Adventures in Izzie-land

Here she comes, on her wobbling legs, speeding up when she thinks she's going to fall, walking down the hall towards us. She's wearing striped tights and bright pink converse trainers, a denim pinafore, a clip in her curls, a soft green merino hoodie with little ribbons on the cuffs. She's giving you a big grin and squishing up her eys, she's got 6 teeth with a big gap at the front.

Izzie woke up at 4 am freezing cold and moaning half heartedly. I got up to her and brought her into our bed to warm her up, she cuddled in and rested her head on my shoulder. She hugs properly, putting both her arms as far around you as she can and resting her head on you. (Some times I feel her come up behind me, wrap her arms around my leg and rest her head on my knee.)

She didn't go back to sleep as i'd hoped but sat up giggling, crawled to the end of our bed and carefully slid down onto the cold floor.

She headed out into the hall.

I let her wander round the house, playing on her cow, climbing into both her trolleys, laughing at her dolls and teddies. She's real little kid as in she likes to play with toys and cuddle things and she laughs at stuff that is designed to make kids laugh - whereas Bax has a more cynical way of looking at things.

I changed her into much warmer pjs and she laughed at me.

I made her a bottle of milk and sat on her squishy chair with her on my lap. She drank her milk while clutching her dummy tightly in her other hand. Every now and then she swapped the two over and sucked vigorously on ehr dummy holding her milk out at me. her eye lids drooped and I carefully lowered her back into bed. She rolled over and went back to sleep.

In the morning as I got her dressed for the day, she wriggled and growled at me, desperate to escape and waddle off to explore. Bax came over and pinned her down, blowing long grose raspberries on her chubby belly. That kept her still.

Then off she goes today to spend the day with Nana Pat, doing chores and running errands - happy little button.

Another little image to leave you with: Bax being driven through Auckland City, he sees the SKY Tower through the window and using perspective he lines his finger up so it's sitting ontop of the Tower's spiky top - says to Daddy "Ouch Daddy Sharp finger" he pretends to prick his finger tip on the spikey tower.