Fancy Footwork

The 5th of January for some reason saw a quite late tea-time for Anna. She is still at the age when human babies (apparently) don’t discern as much between using their feet instead of their hands for manipulation objects (or humans ) around them, compared to older children and adults. This means that if she …

Nayelsa, Nayelsa!

As promised, this post marks the first 2010 photos of Anna. The 3rd of January saw us still at Irina’s parents’ house, with Igor, Losha and Katya popping round to continue the New Years celebrations. Oh, and “nayelsa” is a Russian informal word for “I’m full”. (Please no more food. Yes it is delicious, yes …

Shoe, Boxes – Not Shoe Boxes

I think is the last photo of Anna from 2009 – 28th December to be exact. The boxes you can see were originally bought from Ramstore as a storage system for all her toys. When we got them home, and screwed the shelves together, and constructed the fabric boxes, we discovered just how petite they …

Round Belly, Square Eyes

One of my earliest New Years’ memories is being allowed to sit in the living room, watching cartoons on TV, and eating my breakfast cereal at the same time. It now sounds very silly, but back then, this seemed like the most extravagant of treats, and I can still remember watching Road Runner avoid Wile …

Almost Dancing

Shot on the 26th of December, here we have another video of Anna not dancing as much once the camera was rolling We have already backed up the Wheels On The Bus DVD, and use the copy, as if it were to break (Anna likes standing on top of DVD cases, I’ve since moved them …

Take Cover…

Or at least wear something that hides stains really well the next time you are around Anna when she is about to enjoy some pasta and sauce. Regular readers will remember the previous photos of Anna’s mildly inaccurate food placement photos before, but I really think this one catches the moment pretty well. Namely her …

Christmas Day Meal

After saying goodbye to Walton we relaxed for a few hours at home with Anna, and then travelled over to JohnA’s for a delicious Christmas Day meal. This was the first year I wasn’t at home in Britain for Christmas with Mum et al, so I was really glad to be in a friendly and …

Christmas Day Morning With Anna

So, these photos of Anna were taken on the 25th of December… Something about that date rings a bell… Oh well, sure it’ll come back to me. Walton had seen in the transition of 24th/25th with us, and wasn’t driving home straight away for once, meaning we could all have a few drinks together properly, …

Boxing Day With Ira’s Parents

The day after Christmas (26th December) saw Irina’s parents come to our flat to spend some time with Anna, and enjoy a meal together. Whether that day was actually Boxing Day or not, I’ll leave you to decide. Wikipedia has a good article on the subject, but as we don’t live in a country where …

Opening Presents With Anna

As previously mentioned this was Anna’ first Christmas, and so we wanted to make sure she had a good day, even if she was totally oblivious to the date We had a couple of presents for her to open on the 25th, a few more on New Years Day (which is celebrated a lot more …

Christmas Eve Dancing From Anna

You may remember I received some sort of automated warning from YouTube as they noticed I had a Christmas tune on in the background when we recorded Anna dancing. Well assuming they don’t remove it before this post goes live (a gap of four days or so), you should be able to see it below…

Caught Up With Anna’s Photos!

I’ll need to check our camera at home (as I write this post, we are at Irina’s parents’ house, but it looks like these pictures taken on the 27th December as Oleg was visiting us before returning to Moscow, might be the latest of her. Sorry it took a while to return to almost live …

Anna And Oleg

The 15th of December saw Oleg arrive, after a gap of around two years since we had last crossed paths in the real world. This post contains images we shot on our camera from the evening. In the next post, you can see Oleg’s somewhat higher quality photos, that you may already have seen over …

Two Spoon Anna

The WordPress image upload gallery function is playing up once more, but this time waiting around doesn’t seem to have magically re-attached these images to a post, so back to individual posting again. Anyway, the evening of the 15th of December saw Oleg arrive, and before he got to ours, Anna had her evening meal. …