Happy Birthday Joely

Today was Saturday and Joely's birthday! Elsie must have known it was a special day because she came running into the bedroom this morning and gave Joel the longest and least wriggly cuddle ever.

Nothing could improve on that but we tried by baking a humongous chocolate birthday cake and heading out to Onaero beach for lunch. The sun shone (another crappy winters day), the wind dropped, the setting was lovely, friends and family.

Happy birthday baby x

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Pukeiti Gardens

Today we went for a walk amongst the giant rhododendrons at Pukeiti Gardens in Taranaki. Afterwards we went for a BBQ lunch at Oakura Beach with our friends Sian, Christian and baby Emma. Great day.

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Olive pulls herself up

19 August
Today Olive crawled over to the bureau, opened a drawer and pulled herself up to standing. Yikes!

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Olive claps

Today Olive started clapping! So delightful. She's developing so fast now. Still no teeth though!

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Olive Crawls

Today while Mum and I were at Waikato Hospital Olive crawled properly for the first time. She has been up on her hands and knees for ages now, rocking back and forth and even standing on her feet (downward facing dog!) but she hasn't crawled properly. But today she definitely did a sequence of 1, 2, 3, 4 with her knees. She's on her way!

Do you think Elsie might be a teeny bit jealous..?

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East End Reserve

A lovely bit of winter sun today so Elsie decided to take all her clothes off at the beach. She was just splashing in the puddles but even they were freezing. Although after a while she did say "where is the warm water?" and ended up wrapped in Joel's merino hoodie.

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Snapper

It is fair to say that Max was rather pleased with his 15* pound snapper

*weight verified with digital luggage scales.

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