Sunday, January 31, 2010

We're Back!


I think it's high time I started blogging again, after such a lovely break.
I think we are both still missing England, and cold, and snow, and Gra-Gra, and Gra-Pa, and Toby is definitely missing having so many people around to play with, but we are slowly adjusting.

Toby has his first pair of properly fitted shoes....I nearly cried when he had his feet measured, he looked so grown up. And how much he loves them! (Well, at least as much as he loved his wellies)



And he had his first fall, with blood.....I'd forgotten about my fear of blood, until I started shaking and totally freaking out at the sight of Toby's. Poor little mite, he tripped in the kitchen, face down. I scooped him up and thought there was nothing much wrong, until I looked at him a few seconds later, his t-shirt, his mouth, his nose, my arm, covered in blood. His top lip bitten through. An hour or so later and he was as if nothing had occurred, but with a most enormous lip.


And he is just full time walking everywhere. He loves it! This is him, walking around the zoo...

The penguins and the seals were his favourites this week, but I think that only because the lions were sleeping.....

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Walking!


How much the little man has changed over the last few weeks since our arrival in the UK!
Today, after a couple of weeks of practising,

he decided that he wanted to walk all day along, everywhere, and without any need for encouragement from any of us. I thought my heart might burst with pride at the sight of him walking, he looks so adorable toddling along.

Other new things he has been doing are blowing kisses, (the waitress at the restaurant where we had lunch today received about 8 of them, and just loved it!), initiating the "Cheers" when everyone is at the table (only he ofter likes to do it constantly throughout the meal, and gets a bit cross if you don't oblige), waving and shouting "bye-bye" as he leaves a room, and he has plenty of new words, including "Car", "Cup", and "Baby" (which he shouts out whenever he sees one, even if they are older than him!)

He has also been doing a lot of real kissing, with Rosa.....