On Friday, Mummy and Daddy took me to the zoo.

I saw a lot of different animals. My favourite animals were the elephants. I can do a really good elephant impersonation!

While we were watching the elephants one of them did a really big poo.   So now, wherever I see a picture of an elephant, I yell out ‘poo!’ and giggle

Here’s a picture of me with the elephants.

At the zoo, there is also a special cage where small children can play with the moneys. I liked that very much. I think the monkeys are some kind of pussycat. That’s why I said ‘meow meow’ to them.

Yesterday, I was a very good girl. I didn’t wear nappies the while day, and I didn’t have ANY accidents.

I am a very good girl

Here’s my certificate for graduating from my ‘Dancing for babies’ class:

I have two certificates now

Today, mummy and Daddy and I went to the fair.  We went last year too, and we go every year apparently.

I got a fan thingy on a stick which goes around when the wind blows, which I like very much.

There was a display of animals including lots of rabbits in cages.  I spent a long time there, because I had to go to each rabbit individually, jump up in the air, and tell them ‘Hop hop!” so that they will know how they are supposed to behave.

I also went for a ride on a horse.  I am a very good horse rider.  I didn’t fall off!

Last week i went to a lovely fancy dress party.  I was dressed as a butterfly, and I won a prize.

Here is a picture of me at the party

This week I pulled the pussycat’s tail quite hard. It didn’t like that, so it bit me.  

The bite hurts me a little bit, and when I show it to people I point at it and say “meow”, so that they will know who did it.

So. the time has come at last for an update.

First off, since my last blog post, I have learned many things.

My stair climbing is very good, I can use the slide and the see-saw at the playground (which I like very much), and my dancing is greatly improved. I have gone off Frank Sinatra, who I used to like very much, and I now prefer reggae.

But most importantly, I can talk! (Well sort of). Before I could say ‘Ma ma’, ‘Da da’, and when I saw a picture of a sheep “Baa baa”. Since then, my vocabulary is much improved and I can now identify and describe a number of things including:

• Duck
• Banana (‘naa na’)
• Yoghurt (‘go gurt’)
• and so on

I can’t actually make a sentence yet, and I have not learned any verbs so far, but still, considering I have to learn two languages at once, Daddy thinks it’s good progress.

It’s spring now, so I can play outside in the garden again – Yaay! I have a sandpit, and a tent, and Mummy and Daddy made a new kitchen, which made the whole house very dirty three times, but now looks very nice.

But Daddy has been too busy to write anything on my blog.  He’s very naughty!

I will harras him and he will do a proper update soon . . .

In the meantime, here’s my favourite youtube clip. Mummy likes it from when she was little.  But I like it a lot too!

First of all, I would like to apologise to all my friends and family that it has been so long since I updated my blog. Mummy and Daddy and I have all been very busy, and there hasn’t been that much news to report.

Walking wise, things are progressing well. I have now completely given up crawling, and walk everywhere instead.  It’s fun.  The only problematic area for Mummy and Daddy are the stairs.  I want to walk up and down the stairs, but I have not quite mastered this skill yet. For some reason this makes Mummy and Daddy very nervous

Mummy and Daddy are changing our house.  There are some parts of this that I like:

• Lots of new and interesting things for me to play with and eat (sawdust and concrete chips are my favourite
• I can find lots of ways to get dirty quickly (dirt is funny)
• For a while, the living room had nothing in it at all – just the floor.  This made an excellent dance floor/race track.
• Daddy let me draw pictures on the walls

However, as with all things in life, there are also some disadvantages

• The giant concrete podium in the kitchen is gone.  This was my favourite place to play, and I had been working towards my goal of using it as a launch point from my longer term objective – climbing out the second story window.  That dream will now have to be deferred until another day
• Mummy is using the bath to do the dishes.  I don’t like having baths with the plates and cutlery (it’s uncomfortable too)
• For the last two weeks we have all been living in the kitchen.  It has been our kitchen, living room, dining room, and play area all rolled into one.  This has slightly impeded my ability to run around like a maniac

But I am looking forward to when we are finished.  

It’s winter now, and there is sometimes very pretty snow which I like.  I am not allowed to play in it though

I can walk!

Four steps yesterday, about 100 today (eight in a row without falling over) !

I am very tired tonight

Last weekend it was my first birthday.  That means I am one year old now.  Yay!

I like birthdays very much.  Everyone is very nice to you and you feel important and are the centre of everyone’s attention (I like being the centre of attention).

Mummy and Daddy organised a very nice barbecue for me.  They invited lots of people and some other babies too!  

After lunch we all went to plant some Lime trees next to a statue of St Donat.  The statue is 300 years old, and was very sad as it is beside the road and has no shade.  So we planted two trees that will grow big (like me) one day and help protect the statue.  I put a bottle with a secret note into one of the holes we dug for the trees.

Then after that we went home and I got a really big cake!  I don’t eat cake yet, but I really liked my cake anyway as it was covered in raspberries.  I’m allowed to eat raspberries so I picked them all off with my fingers and ate them (yum yum!)

After the cake I got lots of lovely presents. I like presents.  My favourite presents were the card with the flowers I got from Uncle Kamil and Auntie Petra, a cardboard box and the wrapping paper!  I liked the other presents too though very much.

According to the doctor, who I went with Mummy to see on Thursday, I am the strongest and wildest baby she has ever seen.

Mummy isn’t very happy about this news. Daddy on the other hand, is quite proud. Mummy says that’s only because Daddy doesn’t have to look after me all day.

In other news, I have five nice teeth and I can eat by myself (but only with my fingers)