Friday, May 20, 2005

swing swing

Cara & Jonah at Ladies Bay
Cara, standing
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Cara has a tummy bug - but she still manages to be a delight.

Friday, May 13, 2005

Cara's walking

It happened on the 11th May, I think. So we didn't get it on camera (although looking at the event through an LCD screen is highly overrated and can't really be classed as watching the actual thing), but Cara really walked. She didn't even seem to notice it, it was just a way to get from A to B without having to go through the hassle of getting down, crawling and getting up again. Of course we couldn't get her to do it again and it's been two days now without a repeat performance.

Friday, May 06, 2005

Sequence of Cara standing up

Nothing up her sleeves and no camera trickery. Hoorah!

Friday, April 29, 2005

Cara, standing again


Cara, standing
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
We haven't see a huge amount of the standing recently, but it's getting slowly more frequent. Ok, so to be honest we rigged the last (and first) image of Cara standing, but that was only because she had been standing before we got the camera out and wouldn't do it again - it was "representative" of her first efforts. This is the real deal as is shown by the face.

Nook


Nook
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Good to have the cats back living with us again. They're clearly enjoying being around us - shame it's only until the building works start on the house.

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Cara on the phone


Cara on the phone
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
After speaking to Catherine on the phone, jonah and Cara started playing with it. This is a picture of Cara copying us, although when there is really someone at the other end, she just turns her head to the earpiece to see what's making the noise - which slightly defeats the object of using the handset.

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Jo's Bike


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Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Jo is really into his bike and is currently enjoying riding around and around and around the Saint's View carpark (which isn't that big). Still, keeps him out of trouble.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Jonah's portraits of Spencer from Balamory


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Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
His drawings are starting to be recognisable. It's interesting to see that most body parts are correctly positioned except for the arms which come out of the sides of the head.

Cara's standing


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Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Cara stood up (in fact it was yesterday), she crawled up on my leg and let go. It must have been for a while, because I had time to shout "Meriel, Meriel, Meriel, Meriel, Meriel, Meriel, quick, quick, quick, come here, come here" and she did and she saw - I make that about five seconds. Cara was naturally oblivious to her achievments.

Friday, April 01, 2005

Crikey!


Crikey!
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
This man looks SLIGHTLY SCARED - and this is the BIG one.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

A long awaited day for Lenny

This man looks VERY HAPPY- and this is the SMALL kite.

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Monday, March 28, 2005

Cara's painting

Cara had a busy morning...

Cara paintingThe masterpiece

Friday, March 25, 2005

L'Ancresse age illustrator


L'Ancresse age illustrator
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Good Friday - a walk up to the rifle range at L'Ancresse (no shooting today). Couldn't resist lining the kids up against their (approximate)ages and stocking up on birthday invitation materials.

Meriel's Birthday

Me, Jonah & Cara made this card for Meriel for her thirty-somethingth Birthday - which was nice.

Saturday, March 19, 2005

But deperately wanting to walk...


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Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Lots of sore heads at the moment. Cara is determined to stand up... but hasn't really got the balance yet. So she topples a lot. Getting better by the day though - she's just started 'cruising' which is apparently walking along things whilst holding on.

Like I said...


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Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
VERY happy to be mobile.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Now Cara's got chicken pox


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Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Cara's had chicken pox for four days now, so it should be coming to an end soon.
Anyway, the sun's shining and we were on the beach for a walk and loving it - it's so much like summer (apart from the jackets & hats) and we can't wait for that.

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Jonah's got chicken pox


Jonah with Chicken Pox
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
We deliberately exposed Jonah to chicken pox about 18 days ago. Sure enough he started getting some spots yesterday morning. So far he seems entirely unaffected apart from the spots. We're working on keeping him distracted from the itching. Chocolate cake seemed like a good start. No sign of any spots on Cara yet.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

What's daddy got?


Cara
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Coming to see what's happening.

Cara crawling


Cara crawling
Originally uploaded by Lenny & Meriel.
Cara has started crawling and is very happy that she can get wherever she wants to. She has 2 red patches on her knees because she is crawling so much.