There are cheerios in my shoe!: January 2012

Sunday 29 January 2012

In the snow, last weekend.

We have had an extremely mild winter so far, but last weekend there was finally a bit of snow. Ben wasn't sure about the way it stuck to his gloves, and spent a LOT of time trying to brush it off his snowboots. But he was amused by his parents having an extremely ineffectual snowball fight.

Yay for Kira!

Ben was so impressed by a recent video of his cousin walking that he watched it about ten times and eventually had to be distracted away with strawberries.

Saturday 14 January 2012

Daredevil son pt 2

Ben carefully watched a bigger kid climb up to this ledge and copied him.
The he was stuck so he carefully watched a bigger kid clamber down...

...then he gave his dad heart attacks by doing that for the next 10 minutes over and over again.

Future concert pianist

Took Ben to our local soft play place this morning, I think we have a musical boy.

Friday 13 January 2012

New Orleans

You can click on any of these photos for a larger picture.

Boxing day morning was misty and the whole town was eerily quiet- a great day to go to extremely busy restuarents for cafe au lait and beignets!

Apparently the raised tombs aren't so much about the boggy land as just that it's a catholic tradition and this is a catholic city. Makes sense to me. Ben loved them, viewing the whole cemetery as a maze for his pleasure. Keeping track of him required agility.

Sightseeing with a toddler is very different to sightseeing with a babe-in-arms. For one thing, you keep having to let him loose in parks to let off steam a bit.

He got very tired and cross when we tried to persuade him to take his middle of the day nap in his pushchair, (so we could see one more museum) - and it didn't really work. He did love the street performers, though, and had been dancing to a cellist until he decided he needed to be picked up.