July 2009

Well, it's still rather hectic in our household right now. Actually I rather suspect that isn't ever going to change from now on. Asa is very lucky to have 2 big brothers who rather like him. Gabriel likes him ever so very much and likes to snuggle him and lay on him and stroke him and just everything him. He's still a bit young to be trusted not to accidently hurt him though so it's lucky that Linus is just about trustworthy enough that he can be asked to keep an eye on Asa while I am out of the room.

The other day Asa was having a nice lie down on the sofa, probably worn out from doing some being alive or something. I had to go to the kitchen for an urgent tea mission and so left Linus in charge of the baby. A couple of moments passed and then Linus's head pokes round and says "Mummy, I've hidden Asa". "hmmm", I think, "that could be very bad". I come back into the sitting room to find this:

After he was done hiding, we went off on a lovely holiday (Asa's very first holiday in fact) down to Devon to visit Nan and Grandpop. I am not sure that Asa really noticed he was on holiday, most things in his life stayed the same- same annoying brothers, same daddy who makes him cry, same booby that makes him not cry... and so on. We did, however, manage a trip out to the gnome reserve where he was transformed into a lovely little pixie-like creature: