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 ;)