At least I have an excuse!

Sorry I haven't been updating but, of course, we were in the UK for a while over Christmas and New Year. We've been back a week and are just about recovered from jetlag.

Just a few pictures from the garden yesterday - enjoy!

A walk in the park

Maya has discovered a love for (after overcoming a slight fear of) climbing trees. To be fair, it's more 'getting lifted into' rather than climbing but who's complaining?

Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving all!

A plug

It suddenly occurred to me this morning that I haven't mentioned Jungle's original 'Mummy' (of the human ilk, not the bunny ;) )

If you're ever in the market for a rabbit (and, let's face it, who wouldn't be after seeing this face?)



then I can definitely recommend Jungle's breeder, Rosanne. You can visit her website or email her at rabbits4you@rocketmail.com

Go oooonnnnnn! You know you want a bunny :D

O Christmas Pee!

Firstly, let me make it quite clear that the originality and wit inherent in the title of this post is not mine. Thanks, Corinne!!

I bought some fabrics and props today for doing Christmas photos - I have a couple of shoots at the weekend that I need them for. I was really pleased with my purchases and wanted to try them out so I set up a little studio in the living room and had Maya model for me. She wasn't terribly up for it - she didn't have a nap today and was a bit grouchy so she was deliberately messing me around; running towards the camera; looking the other way and laughing and generally doing her best to annoy me.

However, the last laugh will be on her... in about 14 years time, when she starts bringing home boyfriends. Because I will totally show them this photograph...

I really need to take more photos!

I have been a bit lax on the picture front recently and for that I apologise. I will try to do better in future ;)

News from this end... well, not much really. Maya did her first poop in her potty on Sunday - a major cause for celebration! I wasn't here to see it because I was at a shoot. I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or grateful but I'm leaning more towards the grateful end.

Just a couple of recent pictures - I'll try to have more up by the end of the week!

I did a photo shoot for Autumn's family last week and Maya came along too. She was watching the 'big kids' playing, with a rather forlorn "When will I grow up?" look on her face.



Maya turned her Fairy Boot into a rabbit restaurant, which was a big hit with both her and Jungle!



The lengths this bunny will go to for a grape... like falling over backwards.

Opposites

We were playing a game of opposites yesterday. It's the first time I've really introduced the concept and Maya surprised me in how quickly she picked up on it. She was able to correctly identify the opposites of things like day, in, up, happy, on etc. etc. then S asked her "What's the opposite of smile?" I thought she would have no idea whatsoever because frown is not a word that I believe she knows. She thought for a little while and then suddenly came out with "Owie". I was pretty impressed - that's some fairly good deductive reasoning right there!

The story of Princess Maya

"Princess Maya walk forest. Three chairs, first sit big chair... too big! Sit miggle chair... too big! Sit ickle chair... perfect! Three porrrrridge! First, big porridge, too big, sec miggle porridge, too cold, take ickle porridge - perfect! Do gobble gobble gobble. Three beds. First big bed - too big! Sec miggle bed - too big! Sit ickle bed - perfect! Have nap. Snoooore.Three bears come home. Daddy bear sit big chair, Mummy bear sit miggle chair, baby bear sit baby chair. Porridge boken. Kying - waaaaah, sit my chair! Baby bear kying. Porridge berry saaaad. Watch three beds. Daddy bear sit big bed, Mummy bear sit miggle bed, baby bear sit baby bed. Princess Maya wake UP! Three bears saw Princess Maya walk to forest!"