Yup you heard it here first. Our 6.5 month old little girl is officially on the move . . . forwards!! For about 6 weeks she has been quite happily working her way backwards around the room as she so desires, finding it far simpler than rolling everywhere.
But as of two days ago the temptation to reach her spoon was far too great, that what would normally warrant heading in the opposite direction and twisting and turning until by some fluke she would end up where she wanted (if at all) she suddenly decided she wanted to take the most direct option. Good on her I say!
And here is the video to prove it . . .
That's all!
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Here are my excuses . . .
For not updating you earlier on our antics:
Since we left you last Rob and Poppy had just had their first swimming lesson together. That was 2 months ago. We haven't had a swimming lesson again until Saturday just been. But none the less it was like she had never left the water. She loved it.
NEW ZEALAND
Mum decided that she missed her and hadn't seen her for a few weeks / months so Poppy and I flew to NZ for 5 days so that they could hang out together and have some quality time. It was lovely, because Mum got to babysit, we had a great lunch with Dad and checked out his renovations, saw a few friends and all in all just chilled out. Literally that is, considering the mornings were 2°C, but thankfully the beautiful blue skies through the day helped defrost us:
Poppy got to play with her friend Madeline:
We played at the park down in St Heliers:
Most mornings Nonna got to give Poppy a bottle in bed whilst watching TV:
Poppy made a new best friend:
Poppy and Poppa deep in conversation:
SOLIDS
Unfortunately for me Poppy was ready for solids while we were in NZ, and so she kept waking in the night. That meant they day after we got back to Australia she started on one meal a day. She LOVES them! Now we are on 3 meals a day, including porridge, chicken, avocado, banana, broccoli, apple, pear, pumpkin, kumera to name a few. Porridge is by far the messiest of them all!
The kitchen after my first attempt to puree pumpkin . . . I have got it down to a fine(r) art now!
Poppy loving her food:
HERVEY BAY
At very short notice Rob had to take a week off work to use up some leave he had accruing. We decided that this was our opportunity to head to Hervey Bay, somewhere we had been meaning to go for a long time, but had just never got around to it.
Also being on the cusp of the whale season meant that we were able to head out on a boat to have a go at whale watching. Turns out there weren't any whales and instead we had 80% of the boat vomiting around us. Poppy thought it was hilarious. Thankfully the skipper thought it best that we turned around and spent the next 1.5 hrs motoring back to shore. We were grateful for the free return tickets the company gave us for not seeing whales. I think we will use them during the middle of the season when things warm up, and the sea settles down!!
A family photo on the boat:
Poppy and Rob on her first ever boat trip:
We didn't see any whales but we did see a dingo heading up Fraser Island:
And that's a summary of it all. The next development is the most exciting of all though (so far!)
Since we left you last Rob and Poppy had just had their first swimming lesson together. That was 2 months ago. We haven't had a swimming lesson again until Saturday just been. But none the less it was like she had never left the water. She loved it.
NEW ZEALAND
Mum decided that she missed her and hadn't seen her for a few weeks / months so Poppy and I flew to NZ for 5 days so that they could hang out together and have some quality time. It was lovely, because Mum got to babysit, we had a great lunch with Dad and checked out his renovations, saw a few friends and all in all just chilled out. Literally that is, considering the mornings were 2°C, but thankfully the beautiful blue skies through the day helped defrost us:
Poppy got to play with her friend Madeline:
We played at the park down in St Heliers:
Most mornings Nonna got to give Poppy a bottle in bed whilst watching TV:
Poppy made a new best friend:
Poppy and Poppa deep in conversation:
SOLIDS
Unfortunately for me Poppy was ready for solids while we were in NZ, and so she kept waking in the night. That meant they day after we got back to Australia she started on one meal a day. She LOVES them! Now we are on 3 meals a day, including porridge, chicken, avocado, banana, broccoli, apple, pear, pumpkin, kumera to name a few. Porridge is by far the messiest of them all!
The kitchen after my first attempt to puree pumpkin . . . I have got it down to a fine(r) art now!
Poppy loving her food:
HERVEY BAY
At very short notice Rob had to take a week off work to use up some leave he had accruing. We decided that this was our opportunity to head to Hervey Bay, somewhere we had been meaning to go for a long time, but had just never got around to it.
Also being on the cusp of the whale season meant that we were able to head out on a boat to have a go at whale watching. Turns out there weren't any whales and instead we had 80% of the boat vomiting around us. Poppy thought it was hilarious. Thankfully the skipper thought it best that we turned around and spent the next 1.5 hrs motoring back to shore. We were grateful for the free return tickets the company gave us for not seeing whales. I think we will use them during the middle of the season when things warm up, and the sea settles down!!
A family photo on the boat:
Poppy and Rob on her first ever boat trip:
We didn't see any whales but we did see a dingo heading up Fraser Island:
And that's a summary of it all. The next development is the most exciting of all though (so far!)
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