Alina is sitting up!

Alina likes to sit in her bed and hold on to the rails...

And she learned to sit up herself! She was doing it beautifully, and we even managed to get the camera to capture it :)

Alina goes for a walk in London

We went to London for a walk last weekend.

Alina was excited being carried around face forward in carrier. She thought she was flying, she was kicking her legs and hands. She didn't even want to hold anyones hand, just be on her own. She was singing and smiling, such a hapy girl!

We stopped at the pub, and Alina loved the beer. She saw the little bubbles in the pint, and wanted to catch them with her hand. She would have happily drunk it if we allowed her :)

It was a nice day, and amazingly it went smoothly, Alina slept in her pram & ate milk & meals at right times. We'll do it again!!!

Alina is driving a car

Alina has discovered yet another interactive toy - a car. At the moment she can only sit on it, and rock a bit. Also there is a wheel, of course, and some buttons that make noise.

Alina loves it! She loughs, and blows raspberries imitating car sounds.

John usually puts her for a ride before or after breakfast, I took this video when she was already there for a while - a bit tired.

Half-Birthday

On Saturday Alina was 6 months, wow! How quickly time goes, but on the other hand feels like she has been with us forever! She is developing every day, it's nice to discover the World again through her...
Alina got really interested in touching things: she finally touched Buffy for the first time, and got excited pulling cats hair. Buffy was very calm and patient, didnt complain at all :)

After Buffy she also got interested in buttons on my jacket, she could almost pick them up!

Also we tried her in the "jumper" again, she has grown so much since last time, she can reach the floor now! She is almost 2 inches longer!

Picnic in Richmond

Today we went to Richmond to celebrate Nastya's birthday. It was a picnic in the garden under trees. There were many other families with children, all a bit older than Alina. There was even a bouncy castle for them to jump on.
Alina was shy at first, and even cried a bit, so many strange people came over to say hello. But then she started enjoying it, smiled to everyone. She loved watching other kids playing and jumping on the castle.
The main news was closer to the end when we put her on tummy on the towel. It was on a small slope, and she started slowly crawling backwards. So then John put her facing the other way around, and she really tried hard to crawl. John was slightly pushing her feet, and she would put her bum up, and then move all body forwards. She even learned to put the arms into front again.
Alo this morning she was pushing the toy forwards with one hand, and then moved forwards a bit trying to reach it all by herself.

Alinka segodnya pytalas polzat'. U neye uzhe namnogo luchshe poluchayetsya. John yey chut-chut podtalkival pod nogi, a ona sama dvigalas vpered golovoy vniz, i dazhe ruki mogla perestavlyat' vpered. Molodets devochka!