Nov 20 2010

Anna Close Up

Category: Anna's PhotosChrisM @ 3:01 am

I can’t remember what I was originally trying to take a photo of this day (22nd of April), but Anna apparently decided that a much better subject for the picture would be her face. Very close up. She was probably right 🙂

Anna Close Up

Anna Close Up

I would just like to point out that her dummy is not a permanent fixture. We obviously need to convince her to stop using it altogether, but for now she just uses it at night, or when she has woken up in bed, but has decided to just lie there quietly for a while. Unless she is in a bad mood, she is very quick to offer it to us, so it can be put away, before getting out of her crib. Speaking of which, she just stirred (it is 3am here), so I’ll check she is OK and return to writing another post or two in a few minutes.

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False alarm, she seems to have just murmured a little whilst turning in her sleep. The last three or four weeks she has managed to sleep through the whole night almost 100% of the time. Given that she was previously waking up for a feed two or three times a night still, this is a huge improvement. We have had very little dramatics over this change, and she just seemed to accept it (we did tell her each night that big girls sleep the whole night through, and that we would be there for her in the morning, or if anything was actually wrong in the night).

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Nov 20 2010

Burgers And Cocktails

Category: Anna's Photos,Eating OutChrisM @ 2:19 am

Not a lot to add about this photo, as I think I mentioned it all in the previous video. Again, they were taken on the 20th of April at TGI Friday here in Astana. For newcomers to this blog, I don’t combine photos and videos of the same event as this causes problems when Anna’s website automatically imports those posts.
Looking at her pictures now, it is sometimes easier to see how she has changed over the last seven months, as when we see her each day, so very little changes over night that you don’t really notice certain features developing. Anna that is, Irina’s face hasn’t changed that much (other than getting a little bit more beautiful) since April 🙂

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Nov 19 2010

Irina’s Turn In The Playground

Category: Anna's PhotosChrisM @ 11:21 pm

Onto some photos taken on the 20th of April this year, my birthday and I think one of the first times we took Anna out to play in the playground just round the corner from us. The environment isn’t exactly the safest, but no worse than many parks I used to play at as a child in the 80s in terms of sand as a floor, and the equipment has holes to bolt it to the ground, but it isn’t.
The weather now is a little colder than it was when we shot the videos, so I suspect if we haven’t already had our last swing and slide trip of 2010, we will do soon. Our neighbours’ hearts can only take so much (they tend to wrap children up a lot warmer here, even during comparatively mild weather), and to be fair the metal poles will soon get too cold for Anna to hold on to for any length of time.

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Nov 12 2010

Long Hair And T-Shirts

Category: Anna's Photos,FriendsChrisM @ 9:46 pm

Back on the 16th of April (a few days before my birthday) we all popped over to the Agnew’s residence, as we don’t get a lot of opportunities to catch up with each others’ news. I forgot to ask if it was OK to publish photos of our friends, so you will have to make do with just a photo of Anna and me. She is proudly wearing her “I love Wales” t-shirt, and by the looks of it, about to make a grab for something she isn’t supposed to. You may remember that last Christmas we spent Christmas Day at the Agnews, and had a great time; this year however, we will be spending Christmas and New Year back in Britain, and giving our friends a bit of piece and quiet 🙂 Looking back at these pictures, I’m still surprised at just how much Anna’s hair has grown in such a short amount of time!

Chris And Anna Merriman At The Agnews

Chris And Anna Merriman At The Agnews

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Nov 09 2010

Ira is working late… spaghet…

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 8:17 pm

Ira is working late… spaghetti hoops on toast (with chicken pie) for tea it is then 🙂 Anna being a good girl http://yfrog.com/2ril6j

Anna, Mors, Spaghetti On Toast And Chicken Pie

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Nov 05 2010

Is There An RSPCA In Kazakhstan?

Category: Anna's PhotosChrisM @ 11:05 pm

Here we have Anna demonstrating her contempt for society’s accepted norms for conventionally enjoying a seated position.
Or she could just be sitting on her polar bear stuffed toy.
The choice is yours… Either way, the photo was taken on the 8th of April back here at our flat. You can just make out one of Anna’s dolls trying to escape from the toy box, and the empty DVD spindles that were put there to keep her away from the real disc wallets behind 🙂 It is hard to believe her feet used to fit in the shoes on the floor there! (They are both from different pairs btw, we didn’t used to make her walk around with different colour shoes on 🙂 ).

Cushions Are Just So Last Year...

Cushions Are Just So Last Year...

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Oct 28 2010

Anna having some Kellogg’s Cor…

Category: Anna's Photos,TweetsChrisM @ 2:52 am

Anna having some Kellogg’s Corn Flakes for supper, a few hours ago. Sat at her drawing table in the living room. http://yfrog.com/0kt5zvj

Anna With Her Cornflakes

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Oct 27 2010

Anna Needing A Login Soon?

Category: Anna's PhotosChrisM @ 9:15 pm

Earlier in the week, Yesterday, Recently, Anna has been a little less random with her keyboard attacks, and so when she wanted to get on the chair next to the computer desk, I was less reluctant than in previous months. (To be fair to her, this desk is normally packed full of interesting looking cables and gadgets, and so her curiosity and urge to grab everything is only natural. I can say that calmly when she isn’t trying to throw around a few Terabytes of backups 🙂 Anyway, I grabbed a quick shot of Anna typing out her thoughts, and you can find it at the end of this post.
Oh, and it looks as though problems with pictures from tweets weren’t just limited to the WiFi at G n’R bar last week. I don’t know whether the problem lies with twitpic’s server, the PockeTwit app I use on my phone, or local DNS problems effecting both GPRS and ADSL connections, but the inability to upload had remained. I’ve temporarily switched to using yfrog’s services for now – we’ll see how that goes.

Anna Hard At Work

Anna Hard At Work

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Oct 22 2010

At Mega with Ira&Anna.Her Qik …

Category: Anna's Photos,Eating Out,TweetsChrisM @ 8:04 pm

At Mega with Ira&Anna.Her Qik trampolining vid 2b uploaded later.In “Big Mama”.Hot dog&burger not bad.The fries r. http://twitpic.com/2zsco7

Anna At Big MaMa's, Mega

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Oct 21 2010

Easter Breads

Category: Anna's PhotosChrisM @ 3:04 am

The 4th of April was around Easter this year (I’m assuming that is Russian Orthodox’s date for Easter, as they still use the Julian calendar for (movable?) feast days). Anyway, it was definitely the 4th of April using the Gregorian calendar, and Anna seemed to like the day, especially when she had her very own iced Easter bread to herself. As you can tell from the photos (caviar anyone? 🙂 ), we were over at Irina’s parents’ house, and although not religious, they do celebrate Russian Christmas and Easter each year. I think that in years past people would hand decorate boiled eggs, but here they are in pretty plastic covers that I’m assuming save a lot of preparation time, meaning more Easter iced bread could be made. I know which I prefer!

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