Soon summer will be over

Summer is coming to an end! Yesterday was mummy's birthday and Uncle Paul called! He cannot make popcorn. Mummy is the best at that. She is always making popcorn. Sometimes I get some in my own plate to eat outside on the deck. It rained lots yesterday. I went to town with mormor and mummy and bought some winter clothes. I like shopping. Morfar put together a chest of drawers for mummy and daddy's bedroom. They liked the cake mummy and I had made for mummy's birthday and they also liked the sandwich cake we had made! It is fun when daddy is away as I get to help lots in the kitchen.

I like banging

I am getting much better at hitting things with hammers and sticks. Some of the tools as still a bit too big for me but I am growing. These week I have been having lots of fun at dagis driving their tractors around. Today mummy picked me up from dagis and I helped her with the dinner. Yesterday I helped daddy make the waffle mix and grate carrots. This morning I helped him with the porridge and spilt some of on the floor before we manage to get it to the cooker. Daddy was super cool about it and just cleaned up the mess. I helped! This weekend is mummy's birthday. I hope we get to eat ice cream.

Pumping my egg-shapped ball

Well it is actually daddy's ball and not mine. But I still helped make it hard today. It bounces in a very funny way around the lawn and I like that. I need one that I can hold as this one is way too big. The weather finally turned sunny today and we played outside after we had been shopping. We bought some pictures for the wall today and some milk. (Not at the same shop!) The Olympics is almost over so hopefully it will be easier to watch children's programmes when I want to. Although the men jumping into the water in their big splash competition was fun to watch today. We picked lots of red currants yesterday and mummy made a cake this evening. I hope I can eat some tomorrow after I have woken up.

Looking after mummy

Mummy has had a nasty cold for the past few days and I have been looking after her. I have been making sure that she relaxes and watches tv. This has helped her fall asleep. We have been watching loads of children's tv programmes. This morning I baked a pie with daddy: A mincemeat and pineapple pie. I made some special small apple pies for mummy. She was very happy with me when she came home from work. It has rained lots today.

Thinking hard

Sometimes I have to think really hard and work out why things are the way they are. I think it is easier not to ask difficult questions and simply close my eyes and fall asleep. Today I watched the diving on TV and think that next time we go to the swimming baths mummy and daddy will show me how to dive. It looked such fun and sometimes people makes big splashes, I love big splashes. We picked lot of berries on Friday and mummy make lots of blackcurrant juice. It is going to rain and blow tonight so I must send daddy out into the garden to bring in my toys!

My cuz Felix

Mummy was away earlier in the week to visit my cousin Felix. She took some pictures and he looks so cute I just had to post one here. Here he is modeling my Sino. Not sure if I used this one when I was small but I think the colour very orange. I did some riding on mummy's back today. I enjoyed that lots and I also did some painting with daddy. He wasn't too impressed when I got green and grey muddled up. I played with Nellie this morning and daddy played with us. I wonder what I will do this evening and whether I will be able to talk to Felix on the phone or not.

Mummy's home

Mummy is home. She has been visiting my cousin Felix. I hope that he liked my mummy as I think she is the best mummy in the world. I hope he liked the present we bought for him. I liked it lots but wasn't allow to cuddle in. I normally cuddle Bruno when I fall asleep at night. There as lots of puddles at dagis at the moment and I had lots of fun jumping on them today. Luckily I was wearing my rain clothes and didn't get wet. Daddy was quite good at looking after me. Alas he is not as easily manipulated as he used to be, but I still managed to control him most of the time.

More trees came down!

The other day two men came to take down two of the neighbour's trees. This I think was a good as they dropped a small one on their roof the other day and these trees would have squashed the house and perhaps our newly painted shed as well. The men made lots of noise so I wore my ear-muffs so that my ears didn't get hurt! I played in the sun and enjoyed myself. There is now lots more light in our garden and we can see a long way. This weekend mormor and morfar went to look at my new cousin, Felix. Mummy goes to see him this week. I wonder if he can say more than waaahwaahwaah yet?

My artwork!

I started taking my own photos, just like mummy and daddy! It is very exciting and a bit special. Since the commenting on my blog has been a bit boring lately (but we know you are reading the blog!) I am now organising a little competition with my photos. Let me hear your guesses on what I have been taking photos of! Someone might win a nice and special price :-)

Resting after mormor

On Monday I played all day with mormor and had lots of fun. Today I had to take it easy as I was still tired after yesterday. This evening we went for an evening walk around the block and stopped at the playground. I like playgrounds. Nelly came to visit me today and we saw a hedgehog. I think it was the mummy hedgehog of the two baby hedgehogs I saw last week with mormor. I also went to daddy's office today and helped him with his desk work. I also dropped some pins on the floor and watched daddy crawl around the office picking them up. That was lots of fun.

Fun on the floor

I have had lots of fun this weekend even if it has been rainy and cold. I let mummy and daddy sleep until 08:30 this morning and then I played with my trains. Daddy put the door back on the shed but didn't get much more painting done as it looked like rain and we were going to a toy shop. I like toy shops. We also went to the recycling point and got rid of lots of things. I think the lawn needs cutting and I told daddy that he must cut it tomorrow. Mormor is coming so he will have lots of extra time. We had couscous and meatballs for dinner. I hope we get it again as it was yummy. I made very little mess, really.

Experimenting with my voice

I am trying to understand what daddy does in the office. I think it is odd to pretend to be an elephant but it does mean that I can make lots of new noises. I like making noise. I also like doing exercise. This morning I have been reading mummy's yoga books and have just done the cobra. It was easy. Daddy tried and thought it hurt. I wonder what we will be doing today besides watching daddy paint! Yesterday mummy cleaned the food cupboard in the basement and found lots of things that had passed their best by date! Lots of weird things that daddy took to the warm compost bin. I wonder what else mummy and daddy have hidden around the house. May be I have a good hunt around today!

mummy and me

Mummy and I have lots of fun and lots of hugs together. This week the weather has been super good and I have been to the beach and to the adventure playground and I have played lots in the garden at home. There was a big thunder storm last night, but I missed it as I was cuddled up in my bed. Today we went shopping for food and I got to eat a banana in the shop. We have picked and eaten loads of strawberries this week. I hope we have more next week. They are so good with cream. I have used my swings lots this week and I have used my double swing with Nelly. I like it lots. Thank you morfar for fixing it. Daddy is still painting the shed....