my flower (wawa)

This post is all about pictures and not so many words...because we now spend so much more time outdoors, at the beach, in the lovely gardens this city has, in Évora, Óbidos, Jardim do Mar, Quinta Margarida, Barreiros, and in a couple of days, Guadalajara, Madrid! You are a star at making friends and all of my friends are soooo lovely at pouring love on you, which you promptly respond to with your shining smile and a collection of gracinhas: you wave, you send kisses, you call people (quite bossily) and ask for songs and dance! I am so proud to be your mummy and nearly melted when celebrating Dia da Mãe with you, my first!!!
Today we went to the Fundação and you are 77,7 cm long and 9,800 kg heavy: a tall strong girl who now can stand on your own and galop crawl with feet, knees and hands involved! You love flowers my flower and children and splashing in the pátio in your pool and eating grass and chewing sand (you now have 6 teeth and two more surfacing!) and pointing at the swallows that we hear and see every morning at 7h30 when we say goodbye to Pai Baye!

Five and a half weeks since our last post and oh soooooo many things have happened: geographical leaps, climatic shifts and developmental milestones reached! Madeira, Belém, Algarve, Corgas in Serra da Estrela, Lisboa and Azenhas. Winter and Summer, Spring, Spring, Winter, Spring and Summer. Today the rain returned and you were not so pleased that you could not go to your usual perch on your mushroom in the playground, but it did leave you loads of carpet time to practice getting up on your own holding onto the sofa then sitting down again then up and then down and again and again an again... also you practiced the crawl you learned the day before yesterday: not an ordinary crawl of course, but an extraordinary, fast and hilarious crawl and you are getting faster and faster at it! You also learned to clap, and if i could learn to post videos we could all see you clapping happily to the sound of "Palminhas, palminhas, palminhas, palmotas, a mãe dá a sopinha e o pai dá as botas!" true to your madeiran origins!!!! You are also making loads of new sounds in your gibberish: you repeat papa, bebé, papapapapa to call your daddy and wawa (flower!)! Your face has learned a huge quantity of new expressions and you try to engage everyone and anyone in communication, be it a fast smile or a quick bzzzzzzz with your outstretched index finger begging to be touched by whoever will point at it (mental note: must film this!!!). You also wave byebye in the cutest way possible!!!!
And now the photos:

Madeira

















In Caniçal...first time without stockings...you just had to taste your tootsies!!!!



















Belém:


Your favourite perch on the mushroom to watch the bigger kids playing!





















Algarve:



























Serra da Estrela:
The leaning contabandistas&mascotes




























First time in the snow...brrrrrrr




Oceanário with Pai Baye:

















It was sooooo good to
be out with daddy and to see the fishies and penguins and rays and sharks and zzzzzzzzzzz.....we were there for 4 hours and you fell asleep half way!
















Pátio da Tia Rita e do Tio Pere:



























Martim's birthday party in Azenhas:

















Avó do Lado and her netinhos "Bazeza, i will save you!!!!



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