baby you can drive my car..

Alexis has just learnt how to push herself on her ride-on! Well really her legs have only just gotten long enough for her to be able to get some traction.. She can climb onto it easily too, but the dismount leaves a little to be desired ;-)

Her first top front tooth has popped out now & the second is very close behind.. and she has started saying "muh-mi?" (which is sooo cute!) "ta!" and "ya" and nodding :-D i'm very proud!

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

Need i say more?

the slime incident...

today for some fun, i made alexis some 'suspended slime' to play with.. its a weird substance that is solid until you move it & turns into a gooey liquid.. but because i put her into her highchair to play with it, and gave her a spoon, she thought she was supposed to eat it & got all distressed because it was gross! (its cornflour, water & food colouring..) but she kept trying.. poor baby!

in other news, i have had to shift some of her photos to another host, so i have put a link on the sidebar to the new site.. i'm just doing it gradually because a) it takes ages, and b) i have to replace the photos in this blog at the same time, because when i delete them from the photo site, they disapear from the blog *sigh*.... i've also been adding labels to my posts, which will mean you can search for posts by subject :-D i'm also doing it to my craft blog, where its slightly more relevant! lol (i've also updated my craft blog today..)

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*

Another comparison...

Both of these were taken just before i took the tree down, on the 6th of jan.. just one year apart! Same tree, same spot, same baby!

Alexis, excuse the pun, thought it was like xmas when i took the barrier away & she could get at all the decorations.. even when i took the first photo she was reaching up to touch a little ornament that was hanging down by her hands!

I'm planning to get a photo of her with the tree every year on the 6th :-D