A blog site for Shelley and Karl to update friends and family on them and the boys.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

New pyjamas

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originally uploaded by KarlW.
Oli last night started wearing his first set of 'proper' pyjamas.

Getting bigger

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originally uploaded by KarlW.
After a hard couple of months, things are certainly picking up. Now that Oli is over the Yersina, he is all go on the growing angle again. He's eating heaps. Tooth number nine came through yesterday and he's running (crawling) around everywhere, nearly walking (standing up lots). He is also now regularly sleeping past 5.30, including this morning when he slept to 6am - it was a sleep in for us!

A balloon day

This weekend was the annual Balloons over Wairarapa festival. Marcus has really been into seeing photos of hot air balloons, so I took the day off work and we went to Carterton to see the "Mass Ascension" at dawn. This meant Shelley and I getting up at 4.30, so we could be out of the house at 5.45. It was well worth it. We all had a ball and Marcus really enjoyed himself.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Riding the tent-train

Riding the tent-train
Riding the tent-train,
originally uploaded by KarlW.
Marcus was very excited today after Shelley came home from toy library duty. She had spotted a play-tent, in the shape of Thomas the tank engine, including the carriage Clarabel. When he's inside now, he plays in the tent and has already said his inside playing tomorrow will be in the tent.

Oli is One!

Yesterday Oliver turned one. We've gone through quite a bit lately. In December I got shingles and in January the two boys got chickenpox. I've been working far too much. In February Shelley had a really bad cold and Oli got Yersina (sp?), which is similar to campylobacter. So our health, and consequently sleep, hasn't been too great. But for Oli's birthday everyones health was perfect - we had a great day. Here's a selection of photos from the day.

Oli

Dad and his boys

Inspecting the presents

Opening the presents

Mum and her little boy

First birthday cake

Eating the birthday cake

Facing forwards

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originally uploaded by KarlW.
Last week we turned Oli's car seat around, so he now faces forwards and not backwards. It's really odd turning around and seeing two faces looking at us!