Sunday, 20 February 2011
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
The Littlest Hobaby
Dear Baby Alex,
I have something to tell you, you see, we're moving again. Please don't be sad. I know you might feel that your babyhood is a bit like an episode of 'The Littlest Hobo'. You arrive in a new place, bright-eyed, tail wagging. You make friends with the locals, you solve some crimes, everyone in the village falls for your furry charm and just when people are thinking you're here to stay you're gone again.
I know it doesn't seem fair to leave the lovely Nanna B and beautiful New Zealand but there's this thing called 'money' and these things called 'jobs' which enable you do pay this thing called 'rent' and eventually get one of these things called 'mortgages'.
Seems ridiculous to you I'm sure. Can't we just stay here and play all day and eat iced lollies and mush banana into the carpet? you ask. Well, your Dada and I would love to do that but alas the aforementioned money, jobs, rent and mortgages are calling and eventually holidays have to end.
I think you'll like Sydney... really.
Love,
Mama xx
P.S
In case you don't remember The Littlest Hobo, this is sure to jog your memory:
There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.
I have something to tell you, you see, we're moving again. Please don't be sad. I know you might feel that your babyhood is a bit like an episode of 'The Littlest Hobo'. You arrive in a new place, bright-eyed, tail wagging. You make friends with the locals, you solve some crimes, everyone in the village falls for your furry charm and just when people are thinking you're here to stay you're gone again.
I know it doesn't seem fair to leave the lovely Nanna B and beautiful New Zealand but there's this thing called 'money' and these things called 'jobs' which enable you do pay this thing called 'rent' and eventually get one of these things called 'mortgages'.
Seems ridiculous to you I'm sure. Can't we just stay here and play all day and eat iced lollies and mush banana into the carpet? you ask. Well, your Dada and I would love to do that but alas the aforementioned money, jobs, rent and mortgages are calling and eventually holidays have to end.
I think you'll like Sydney... really.
Love,
Mama xx
P.S
In case you don't remember The Littlest Hobo, this is sure to jog your memory:
There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down,
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Learning to share
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| Try this for me will you Dada? |
I'd like to claim credit for Alex's new found fascination with sharing. "Of course, we are a very generous, caring, sharing family, so it's only natural that the youngest member of the family has a natural instinct for these things" I might say ... except we really haven't done anything, and it's not like he's desperately sharing his toys with any little person who walks past.
No this sharing phase is mostly about food. He loves to take what ever he's eating and carefully plonk it in the mouth of anyone in reaching distance. I admit, it's very cute (see the video below) but now he does it with every meal - to the point where the family have become his unofficial taste testers. Lucky he usually eats whatever we're eating so I'm not having to develop a taste for apple, pumpkin, prune and chicken mush. Another thumbs up for this baby led weaning business.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Lovely visitors
Here are a few photos from our recent (ish) visitors. Theo, Rachel and the gorgeous Emily came to stay for just over a week and it was just fantastic to have them. The bubs seemed to get on well, although I think Em kind of tolerated Alex while Alex got very excited, sometimes too excited when he saw Em (see photo above where he decided to show his enthusiasm by whacking her on the head and Theo had to gently restrain him). But generally they are babies with very similar temperaments - which helps I guess. So we explored all that Mount Maunganui had to offer, walking around and up the mountain, visiting the beach, the hot pools and had a picnic on the harbour. We also went to Lake Taupo and enjoyed boat trips of the slow ferry variety and the fast jet boat type and developed an unhealthy obsession with honey ice cream.
We also proved that you can have a wonderful joint family holiday with two babies in tow. Hopefully this will be the first of many family trips together.
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| Rach & Theo embracing their 'inner bee' in Taupo |
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| Em giving Alex crawling lessons (he started a few days later) |
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| Picnic at Pilot Bay - Mount Maunganui |
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| Baby Swap |
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Sunday, 30 January 2011
At last
They said it should have happened by now... we feared it might never happen
They said we should try and 'encourage him'... we said 'sure... how do we do that exactly'?
We introduced him to another baby who was very good at it
We used balls
We used rattles
We used cats
We used relatives on skype
then finally... on January 24th 2011...
Our little man crawled!!!!
And here's the video evidence
watch out world...especially drawers, cupboards and low lying appliances
They said we should try and 'encourage him'... we said 'sure... how do we do that exactly'?
We introduced him to another baby who was very good at it
We used balls
We used rattles
We used cats
We used relatives on skype
then finally... on January 24th 2011...
Our little man crawled!!!!
And here's the video evidence
watch out world...especially drawers, cupboards and low lying appliances
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