We're back!

Sorry its been so long since we posted any photos.

Alex got very sick and after some trips to hospital where he caught more bugs than cures he ended up sick for a month. After more trips to the specialist the docs still have no idea what's wrong with him but finally at 14 months he's starting to come right and even slept through the night for the first time ever!

On top of all this the camera has broken down, but here are some photos taken at kindy last week.

Alex walking

Alex decided he'd really get moving ready for his birthday. He now walks everywhere and reaches his Mr Tickle arms up into all sorts of mischief.

Swimming

We now have swimming at the same time so Dad has to come along and help for getting dressed time. He managed to take some photos of us practising our tricks.

Our new nanny

We have a lovely new nanny called Bridgette who looks after us while Mum works.

She makes sure we have lots of fun and even had Alex doing his first lot of art work.

Alex's real birthday

Another day and another birthday in our house. There were more presents, which Mackenzie was more than happy to assist with and more cake to eat (a teddy one just like Alex's this time).

Mackenzie's real birthday

To celebrate Mackenzie's birthday she had some of her kindy friends round for another party.

Because it was a kindy day she even got to stand up the front and have all the kids sing happy birthday to her too.

The Peter Pan Birthday Party

To celebrate our birthdays with our family and close friends we had a Peter Pan party (guess who chose the theme!)

Alex dressed up as Peter Pan, Mackenzie as Wendy. Grandad even came as Captain Hook!

Mum made us cakes - Alex's was Peter Pan and Mackenzie's Wendy

We played lots of fun games - like the no laugh race.

And were very spoilt with lots of lovely gifts - thanks everyone!

Visitors from the South

Our lovely friends from the deep South came to visit for Field days. We had lots of fun playing games

Going to the Kindy disco...

And to field days..

Thanks for visiting, come back soon!

Alex walking

Look I can walk. I started taking my first couple of steps at 10 1/2 months while we were on holiday but now I can take quite a few steps in a row and do it all the time. I like to walk between things and towards trouble.

I also have big long octopus arms that can reach up and find all sorts of mischief. My sister calls me mischief maker.

Birthday season has begun!

We got to open our first birthday presents this weekend because Nannie and Grandad were heading to Australia and dropped them off on their way. Birthdays are sooo much fun.
We decided to let Grandad have one day in the month to celebrate his birthday too.
It was lots of fun playing with our cousins...
Mackenzie even got brave enough to pat one of the big horses at the cafe all by herself!

Swimming

Mackenzie had a great swimming class on Saturday. She swam the whole pool and back on her back with a flutter board and swam with a noodle all the way down and back again!

Mica the clown

We had a clown, called Mica, come to kindy.

Us kids thought he was sooo funny - Mum loved watching us giggle.

Happy to be home

Holidays were fun but we were very happy to be home especially to give cuddles to Tom.

Holiday - week 2

Our second week of holiday was in Christchurch with Daddy, Granny and Grandad.

We celebrated Mum's birthday with dinner out... Went on lots of adventures with Granny and Grandad to: Science Alive - Mackenzie even got a hole in one with Grandad. The park.
The rides at the shopping centre when it got wet. We went to the Antarctic centre and experienced snow and an antarctic storm and saw penguins. Had sooo much fun at Orana Park feeding the animals and seeing them all up close. Hand feeding the giraffes was a definite highlight.

We took a ride on the tram, and fed the ducks on the avon and played in the leaves. Thanks everyone for a fantastic adventure.

Holiday - week one

We spent the first week of our holiday in Invercargill with our lovely friends Aunty Louby, Uncle Stu, Kate, Sam and Lachie. We had so much fun visiting playgrounds, going to gym doing ballet classes learning about Thomas the tank engine.
And having soooo much fun playing together, although I think Aunty Louby thought Alex was a girl and was playing dolly dress ups with him. We can't wait to see you all again.