Working and USA

Now that I'm finally working full time again, things are getting a little more interesting again. Polycom has certainly been proactive with training - I've been training basically full time for the entire 7 weeks I've been there! The finale for one section was a trip to the US for a week long intensive session ending with a presentation to the CEO of Polycom... we were second in our group, so we were quite happy with that.

Here are a few piccies of interesting stuff:

This is one of the ridiculously huge 'cars' we had while over there. It had a huge V8, but didn't have much get-up-and-go off the line - probably because it weighed about 15 tons...

Some of the lights of the San Francisco skyline

This was a little xmas market we happened across in San Jose - they stole this ride from never-never land!

I didn't have enough time to get up to much else, hence only 3 pictures. However (always a name dropper) I had a quick chat with Helen Clark in the LA airport lounge on the way home - always interesting when you see someone you recognise!

We are looking forward to 2010 - things are getting back to normal now, and we have started making a few plans to keep ourselves entertained over the next few months - you'll just have to keep an eye on the blog to see what they are ;-)

Anya at four months

Tomorrow Anya will be four months old already. Time flies, especially with the second child. It feels like only yesterday that she was lying there all helpless and innocent. Now she is turning more and more into a little person.

Anya is such a sweet little angel. She has been sleeping through the night for almost two months now. She's really happy just lying there watching us all, particularly Yana. She hardly cries, gets really excited when she gets attention, is really smiley and chatty and has started being able to play with toys. She's getting a bit more mobile now too, being able to roll from her back onto her front and vice versa. She has been teething for a while, so we think that the first tooth is probably not far away.

Our sweet little angel sleeping.

We couldn't avoid it: Like Yana, Anya also sucks her thumb
and she doesn't mind whether it is her left or right one.

Going for a walk in the pram.

Anya can now hold and play with toys.

She loves rolling onto her belly.

Look at that cute little tongue.