Tickle on the Tum

Tickle tickle tickle.

Funny Faces

The munchkin pulls all sorts of strange expressions while she is being winded. The drunk on milk look.

Who you looking at?

Whats going on over there?

Burp!

Pink cardigan

Aunty Elizabeth is very clever. She has knitted Lucy this brilliant cardigan. It seemed appropriate to wear it when we went round to Aunty Pinks for Eurovision Song Contest night.

Watching all the Balkan nations voting for each other failed to maintain Lucy's attention.

In fact even Mickey the Pig telling her the Serbia had edged out the Ukraine in a nail biting finish couldn't rouse any interest.

Lucy hits the Bottle

Even though Lucy is being breast fed, it is important that she gets used to using a bottle at an early age. Otherwise it can be quite hard to persude them later on we are told. Ali has a gizmo that allows her to "express" into a bottle. So today Daddy had his first go at feeding Lucy.

We ensured that she was quite hungry to encorage her to try this new fangled technique but we needen't have worried. She wolfed it down.

Bald!

As with most babies, Lucy's initial fine thatch of hair has pretty much all dropped out giving a rather startling impression of male pattern baldness. We haven't shaved her, it's perfectlly normal. In fact she still has a bit at the back so we could even give her a Donald Trump style comb over.

As you can see - Lucy doesn't seem bothered that she has now got a more aerodynamic bonce.

An important aspect in babies development is to give them "Tummy Time". As the name suggests, this means putting them on their tummy so they can try pushing themselves up and begin the first crawling. Obviously at this stage this just means wiggling about a bit.

Sling

Ah. Lucy is looking very sweet but she needs to move. Mummy is going to try and use the baby sling for the first time. We figured it would be best to try it when Sprock was a bit floppy and sleepy rather than in octopus mode.

So here goes.

Yikes! The baby is falling out of the side!

You sit in the middle and behave young lady.

Ah ha! I guess that is what this strap is for.

Ta Da! It's up and running. So now we can go yomping about the place without needing the pram all the time. Result.

Lucy meets Aunty Niki and Cousin Jonathan

Lucy's cousin Jonathan is straight on the bottle. We think he looks like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.

Aunty Niki helps him read his new book.

Niki and Ali took Lucy down to Barnes Pond where they could do some sisterly bonding.

Another shot of the sisters playing with Lucy. The arm belongs to Niki's partner Mark who is looking after Jonathan.

Amongst other generous gifts, Niki and Mark brought Lucy these fine sunglasses. They should help Lucy looking at Aunty Niki's skirt ;-)

Wig and Day

What a treat! Our good friends Wig and Damon with their adorable little sprouts Oscar (3 ish) and OJ (1 ish) came down from Lincolnshire to see the little Sprock. Of course the first thing Day had to do was restrain Oscar. He is full of beans.

Wig holds Lucy and checks out Damon's performance with OJ at the same time. It turns out that women can multi task.

Marcus and Ellen (Mellon) arrive. Marcus drinks beer and laughs at Ali and Lucy.

Ellen tries to lighten the mood but Holly is still taking things pretty seriously.

Yeah! Three momas with three babies. Note Oscar being naughty in the left hand corner!

Wig gets a good look at Lucy.

Dad takes Damon on at Ping Pong

Oscar has a cunning plan to beat Uncle Ports

Actually Marcus whipped the pants off both Daddy and Damon but we didn't get any good photo's of that so here is another one of Dad beating Day.

Snuggle Monkey

Dad is doing quite a good job of keeping little Sprock happy and quiet.

She is having a nice little kip.

It has to be said that Dad's hands do look pretty big beside Sprock :-)

Bear Suit

Little bit chilly outside? Time for the bear suit. Ali wants a bear suit for herself. Really :-)

Who needs a child seat when you can prop your little bear against the corner of the sofa?

Lucy Loves Milk

Mummy Likes feeding Lucy.

But she especially likes how contented Lucy look after a good feed. And how quiet she is!

Hmmmmm. Milk.

Flash!

What happens when Dad forgets to turn the flash off?

Lucy tries on Dad's old hat

Daddy, Muji and Lucy sit out in the garden.

Lucy tries on a furry hat that he used to wear when he was a little baby.

It transpires that Lucy has a smaller head than her Dad.

Perhaps this little hat is a rather better fit!

The sister's round again!

We just can't keep that Aunty Pink from coming round and doting on her nice little niece. Not a problem as long as she isn't going to be silly.

Hang on - who's been playing with Muji Rabbit! I think we have a suspect.

Muji does a little hunting and discovers Aunty Pink's partner in crime. Chilled Savignion Blanc.

Muji gets Aunty Pink to look up abstinence on the Internet. Only joking - she's looking at pictures of Lucy on this very site.