Deck the halls

Hi All, We hunted, gathered, and then decorated our tree tonight. On the way to get the tree we stopped at several gaudy light displays around the neighbourhood, but Fiona wasn't as wowed as I though she would be. I think that seeing them from the warm car is not as wonderful as seeing them up close in the street at night. We go across the street to see the neighbour's lighted train display pretty often and she likes that. As for the tree in our house, Fiona helped to decorate it and there are plenty of durable ornaments down low for her to rearrange. It is likely to be a cautious week keeping her from climbing it I think.

We stopped by a friends house up the coast today. There are cows on an adjacent property and we went to say "hello" to them. Other than the county fair where the cows are pretty bored, fiona has not seen cows much. She wanted to see them when we were a little way away, but then as we got closer and the cows were full size and mooing at us, Fiona, (I was carrying her) clenched onto me with arms and legs, and quite definetly said BYE!!!!!!! to the cows, blowing them a hasty kiss as she looked away. Maybe in a few months she'll have a change of heart.

Drying Teddy

We have been pushing the potty training with Fiona and apparently this had rubbed off on her, but not in the way we would like: Yesterday she brought a dripping teddy to me she said "Teddy...poo...Gruuuuunt" and I got it, teddy had tried to poo in the toilet and his feet had accidentally touched the water in the bowl. He's drying in the sunshine today. At least we may have a chance of potty training something around here.
Louise

Grandad's Visit

Fiona's granddad Ken visited this weekend. Fiona had a good time and we went for a bike ride together and out to a great brunch place. Fiona did very well with her table manners, crayon's at the table help, she had a fruit salad and dipped each piece in whipped cream...nutritious? Fiona is wearing her warmest Jumper, It was my jumper when I was little, a few moth holes but it keeps her warm.
Love
Louise

Manamanah

Guitar Practice

Fiona has been helping me with my guitar practice as you can see. Hopefully she'll choose her own instrument one day but for the time being she shares with me.
Love
Louise

MILO

Here is fiona enjoying a spoonful of her mum's morning Milo. She finishes off by saying her name too still just "FF"

Since the last post...

No more progress on toilet training,we'll just keep up with out "fruitless" efforts and hopefully by the time she is going off to university she won't poo in her pants.

We had thanksgiving and fiona got to wear a festive dress, she helped make dinner rolls see the photo and guess which one is hers.

She has picked up a lot more words in her vocabulary her is a sampling:
Dinosaur, Milch (milk), Luna, sweep, chalk, bowl, bottle, poon (spoon), "no" is still a big one, phone, MILO, She has photos of the cousins and makes good attempts at "Charlotte, annie and Ollie" annie sounds the best. "Come" and "here" are used to get mummy to follow her into the bushes int he garden. "OUT" os often directed at Luna (I suppose we say tat a lot), she says Kiss, "Where-di-di-go" is still her hide and seek game followed bu "di-di-is" (which is "there she is").
It's fun all this language stuff.

Fiona at the moment loves to go for bike rides, play int he garden, go for walks around the block and look for cats which she tries to call by saying 'Kitty-kitty" we are rarely successful at this.
Taking her to the shops these days can be a bit challenging because there are so many things that she wants to grab. We still have yet to have a throw down tantrum in public...only a matter of time.

So, I hope you are all having a wonderful December,
Love
Louise