Sunday, February 25, 2007

 

Small Blokes In Sheds



Saturday morning Jack and Guy decided to tidy the garage. Jack grabbed the big broom from behind the door while Guy inspected the motorbike. Suddenly Guy helped himself to the little broom and started copying his Daddy sweeping the floor and babbling to himself. Broom games are good for toddlers. Leaning on the broom gave him a bit more stability, and best of all it involved playing with dirt!

 

Watch Me Walk!

Since Guy figured out how to walk in January, he has been practising it with determination. He can change direction now without falling over, walk on concrete or grass, and even walk on sloping ground, although that particular skill was aquired the hard way, bouncing down our driveway on his head (stupid steep sloping Wellington driveways). He was getting so many scrapes and bruises that Jack got odd stares from the other mothers at the local playground, (although that may not have been due solely to his son's bruises). However, with those painful lessons behind him, Guy is now well pleased with his new mobility and perspective on the world from 0.8m up.


 

TV Time

Neither Jack or Guy watch a lot of TV, but when they do, they are quite serious about it. Guy has developed the normal male fascination with, and mastery of, the remote control.



Wednesday, February 07, 2007

 

Wey-hey, up and running on the new Blogger!

After a few password dramas, we're up and running on the new version of Blogger. It shouldn't make much difference to you, our viewing public, other than (hopefully) a more user friendly way of viewing our blog when we play around with the template features. The most obvious change is the return of our profile which went missing about 6 months ago and we couldn't get it back! So, we'll continue to play catch up and get you up to date with what's been going on with us.
 

Having fun with Joanne



Joanne is Guy's nanny and she and Guy have a lovely time together. They go out and about, meeting people and exploring places. Joanne took these photos of Guy having lots of fun; standing in Daddy's workboots, and playing in the park. I think these photos show that he's such a little man now and not a baby any more!

 

Smiley, happy people. . .


Here is Guy with his big cousins Anna and Jaime when they came to wish him a happy birthday and bring him a lovely pohutukawa tree seedling as a wonderful and thoughtful birthday present.

Monday, February 05, 2007

 

I am so cute . . .

We're still running about a month behind with Guy updates. It's been a busy time for us this year. Katrina has returned to work at the Ministry of Economic Development three days a week and she's loving it. Guy still has his one day a week at Bowen Hospital Creche and the other 2 days he has a nanny looking after him at home and it's great! Guy's nanny, Joanne, is actually Jack's boss's wife, and she just loves children so much and is so good with Guy. As a trained nanny, she has a very educationally focused approach, and Guy is responding really well to that. Of course, with Katrina being back at work, we've had to be extremely organised on the home front, and so far (3 weeks in) it's been very smooth sailing with everyone coping very well with our new way of life.

As proud parents (and as you are avid Guy-followers) we are very happy to share our clever boy's latest developments with you. He is saying about 10 words, with one of the first being "soss" (socks) and "saa" (outside, which is his favourite place to be), "fla" (flower), "ba" (which is the same sound for the following objects: banana, bike and bath) and (thank you cousin Sarah for this!!!) "shit" (which needs no translation, but to put it in context, he was about to slide out of his highchair when she'd undone his straps, so she uttered an expletive as she grabbed him and he thinks it is hilarious because he gets a reaction every time he says it).

Another big development is that Guy is now feeding himself with a spoon, and very determined he is too! He refuses to open his mouth if we present him with a spoonful of food, but will shovel it in at a great rate if we give the spoon to him. He's become a plum addict, and will eat a whole plum in just a few minutes. I don't know what we'll do when plum season ends!

Anyway, here's a few lovely photos of Guy being cute at home on the bench, and with his big cousins Anna and Jaime when they came for a birthday visit.


On second thoughts, sorry Anna and Jaime, it's only Guy by himself this time. Blogger has been asking us to switch to the new format and we haven't so far, and this session is our last one using our old Blogger account, and next time we try to login it won't let us.

As you know we've been having a few problems loading photos onto Blogger, and it would only load one after trying 5 times, so I think I'll call it a day and try and get us up and running on the new Blogger account. Watch this space . . .

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