisy loved them though!

Thursday 1 November

Bath time fun. She looks like a slightly crazy professor in this shot.

Friday 2 November

Daisy took her slippers and socks off then proceeded to 'wash' her feet with a baby wipe. Then she did her legs, and by the time I had got the camera out she had moved on to her tummy.