I'm presently having trouble with the blogs upload facility, so despite there being innumerable photo's to publish today we're stuck with two - it refuses to go further.
That said, the ones we have are respectable enough. The top picture was taken this morning in our back garden - it's a beautiful sunny day today. It shows Luca outside in his pyjama's (!) attentively viewing a daffodil, carefully deconstructing the psychology behind the constants of image in modern society between yearlings and plant life.
Or perhaps he was just thinking about eating it.
The second picture was taken on Wednesday during Mum's now infamously late visit. This photo was taken at around 7pm, minutes before we shuttled Luca up to bed. I rather like this one, Granny and Grandson enjoying their nighttime hot drinks together.
The upload facility has started working again! Hence the cute picture of Luca above. Again, this was taken this morning, and demonstrates perfectly how difficult it is to say no to him - just look at those enormous brown eyes. Trying to give him a smacked bum when he's being naughty is like trying to shoot ruddy Bambi.....
The excitement evident on the face above is due to his location at that time - on board the 307 bus destined for Inverurie town centre. Again this was today, and as the weathers so warm we decided to leave the car at home for once. This idea was obviously a popular one with Mr Scar Chin (I'll let his Gran explain that title!), he's obsessed with buses and giggled his way into town.
While there we took him shoe shopping, as his shoes are getting a little tight. Glad we did, as in the in exceptionally short period in between his feet have grown almost two sizes. Indeed it looks like he's going to take after his father, Mr Boats-For-Feet.
His Mum also got herself some new shoes - although bizarrely asking my opinion on which to choose was surely an act of folly. She also had her first experience of her son calling her by her real name whilst in the shop. "Carole" her called after her, as our jaws hit the deck. As he has recently done the same to is Dad we will need to keep an eye on this situation!
We caught another bus home after finishing up, and as the latter of the two photo's show Luca was by now becoming irritated with the constant presence of the camera on him. Look at that scowl, it could take an elephant down at 50 paces.
Our final image shows Luca - having got off the bus merely 20 yard previously - taking off for home. I now wish I'd taken a video instead of a photograph, as I'm sure Usain Bolt would have asked him to reduce the pace slightly. Slow the wee man is not. Although we have hopes he will be Prime Minister some day, a bus driving 100m sprinter (as looks likely on recent evidence) will certainly suffice as a secondary option.
**Useless fact of the day - The fastest man in the world can reach speeds of up to 27 mph. The fastest animal in the world, the Cheetah, would outdo this slightly with speeds of up to 70mph. However, even this is dwarfed by the flying speed of the Spine Tailed Sift which can fly at 106mph, and is even embarrassed by the fact the Shortfin Mako Shark can swim at up to 46mph!**
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