Alice and I took a stroll down to Coogee yesterday evening. Taking her out in the pram guarantees a good sleep and it was a beautiful day. We wandered past numerous other parents, who had obviously had the same idea and then along the beach - we saw joggers, beach volleyball games, numerous "boot camps", a local rugby team body surfing.... It made me very thankful to have had a baby in summer (and in Sydney). Toni and Vanessa, you have my admiration for enduring winter with a newborn! Alice doesn't even own a coat and the great outdoors is a frequenty used sleep/settling aid for us.
Alice is becoming much more interactive now. She smiles, coos and chats. We recently went to Sam and Vikky's wedding (a friend of Stu's from university) and she charmed the guests by sleeping through the service, cooing during dinner and taking a bottle quietly through the speeches. She loves music and can always be calmed by dancing about (often to her favourite John Williams CD - which her father brought to our union), so we did a little of that while the photos were being taken and the band were playing. Here we all are at the wedding. I don't know why the horizon isn't level, while we are. Anyone? Still, a beautiful place to get married - I think you'll agree. I can quite see why they didn't go back to Thame to do it.
And the other reason we love living in Australia? Childhood experts here advocate dummies for the first 3 months at least. Thank goodness for some peace!
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What a lovely photo of you all.......and you both look tanned so I am very jealous. I am a big fan of the dummy too but now have to get up a few times in the night to put it back in Madison's mouth if she wakes up without it. She is almost putting it back in herself but always backwards at the moment...so until she works out how to swap it round, I will just have to keep getting up!
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