art class

It's been a busy weekend of parklife - Kew gardens yesterday and Battersea Park today. But Sylvia found time for some art. Top left is her being a princess visiting the man in the moon. Top right is Aunty Cara waving. Bottom left is Cara's boyfriend Tom doing "this" (waves arms like a surf dude). Bottom right is Daddy doing a handstand.

Sylvia is off trampolining tomorrow morning. Gotta go . . . .

Fiona's christening

Sylvia and I just spent a long weekend in Berlin at her cousin Fiona's christening. It was really nice: beautiful church, friendly minister, sunny weather and great party in the shadow of churchyard tree after.

I'll write more about the trip later, but here's a couple of photo's for now (and there's lots more here).

First walk

Here's a blast from the past. It's two videos I took of Sylvia in April 2003 just when she had just learned to walk - these were the first real walks she did. It's in Hyde Park in London and I think the slope helped her roll along. (Technical note: I had to rotate the videos - I took them sideways! - and the aspect ratio has ended up a little odd).

Ballet show

Sylvia's ballet class had an end-of-term "show" on Weds, which was more of an open lesson than a performance, but none the worse for that, as these little vids hopefully show. (By the way, there's no sound in case you were wondering - need a better camera for that!)

biker girl

Sylvia has a new, and very pink, bike. You'll see from the pics it has shiny tassels and a carry seat for dollys. It also has stabilisers which some people have said would be more use to me, given my recent run-ins with tarmac.

Anyway Sylvia really likes it, has got the hang of steering and the brakes (most of the time). So we've spent all day on Clapham Common today, cycling and playing football. The weather was warm but not hot - all in all a perfect day. Sylvia's highlight was probably her ice cream, as ever, and her favourite is currently mint choc chip.



There are more pictures of the bike and general park larking about here.

Backyard ballet

These videos are from wednesday night when sylvia was (sort of) showing me what she had been doing at ballet class that afternoon. She was a bit reluctant, so I'm not sure she was trying too hard, but still fun. Her class show is next week.

Rowing a bike

Here's a few pics from Sylvia's trip to Edinburgh, and a kind of farm/activity centre. Sylvia was very taken by the bikes that you row. There's more pics here.