“Nemo” - Abi

Abi now knows how to get her milk! First she’ll use the sign for milk: If we don’t notice, she do it again with sounds and then sometimes if we’re in the kitchen she’ll point to her bottles followed by the fridge and the microwave (just in case we’ve forgotten how to!). One time she even went as far as to get the empty milk bottle out of the recycling bin and hold it up to me!

I had an e-mail from British Gas today telling me that my bill is now ready to view online on their website. We use their paperless billing to reduce the junk that comes through the front door, but last time I went to their website (probably about 3 months ago when I got the previous bill) they’d move to a new ‘improved’ site: However, their website now only allows me to see one of my 2 accounts (2 - I thought I only had one as a dual-fuel customer!

Today we took Abi to get her first real shoes - we’d originally tried to go yesterday, but were too close to the closing time for Clarks so they could just measure her, but there wasn’t time to sell us any shoes (huh?). Today we managed to get there in plenty of time, had her measured again and then had to choose the shoes - we ended up with these lovely ones (which Abi really likes):

//flv_ricky('video_swim','abi-swim'); I know this video has been on Laura’s facebook for a while, but I wanted it here too as it’s sooo cute! Abi has been doing so well with her swimming and it’s lots of fun taking her. Last week, she had her first solo underwater swim - which meant she swam between the instructor and me underwater. (It was only a very short distance, but amazing!) Tomorrow is her last session of the current term, which seems to have flown by, but we’re now booked onto the next term so it’ll only be a weeks gap in between.

This morning just as I was leaving for work, Abi decided that she wanted to follow me as she often does and came crawling after me towards the front door and peered round it as I opened it and then continued to go through the doorway. At this point Laura picked her up and stood her on the floor a little way back from the doorway. She took a step to the side!

[Baby -Abi](http://samespirit.net/ricky/audio/abibaby.mp3) (mp3)

After problems with the weekend workshop that we’d originally booked on we finally got round to Abi’s first swimming lesson today. She seemed a bit nervous as we were waiting to get into the pool and watching the previous class finish as they did they’re underwater swims and being thrown towards their parents. However she loved it once we were in. She loved having the other babies (She was the oldest in the group for a change) around and watching them and seemed to have lots of fun with the lesson itself.

Can you go splish splish splish like a little fish? splish splish A fish that goes splish splish splish A fish goes splish splish splish But what goes splosh? A baby giraffe! <img src="http://samespirit.net/ricky/images/giraffe.png" style="float:left;"></img>Can you go splash splash splash like a baby giraffe? splash splash A giraffe that goes splash splash splash when he's having his bath splash splash A fish goes splish splish splish; a giraffe goes splash splash splash; but what goes splosh?

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