I LOVE TRACTORS!!!!

I just love tractors and this summer has been great as it has been full of action-packed tractor fun!!

It started off in Cornwall - I saw lots of them there and mummy bought me a toy tractor which is still one of my favourite toys. Then last weekend I went to visit my Grandad on his boat (boats are another passion of mine at the moment too!) and we saw a big old tractor by the side of the canal and mummy let me sit on it and hold the steering wheel! Then a few days later the children from next door brought around a ride-on tractor that they had grown out of and said that I could have it! I have owned my very own tractor about a week now and I go out on it every day (unless it's raining, I can say "Go away rain" now and that is one of my favourite phrases as I love to play out and hate it when it rains!). On Friday my friends India and Jake came round and we all played with my tractor in the garden - Mummy said I was very good to let them both have a go on it - I even pushed them along on it, and then I got in my car and tried to race Jake who was on the tractor! And finally, yesterday mummy and daddy took me to a farm park where there was an old tractor like the one by the canal as well as ride-on ones like mine - and the best bit of all was that we got to go on a real tractor ride! The farmer drove the tractor and we sat in a trailer on the back on hay bales - it was great fun and we got to see lots of animals too! There was some piglets that looked very cute and I ran over to them but then one of them squealed so loud that it gave me a fright and I was a bit suspicious of them after that! I loved the goats and the chickens as they reminded me of Cornwall - my favourite place to go on holiday!

My 3rd Holiday - Cornwall 2008

Last week I went to Cornwall for a week with my family. We stayed in a lovely cottage that had pygmy goats outside which we could feed, and chickens that came into the kitchen! There was lots of toys in the cottage for me and my cousin Dharma to play with and a great play area with a really fast slide! We did lots of sightseeing and saw lots of tractors on our journeys - which I nearly always spotted before everyone else and mummy bought me a toy tractor which is now one of my favourite toys! We went to a zoo, a castle, the beach, swimming and we also went on a steam train which I thought would be fun but it was actually quite frightening so I had to hug mummy for the whole journey! Mummy and Daddy said I had my first nightmare that night and they think it was due to the noisy train! I still love Thomas the Tank though and all his friends! Grandad took his model plane that I loved to look at but mummy said it was not a toy so I couldn't play with it and Daddy took a kite that he flew one evening in a nearby field - I thought it looked just like a plane and it was exciting to watch! I only had one ice cream on this holiday from the "man man" (as I call the ice cream man's van) when we went to the beach. I had a tummy bug for a few days and so mummy didn't think I should eat ice cream and treats like that - but I'm making up for it now I'm back at home as Mummy will usually treats me to a finger of fudge or milkbar buttons when we walk down to the Co-op most days! Next year mummy says we will probably go back to Cornwall with my baby brother - he is in her tummy at the moment and today when I prodded mummy's belly button something pushed back at me! I like to use mummy's bump as a pillow but I don't really understand when mummy and daddy keep telling me to be nice to my brother!?!

I Just LOVE Zoos!

I went to the zoo at the weekend with mummy, daddy, grandma, grandad, my aunties and uncles and my cousin. It was great fun, I saw lots of different animals really close up and I can't wait to go back there again.

I haven't posted for a long time because mummy has been too sad as my nana went to heaven a few months ago. I have a photo of her in my nursery and whenever mummy shows it to me I say "nana" because I remember her and I miss her. Mummy says that Nana would be so proud of me if she could see how well I can walk now, I hope that I don't forget her.

Another day at the zoo!

Last Friday we went to the zoo again (a different one from last time!). It was a very cold day but we still had fun and I saw lots of animals I had never seen before. When we first got there there were some monkjack deer (bottom pic)roaming in the grounds right by our car and later we saw wallabies hopping around too! Even mummy liked seeing them as she said she had never seen a wallaby before! My favourite animals were the lemurs (second pic) as they were fun to watch, and also the baby elephant that kept slipping over in the mud made me laugh! Also the seals were great fun as we got to see them swim underwater. Mummy and Daddy said that I would've loved the penguins but I was having my afternoon nap by the time we got to them! I had a lovely day and mummy said we would go back there in the summer when it was nice enough to sit outside and have a picnic lunch. That evening we stopped at my Nanna's house and I walked two steps from Mummy to Nanna! I'm learning to do lots more now like getting my hands on the TV changer and pointing it at the TV and I also pick up the phone and say hello into it - which made everyone laugh the other weekend when I was playing with Uncle James' mobile phone!

