Peekaboo

The boy continues to grow and develop etc as young un's are wont to do. Last week he started trying to feed Eve his rice cakes (forcibly at first), and he has now covered most consonants in the alphabet with his babbling.

Here is a grainy example of him playing peekaboo with mum. Excuse the hovel.

Merry Christmas to all

Hello Everybody

Wanted to wish everybody a very merry season. I hope it will not be too hot in the land of OZ. We will miss everybody at home and all that make it a Christmasy day, the season food, the darrellea pudding, the beach and dan and his christmas cracker stink bomb:P We have been getting with the cheery season though, we went to our village church for carols by candle light on Sunday night. But alas we missed the caroling around the village due to the worst cold I have ever had. Though they did come and sing at our house which was lovely, it is all for charity. They were very brave as we had a particularly cold snap, as that morning when I took Ben to work it was -7 and the warmest it got all day was -2. We are back to the lovely weather though, of clear skies and quite warm for this time of year, around 3 or 4 degrees during the day, no sign of snow sadly.

We are off to celebrate the season with neighbours tomorrow night with a lovely dinner, they have a wee lassie but five weeks older than our lad. I would just like to comment on the tv in this country, it is not feast in the slightest. Though I will grant you the first and second die hard movies are excellent. The best we have are top gear, (i love the fast cars), friends (they repeat the whole ten years back to back, we have seen the whole thing three times since we have been here) and of course scrubs, which is brillant watching, just got to have cox and jordan.

Christmas day of course we will be doing the traditional english thing with the hot turkey roast etc, off to the village church and of course many hours of skyping after of course we watch the cutiest baby in the world open all his presents. He's so lovable, I just can't cuddle him enough (which I guess is a good thing when some nights he wants to be rocked for two hours before he will consent to sleeping). Anyway, I hope everybody has a very Merry Christmas and a great new year and I look forward to seeing quite a few of you in that new year. Love you all.

E, B and now T

ps Ben would like to had a less cheerful version to this message 'Christmas stinks and we want to go home' quote from a very sick and poorly but lovely husband. His other choice comments were something like, who has every been sick at Christmas etc though I didn't point out that many are and of course in our prays. He does feel very crappy though and had a temp of 102 which i shared for a few hours though I have come out of it much better than his five day stint, the beautiful baby boy has only got teethy probs, his next two are coming down from the top. I must say I have not done anything as challenging as looking after a lively baby while feeling like death, my hat off to all you out there.

Koln

Christmas Season opened with a bang for us, training it off to the lovely country of Germany. We went to visit the Christmas Markets and of course checked out the local bits and bobs, including the cathedral the Dom. The markets were filled with wonderful toys, decorations and of course tasty treats. We tried out the waffles, crepes with melted chocolate and where would we be without the spiced wine.



The Dom


Tired Travel foozle

New Foozle Pics

A wee baby....

Blue Sky

Yesterday we went around Cambridge and lo and be hold it was a beautiful day. We wondered around the grounds of St Johns. Went to the markets and had coffee and cake.

To London, To London

Here we are off to London, what were we thinking! This close to Christmas, it was so busy. But we did have a nice time. We checked out Westminster Abbey, flew past the palace again and then tried to get into Harrods with no success. We fought our way in to the first floor and then gave up without buying anything before fleaing the scene.

Timothy James

The Christening of said cute thing was held in our local village church, St Andrews. Sunday 18th November at 10.30 the little guy got his head moistened and lay claim to Daniel, John and Rhonda as God Parents. It was a lovely service and then we had a cool, even cold as it was a few degrees on Sunday morning tea. We had Timothy's GG there and friends from work and the village.

here's the little guy, still clean before the Christening. He is wearing something from both his GG's and of course the stunningly beautiful shawl from Godmummy.


This is the cake for the morning tea, fruit cake of course


Tasty chocolates from Uncle Terry


Timothy with the lovely Darcy

GG Arrives = Great Gran Ma

We are lucky to have the lovely Athy here at the moment. Timothy's Great GranMa is here for three weeks, we have been touring around Cambridge. Here a few shots around the place..

Super Swimming Pics

So cute..

Upright

Harvest Festival

Its a wonderful of year here. The leaves are turning, the days grow shorter and of course the cold winds arrive. I love the cold even after experiencing a winter here. I think it has lead me to romanticising it even more than before. The folks around these parts like to get together and thank all that is good for all that they have received and I must say we got our fair share of goodies this year. We had potatos, carrots, onions, capsicums, tomatos, blue berries and stacks of salads stuff and that was just for the garden. Of course our big haul is getting Timothy, who is the sweetest, cutest and smartest baby ever (of course). So join these pics from our local church of all the harvest goodies, (food and flowers etc). And remember to thank God, the Universe or whatever is your think for something special you have got in the last year. Much better than coming up with new years resolutions is my thinking.

YogaBaby

We're swinging now. Timothy is pictured here doing his yoga thing he learnt in his Wednesday class. very trendy :P



Though I think some silly folks out there might like to lock us up for this move but its an offical move


Timothy hanging with his sweet girlfriend, the Lovely Alice