Saturday, June 17, 2006

Fun and games

Nellie's settling in nicely with our childminder, Ashley. She's finally sleeping properly, and feeding properly, when she's at Ashely's, which is great. Here Ashley has taken her out to a one o'clock club (for the non-Brits, these are local groups that offer fun and games for children, so called because they meet over lunchtime till mid-afternoon) and she was introduced to a ball pit.

I've edited a few clips of her swimming lesson last week, which should give you an idea of what we do in 30 minutes. See an overview of a swimming lesson. The quality isn't great, but I've had to downsize it for those who only have dial-up. The version for those on broadband is here. It takes about a minute to buffer, but the quality is MUCH better!

The weaning onto solids is not going well - her digestive system is still a bit immature she still hasn't got the idea of how to eat solids at all.... I'm sure it will happen in time, but it is rather frustrating as she clearly is not getting enough calories from her milk (depsite being on the 'hungrier baby' formula). Other than that, she's still a happy baby and charms everyone she meets. I can't wait for work to be over so I can spend my days with her again!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

how long will you be at work nicole? oh, i've just realised...til holidays! and then back again after the summer?

lovely to see janel grow up, and i love 'nellie' - that's my mum's name

see you at ascension some time

MazBrost said...

Nicole is only working until the summer (five more weeks!!) and has resigned from September. She hopes to be doing a day or two's supply teaching at the school in the new accademic year, but will go to an agency if needs be...

Graeme

sam becca zach and martha said...

Jonelle is so totally gorgeous! The swimming video was fun.