Our holiday in France

5 months old and I'm already onto my second holiday. I'm making good use of my baby passport! The bad news is because I have been so busy having fun I didn't write the blog the last few weeks. The good news is mummy still took lots of photos of me having the fun so I can share what I've been up to!

But I have to tell you my exciting news! I can sit up now! And I can crawl a bit! And I can go from crawling a bit to sitting up. This means I can pretty much reach whatever I want. What I mostly want as the moment are wires, dvd players and anything else that looks like it isn't a baby toy.

My other big news is that since I'm 24 weeks old now I have been trying a few flavours of food, including pear, sweet potato and (to papa's amusement this morning at my disgusted face) nectarine. I also ate a selection of grasses in France, my favourites being Parsley and Marigolds!

Anyway, I'll let you see for yourself....

Grandma liked to kiss my neck and make me squirm and close my eyes!

Mum and Dad ate lots of these - I'm not allowed!

I also learnt to scream this holiday. It's great fun and I like to practice first thing in the morning!

Me and grandad who found me lots of marigolds to eat

Baby shadows

We enjoyed singing nursery rhymes in the sunshine

Dribbling and teething continues!

Me and mum exploring le jardin. We also did lots of walks up and down the road to the Madonna and back

After a nice meal I got to play with my balloon. I enjoyed dropping it and trying to pick it from the floor

I saw my first fountain here! (La Roche Sur Yonne?)

Mummy pretends the clown is coming to get me. I find it so funny. Auntie Colette might not!

Me looking cute by the strawberry well

I love piggybacks from papa and grandad

Eating me first pear (I wouldn't allow grandma to hold it and didn't like eating off a spoon)

The harbour on one of our trips out

Back in the UK - I continue to eat my favourite bananas!

Tyoical sleep pose in France. This buggy was much comfier than I thought it would be and I loved to watch the wheels go round.

I watched Papa and Grandad put nets to stop the birds eating the plums on the plum tree. We'll see how that goes in late June! Papa fell through the ladder and I cried a bit but it was ok!

I found the flowers on our walk but here's Grandad taking the credit!

Grandma teasing me again! Stop it Grandma!

And again!

She managed to hold off my neck on this one.

Mummy and Daddy's Anniversary. They went out for dinner. I woke up and got walked around for an hour or so until I finally gave in and dropped asleep for Grandma and Grandad. They had a great time though apparently!

Eating again - I'm partial to parsley

I got lots of attention!!

The ducks visited our garden a few times. I loved to see them waddle along.

Daddy made a digger

I spent lots of time playing on my mat

Now it's daddy's turn to blow on my neck. Give me a break guys honestly!

I loved to comb the grass and watch the lawn mower go up and down

Mother's day in France. We went to pick wild flowers for mummy and grandma.

Chillaxing with Papa!

I now love the theme tune to pretty much all programmes. Especially Coronation Street!

Wires! At last!

Grandma let me drive the car

One for the history book - me watching the Jubilee celebrations in London

A precious moment with Grandad

Relaxing in the shade with the yappy woman and the man who likes to bully me.

My first attempts at a baby walker. It was love hate these last few weeks but I am slowly getting the hang of it!

lThanks for a lovely holiday Grandma and Grandad, for walking me round the garden and up the road a million times and putting up with my teething!

lots of love Vittorio xxx

Hotel California

A week in pictures...

Discovering Newcastle water wheel

Me talking to my mates at baby club

Exploring the garden and sucking daisies!

My first time touching jelly! I liked it and then I didn't like it any more!

Daddy gives me extra soft kisses when he gets home from work

Mummy's angel

Lights, camera, action!

Hello all!!

I forgot to tell you last week that we bumped into a TV crew in the middle of the wood! Of course mummy insisted on a photo of this for the blog. I was very good and kept quiet despite my urge to make some noise to get in the TV show which is about a werewolf and will be shown on CBBC called 'Wolfblood' and is being filmed in Chopwell woods. The nice director man thought I was very cute and was impressed with my silence so let us watch very close up.

Along with my new media contacts, I've been making friends with someone else too, my friend Giraffe that my cousin Ellie bought me. He is very soft and I am now starting to play a bit more with my soft toys

I'm also getting more and more familiar with my books. This one looked good enough to eat!!

I love to chew. Books, teething rings, bits of grass (well it came out of my poo so it must have got in there somehow), anyone's fingers,and more recently apple peeling!!

I have now officially outgrown my bouncy chair when I nearly catapulted myself out of it!

And I'm also now splashing in the bath!!

What fun!

Hello my friends!

This week has been a pretty ordinary week but that has given me some time to learn some new games.

The first one involves me putting my fingers in mum's mouth and she chews on them and I laugh a lot. The next is a game where I sit in my Bumbo seat and drop things off the side on purpose and watch mummy run around picking it up. I like to give her 0.3 seconds to pick it up before I complain. I have also become very ticklish much to my daddy's delight, so he keeps tickling me under the ribs whenever he can!

 

I am super strong in my neck now so my crawling practice is coming along so well. I now managed to get from the blanket on the floor and work my way around to the dvd recorder so I could get a better a look at it to figure out how to sabotage it when I'm a bit older. I'm not crawling but I can certainly roll and turn myself around on my tummy with my hands. Hard work for a little baby but not impossible!

I am now 15 lbs and growing all the time. I can wrap my fingers right the way round mummy's hand now!

See you soon! Vittorio xxx

A busy bank holiday weekend

Hi readers,

Phew! What a busy bank holiday weekend we've had. After all those walks last week (a couple of new pics below), we had lots of visits to make this weekend.

On Sunday, we first of all went to visit my new little friend Euan Christopher Potts who was only 10 days old. I was finally the big boy in the room!

Next we went to a leaving party for Daddy's boss. I liked it when a lady tickled my feet but generally it was a bit too noisy for me so I went to sleep for a bit. In the evening Auntie Colette came up to visit, chaffeured by Uncle Simon. It was my bedtime but I still had lots of smiles for her.

The next day I woke up mummy practicing my new sound 'boo'. I was getting very good at it but mummy seemed to want me to go back to sleep for some reason. Anyway I did a big poo to force her out of bed and change me and thankfully Auntie Colette was already up and she was a lot more fun at that time in the morning so we had some fun. Auntie Colette liked it when I pulled her hair very hard!

Also, Simon let me play a bit on his Ipad which was great fun. I think I'm going to like technology! We went for two walks on Monday, one ending in the pub which was full of babies and children on  bank holiday - it was more like a creche! I got walked around a lot by Auntie Colette and attracted many admiring glances. I also made sure to check out the baby changing facilities at the Pavilion which we were there!

Bye for now! Vittorio xxxx