I LOVE Peppa Pig.  Here’s a little look.  My fav line in this episode is “naughty messy Daddy”.  If we lived in England we would definitely be visiting Peppa Pig world http://www.peppapigworld.co.uk/  Today Poppy watched Mummy Pig’s Birthday, it was so cute.  They even do episodes in French!!

Anyways, back to the baking.  Poppy really enjoys little tasks so baking is just perfect for her.

She meticulously placed the cake cases into the pan and loved using her utensils for the stirring.

Most of the time her fingers and mouth were somewhere near the ingredients!

15 minutes must feel like eternity to a little girl waiting on her fairy cakes.

But then it came time to make the icing.  Unfortunately I didn’t have the heart to share these cakes with the neighbours, not after she started eating the icing right out of the bowl.

It took alot of concentration to do the icing, I didn’t think she had it in her.

She was very pleased with the outcome.  She spotted we were missing a Peppa pig. She probably ate it earlier.

The best bit of all, liking the icing off and leaving the cake altogether.

We really couldn’t have asked for nicer weather for our walk around the (free!) Botanic Garden over in Ft. Worth. There was no blazing, blinding Texan sun or sky full of clouds, only a pleasantly breezy autumnal afternoon. Truly a photographer’s dream!

When we arrived, not one but two latina gals were having Quinceañera pictures taken (see the first photo below). We told Poppy they were princesses. As they were walking towards us, Poppy was walking down the steps and subsequently tripped and feel on her side. Right in front of the princesses! Don’t worry, Piggy, even princesses fall down sometimes.

After reviewing the pictures, I realize that I didn’t really get any of Henry. It’s difficult when he’s usually attached to Mummy in one way or another. It’s a shame, too, because you don’t just want to wait until your baby grows up to take pictures, but at the same time, it can be tricky to snap photos of an infant. Remember my post about passport pictures?

On a sidenote: I’m not sure why a garden should need to specify itself as botanic. Aren’t all gardens botanical?!  These are the sorts of questions that keep a linguist up at night–that and a 2 month old!

Here is Poppy singing a little bit of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Henry enjoying the entertainment.  Henry is exactly 2 months old in this video and Poppy is 2 years and 3 months.

So, once a day Poppy jumps in her stroller and goes on a walk to see the “goks” as she called them for a while.  Most of the time she goes with Granny and Grandad, sometimes Daddy goes too but this occasion Mummy tagged along with Henry.

Now one day Granny spoke to the owners of this backyard farm and they told her that the goats pretty much eat anything and she was welcome to feed them.  So now, she saves up all the peelings from the vegetables and the old stale bread and takes them along to feed the animals.

Poppy got upset at the beginning of the video because the goats were being sloppy and dropping their food on her.  But  my favorite part of the movie is when Poppy says “Llama come on”, miss bossy boots.  And 5:21 is my favourite moment of the movie.

Oh and I just want to make a note that this was the first time Poppy fed the goats herself. Up until this point she was too scared to get her hands near them.

Face to face

As you can see on Saturday Poppy literally came face to face with a giraffe at Dallas zoo.    While Drew was attending a Bible translation conference here at GIAL, we (my parents and I) packed a picnic and the babies in the car and headed to the zoo.  Drew had snagged us a bargain of a deal getting our tickets for $1 each, when originally $12.

This is the 3rd zoo I’ve been to this year so I feel like I’m becoming a zoo connoisseur and I think this was my favorite.  They had a whole section dedicated for children, where all the farmyard animals were and a nice play area with a water feature that Poppy could splash about in.  The weather is still extremely hot here so the water was perfect for cooling off, I had a little paddle myself.  Henry slept most of the time but at 6 weeks old that’s not surprising.

Here are just a few photos from the day.

Look at me Han Han!

Poppy in the cool mist

Lions

This is what happens when I ask her to "say cheese"

The impressive entrance to the zoo