Week 88 marked the start of some beautiful spring weather - Joseph is sporting the start of a good tan - very brown arms, brown neck and feet! He wore polo shirts to Bear Park all week with the collar turned up to protect his neck! No biting incidents this week so hopefully that has passed.

Dan went to Taupo on Friday afternoon to ride in the 160km Round Taupo bike race...he had to have one of his wheels fixed during the week and Joseph helped him put the bike back together on Thursday night. He is such a good helper!

On Saturday, Joseph and I went over to Mission Bay for fish and chips on the beach. Joseph ate a few chips with lots of tomato sauce and then had a great time running around.

He also enjoyed my jellytip trumpet ice cream - I ended up with two bites and he scoffed the rest!

While Joseph and I were waiting for Dan to come back from Taupo on Sunday morning, we read lots of stories and Joseph made a lot of noise on the xylophone. Sometimes he likes to spend time by himself and this morning he laydown on the floor with the "Peepo" book and said "night night, Jo Jo" and then covered himself with the blanket. He looked through the pictures and had a bit of quiet time.

On Sunday afternoon, Dan and I took Joseph to the zoo...we had a good view of the five giraffes and spent most of our time watching Oz the tiger. Joseph got a bit scared of the zoo volunteer who turned up at Oz's enclosure with serious tiger face painting - he wanted a big cuddle!