A new game

This was a really good game!

First you hide Daddy. Then you look for him under the cushions.


Then you pull him out of his hiding place using whatever comes to hand.


Then there is much rejoicing.


Sometimes you have to pull quite hard to get him out!


But there is always much rejoicing!

Xmas 2009

We had a lovely Christmas and took loads and loads of photos. Here are a large selection of things that we did:

We explored new things to play with in other people's houses:










We found new places to explore:






And found new people to play with:


We had fun eating new foods:




We thought the Christmas tree was great fun, especially when it was surrounded by a rather extravagant number of presents!


We enjoyed opening stockings in bed:




And we all enjoyed opening presents!




Nathaniel got the hang of opening presents very quickly. He sometimes got a bit confused between "This is present for you from Grandpa Beard and Granny Janni" and "This is a present for Grandpa Beard and Granny Janni", but he never actually opened someone else's present without first having been invited to help. I think that's resonably impressive for such a small boy!



We had lots of fun playing with our presents:








We visited lots of new parks and did lots of swinging. Nathaniel discovered bowl-shaped roundabouts which have become a firm favourite. Shame there don't seem to be any north of Watford!







And finally, we went for cold walks on beautiful days.





It was a very happy Christmas!

Snow

Its hard to stand up in the snow!

Decorating

Putting lights on the tree (the tacky coloured ones rather than the tasteful white ones that we've lost!), turned out to be a bigger event than we expected!

A new obsession

My new craft-like activities have been documented, but what you don't realise is that its becoming a little obsessional! And its not just me! We have decided that its hormonal - a bit like the nesting that you do before going into labour! All my friends seem to suddenly be fascinated with making pretty and useful (and sometimes useless) things. The only prerequisite is that you need specialist scissors and pretty fabric or funky card!

Here is what the living room looks like tonight, the night before our singing group Christmas party:


Results to be evidenced another day.

What you can't see is that I have created this chaos whilst self-indulgently listening to Legends, The Christmas Collection on Spotify! Who doesn't need a bit of Nat King Cole on a cold evening?!

Spinning

Nathaniel's newest game is spinning. He spins round and round and round until he is dizzy and falls over. Cue hysterical giggling, getting up, and trying again until he is so disorientated and tired that he falls over hard and hurts himself!

So, in case you can't wait another week or so until Christmas when most of you get to see him in the flesh somewhere or other, here is some Nathaniel-fodder. There is no excuse for three videos, but there were elements of each that I'd thought you'd like, so you get three hits today!

1. We have been spinning for some time now, so he's pretty tired, but still got enough energy for total craziness!


2. Move to another room and spin some more

3. Decide that its much easier if you spin against something to lean on!

Update: I keep crashing Blogger, so you'll have to wait for the other videos!