Park, Park, Park & Park

Here's a good one from the festivities last week-end.

I just put some recent photos into Flickr. Just click on the tile to see them all in big size.

Uncle Adrian spent some time over the weekend teaching C the finer points of Cricket. Adrian is a keen cricketer, and his skill helped him learn to hit a baseball pretty easily while he was in Canada. This puts C in a good position to learn both National Sports.

This is the first picture of C standing un-aided. He's looking quite dashing in his jacket, and I, of course, held his cocktail while he asked the ladies to dance.

Our friends Katrina and Edward gave us some beautiful 1920s-style 'bowl' champagne glasses as a housewarming present. And here is Nettie, complete with 'flapper hairstyle', looking very sophisticated and trying one out.

Idoia and Inigo, our friends from San Sebastian in the Basque Country, came over to London last weekend. Last time (in February) they brought their daughter Laia. This time they brought two other couples and we had a very jolly pub lunch at the Earl Spencer, Adam's new local. Here we all are outside our new house.

Alex and Mila, old friends of mine (Bella's) when I lived in Spain were over in England last week, and came to say 'hola'. Their little boy Daniel (aged 3) opted for an afternoon siesta, and Christian kindly lent him his pram.

On Friday, we went for' gouter' or 'tea' with one of our NCT friends, Claire Maxey and her baby Amelie. Claire is half French and is bringing Amelie up as a little French girl. While C munched on peas and rice, Amelie had something un peu plus exotique.

Daddy runs home from work most evenings and reads to C and gives him his bath. Here are the two of them just before bathtime. C is sucking a Christmas penguin given to him by Grandpa Wigan.

A little out of date, this, but two days after we moved in, we took a day off from unpacking and went to Goodwood (the races) with Christian's godfather Andy and his girlfriend Sophie. Here are A and C decked out in their finery. The racecourse had a creche so we left C for a few hours - a good lesson in independence for us as well as him. Horses are featuring quite a lot in C's life lately. Katrina has lent him a 'horse' walking trolley which he pushes back and forth on the ground floor of his new house.

C is happily ensconced in his new home now. He's got his own room, plenty of crawl space, and a school right across the street. The neighbors seem friendly also. A few final touches still needed, like internet access (at the local Starbucks now). That should be sorted later this week, so normal posting will resume then.

Well, the move was successful for the most part. No broken stuff, and C enjoys his new-found BIG bedroom. Much room for toys and crawling. Unfortunately, no internet at home yet though. May take a week or two. So posts may be a bit sporadic until then.

C now has his own Amazon Wish List . Good stuff- ranges from classic Maurice Sendac to Czech graphic designers from the 1960's. Just click on the link to the right.