Homo Erectus- without holding on!

Blogs are like buses- you wait over a month for one, and then two come along in quick succession.

The main news here is that Katie has joined the ranks of the unaided Homo Erectus- she is of course a lot cuter than this hairy guy in the picture.

She is also saying lots of words, for example:

• Stairs
• Chair
• Tim
• Mummy
• Daddy
• Baby
• La La (from the Teletubbies)
• Pooh bear
• Banana
• More
• Brabas (meaning breakfast)
• Degaw (meaning drink)
• Bum
• Wee wee
• No
  

Time for an update?

So I have managed to post nothing at all for more than a month.

News that may be of interest is as follows:

Tim's slightly odd leg motion when climbing the stairs (amongst other activities) is due to extreme double jointedness of the ankles, knees and hips. The same is true of his fingers and wrists. There is no real problem with this but he has to learn to control his joints in more directions than the rest of us- which takes time.

I had a golf lesson- which Elaine got for me for my birthday. Stan had one at the same time for the same reason. I am pleased to report that I enjoyed it- and I was not too embarrassingly poor at it for a first attempt.

We bought a new iron- a steam generator no less. The old iron kept on tripping the electrics in the house. The new one is very powerful and ironing is now my favorite hobby.

I have found a place that roasts coffee to order- and am in the process of trying out all of the different coffees to find my favorite.
Elaine is going to a Spa tomorrow with her friends- meaning that I have a day alone with the children. We have planned all sorts of exciting things to do- whatever the weather.

Elaine has met this guy- Khaled Hosseini, the author of 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns.' She recommends them both highly. The first one is about a child who smuggles kites across international boundaries I think- the second is about a planet with lots of Suns- even more than Tatooine. She regards him as the best author in the world ever.


The other reason for not blogging is that I was given season 2 of Prison Break for my birthday by Roy and Sian- this is taking up lots of our time.