Photo update!

I always say to myself I should upload some pictures to this blog. Then I always forget to do it. So finally, I am doing it! Hooray!

Here are a selection of recent photo’s of the wonderful and gorgeous Lola Barbara Christine Child.

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Pretty cute isn’t she?!

I promise that in the next few weeks I will upload a video of Lola’s first 7 months – I promise!

(7 months) Da Da

In the week that the Beckhams gave their newborn daughter the middle name of ‘Seven’, Lola became 7 months old. 7 months? Where has 7 months gone? I’m sure she was only born a couple of week ago?! She’ll be a year before I know it, and that is scary.

Lola said ‘Da Da’ for the first time at the weekend, and she didn’t just make a noise that sounded like ‘Da Da’. She was sitting on the floor with her toys on Saturday morning, and she looked over and stared up at me with her gorgeous brown eye’s, smiled and said ‘Da Da’ – that memory will be with me forever, it is something I will never forget. She knew who I was and she (kind of) knew what I was called. ‘Da Da’. I like being called ‘Da Da’, but only when Lola says it, to everyone else it’s still Sam, or if I’m being told off, Samuel.

Along with ‘Da Da’ Lola has discovered that she can make a lot more noises now, things like ‘Bwaaa Bwaaa’ and ‘Mwah Mwah and many more. this means that we no longer suffer the screaming when she wants to eat or can’t sleep, and we are now treated to a repetitive ‘song’ – ‘Ba ba ba, Ba ba ba, Ba ba ba, Ba ba ba’. You would think it would get annoying, but it doesn’t. It’s actually pretty funny, and it’s just yet another thing she has learnt and discovered.

She got a whole new selection of toys a couple of weeks ago, more grown up toys, toys that make noises when she bashes them or eats them, toys that sing the same annoying song over and over again – JOY! But she really is loving her new toys, especially the stacking cups. I think the cups and her books are her favorite, I say this because she makes a kind of growling groaning noise when she plays with them. usually they end up in her mouth one way or another, but she does turn the pages of her books and we like to think that the growling is her reading the books – lets hope she picks up the words soon!

Lara’s been back at work for a little over a month now, and she’s doing really well. It’s taking time getting back in to the swing of things, but she’s working hard and doing the best she can, which is typical her. The new routine is tough on all 3 of us, especially Lara as she becomes the chauffeur in the morning, as we drop Lola off at Nursery, then she takes me down to the train station, then she drives down to my parents house, leaves the car there, then walks down to the train station by my parents house. We do this because my Mum (Nana) picks Lola up from Nursery in the afternoon and looks after her until we get home from work, so we need the car to be at my parents, so that we can then drive home. It’s a long and tiring day, but it’s all worth it, and hopefully it is only for the short term.