20th April - 28th April

Glen, our next door neighbour, is rebuilding his garage and a concrete mixer arrived to fill in some trenches. Joseph was beside himself with excitement! Dan said he was a bit scared a first but then got more confident - to the point where he wanted to help get the concrete out of the chute!

I arrived back on the 23d and Dan and I both picked the boys up from their respective Bear Parks in the afternoon. George gave me a lovely smile but wasn't too sure of me...when he saw Dan he got really excited and scooted over quickly to see him. Joseph was very happy to see me and became my little limpet for a few days. He was also very concerned to receive his present and was a bit underwhelmed with his tshirt and book!!

Here is a very cute photo of George in the bath...you can get a good view of his teeth. He has the largest top teeth gap of all three Warren boys!

Dan took Joseph into his work for an excursion - they went in on a train which was very exciting for Joseph.

Unfortunately, he fell asleep in the car on the way home from the station and was very, very cranky when we had to wake him up. He was extremely distressed to find that the train had gone!

10th April - 18th April

I (Sophia) was actually away this week as I went to Cambodia to visit my cousin, Rebecca. Dan and the boys had a great but very busy time without me!

Joseph was very lucky to have his Godmother, Vikki, come and visit from Brisbane for a couple of days. The four of them went to Cornwall Park for a kick around of the ball and here are Joseph and Vikki having some rough and tumble time.

We have had a bumper crop of monarch butterfly chrysallii and Joseph and Dan have been closely following their progress. Here is Joseph seeing one of the last hatches off on their journey.

As I mentioned in the last post, George is loving being able to stand and he loves to cause havoc at the bookshelf. Here is he is in action...

And then leaving the scene of the crime!

1st April - 8th April

We are making a concerted effort to get back on track...bear with us! The reason why we are taking so long to keep things current is that I (Sophia) have been working full time pretty much since I went back to work in January.

Joseph is still getting used to George and now that George is on the move, Joseph gets quite distressed when George touches his stuff. Here is a picture of Joseph giving George a "hug" but it is really about Joseph stopping George from getting anywhere anything vaguely exciting!

In the lead up to Easter, Joseph had his face painted by HJ (a teacher at Patey Street) - here he is an Easter chicken. He was loving himself sick looking in the mirror at Patey Street and then in the car but as soon as we got home, he couldn't wait to wash it off!

George is rapidly making gains in the crawling department and has also added standing to his repertoire. Here he is at William's 3rd birthday party down in Karaka. He also enjoyed his first taste of chocolate cake which Dan graciously shared with him.

You don't usually see pictures of me with the boys so here's a shot of me with George.

And then with Joseph (we were hiding from the bears in the spare bedroom).