This morning just as I was getting ready to leave for work I came back through into the dining room to see Laura and Abi, but Laura was in there on her own. - Abi had gone off for an explore as she’s been doing more and more recently. When I got through to the living room, I saw Abi had got some thing in her mouth, and unusually it looked quiet big, so I went round to investigate further and discovered she had the lid to our Nandos’ peri-peri ketchup in her mouth covered in ketchup and the bottle was laying on the floor next to her.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading a selection of articles on design and design theory, so I decided to make some tweaks to my blog design to try out some of these ideas. Overall the new design is pretty similar to how it looked before, but some of the key things I’ve changed are: Tabs now look a lot better</h4 I’ve changed the tabs to use a roll-over image instead of CSS colours and hackery.

After a lot of annoyances with the rubber mulch that we’d decided on previously for our garden: Abi nearly choking on a piece of mulch; Cats using it as a litter tray; and it loosing it’s colour; we decided we’d try a lawn instead. So last Friday I spent my lunch break laying a new lawn in our back garden. I worked from home for the day so that I could be here for the delivery and to make it easier to get the turf down quickly.

Abi seems to doing so much more everyday at the moment, it’s been wonderful watching her developments and seeing her different adventures. The other morning she cleaned her teeth with me after having her face washed. She’s so sweet with her little toothbrush - not that there’s any teeth there to clean yet. Yesterday and today she’s taken to reaching up to the edge of the desk or the table on tip toes and almost hanging off it with her little fingers.

Abi Abi has reached a stage where she’s very mobile and getting more adventurous by the day which is lots of fun. She can now crawl really well and will explore the room we’re in and venture into the rooms on either side on her own. She’s also been sleeping much better - last night she slept through till 5.10, had some milk and is back asleep now. I guess all the activity is tiring her out.

Abi seems to have a fascination with feet, and yesterday she decided to go after mine - finding them hilarious when she caught them :)

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Over Easter, we put the finishing touches to our Garden changes so we can at last use the garden again! We’d decided that we wanted to find a replacement for the paving that we’d feel happy with Abi playing on, and inevitably falling over on. We considered a few options, but the one we liked best and decided on in the end was rubber mulch. Firstly we had to remove the paving slabs, which came up much more easily than expected, although it was still a big job as they were fairly heavy.

Abi Getting Up on Vimeo

I just noticed that this would be my 300th blog post so I decided to do something a bit different. Firstly, I’d get my wife to write this post. Secondly anyone who comments on this post within the next week will win a prize - the better the comment, the better the prize ;) My blog started back on June 2003 with this insightful post. Since then I have explored life living in a foreign land, have pondered upon new advances in technological masterpieces such as Firefox and revealed my thoughts on life as a daddykins.