Sunday, 22 September 2013

Cake!

Sunday baking. There was only ever going to be one choice of colour for the icing...

This 'pink' phase is bordering on the obsessive and is often the cause of a calamity - "I want the pink crayon" etc. Yesterday I found myself requesting that hot chips be served on a pink plate to cafe staff. The things we do. People tell me this phase will pass. I certainly hope so!

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Sunday, 15 September 2013

Olive cruises

Today the Deans kindky gave us a trolley for Olive to use. We got home and she was away immediately

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Saturday, 7 September 2013

Else and Rosa


Today was 'Social Saturday' and we spent lunch with Kitty, Liss and Maia then to Jaron and Charlotte's for dinner.

Maia and Else had a great afternoon largely tormenting Oscar the dog and pretending to drive Liss's car. Pass the baby sharkies (which incidentally they have, in hot pink, in the toy box at the New Plymouth Library).

Rosa and Else played really well together again. Check out these little monkeys in the bath.




At least Rosa is looking at the camera...

Nice one Rosey...

It was really nice for Joel and I to catch up with our friends, eat some food and drink some wine. We are lucky that our friends are such great hosts.

I keep forgetting to mention Olive! Olive was great. She really is such a good baby. I finally collected myself enough to have some decent snacks/meals packed for her when we were out (I bought a small fishing tackle box and I can't tell you how satisfying it is to fill each compartment with little bits) so today she ate more than her usual bit of bread, cold sausage and baked beans (poor child!). She had egg (her new favourite food) and lamb and pork and roast veggies and nice yoghurt (not the nasty 'pink' stuff we've been buying for Elsie either). She smiled and burbled and crawled around and pulled herself up all day. She slept in the car when she should then she went to bed at Jaron and Charlotte's for...12 hours. Yes she slept through. Hurrah. Although I now know better than to think this is some sort of turning point. I know that this will merely be a (welcome) blip most likely due to her being exhausted from last weeks nighttime shenanigans and that she most likely only slept through in order to garner sufficient energy for her next episode of sleepus interruptus majorus.

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Friday, 6 September 2013

Auckland Zoo







Today we went to Auckland Zoo with Charlotte, Rosa and Milly.

Else and Rosa were double trouble. Holding hands and racing off here there and everywhere. They had a whale of a time. It was so amazing to see them behaving like old friends when they'd only really ever met once since we got back from London.

At one of the pavilions they started to play this funny game the rules of which were only known to them but seemed to involve running around in circles and them falling down. They did it for a long time


Oh and some spinning around....

And more falling down...and more running around



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Sunday, 1 September 2013

Auckland here we come!


Today we headed up to Auckland for a fortnight to spend time catching up with friends and hopefully picking up our car which has arrived from London at last.

The car trip was rather long. I think these images epitomise a bored toddler....

I turned around to find Else had stuck a bucket on her head

Oh that's all very cute and funny...

So cheeky and cute....

Strap is a bit uncomfortable though...

Bit tight....

Bit chokey...

And then there was a inevitable "bit stuck", with crying and me trying to pull it off and making it worse scene. We had to remedy it with many rousing verses of  'Coming Round the Mountain' ala Beachman:

Me: "She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes"
Joel:  "Yeee-haaa!"
Me: "She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes"
Joel:  "Yeee-haaa!"




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