Jolly Jumper fun!

Rio has started playing in the Jolly Jumper, and she LOVES it - just like Rune did as a baby!! Its obviously hard work for her little legs though, as she fell asleep in it after 20 minutes of bouncing!! Rune thinks its great fun watching Rio having a bounce, bless him :)

Our day at the zoo

It was an absolutely beautiful day Sunday, so we took a trip to the zoo... unfortunately, so did half of Christchurch! It was sooo busy, we will have to go back another day when it is quieter so we can feed the giraffes and watch the lions being fed. We had a really nice time regardless, though the heat did get the better of us at the end!

Rune had fun running round and seeing all the animals, and Rio was quite happy looking round at everything! Rune loved the lemurs - and he even broke into song and dance when we were looking at them... "I like to move it - move it, I like to move it - move it, I like to... MOVE IT!!" ...after the king lemur in Madagascar!!!

Here are a few snaps from our day :) xxx

A very merry Christmas!

Well we had a LOVELY Christmas... despite it being preceeded by a trip to A&E after Rune declared he'd put peanuts in his ears a couple of days beforehand!!!

Rune was soooooo excited on Christmas Eve, he put a carrot on the doorstep for the reindeer, and picked out two Hobnobs for Santa and a small glass of lemonade (all Runes own choice, I might add!)... then went to bed and took three hours to fall asleep!!!

Christmas morning was wonderful, the look on Runes face was absolutely priceless when he walked into the lounge and saw the biscuits and drink had been devoured, and Santa had left the door open on the logburner after he went back up the chimney! He was into his presents and stocking like a flash, and had so much fun opening all his gifts. And helping Rio open hers, of course!

We had a lovely roast dinner (we got our oven fixed in time, YAY!) and played lots of games, Rune was busy playing with all his new toys and watching Pocoyo! We had so much fun, Rune didnt go to bed until MIDNIGHT! He felt so grown up, staying up late with everybody :) Bless him!

Here are a few pictures from Christmas Day. Rogie got plastered, haha!

"I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!"

Rune stoked with his Diego toy :)

Rio watching Ru open his presents

One of his favourite presents - drum sticks!

LOVING his NOISY cymbals from Grandma!!

Rio in her swinging chair from Nanny and Koro

Rune has learnt how to wink!

Old soak!



Nanny and Rune

Mummy and sleepy Rio

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas too!! Lots of love :) xxxxx

Santa Photos!!

Here they are, as promised, the pictures we've had done with Santa! :)




Merry Christmas everybody!! xxxxx

Visiting Santa

We saw Santa today, Rune was so excited... in the queue he was chatting away, and kept craning round to catch glimpses of the other children with Santa. As we got to the front of the queue, Rune was sat in the pram with Rio on his lap, giving her a lovely cuddle, saying "Look Rio, there's Santa! WOW! It's Santa, Rio, look!"...

So then it was our turn. He was a very nice Santa, great with the kids! He gave Rio a lovely cuddle, whilst Rune hid behind me and wasnt very sure! When Rune saw that Rio was quite happy sitting on Santas lap, Rune was brave enough to sit on the arm of Santas big chair. His bottom lip came out and he didnt want to smile, so Santa asked Rune what he'd like for Christmas... and Rune said a lollipop!!! So Santa gave Rune a lollipop, which cheered him up enough to give the camera a weary smile! We pick up the photos on Monday afternoon, so I'm looking forward to seeing how they came out... and I will post them on here when we have them. We're hoping to take Ru and Ri to the Santa at Harvey Norman on the weekend too, as they do some great package deals on the photos there :)

Christmas is SO close now, we're all very excited! :D xxx

MAJOR bad hair day!

Well Miss Rio is sufferring with a wee bit of eczema, just like Rune did as a baby. She's got some dry skin on her arms, legs and face - and quite a bit of it has gone onto her scalp. So I gave her a good old smothering of Fatty Cream (works wonders!), and as I tried to tease it past her hairline, she ended up with a very bad hair-do!

As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words:

Daddy and his babies

Daddy has been the favourite today - playing and reading stories (and the 'Car Dealer'!!) with Rune, and getting lots of smiles from Rio! Managed to get some lovely photos of Daddy enjoying special time with his babies :)

xxxxx

Cheekychops

Little Miss Rio has been all smiles this morning, Rune and I have wasted an hour just giggling with Rio and watching her smile! She has found her tongue and loves to stick it out when she smiles, the cheeky little monkey! Here are a couple of photos of Rio being a little entertainer! :P

Windy Picnic!

Rune, Rio and I went to the park for a picnic today, but it was a bit gusty! Here is a video of Rune enjoying his picnic and singing Bob The Builder...that is, until the wind caught him unawares... (make sure you have the sound turned up so you can hear him singing!)

Arfer Julius Caesa

Last night we welcomed a new member to the family... Arfer! Nanny and Koro's new puppy, a grey and white whippet. He is LOVELY! He's as soft as they come, was letting everybody cradle him like a baby, and he just laps up all the attention - a real little fusspot! Rune was a bit unsure of him to begin with and kept going to call him Lottie! But by the end of the evening, Rune was giving 'Arga' kisses on the nose and cuddles round the belly :)

We were told he was fully toilet trained. WELL. Poor Nanny has been telling me of the dramas which prove he is anything BUT toilet trained...including a wee on her foot, and a breakfast poo in the middle of the dining room, which quickly turned Koro off of his fruit N fibre!! AND he can jump over gates!!!! Will take a bit of getting used to, having a puppy, after dear old Lottie who was blind and deaf and slow as a snail (at least she wasnt incontinent though!!!)

Here are a few pictures - and just keep in mind that Koro said NO to getting a dog, and I had to go behind his back and arrange one much to his dismay...

Excitement at 4am

4am on Tuesday morning... and there is a noise outside the bedroom window...

Eeee-eee-eeeeeee-e-ee-ee-eeeee-e-eeeeeee-ee-e-eee-ee-eeee

What on Earth is that??!!

Eeee-e-e-eee-ee-eeeee-e-eee-eee...

Sounds like somebody is trying to cut the glass in the window to break in!!

Eeeee-ee-eeee-eee-e-ee-eeee-ee-eeeeee-ee-eee...

Is there somebody down our driveway keying the cars??

Eeee-ee-eeee-ee-eeeee-ee-ee-eeee-ee-e......

Is it a possum? Or a bat? OR RATS?!

I wake Rogie up as I'm pinned to the bed by little miss sleeping beauty, and he goes to look out the window.

Looking, looking, looking...

Eee-ee-eeeee-ee-eeee-eee-e-eeeee-eee...

What is it?? Looking, looking, still looking, the noise is there but he cant see anything...

And then he starts to laugh.

What was causing the awful squealing noise? What caused us to get up at 4 am?

A SNAIL sucking its way across the bedroom window!!!!!! It was dead quiet outside, and the window must have been bone dry, because his slippery little underbelly was creating an awful squeak across the window!! We fell about laughing!!

So I popped Rio in her bassinet, as I didnt want to wake her up with our giggling (and so I could actually get comfortable in the bed!!)... and of course, she woke up... with an almighty, and incredibly LOUD poop.

Two installments of audible crapping, and more laughter from us, I get her out to change her nappy (and we'd run out of baby wipes so I have to use wet flannels)... and, my dear, darling daughter...

She pooped on me.





So, hows that for a bit of excitement at 4am?!?! ^_^