Last year our friend bought Mary a lovely little outfit which too our surprise fits again this year! It has a little hood as well but she wouldn't have it pulled up over her head (at least not whilst I was trying to photograph her!).
She is really excited about Christmas and it is making us all grin!
Mary is developing in leaps and bounds at the moment - she is trying to potty train herself which is being interesting. This has resulted in frustration for her as she forgets to pull down her trousers or lift the lid on the potty or both!
She likes to have snugs whilst drinking milk still and we have to watch Gotye first thing - she points to the music video and says 'Daddy toot!' meaning Daddy's foot - I have actually tried showing her both the music video and then our spoof to show her it's not actually Daddy but I think this has confused things more :/
Our spoof
The first video is Daddy Toot the second is Daddy Bubba (baby). She is very waily as babies go but also very easy to entertain and make giggle. She tries to do a magic trick of making her arm disappear up her sleeve which is really really cute! And she is too rough with the cats and sulks when they get put out at night or when we are about to go out.
She can ask for 'Roe Roe!' Row Row Row Your Boat. And she has problem solving skills that are doing my head in as it means I take something off of her and she works out how to get it back no matter where I have put it!
She loves play dough and music and drawing with Jean. She bites Jean and Jean is too soft on her. We are looking forward to Christmas Day and her and her sisters interactions 🙂
You may have noticed that we have put a new banner on the blog 🙂 We liked The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry one so much that we made a wintery one out of one of the illustrations for The Little Book of Festive Poetry. The truth is that this was what this theme was for in the first place - well almost. The original plan was that I would take a series of photos of the roof of The Bakery that marked the seasons and have them change automatically. Unfortunately by the time I had gotten the photos that would work well we were having to look for somewhere else so it just never happened.
But we both like the way the drawings have worked and it feels like a project finally being completed.
However I am disappointed that everybody else in the UK appears to have snow (real snow) this morning and all I have is my drawings of snowflakes!
We were at a wedding the day of the Gloucestershire NaNoWriMo Thank Goodness It Is All Over Party. But Sunday Alaric finished everything he could on the leaky workshop, we'd done a bit of house decorating with the kids and it was raining - we needed to go to Costco which is in Bristol so we thought - hey! We can make it to their NaNo finishing party and so we did 🙂
Jeany decided that she would have her own party at home with Ferfer (my dad) and watch films, Alaric who did not reach 50 K was desperate to get a chance at more noveling and so sat at the party writing 🙂
I think we both are struggling with NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) being over as is my Dad and Jean. Sunday I got up early to get my pre-kid writing in so as to boost my word count and it was only once I'd opened the laptop and sat down with tea in hand that I realised 'Damn! NaNo's over isn't it? This is December!', Dad and Jean can both be found scribbling in notebooks when ever the chance arises and Alaric too has been glued to his laptop - this is not unusual but every time I ask him what he is doing he is working on his novel 🙂
Of course this is exactly what I was hoping for - I use NaNo and the other writing challenges to help me keep up momentum on project which I struggle with.
We also got to catch up with some friends and I may have ended up singing light opera in the pub :/
This morning I dug out the Christmas decorations, and popped a christmas CD on. The children were so excited it was amazing. Alaric put hooks in the ceiling and things to put decorations up. Mary just grinned and grinned at the stars and tinsel. We need to do some drilling to put the lights up in the window so that will have to wait as will Christmas Tree. I also can't find the advent trees so might have to improvise something.
The cutest thing was Jean deciding that they were both reindeers (due to the hat on Mary that had been Jean's) and making reigns with a string of christmas beads and saying they were run aways. 'Oh look at me I am a run away reindeer with another reindeer following me!' Mary ran along in her wake giggling - this lasted a long time 🙂
Rudolf has also decided to stable with us again this year even though we no longer have a paddock! Jean loves going for flights with her red nosed buddy 🙂
I have a lot of projects that are in various states of completion which I have spent this year trying to finish, new projects have inevitably sprung up during the year and so this month I am designating a Finish Projects Month!
The main five being:
e-book for The Little Book of Festive Poetry
Finish writing and edit christmas story
audio book for The Little Book of Festive Poetry
Launch The Little Book of Festive Poetry and make to all buyable including merch
Finish novel off
This will no doubt take up most of the month though there are other things like wanting to scan some of my pictures etc...
The second challenge is a sort of craft advent for me 🙂 I shall be attempting to do something crafty/arty each day 🙂
Mary | sarah | 
Thu 6th Dec 2012 8:45 am | 
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