The countdown to the 1st birthday is well and truly on. Huff is unsettled this week – hopefully it’s something to do with teeth, so it will go away. The odd weather – have we really had a summer this year? – is playing havoc with Puff, who hasn’t been sleeping as well as we would hope. We’ve all but given up on allowing late nights unless a social occasion calls for it – preferring instead to provide opportunity for as many consecutive hours of sleep as possible.
The probable high-point for Huff this week has been the discovery of steamed corn. She eats it with incredible enthusiasm. Not sure where that comes from?
We’ve had a number of chances to take videos of her eating corn – it’s a sight to see, but perhaps not something to immortalise forever on the internet.
Puff has had a mixed week. Saturday we were all set to take his bike out in the morning for him to learn how to pedal, but just as we were ready to go out, it started to rain. We grabbed the umbrella instead and walked up to the video store, where we rented “Chicken Run”. He was really excited to pick out a video (even when his request “Can I have an ice cream for picking a video?” was denied – it seemed to early in the day to have ice cream), and told Dad about the chickens on the cover all the way home. Here he is waiting for the popcorn to cook.
Saturday afternoon was a nap, then we headed out to one of Mum’s cousins birthday parties, where Puff scored one of the table decoration sets of balloons – it’s still in his bedroom on his shelf a couple of days later.
Sadly, we’ve had some behaviour challenges with him this week: we’re putting it down to weather and lack of sleep, and hoping it improves.
Other things from this week:
- visit to M&I’s house for post-church lunch
- visit from uncle Mark