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Third of three PockeTwit video tests. This time using mobypic. Anna watching Teletubbies and Kara on the sofa http://moby.to/3gja2f

See the comment below. Embed code has silly resolution automatically placed. Can probably manually edit it to original video resolution, however hoping that posterous will have both an embed code easily accessible and also play the video in native resolution…

Tags: Anna, Kara, Tweets, twitter

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Nov 20 2010

Anna Close Up

Category: Anna's Photos — ChrisM @ 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

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 Out — ChrisM @ 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 🙂

: Irina, Anna And Chris At TGI Friday, Astana, Kazakhstan

: Babushka, Anna And Irina

: Enjoying Daddy’s Birthday Meal

Tags: Anna, Astana, Irina

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Nov 20 2010

TGI Was My Birthday!

Category: Anna's Videos,Eating Out — ChrisM @ 1:01 am

After taking Anna to the playground in the morning, we went to TGI Friday here in Astana. Although some friends comment on the prices, occasional staff attitude issues and better alternatives, I hadn’t tried the Astana branch at this point (20th April). The burger was tasty, the cocktail (custom ordered as the menu didn’t match what I remembered from a UK edition) well made and just right ratio of ingredients. Irina’s Mum came with us, Anna was very well behaved (I was a little concerned she’d try throwing the big girls ceramic plate on the floor) and by the end of the meal I was very glad we went there, and perhaps a little tipsy 🙂

We have since visited again once or twice, and given that there are other expensive restaurants in Astana, and sometimes you just want a Western style burger, I’d happily recommend you try it at least once – if nothing else you’ll at least be able to criticize from personal experience, if you don’t end up liking it 🙂

Tags: Anna, Astana, Birthday, Irina, Mum, United Kingdom, YouTube

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Nov 19 2010

Irina’s Turn In The Playground

Category: Anna's Photos — ChrisM @ 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.

: Anna Sliding

: Mummy’s Turn To Push

: Anna And Irina On A Bench

Tags: Anna, Birthday, Irina

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Nov 19 2010

Arresting Roundabouts

Category: Anna's Videos — ChrisM @ 2:10 am

The pictures and videos of Anna have now moved onto the 20th April, meaning I have about a month and a half to catch up with 7 months worth of backlog! Anyway, this was shot on the morning of my birthday this year, in the play area near our flats. Anna can now hold on to the roundabout by herself, and she seems to enjoy giving me a heart attack by trying to get off the ride whilst it is still spinning round. A lot of the time she now just sits on the foot rest and watches the world go by, occasionally pushing the roundabout around with her feet. As the winter gets colder, we spend less time out doors, and as no locals go and play there already (I’ve only had a few people tell me off for letting my daughter play in these sub-arctic (it was around 5-10 Celsius at the time!) conditions) there aren’t any children for her to play with right now. However, there is now one other child in her weektime playgroup sessions, and I’m hoping tomorrow’s goes as well as Tuesday’s did.

Tags: Anna, Birthday, YouTube

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