Sunday, December 30, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Your Latest Adventure in Greece
Mummy here, I just got this lovely email from your Daddy telling me about all the marvellous things you have been up to during your 5 days in Greece visiting your Super-Papou... I am SOOO proud of you, it made me smile the biggest smile, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow!
So, what has Penny been up to? (She's been delightful since her first 24 hours of misery...)
In no particular order:
1) Penny learned to click her tongue.
2) Penny impressed everyone (but especially Elias) with acrobatics at Yaya Erika's memorial gathering.
3) Penny went for a walk by the sea, despite the wind and rain. Many other walks, too.
4) Penny saw turkeys, chickens, pheasants, peacocks, deer, rabbits and goats (which she called moose).
5) Penny learned to blow out candles.
6) Penny watched Twinkle Twinkle and various other nursery rhymes on endless loop on YouTube (she got frightened at the end of hickory dickory dock when the elephant ran up the clock!).
7) Penny learned how to ask Daddy for a shoulder ride, thus making the pushchair entirely redundant (in fact, unusually, she seemed to actively dislike the pushchair).
8) Penny's Yaya did her full bathtime routine without a single complaint.
9) Penny had a meal comprising six grapes, a giant plateful of mushrooms, and a bowl of ice cream.
10) Penny decided she loves bran flakes.
11) Penny met several dogs and was very excited by them, although she dared not go too close...
12) Penny navigated her way through hundreds of people at a Christmas bazaar, walking mostly unaided in the forests of legs, fascinated by the music and baubles and face painters and Wii Just Dance.
13) Penny played horses with her Super Papou.
14) Penny met about twenty more people who could sing Platho Koulourakia like her Yaya, which served as a passport to her affections.
15) Penny enjoyed having Zog read to her by her auntie. Again and again. Daddy has it pretty much memorised now.
16) Penny discovered how to play I Hear Ewe on the iPod in Chinese, and she completed the first four levels of Tumbledrop without any help (including opening up the app).
17) Penny slept through a prayer at the synagogue.
18) Penny made friends with the shop assistants in a posh clothes store, making them laugh because every time she made a kiss sound she added "aaah".
19) Penny Skyped with her Mummy and her eyes lit up when I explained that we would be seeing her again soon.
20) Penny is currently leaning against me in bed playing Angry Birds when she should be asleep (it's 11:30pm Greek time!) - she is her father's daughter...
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Possessed
Twice now you've had a bizarre unprovoked screaming fit on a scale we've never seen before.
You've been having more tantrums recently, as you approach the Terrible Twos, but these outbursts were on a different level. In the one I witnessed, you were on the floor shrieking at the top of your voice, lashing out, banging your head on the floor - utterly unconsolable for about ten minutes.
It was extremely distressing to see you like that and be helpless to do anything about it.
In retrospect, we wondered if you were suffering from teething pain. After so many months without any teething, is it possible that your new reaction to the pain could be so extreme?
I hope it doesn't happen again. We love you so much and we don't want to see you unhappy!
(This video makes light of it, but it was really distressing...)
You've been having more tantrums recently, as you approach the Terrible Twos, but these outbursts were on a different level. In the one I witnessed, you were on the floor shrieking at the top of your voice, lashing out, banging your head on the floor - utterly unconsolable for about ten minutes.
It was extremely distressing to see you like that and be helpless to do anything about it.
In retrospect, we wondered if you were suffering from teething pain. After so many months without any teething, is it possible that your new reaction to the pain could be so extreme?
I hope it doesn't happen again. We love you so much and we don't want to see you unhappy!
(This video makes light of it, but it was really distressing...)
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Thanksgiving 2012
This weekend we had our annual Thanksgiving celebration at your Yaya's house in Woodingdean.
You enjoyed putting the coloured fish into the puzzle. First, you matched all the colours correctly. Then you did it again with complementary colours. Then you tried to eat the pieces.
Uncle Dan and Auntie Erika were there. You had a great time playing with them.
But nothing beats snuggling up with Mummy.
Your second cousins Sadie and Ruby came. Here's a picture of you playing a magnet game called Polarity with them.
Erika and Emma's baby bumps are getting bigger. When I explained to you that your Daddy's tummy had no baby in it, you were devastated.
And it seems you weren't too happy with being put behind bars...
It was a wonderful weekend full of food and love and games...
...Until we were all exhausted.
You enjoyed putting the coloured fish into the puzzle. First, you matched all the colours correctly. Then you did it again with complementary colours. Then you tried to eat the pieces.
Uncle Dan and Auntie Erika were there. You had a great time playing with them.
But nothing beats snuggling up with Mummy.
Your second cousins Sadie and Ruby came. Here's a picture of you playing a magnet game called Polarity with them.
Erika and Emma's baby bumps are getting bigger. When I explained to you that your Daddy's tummy had no baby in it, you were devastated.
And it seems you weren't too happy with being put behind bars...
It was a wonderful weekend full of food and love and games...
...Until we were all exhausted.
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