Sophie's progress

Last weekend Sophie crawled for the first time, and also clapped her hands for the first time. We'll, attempted to clap. But it is very cute and she is practicing alot, so might even improve! Is she clapping all the time because she can? Because she thinks she is doing great things? Or because we give her a big cheer, smile and join in?

I guess that we'll need to start 'baby-proofing' the house. This morning she crawled from the kitchen to the front room, with only one rest stop. Even though standing is kind of new to her, she likes to challenge herself, by only holding on with one hand. or swapping which hand is holding on.

Mr Santa

William gave his first Christmas Concert today at nursery. The children had all been practicing the songs for weeks in preparation for todays gig. They were all amazingly cute, and for the most part very brave, dressed up in their costumes. I, along with about 50 other parents, recorded the show. Are you brave enough to perform in front of an audience of 50 fans, 30 video cameras and 20 cameras?

Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oxnqZNbp5s
Sorry that I haven't embedded the video, but when I do it only shows half of the screen for some reason unbeknown to me.


Ha ha ha funny face Santa.


And some post-gig seasonal nosh

December adventures

William’s room at nursery went on an excursion last week to see a puppet show. As parents were allowed to come along, and it happened to be on a day that I wasn’t working, Sophie and I joined him. It was great fun just getting to the school where the show was performed. All the kids wore fluorescent yellow jackets (so that we wouldn’t lose them!) and we all walked to the bus stop, to get the bus to the school. They looked so cute traipsing along!




You can see that we’ve had some frosty weather here, like most of the rest of the UK. This tree was covered with a very heavy frost and looked beautiful. It is on the corner of London Rd and Gypsy Lane (for those who know Oxford – mum and dad, this is where we sometimes picked you up from the airport bus). By the evening of the day after, however, it had warmed up 5 degrees and all the frost was gone! That is a good thing though, as I had been feeling a tinsy bit mean making the kids go to nursery on the back of the bicycle in -3oC weather.


Today Sophie was invited to her first 1st Birthday Party, were she had a ball playing with the (slightly) older kids toys, ate cake for the first time and enjoyed being the only girl at the party – she had her pick of 5 other one year olds.



Tomorrow we are having our housewarming, and so in preparation we bought this years Christmas tree (from the Oxford Sea Scouts). It ended up being a pretty large one (they weren’t getting smaller ones in until the day after and I couldn’t be bothered coming back). I would have loved to have made decorations like these below, but I have not time for such pleasures – so I bought these ones! We are putting up holly picked from our very own tree out the front of the house though. I like that.


And finally, William made a very tall tower out of duplo today, which he wanted me to record for prosterity. You can see Andrew making a paper snowflake in the background (my husband has many talents!).