Our activities

Granny and Grandad went away on a big long holiday and then when they came back we had Nannie and Grandad visiting so we got extra spoilt for a whole weekend of fun.


Alex and Dad building.


Alex helping mum with the washing


Then Dad went to Auckland for work for the week so Mum went shopping! Us kids are now looking very styley in our winter wardrobes.

We went to ...

The Wiggles!


I got dressed up in my pretty dress to go. Both Alex and I loved it. Alex was busy jumping on Granny's knee clapping along with the music while Mum and I danced and sang.

Mischief - who me?

Look what I found - a whole cupboard full of plastic containers. I'm sure Mum wanted me to pull them all out for her.

Tom and Alex

I love my pussy cat Tom. I get very excited whenever he enters the room and I'm determined to get to him to give him my very special snuggles.

Luckily Tom is a very patient cat and puts up with all of this even when I grab his tail when he's walking away from me.

Swimming

I love swimming. I go to a new swim school where it is soooo much fun. That's me in the purple hat. I love it so much that pretty much as soon as I've got out I'm asking Mum when it's my turn for swimming again and begging her to take me to the pool. I can't wait to show Nannie and Grandad my new skills this weekend.

Can I play too?

Hi it's me Alex. I'm loving being home figuring out all the things I can get into. I'm still not crawling too far but I do like my feet and spent a good ten minutes this morning playing on the kitchen with my sister. Time to child proof the house!

Our holiday

We had a lovely holiday at Ohope beach. We explored all the playgrounds and climbed trees - Mackenzie loved mastering all the physical challenges - her favourite saying was "I don't need you". Mackenzie and mummy even went swimming in the sea and even got an unplanned dip when a big wave came and got us when we were playing on the beach. Luckily it only washed away Mackenzie's new shoes and not us.

I'm on the move - nearly

Hey it's me Alex - I'm trying very hard to get hold of my sister's toys, the cat, newspaper - anything I'm not supposed to have.

I've started some new medicine which means I don't mind spending some time on my tummy and I can push myself up into a crawling position and wriggle around - I think I've got reverse sorted but I can't find the go forward gear. I'm also very fond of my feet and would be quite happy to just jump to walking but somehow everything gets a bit wobbly when I try the no hands version.

The bike-a-thon

Today was bike-a-thon day at Kindy. It was lots of fun. I especially liked riding my bike with my friend Sophie from down the road.
Alex got to have a play at kindy too - he loved the slide.

Ballet

Now I'm a big girl I can go to ballet.

Every Thursday my friend Eve comes round to my house and we go to ballet - it's sooo much fun!

Bike riders

We love bikes in our family. Since starting Kindy Mackenzie has become an expert biker and bikes all the way to Kindy (1.2km) nearly every day. If anyone would like to sponsor her for her Kindy bikeathon, all donations are greatly appreciated.
Now Alex is wanting to get in on the action too. We pulled Mackenzie's old bike out of the garage and he thinks he's sooo cool sitting on it himself and beeping the horn.

Alex 7 months old

Hi - it's me Alex. I'm now 7 months old.

This is me with the truck Granny and Grandad bought me to celebrate. Mum got me immunised as her present to me - not so much fun but they did weigh me and I'm a whopping 9.4kg naked. My sister weighed about that at 15 months old!

I've also learnt a new trick to celebrate - I can clap!

The family

More kindy fun

I love kindy, I keep asking Mum when I get to go again - a big change from daycare.

Here is me and my friend Sophie doing all sorts of tricks. Sophie is very clever at climbing things and shows me how to do lots of cool new tricks.

Kindy

Last year we decided daycare wasn't really working out for me so we decided I'd go to kindy instead.

I go three afternoons a week and I've already made heaps of new friends and don't give mum a backwards glance when she says she's off.

This is me with my new friend Sophie dressed up as fairies - we even live on the same street!

Look at me I'm Wendy!

I've been desperately searching for a long sleeve white nightie so that I could dress up as Wendy since December. We haven't had any luck so somehow I managed to con my crazy mum into making one for me!

The obsession continues

Mum and Dad took us for a trip to Auckland to see crocodiles just like the one in Peter Pan. They were at a place called Butterfly Creek. It was heaps of fun we had lunch, saw butterflies, lizards, spiders, farm animals, a playground, had a ride on a train - which as you can see I was a bit nervous about.

Saw a huge crocodile called Scar (and one called Goldie)

and even discovered Captain Hook on the way out!

Caravan holiday

We convinced Dad to go on a caravan holiday to Raglan. It was lots of fun and I really didn't want to come home.

I had a special bed in the caravan next to Alex so I couldn't complain I was lonely and Mum got me a special princess torch for camping.
There was lots to do at the camp with playgrounds

and cool bikes.

We flew kites,

built pools at the beach for Alex and had friends to visit for fish and chips. A fabulous holiday - now we just have to get Daddy booked in again for next year!

Holiday Fun

Just some of the photos from our activities over the holidays....

Late night stories with Grandad waiting for it to get dark so we could visit the Christmas lights..
Teaching Alex to brush his new tooth..Gwen's 88th birthday - any excuse for cake!Cleared the section with Grandad and DadThe kids looking beautiful
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New Year's Eve

Me and my friends Jamie and Kyle got our parents together so that we could party party party on New Year's Eve - we even stayed up until 10 o-clock!

Christmas

We must have been very good kids because we were very spoilt by Santa. He left us Christmas stockings full of presents and we were extra lucky because Uncle Ali had stayed the night with us and Granny and Grandad got up even earlier than us so that they could come in and see us open our presents.
Mackenzie was then very helpful at opening any presents that anyone needed assistance with!
In the afternoon it was off to Granny and Grandad's for dinner. Mackenzie had lots of fun playing with her cousins however whoever said all they wanted for Christmas was their two front teeth hadn't got any recently as Alex was miserable cutting his first tooth so we headed home pretty early. Thanks everyone for our lovely presents.