Love this :). Actually the purpose of taking the photo was to see the flowers she'd picked for me, but as I'm rubbish at using my camera, the flowers were in focus and the people weren't, so I went for this one instead.
Tuesday 14 August
'Helping' Mummy change the bedding :).
Wednesday 15 August
Daisy's friend Mani came round today with his Mum. They were so cute together! My decent camera (the one I don't know how to use) was upstairs so I just snapped this on my point-and-shoot and the quality isn't great, but I still love it!
Thursday 16 August
I was trying to get the two of us in the mirror, but this was the best I could do before she got bored...
This was the colour of the sky when I went out this afternoon. By the time I was on my way home - walking, of course - it was pouring down. I was wearing my raincoat, but my jeans were still soaking wet after a 5-minute journey in the rain :).
Tuesday 7 August
Taking advantage of the fact that Daisy's away till Friday, I went for a run this morning, my first road run in about 4 years and first real exercise in 18 months. I then went into London to sort out my wedding ring and ran a couple of errands on the way home. I also stopped at Stotfold, home town of gold medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton, to see the post box that Royal Mail has painted gold in her honour. A lady came to post a letter as I was taking a photo of the box, and offered to take my picture. She even gave me her letter to post :).
Wednesday 8 August
Didn't take any photos today, so here's one from tomorrow - arriving at the Olympic Park. In front of me was a man who looked and walked a lot like Michael Winner, and when I got in front of him, turns out it was Michael Winner ;).
Thursday 9 August
We had tickets to the 'morning' session at the Olympic Stadium, although it actually went on till 4pm. After 1pm there was just the Pole Vault for the Decathlon to watch, and quite a few people left early, but we got our money's worth and stayed for the whole session. I loved being at the Olympic Park, and now regret having sold back the other tickets we got in the ballot for the beach volleyball at Horseguards' Parade. Oh well, at least we can say we were there for one of the days.
Friday 10 August
Jen and I spent some time this afternoon putting together a trampoline that Clare had bought Daisy for her birthday. When Daisy got home she was grumpy as she'd been asleep in the car and it took her a while to wake up, but once she saw the trampoline she cheered up immediately. Thanks Clare!
We said goodbye to the Lake District, Mum, Dad and Jen today. Daisy had a lovely week (so did Mummy, with four other adults to entertain Daisy) and was sorry to say goodbye, particularly to Auntie Jen.
Sunday 29 July
Daisy has developed a liking for climbing into my bed while I'm drying my hair in the morning. Usually we sing the Sleeping Bunnies song where she gets up and jumps around half-way through, but this morning she was still quite tired, asked for her bedtime toys, and lay like this until I'd finished my hair.
Monday 30 July
This is the middle of the day, but she's naked because we spent all morning in the garden digging up potatoes and playing in the sandpit (which was very wet as the lid isn't a perfect fit and it poured down overnight). While I was making lunch (baked potatoes, naturally), she sat on the kitchen counter and practised her tea-drinking technique. Just need to extend that pinky and she'll have it sorted :).
Tuesday 31 July
Breakthrough! After loving her first foray into playground equipment last summer, Daisy has had a distinctly different reaction this year, in particular to the swings. There have only been a handful of times that she's wanted to go on them, and that's usually when she sees other kids her age enjoying themselves on them. The power of peer pressure :). Today I was surprised when she actually asked to go on the swings, and positively astounded when she stayed there for almost 20 minutes, asking me to push her higher and higher! In fact, she only got off the swing because I was desperate for the loo...
Wednesday 1 August
I didn't take too many pictures this week but today I received the ones that Jen and Mum had taken last week on holiday. This is slightly out of focus but I love it. It was taken last Wednesday in Ambleside, in front of the famous House on the Bridge.
Thursday 2 August
Daisy went to nursery today, enabling me to get the last of the laundry done from our week away. She still wasn't keen to go there this morning, and cried when I left her, but as usual, was fine within a couple of minutes. After I picked her up she seemed in a fairly good mood so we had a mini photo-shoot and this is one of my favourites.
Friday 3 August
Jon and I were remarking how long Daisy's hair is getting and that it would probably go into one ponytail, so I tried it after bath time. All she needs now is a tutu. I have one upstairs (remember the skirt you found at Ross, Keri, when we stayed with you?), but she'd probably be very reluctant to wear it. I might give it a try if she's in a good mood one day, though. You never know... :).
Not all that happy at being put in the car again... love this picture :).
Sunday 22 July
Got a bit of food round my mouth, you say? Where?
Monday 23 July
Feeding time at the zoo ;-).
Tuesday 24 July
Fun with windows...
Wednesday 25 July
One of my favourite pictures of the year.
Thursday 26 July
Pancakes? Yes please!
Friday 27 July
My cheeky monkey! Daisy's wearing Team GB colours today, in honour of the opening of the Olympic Games. Which obviously she didn't stay up to watch, but she wanted to get into the spirit of the day :).