A busy week

This last week has been quite eventful. Mummy has a new job and so I have spent three days this week with my Nanna, which I don't mind as she spoils me - plus there are two horses that live down the road and we go and see them and feed them cereal! India still comes around to my house one morning a week and we have fun watching C-Beebies and playing with my toys. India can walk now and her new game is to chase Thomas around the lounge - I can't wait to do that too! I have been practising this weekend actually. This morning I was stood up against my play pen and I let go to see how long I could stand all on my own - it was so exciting that it made me laugh! I tried it a few times, each time I dared to stand a bit longer, but then I lost my balance and fell back onto my noah's ark and I was upset but luckily daddy was there to pick me up for a cuddle! On saturday I saw my cousin, Dharma, and we went on some swings together which was great fun! We met up at our Grandma and Grandad's house and Grandad cooked dinner and I tried some for the first time and thought it was nice as it was different to my usual food! Mummy lets me eat almost anything now, in moderation, except for meat of course as I'm a vegetarian! Like today, I had some pear tart with chocolate sauce which was meant to be for the grown ups but I pointed at mummy's plate and spoon for so long that she let me have a few mouthfuls - it was delicious and everyone laughed at me as it looked like I had chocolate-coloured lipstick on!

A day in the life of me

Normally I wake up (nearly always in mummy and daddy's bed!) at 7.30am. Mummy gets me washed and dressed and we then have breakfast; then I sit down and watch CBeebies while playing with my toys. When I get restless mummy puts me in my walker car in the kitchen so that I can watch her cooking! At 12 I have my lunch (I nearly always have blueberries and once I pulled the whole carton off the table when mummy wasn't looking!) and at 1pm Daddy comes home for lunch and I squeal with excitement when he comes through the door and says hello to me! In the afternoon we go out either for a walk or to the shops and I have my afternoon nap. Then we come home and I have a practice at standing up as well as playing with my toys. At 5pm Thomas comes in from the garden looking for his dinner and I try and catch him as he runs past me and he makes me laugh until I realise that I am hungry too and then mummy says it is like feeding time at the zoo with me screaming and Thomas meowing for our dinners! Daddy comes home from work at 5.30 so I get to spend a little while with him before my bath and bed time at 7pm. It's even better at the weekend because I get to spend all day with daddy and we do fun things together like practicing walking and daddy sometimes plays his guitar and I nod my head along to the tune! Today mummy was very impressed with me at dinnertime because I ate most of my fish pie all by myself! I had been trying to get the spoon off her for a few days now but she kept telling me that I couldn't do it by myself - I tried to tell her by crying and not opening my mouth and trying to grab the spoon but she wouldn't let me until today when I was a my Nanna's house for dinner and Nanna gave me the spoon - mummy was so surprised and said that I could feed myself from now on if I want! Another thing that I have learnt to do this week is brush my own hair! Mummy was brushing my hair before bed last night and I grabbed the brush off her and did it myself which made mummy laugh! Other things I do that make mummy and daddy laugh are when I drop something I say "Uh oh" and if they say "Well done" or "Good boy" then I start clapping!

My 1st trip to the Zoo

Yesterday we went to the zoo and we saw lots of monkeys as well as giraffes, elephants, leopards, a lion, a huge orangutan, chimps, gorillas, meerkats, lemurs, pygmy goats, penguins and sealions! There was so much to see I didn't know where to look first, but my absolute favourite animals were the langur monkeys - they were very cute and they jumped around which made me laugh a lot! We had a picnic of peanut butter and jam sandwiches and yoghurt and animal biscuits, and then I slept on the way home and dreamed of jumping around with monkeys!