Just Little Bear

Cheetah is having a holiday with grandparents on his dad's side of the family. So this week and next, Little Bear is an only child. This afternoon she came for a visit and so she had Grandma, Grandad and Mummy all to herself.
She made the most of it.

First, she rushed straight past Grandma, so she could get inside and see who else might be there, what there was to play with and what mischief she could get up to.

Once inside, she realised that there were no little cousins here today.  She had no one to play with, but she did have the whole house at her disposal.

And not just the house.  Grandad was home.  So she chased him with a butterfly net (or butt fly net if Dragon is talking) until she caught him.

That was so much fun that she decided to catch herself too.

Next she did one of her favourite things and put herself in the stroller and buckled herself in.  She just likes to  sit in it, not necessarily go anywhere.  That lasts for about 30 seconds and then she wants someone to unbuckle her because she can't do it herself.  One day we might leave her in there for . . . 
say . . .  five minutes, but I don't think I could stand the racket for even that short time.

I told her that I would only unbuckle her if she gave a really nice smile for the camera.

Worked well, didn't it?  I'll have to remember that little manipulation.

Then it was Grandad's turn to do some catching.  Believe it or not, she was saying "Cheese" while hanging upside down.  I guess she must have wanted this one snapped.

Last, she managed to squeeze in a bit of Jacaranda tree climbing before going home.  This is big brother, Cheetah's, favourite thing to do when he comes over.  Well . . . sitting in the Jacaranda tree and playing computer games, but not at the same time.  We do have a several computers, but so far we have not installed one in the Jacaranda tree.  I'm sure Cheetah would think that was a great idea though.

Little Bear didn't really want her photo taken in the tree and kept trying to turn away.  I kept saying, "Don't forget to hold on tight!"  In the end, she did hold on and I got a photo of her looking at the camera.

It was getting late when we buckled her into her car seat and waved good bye, and I'm guessing that she was unhappy about something because we could still hear her yelling at Mummy when the car was half way down the street.

That's our Little Grizzly Bear.

School shopping

No, this is not a picture of Mummy McT doing Lion's school shopping.


















This was after the event. I didn't go school shopping (ie. shopping for the stationery which Lion needs for school). I stayed home with Little Bear and Dragon so that the mummies (Mummy McTavish and Chimera) and school boys (Lion and Cheetah) and baby Monkey could get the shopping done a little more efficiently. Appart from MMcT leaving the list at my place, I think it all went well. Back at home I had a chance to take a few more photos.

I know that the top photo is toooo off-centre and crooked, but it is so hard to get everyone looking at the camera at the same time that I considered centred and straight to be luxuries I didn't have time to worry about.

This is my favourite photo of the day.  It is difficult to catch Little Bear looking straight into the lense and to have such a happy animated expression is the icing on the cake.  Why does she have her thumbs on her teeth - who knows?  Holding her dentures in maybe???  It just adds to the cuteness.

Admission:  Mummy McT actually snapped the bottom photo. Fortunately she inherited my interest in photography and not my talent :)

Bring back the smile

I love the way her smile lights up her eyes in this photo.

Actually she can still smile some of the time. This afternoon she was even giggling as she placed a cold, wet face washer on grandma's bare belly. Of course I had to overact a lot about how cold it was -the air temp was about 27 Celsius.

But Little Bear is not well and hasn't been 100 percent for months. She really didn't like wearing the pee collecting gizmo in her nappy this afternoon. Being sick is the pits when you are two. Let's just hope that the antibiotics fix the unknown bugs that are causing repeat high fevers and night time vomiting and chest infections. Let's also hope that the high doses and extended time on antibiotics don't knock her immune system out of whack even more.

Let's pray that Little Bear can be back to her lively, happy, impish self asap.
I'm just greedy for more of that gorgeous smile.

Dragon, Little Bear & the Bubble Party

Here is the video from the Little Bear & Aunty Mummy McTavish birthday celebration.

Dragon is such a party animal!