A few other things

In all the excitement of my birthday and a busy week for Daddy I haven't told you about a few other things.  Actually Daddy's computer had a problem with its hard disc drive and had to go away to be fixed and he has just finished rebuilding all the data.  Its working like lightning now.

I like reading books with Mummy or Daddy now so I am very happy I have a good library to choose from!

On the August Bank Holiday Daddy went to do the Taekwondo demonstration at Verwood Rustic Fair and Mummy took some pictures for us.  Here is a photo of Daddy (far left) landing a kick on someone's tummy in the free sparring!!!  My Daddy is very active for an old bloke...he's alright my Dad!

Here I am having a shoulder ride at the show.  When all the ladies started doing Zumba dancing I was dancing on Daddy's  shoulders, which amused all the people around us.

Daddy did his very hard final coloured belt grading on Saturday 10th September...Now he has a black stripe belt and the next grading is for black!

I went tanking about on all fours at the fair and liked picking up bits of straw to play with and eat!

Birthday Boy!!!!

Yay, its my first birthday and nobody can believe I have been here a year already.

I am growing so fast and now have a good mop of very blonde hair.  I am crawling around like crazy and standing up whenever I can.  I even try to walk between things now.  Two teeth have come through at the bottom as Daddy found out the other day when I kissed him on the nose and made it bleed...oops!  I have my tongue out a lot and dribble too while I'm teething.

I had a fantastic birthday.  A huge brown box arrived in the post and then lots of smaller things came in coloured paper wrappings.  I even had a visit from Nana and Granddad.

I'm getting very good at bashing my peg board...I'm not always very selective about what I bash so Mummy and Daddy have to keep an eye!

Daddy knows I love baby wheels and he got me a super car transporter with some extra cars...zoom, zoom!

Nana & Granddad had just come back from holiday in Scotland and got me a lovely Scottish jumper as well as a Bug tow-along toy...lucky me!

Auntie S and JB got me some lovely animal books in a neat box and a lovely warm jacket.

Uncle and Auntie M and Oli & Misa got me the thing in the big box.....wow!  I so needed a ride-on!  I was rather overwhelmed by it at first when it made lots of noise, but now I love just sitting on it!  I will get the hang of scooting about soon, I'm sure

Daddy says our house is one big trip hazard but being surrounded by toys is pretty cool I reckon!

Mummy baked a number one cake

Here is my ladybird shape and tow-along toy

Here I am playing with the shapes in my special shark T-shirt that I got in Port Isaac

Thankyou everyone for such a lovely birthday!

XXXX

Al-Fresco at Ashley Heath

We all had a lovely afternoon and evening on Saturday in Nana & Granddad's big garden, where Granddad built a big fire so we could all eat outdoors.

We can always rely on Nana to make a huge and delicious spread of food for the grown-ups, but I still have to have the soft food my mummy makes me as I'm little.  I am getting two little teeth starting to show at the bottom though and can bite through breadsticks!

As usual I loved all the attention and love to see my cousins and my Uncle M and Auntie M.

I have been a manic Munchkin these last few days as there has been so much going on I have been very excited.

Apparently I'm dangerous with a large spoon so it got changed for some soft rings!

August Air Shows

Daddy loves aircraft and tires to get to a few air shows each year.  He says he can't wait to take me when I'm old enough!

He went to a brilliant evening show at The Shuttleworth Collection on 13th August where he saw some of the oldest flying aircraft in the World.  He then went to the Bournemouth Air Festival between 18-21st August.  The weather was rather mixed for the Bournemouth show but decent conditions appeared most of the time except on Thursday which saw over 2 inches of rain and was a total washout.

Here are a few photo highlights:

Bristol Boxkite...the pilots always get a big cheer when they land for flying these Edwardian machines

1910 Deperdussin....101 years old!

1910 Deperdussin

A pair of British classic jets

The Memorial Flight treated us to a dusk flypast in the nice evening light

Dusk parachuting

The amazing B-17 Fortress

These small aerobatic aircraft do what seems impossible!

At the end of this display on saturday Red 4 crashed and the pilot died...precision display flying at these altitudes is a serious business, not just light entertainment