15 May 2012

God Save the Queen

Isabel has learned the British anthem in school and been singing it with gusto. Also chiding me for saying I know the song but then failing to be able to sing all the words.

Am watching this development with appalled fascination.

Bedtime

Roz: I lub you!
Me: I love you too (kiss).
Roz: Nooo! You don't lub me! I lub you.
Me: I don't love you?
Roz: No. You lub piggy me.
Izzy: She means you call her piggy and you love her.
Roz: Yeah.

I'll take that.

01 May 2012

A much belated birthday video

The birthday girl having ice-cream to round off the party day

Love the pout - just told she couldn't have any sweets

Urgh can't stand watching Izzy climb the high bars

A bit Little House on the Prairie

"Spin me!"

At the playground

When Roz turned three

Yiyi takes the monkeys for a ride

Aah British weather

We went crab fishing recently

Roz was a bit wary

She ain't heavy...

Plotters

"Heeeeelp!!!"

Rosa trying to remove her hearing aids before ballet tsk

A sight to gladden the heart

Roz with Yiyi and Unca Water

Chilling with hot chocolate on another rainy afternoon

Madam post-ballet

The view in the morning

We all love pho

Roz takes a self-portrait

Just been looking at the number of posts for the year and it's been pretty dismal. I totally blame Facebook.

Some things that have stuck in my mind recently though:

1. Isabel running  up to me with Roz's smiling portrait, and exclaiming: 'Mummy, Roz is so cute in this picture, I thought it was me!'

And this morning on the way out to the car - and let me just say that this hour of the morning is probably the most stressful in the entire day - Izzy was singing something to me. And I muttered something vaguely about it being hmm yes a nice song.

'Nice? Mummy, it isn't just nice. It's amazing!' (Complete, I promise, with italics.)

2. Roz has started ordering me around. I went back in the blog to see if Izzy had done the same, because it rang bells. And of course she did. And of course she was even more empress-like than Roz is.

Although I've stopped breastfeeding Roz (hallelujah!) she still, when sleeping, or tired, quite likes to have a feel of the equipment. Much as I hate it and have been trying to break her of the habit. I mean there's really nothing like a pair of cold little hands creeping up your shirt and feeling their way about in the middle of the night.

I'll skip the obvious joke.

Anyway so one day she tells me: 'Mummy, I'm not going to touch your boobies, OK? I'm just going to smell them. OK, mummy?' Then she proceeds to lay a cheek on each in turn, sniffing contentedly each time. And then she turns up to me again, looking immensely pleased with herself. 'See mummy? I didn't touch your boobies.'

It's not just me, is it?