Christmas 2010

Here are a selection of photos from our Christmas day. It was a lovely day, blue skies, crisp snow and very cold. Alice had been a good girl and Father Christmas left her some presents in her stocking. She really got into present unwrapping this year! We all went for a christmas morning walk around the field and enjoyed a big roast dinner at lunch. Lots of playing with new toys and Toby and I played Mousetrap (less than a £1 from the charity shop)!

Opening presents from Father Christmas



Snow snow snow




Toy duck for Otto ("I think it's dead now!")
Too much brownie mix?! or 12 weeks?(belly button already sticking out, oh joy!)

(For Matt!) Christmas lunch with all the trimmings Homemade brownies with homemade chocolate sauce.

First glimpse of snow...

Hand me downs- extreme!

We've all heard of sibling hand me downs...
Well Uncle Matt, you may recognise the all in one sleepsuit Alice is wearing...that's right it was yours when you were Alice's age (nearly 21 years ago)!She looks so adorable in it.

Another clip of her walking

After a request from nanny for more filming of Alice walking, here she is again!

Making the most of a dry day in November

Alice and I had no grand plans for the day so decided to make the most of the brightish weather to explore out and about. Alice was very excited to walk out the front for the first time and around the house. Trouble is everytime I tried to film her she would stop and stare at all the dfferent things to explore- grass, pavement...road. Trying to keep her on the path was not an easy task!

This was followed by going round the block on her trike. We decided to make it a proper outing and took photos of the things we saw along the way (inspired by Laura's post last March). Some of the photos are of Alice's favourite things and some are of mine, which of course she loves too! It's always an exciting walk and ride, we saw 3 dogs to say hello too and knocked on Jenny's door to show her and Lily our leaves. And of course there were lots of birds to look at too.
The Park across the road Alice and an autumn leaf Near the teletubbies mound Looking out across the fields Mummy's favourite tree at the cut through

first steps

Just before tea on Friday Alice took 1 step. Sunday evening she did this!

first steps, first up chairs and first tempers!

It's been a couple of days of highs and lows. Alice took her first step yesterday and today she has taken 12 steps (in 3 blocks, with a slight rebalancing) How exciting, there's no going back now and my guess that she would be walking by christmas was way out! So I'm going to say first steps at 13 months. Also she came into school with me and found that reception size chairs are perfect for climbing and standing on. Not very helpful when I'm trying to sort a messy classroom!
And the low...Alice has started her terrible 2's a year early! She got very cross yesterday if I stopped her doing anything she wanted to and would make a loud noise and clench her fists. She also bit me twice- lovely child!