no matter what she says.The DLP's now been swimming four times; twice at a Water babies class and twice Christine's taken her with Dylan and Katie, his mother, who we met at the ante-natal class. Well, we met Katie and Steve, but you know what I mean.
Marnie does seem to like being in the water - she's kicking nicely and doesn't really complain when she's submerged, unlike other babies who seem to spout water, not having been ready to go. And when her (water) nappie fits it doesn't drag her back too much...
Martin / Helen, wet nappies don't have to sag to their knees, even if it does help with the civil engineering :-)That's really the big Moo news. She's growing nicely, if a little on the petit side. She protests loudly at going to sleep at night, but is pretty quiet other than that. She's been grumbly over the last couple of days and is going through another change of routine / feeding times, but she's also interacting a lot more - playing with things, grabbing, munching (the record so far is a blanket, a hand and a dummy in her mouth at the same time). She likes flying, but we haven't gone as far as sweeping the floor with her yet, Peter.
All in all, Christine said it best the other day. Things seem to be settling down a bit. I'm sure there're a few surprises down the road, but it feels like we've got the basics covered. Unfortunately, that means Christine feels like little more than a feeding machine, but she is doing a fine job of looking after The DLP and the house. Not sure what's going to happen when she goes back to work in September. Well, one thing's pretty sure - we checked out the university day care centre and it looks lots of fun. Spending the day playing in jelly or painting yourself - what more could a baby ask for?
On other fronts, my new role at the University is...interesting. I didn't realise as a research assistant I was basically a dogsbody, albeit one employed as a supposedly vaguely intelligent one, but it's rapidly become clear I need to set out some of my own objectives to get what I want from the next 12 months, otherwise I'll be doing nothing but helping the others in the group achieve their goals. Which I have no problem with, but I'd like to get something from my time there as well.Check out John Watt's newly revamped photo website and the fancy '3D' interface. You'll need to download an app called piclens, but it looks a fun interface for an image heavy site. Not sure about the resolution of the '3D' images, but as an idea I quite like it.
I've also been tinkering with a site called Squidoo, putting together a lens (page) on the reality behind the Indiana Jones movies. I shared a Lens of the Day when Skull was released, but it doesn't seem to have much impact!
As always there are more pics of The DLP in the Marnie Flickr set.
