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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Family ties

We recently had the honour of a visit from Sarah's cousins Emily and Libby and Libby's son Frank. It was the first time Emily had met Phoebe - when we stayed with her in Napier in July, Phoebe was a very visible bump being lugger around by Sarah!Definitely related - from an extended family of readers!
Frank is crawling and is now working hard on walking - watch out Libby and Dougal!
Emily and Phoebe both refusing to look at the camera - as they did for every photo;)
Frank, the tool man, got very excited when Josh and Alastair got out the tool box to do manly tool-wielding things on the deck.

Kathrine's birthday party

We helped our friend Kathrine celebrate her birthday recently. Her very small one bedroom flat was full to bursting with adults, children, babies, food and lethally strong Bacardi-based cocktails. We liked her idea of asking for donations for a local foodbank instead of gifts - initially we thought it showed her generous giving nature but realised it was so she could take the huge boxes of stuff her self and look really good! Either way, hopefully it helps out some families at Christmas.





Another Catherine (not sure how she spells it), seated next to Phoebe and I, had left her 18month old son, Bruno, but had a wonderful time playing with Iris and Phoebe and entertaining Thomas and Lucas, the "big" (i.e. 3 and 5 yr olds) boys in attendance.Iris was quite taken with this wee fella (whose name has gone right out of my head!)

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Santa Claus is a scary man...

Iris and her friends Brianna (3) and Hayley (22 months) have fun in the sun with a COOL bubble gun. We had to buy our own after seeing this one in action - it blows hundreds of bubbles at a time.

A few pics of the NZ Post Christmas party for kids which we went to a couple of weekends ago...We didn't manage to get a shot of Iris with Santa (probably just as well as she freaked out and hid in my legs!)