Our little girl is growing up

Not much on at the moment, after all the excitement of the wedding and having loads of family home. Granny Pat & Grandad have gone off to Australia, so we won't be seeing them for a while. Auntie Jean has gone to America, Uncle Lionel to Guyana, so it seems like everyone's left after the wedding. But, we go on as usual.

Michaela's best pal Owen has started walking now. She seems to love playing with him, even when he doesn't quite understand all of her silly games. See, we play a lot of chasing games with Michaela, so whenever Owen walks or crawls towards her, she screams because she thinks it's a great game! Poor Owen. But, she's started sharing now, so here she is giving him some of her strawberries.
After that lunch, we went through to the living room to play, but Michaela thought the best thing was Lesley's jacket! So she just wrapped herself up in it and sat there for ages. And whenever Owen went for the TV buttons, she pointed at him and yelled 'No!'. We think she's just very happy to be able to say no to someone else since she gets told no many times each day.
Another pal of Michaela's just started at the nursery this week. And apparently he was a bit upset during the day, so Michaela tried to console him! Hopefully that means she's no longer upset at us for putting her to the nursery (we've had three weeks with no tears when Mom drops her off).

Not much picture taking this last couple of weeks, so here's yet another bath one (with her bubble beard). Check out Michaela's big belly!
And the other family news is that Shelby and Dave got married on September 7th and had a baby girl (Samantha) on Septemebr 9th! Congrats to them. I'm sure Michaela can't wait to meet her new little cousin!

Today we went swimming and Mom is pretty sure Michaela was flirting with the life guard! Last week she kept making sure he was watching her and this week she decided to keep waving and saying 'hiya' at him!

Speaking of speaking, Michaela's says loads of words now - a sample of words from today are splash, shoes, hiya, ball, meat, up, socks & baby. Her speech is very good and improving every day. And what's even better is that she understands so much more than she can say. Mom was impressed because as we walked out of the house today, Mom told Michaela to wait and she did actually stop on the ramp until Mom came out! Here's hoping she'll continue to listen to her Mom ;)

Elise is 1

On the same day Auntie Joyce & Stevie got married, Elise turned one. Since we had the wedding to go to, Daddy took Michaela to see Elise on Sunday. Apparently they had quite a few fights over the toys.
Michaela loved playing with the doll, so we'll have to get her one of her own. Iris (Michaela's second cousin) was staying at our house for the wedding and Michaela was so lovely to her. Iris is three months old and Michaela kept wanting to give her a bottle or her dummy. So we should have realised she'd love to play with a doll too.
Auntie Ivanna came with loads of new clothes for Michaela. This is one of our favourite outfits on her, so we just had to get it on the blog. Doesn't she look cute?
Other news, Michaela says a few words now, but the most impressive is 'all gone' when she's finished her food! It amazes us everyday how much she is learning and taking in.

Michaela's first wedding

Auntie Joyce and Stevie got married on Saturday! It was the first wedding Michaela's ever been to (although we played in the hall instead of seeing the wedding as Michaela was just wanting to run around).

I can't remember if I mentioned before that Michaela now knows how to give kisses. It's the best thing ever to get a nice slobbery kiss from our little girl. Here's a few pics of her kissing her big cousins (Eve first, then Megan).

Here's a family snap of us at the wedding.
And this is Michaela with Stevie's son, Ronan. Michaela loves playing with Ronan and they spent a lot of time running around the hall before the meal.
The wedding was great. Loads of family were home for it. Our house was nearly full, but it was great!