Princes Purple

Milestone of the week:

Climbing all the way up a ten foot step ladder onto the third floor of Grampa's house. Then learning how to turn around and climb all the way back down again.

Up was easy but the other way took a few coaching sessions and a few episodes of 'freaking out'. Truly an amazing inherent balance of daring and caution.

Happy Birthday Great Grandma Pep & Uncle Gary.

Special Birthday Greetings go out to our very dear Grandmother and Great-Grandmother today. Uncle Gary we love you almost as much and welcome to the Twenties my man!

Girls Wear Dresses

Question from this morning:

Dad: Look, there's Buggs Bunny!
RTMT: Where? Where's the Bug daddy?

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Also recently: Why?

- an important first imho. Hopefully the first of thousands.

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Dresses. Thanks to numerous aunties and adopted grandmothers we have enough dresses to last for the next year or two. The idea that PJ's are more appropriate for sleeping than a 'Ballerina' or 'Princess' dress is regularly a point of serious discussion and sometimes even a flop-down tantrum.

"I'm broke Daddy"

I got this yesterday when mentioning to the princess that we had to head back to the house to pick up some money for groceries.

Pagwah Songs

Thanks to our Uncle Noel we were busy playing Pagwah from an early hour yesterday. No pics I'm afraid due to battery constraints. He got us with the pink powder but took a full bucket of water broadside.

A few song lyrics that we have heard recently (all of course sung very nearly in tune):

"Rock-a-by daddy on the tree top"

"Old McDonald had a brush"

"The 'J' says dress". (Kinda makes sense when u sound it out)

Phonics, with very little prompting, have become the latest craze as u can tell.

Happy Mashramani.

Celebrated the forty second Republic Day anniversary in the city this year due to an emergency trip seen here.

Star Spangled

Visiting uncle Oliver's house for the SB turned into a surprise impromptu audition for cutest snapshot of the month. Not sure where she found that mic just in time to upstage what's-her-name singing the national anthem. It does look a little like a number 12 there in the background doesn't it .... about to be seriously upstaged for a sumptuous second time. What a lovely rematch it was to the greatest bigGame of all time.

Happy (Chinese) New Year

Celebrating at the national park with cotton candy of course. Funny how this rediscovery of one's childhood thing works.

Football Fan

Today has the potential to go down as one of the greatest days in footballing (and futbol-ing) history.

Go Giants. Go Ravens. Go Tottenham. Go Arsenal.

North London over Manchester all day baby.

Snoozing at altitude.

Aunti Sophie and Cousin Lorelei.

At home on the aerodrome.

King Air Girl

H.N.Y. Twenty Twelve.

New Year greeting go out to all of our friends and family. We love and appreciate all of you and wish the very best. May the twenty ninth of February find your resolutions intact and your outlook rosy for twenty twelve.

The Grumpy Santa

This encounter at the City Mall started out with some doubts, a really bad beard and a Santa attitude to Match. It ended in tears but not before she received a curvatious doll which featured delightful snap-on body parts. Lesson of the day: Keep smiling. Even when someone totally takes your head off.

Sari time.

Special New Year greetings to all our family and friends. All the very best for 2012.