may, 6th - 15 months....

day 453:

15 months old today. so...the 15 month round-up....

Dimensions & Weight:

Length - 80.3 cm

Foot Length - 12.7 cm

Hand Length - 10.2 cm

Ear Length - 6 cm (no change)

Hair - lots of hair..with curls....

Teeth - a new tooth and plenty of bumps....so four on the bottom and four on top

Weight - not sure

Words - dada, mama, baba, duck, dog, uh-oh, bye-bye, bubbles, toes, more, baby, shoes, door, nose, eyes, hat, ball, doll, zozo (for zozo the zebra), pup (for up), nono (for my mum), nana (for una, the doll), mimi (for limi) and an obsession with row-row (as in row-row-row your boat......) 


***oops, forgot these ones: tah, light, boo, horse, uh-oh, wow

This Month's Likes & Dislikes:

Likes -

• dogs {see day 436}
• hiding things and then we have to say....is it under your foot? (lifts foot), is it behind your ear? (pulls on ear), on your head? (pats her head), under your arm? (lifts arm) etc. etc.......we can play this for ages
• us entertaining her with renditions of row-row-row your boat.....with actions
• swimming with penguins at boulder's beach {see day 438}
• in fact, just swimming....loves swimming and underwater dips.....

• dive-bombing pillows....still
• walking...everywhere
• blowing rasberries....yes, seriously, STILL...
• reading to us

• touching the sky when up on A.'s shoulders
• cousins {see day 439}

• being a flower girl {see day 440}
• seeing plenty of wild dogs {see day 443}
• doing up clips....especially in the pram

Dislikes -

• growing teeth....still
• sitting in a buggy when you could be walking instead
• coming home after a holiday {see day 447}

may, 1st - the test kitchen....

day 448:

i liked the look of this place in Cape Town........we didn't get a chance to try it this trip......

you can read more about it here.

apr, 30th - end of the holiday....

day 447:

this is Limi in the back of a black cab on the way home from the airport......this is exactly how we all feel at the end of a good holiday.

apr, 29th - britannia....

day 446:

while Britain was celebrating the Royal Wedding on the 29th, we were watching from afar in South Africa.

apr, 27th - incredible lightness....

day 444:

there are some places that make you feel just like yourself......africa is that place for me....i will always love travelling, from stepping on a plane to stepping off onto some dirt road in the middle of nowhere...but no matter how long we stay in London or where we live in the future, I will always consider Africa, with its' warm people, incredible animals, colourful (often brutal) history and beautiful landscapes, home......

it's just where i feel most like me.

apr, 26th - limi's first game drive....

day 443:

the african bush.....early morning drives, covered in blankets, crisp air, smell of grass and trees, searching the horizon for animals....Limi's first game drive.

the problem is that her words only extend to dog and cat....so we had plenty of buck-dogs.....

striped dogs, long necked dogs.....

water dogs.....and hooray, at last a cat.

apr, 25th - down at the boma...

day 442: 

for the last night of the wedding festival we had dinner in the Boma....a Boma is traditionally where livestock were kept in the middle of a African village. but now, Bomas are also open air enclosures in game reserves (generally free of any animals......lion, giraffe, hippos) where you can enjoy a dinner under the African sky.

all the guests were piled into game vehicles and driven through golden light down to the boma at the edge of a vast lake.

over gin & tonics and ice-cold beers, we watched the sun dip behind the water and i wondered when next my family would all be together....it's tough when we're flung far and wide...but hey, it's the same for many people....never enough time with family.....

and to finish a wonderful weekend......marshmallows roasted in the fire.......

  

apr, 24th - happy easter....

day 441: 

Limi, if you're reading this in the future, this giant Easter Bunny that terrified you and made you cry, was in fact your dad......A. did question whether it was a good idea to dress up as a fluffy, tasty looking animal in a game reserve.

apr, 23rd - wedding in pictures....

day 440 continued...

and finally, a family portrait.......