Where does the time go? Only a month until my baby is two... Although Jon's been teaching her to say 'I am two' for weeks now. Plus she's certainly been starting to have tantrums like a two-year-old...
A couple of weeks ago, Daisy came up to me in the kitchen and said 'I want a cracker.' It was probably the first time she had uttered a full, subject-verb-object sentence and I was so proud :). I did, however, want her to learn her manners at the same time, so I said, 'Oh do you? What do you say?' and waited for her to say please before giving her a cracker. Evidently the next couple of times she asked for a cracker, I replied with 'Do you? What do you say?' because she's now started saying 'I want a cracker, do you?' :). This has now developed into her substituting the word 'cracker' for whatever it is she wants. Here she is asking for 'flakes' (corn flakes). It's not the best of examples, but it's the only one I've got and you get the idea. What I love is at the end of the clip she knows just who to ask to get what she wants: -
Here's another clip later on in the same video. Naughty Grandpa! One of the songs we sing is a farm song which goes 'Moo, moo, moo, moo, that's the way it goes,' [substitute other animals noises in different verses], and Daisy's version goes like this: - This video isn't indicative of anything in particular, other than the fact that she's just so funny: - She's started saying 'How about...' when someone asks her a question. 'Daisy, which story to you want?' 'How 'bout... this one?' Or, 'Daisy, do you want to go in your buggy, or walk?' 'How 'bout.... Mummy carry?' I wasn't aware I said 'how about' all that much, but I guess she must have got it from me... She's learned how to work the DVD player this month, so now instead of bring me a DVD box (usually Happy Feet) and saying 'Penguins on TV, penguins on TV', she just puts the DVD in the machine herself :). She loves the part of the film where the penguins dance to 'Boogie Wonderland', and even joins in herself: - In case you weren't sure, at the end of that clip she really does say 'stinky poo'. I didn't teach her that :). Finally, here she is reading one of her favourite books - although not one of mine, I have to say: on each page there's a picture of a baby animal you pull the tab to reveal a picture of the baby with its mother. Daisy can get a little over-enthusiastic so I have been known to hide the book under the sofa when I'm fed up of policing the tab-pulling to ensure they don't get broken... Another reason for showing this video is that I love the way that Daisy pronounces Mumble, the name of the baby penguin on Happy Feet :).
Next monthly update you'll be two, Daisy Bear...
Jon and his nephew, Finn, reading Dear Zoo, every kid's favourite book.
Sunday 15 July
Picnic time!
Monday 16 July
She's cheered up now, but you can tell she'd been having a paddy some time before this picture was taken... :).
Tuesday 17 July
After it stopped raining, Daisy and I went out this afternoon to jump in muddy puddles.
Wednesday 18 July
Love those beautiful eyes...
Thursday 19 July
My three favourite girls! We drove up to Mum & Dad's today and met Jen there; we'll be going to the Lake District on Saturday and Jon will join us there on Sunday.
Daisy and Jon spent the morning digging up the potatoes they planted in March. Got one!
Sunday 8 July
We were supposed to go to Ipswich today, to watch the British Grand Prix with Jon's family, but Daisy was sick in her bed during the night and again this morning so we didn't go. Of course, she wasn't sick again after 08:30 but given that she doesn't travel well, we didn't want to risk it. This was her and Jon at lunchtime. She was still in her pyjamas but had decided that she was well enough to put her wellies on...
Monday 9 July
Daisy insisted on wearing her sunglasses today. It wasn't at all sunny, which made her insistence even funnier. I took this photo when we got to the supermarket - I think it's great that it looks like she's giving thumbs up!
Tuesday 10 July
Love this kid.
Wednesday 11 July
Roses from the jungle that is our garden after 2 months of almost solid rain.
Thursday 12 July
Daisy's new favourite place to sit is on the kitchen counter while I make her meals. Here you can see she's demonstrating exactly the thing I ask her not to do - touch the toaster...
When we were at the Bernabeu Stadium, we bought Real Madrid t-shirts for Daisy, Eloise, Jessica and Finn. We gave them out this weekend and tried to take a picture of all four of them wearing their new shirts. This is exactly what I was expecting would happen...
Sunday 1 July
We had more luck when we took Daisy out of the equation :).
Monday 2 July
Daisy loved feeding monies into this machine. One money, two monies, three monies...
Tuesday 3 July
Kisses for Penguin.
Wednesday 4 July
Daisy doesn't like it when I brush her teeth while she's in the bath, but quite often asks to wash her hands and brush her teeth in a morning. I think she just likes standing on the bin...
Thursday 5 July
You might already have guessed by Sunday's entry (i.e. that I took it on Saturday) that I didn't take many photos this week. This photo was taken on 5 July 2011, a year ago. Apart from the fact that she looks bigger, she's hardly changed at all.
Friday 6 July
It's a hard life. Got to have a rest when you can. And a rest isn't a rest without Aggie and Ellie.
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