Tuesday, December 16, 2008
This post is for w/e Sunday 14th December 2008.
After two weeks of George waking at 4.30am, I decided to try him on solids so see if that would help squeeze a bit more cot time out of him (I don't know if it is the food but he is sleeping a bit longer - 5.15am on Sunday and Monday and 5.50am today (Tuesday). He's had plain Farex for a two days, then Farex and apple for a couple and yesterday banana and Farex. He seems to quite like it - I'd forgotten what a messy business it is!
Here's one of his first tastes of Farex.
And a shot to show that the thumb is still very popular!
On Wednesday 10th it was the Bear Park Christmas party. The farm animals came and so did Father Christmas. For the first time in three Christmases, Joseph was really into the whole thing. He patted the dogs, tried to brush the horse's coat, went for a ride on the horse and squashed the turtles into their bucket. Joseph wore one of this Christmas tshirts from Grandma Milly (and a few other children had similar ones on too!).
When Father Christmas arrived, Joseph was right in there and wedged himself as close as possible. He received two books from Father Christmas...we have been reading them a lot over the weekend!
Joseph is getting the hang of Christmas and has been talking about wanting to "go to Christmas". I'm not entirely sure what that means but I did mention today that Christmas will be coming to our house next week (but only if he's good and does everything Mummy, Daddy and his teachers say!). We're going to get a Christmas tree this weekend so I think he'll be quite into it once that's up!
Finally, the weekly brother shot - admitedly not the best shot! Joseph likes to compare the size of their feet, noses, fingers etc - he's quite good at the difference between big and small ("I got a bit bigger nose, he got a small one"; he's a bit smaller").
After two weeks of George waking at 4.30am, I decided to try him on solids so see if that would help squeeze a bit more cot time out of him (I don't know if it is the food but he is sleeping a bit longer - 5.15am on Sunday and Monday and 5.50am today (Tuesday). He's had plain Farex for a two days, then Farex and apple for a couple and yesterday banana and Farex. He seems to quite like it - I'd forgotten what a messy business it is!
Here's one of his first tastes of Farex.
And a shot to show that the thumb is still very popular!
On Wednesday 10th it was the Bear Park Christmas party. The farm animals came and so did Father Christmas. For the first time in three Christmases, Joseph was really into the whole thing. He patted the dogs, tried to brush the horse's coat, went for a ride on the horse and squashed the turtles into their bucket. Joseph wore one of this Christmas tshirts from Grandma Milly (and a few other children had similar ones on too!).
When Father Christmas arrived, Joseph was right in there and wedged himself as close as possible. He received two books from Father Christmas...we have been reading them a lot over the weekend!
Joseph is getting the hang of Christmas and has been talking about wanting to "go to Christmas". I'm not entirely sure what that means but I did mention today that Christmas will be coming to our house next week (but only if he's good and does everything Mummy, Daddy and his teachers say!). We're going to get a Christmas tree this weekend so I think he'll be quite into it once that's up!
Finally, the weekly brother shot - admitedly not the best shot! Joseph likes to compare the size of their feet, noses, fingers etc - he's quite good at the difference between big and small ("I got a bit bigger nose, he got a small one"; he's a bit smaller").
Monday, December 08, 2008
This post is for w/e Monday 8th December 2008.
I'm a couple of days late getting this post up...it is only Tuesday and already we're having a busy week. Joseph has become a model night time sleeper while George has taken the "bad sleeper" mantle. Dan and I are both feeling tired!
The week started for George with a visit to the GP for his five month immunisations and then Plunket the next day for his five month check. He's firmly entrenched on the 50th percentile for weight and still on the 75th for height. At the same age, Joseph was the same height but a full 1.5kg heavier!
Here's the updated weight chart...as Dan pointed out, spot the outlier!
Grandma Milly has sent over a selection of comedy Christmas t-shirts for the boys. On Sunday, Dan took Joseph to a Christmas street party with Jo and Lizzie...to get in the festive spirit Joseph chose a shirt to wear. Unfortunately he chose one with a rather snug fit!
On Monday and Tuesday (ie yesterday and today), George spent a few hours at Bear Park on his "familiarisation" visits. He was really good and seemed to enjoy himself.
Joseph is taking a bit of time to get used to the idea of sharing "his" Bear Park with George, especially his old Fantail teacher, Hiromi ("George not staying with my 'Romi". He spent most of George's visit on Monday hanging out with us in the Fantail room. I managed to snap a couple of shots of the boys together!
I'm a couple of days late getting this post up...it is only Tuesday and already we're having a busy week. Joseph has become a model night time sleeper while George has taken the "bad sleeper" mantle. Dan and I are both feeling tired!
The week started for George with a visit to the GP for his five month immunisations and then Plunket the next day for his five month check. He's firmly entrenched on the 50th percentile for weight and still on the 75th for height. At the same age, Joseph was the same height but a full 1.5kg heavier!
Here's the updated weight chart...as Dan pointed out, spot the outlier!
Grandma Milly has sent over a selection of comedy Christmas t-shirts for the boys. On Sunday, Dan took Joseph to a Christmas street party with Jo and Lizzie...to get in the festive spirit Joseph chose a shirt to wear. Unfortunately he chose one with a rather snug fit!
On Monday and Tuesday (ie yesterday and today), George spent a few hours at Bear Park on his "familiarisation" visits. He was really good and seemed to enjoy himself.
Joseph is taking a bit of time to get used to the idea of sharing "his" Bear Park with George, especially his old Fantail teacher, Hiromi ("George not staying with my 'Romi". He spent most of George's visit on Monday hanging out with us in the Fantail room. I managed to snap a couple of shots of the boys together!
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