MOTAT mischief

It all started very innocently...
until she crashed the plane...

It turns out they don't approve of underage pilots!
There was much hard labour involved-
until finally she made a break for it!

(October 09)

spring antics

september & october 09

being a cute wee model for her mummy's knitting-
continuing her reign as puzzle master-
quality time with abby-
more modeling in a new spring dress-
creating the world's biggest peghenge-
and raiding the lego stash-
playing at rocket park-
and starting to learn to read-
making biscuits with her brother-
and tent cities too-
watching Curious George on the 'big' screen-
and playing hairdresser-
spending time with eli-
and showing him how to paint-

having lots of lovely huggles-
and less lovely kisses too-

face painting...

by alexis.... not sure what 'look' she was aiming for though..

and by a professional at Trees For Babies - a butterfly! she wasn't too impressed with the process though...

busyness...

helping wash the car...

her first creme egg...

got the technique down..

helping daddy with his Uni technology assignment..

polystyrene. yes, well.

what can you say...

to that?!

*sigh*

but she did pack everything up again neatly once she was finished! lol...

Our little girl is doing amazingly these days, she is learning heaps of new words every day, and is using longer sentences too.. she is adding to her collection of numbers, eight and nine have just joined 1,2,3,4 and 6.. and loves counting things too..
she has learned a bunch of colours now, and can tell the difference between a number and a letter..
she spends ages every day reading books to herself, many of them she has learned some of the dialogue, or the basic storyline, so we can guess what she is reading by listening to her.. she is also always bringing books to us to read to her too, which is really nice to see!
she has recently taken a real liking to Thomas the tank engine, and has worked out how to put our wooden track together.. she loves pushing the little engines around, and particularly likes "taba, purses an gordoh" (thomas, percy & gordon)

and yes, she really likes drawing too.

Alexis' 2nd Birthday!

2 Years Old Today!!

Had fun playing....

and eating...

and eating cake...

and eating icing...

and dressing up...

and plotting household domination...

A good day all round! :-D

pic of her birthday cake here

"Critical Mass!!" or "Dressing Up!"

Ok, let me preface this by explaining.. To make the most of end-of-season sales, i have a stash of clothes for alexis to grow into.

which she discovered today...

Dressing Up Time!!

She started the day off wearing a skivvy and a t-shirt, which progressed into...

Her best strongman impression!

So on top of her skivvy & t-shirt, she added (with my help, but she did insist..)
a white t-shirt
a pink hooded jumper
another white t-shirt
a pink Tweety & Sylvester singlet
a dark blue t-shirt
a light blue t-shirt
a white muscle tee
and a pink long-sleeved tee...
thats when we couldn't fit any more over the top! lol (and you can't even see her hunchback caused by the hoodie getting crammed in there!)

so i stripped them all back off her, but now she's just brought me 3 new ones so that she can start again!!

overdue for an update!

Aww i'n'it cute!

She's now 14.5 months old, and has suddenly turned into a toddler!
She has just got her fifth tooth, on the top on her left side...
She waves and says "He-o", she says "ta-da" for thankyou, and "DA!" if she wants something. She is getting quite good at copying specific sounds we say too...
Today she was learning to blow kisses!

And yes, the tantrums are developing nicely...

i was in the kitchen, heard a 'beep. beep. beep'...

Need i say more?

oh such a perfect day...

... i'm glad i spent it in pools....

Poor Alexis has been feeling pretty rotten the past few days, with a slight cold, and her first top tooth coming through :-( so when today blossomed into a lovely sunny day, after a run of horrendous ones, i filled the paddling pool, piled it full of balls and set her loose! Her first paddling pool experience.. and it was a hit! She especially liked being able to get in & out whenever she liked, and also throwing the balls out for me to throw back in :-D

And while we're on the subject of pools, this is a pic from our last trip to the Mt Albert wave pools, a couple of days after her birthday :-D She's getting much more confident in the water, and is able to kick herself round a wee bit in her little ring!


Edited to add- I left the water in the paddling pool, but fenced it off so she couldn't get back in. Of course she broke through the gate, and started splashing the water with her hands, which i thought "thats ok, i'm watching her, she might just get a few splashes on her t-shirt.." mmhmmm... click here to see what happened next.. never trust the baby *sigh*

snapped!

I finish doing the dishes, and head into the lounge to find this-

"yeah, ok" you say.. "the baby is eating the xmas tree decorations..?" the thing is, its just us two at home, and i didn't put her on the couch.. she has managed to climb up onto the couch herself, to get at the tree!

Almost a big girl!

Well this month has been another one of big changes!

Alexis has become even more personable, she chats to us constantly now, tellling jokes (so it would seem) and singing us songs (??) She waves hello & goodbye, even if we just put our shoes on, or go near the door.. She's also developing definite likes & dislikes (think tiny dictator..) we get squeaked at if we aren't paying attention at an important moment, and shouted at if we do something that is not approved!

She helped me put the christmas tree up last week, she loved unpacking all the decorations! She would carefully inspect each one (sometimes involving banging them together.. *sigh*) before passing it to me to hang up.. We've had to fence the tree off, of course, because the few ornaments that she can still reach get proudly handed to us on quite a regular basis.. she does seem to be losing interest in it slowly though.. The presents underneath haven't caught her attention yet, but i'm sure that will come next year! Its quite funny to think that the last time the tree was up was when she was just 1.5 days old & i took her photo underneath it before packing it up!

The biggest change this month is that she has started walking! She started off doing little bursts between paul & I, and for a long time would only walk if we sat with our arms out to her, ready to catch her! But a few days ago, she started walking around completely of her own volition! She's really quite stable, she can stop & pick something up, then keep going, and only over-balances occasionally... however at this stage she still prefers to crawl when she does fall over, or if she is sitting down, but if she is standing up she will walk around...

A slightly worrying development is she is showing a real penchent for climbing! We have a chair on its side to keep her out of the kitchen & she is always trying to get over it, she almost climbed out of the bath last night, and earlier today i discovered her trying to climb onto the computer box, so that she could reach the keyboard! This really bodes well for her toddlerhood! eeek....