A Special Birthday

Firstly, let me say I am sorry that it has taken so long to get these photos of Joanna's Birthday up! We have had some major issues with our internet connection which left us without for about 2 weeks in total! But i hope these photos satisfy you all! As you can probably tell we had a GREEN party, due to the fact that she was born on St Patricks Day!

We had a lovely day for Joanna's first birthday with all her friends and ours and I simply can't believe that my little baby is now such a grown up little girl, well and truely walking now :)

Her latest thing is pointing to everything and anything, waving bye and clapping her hands! She is also enjoying kindermusik and playgroup once a week! She also continues to love reading, especially spot books and now points to things in books when asked! What a clever girl :)

I will endevour to get a decent video of her walking to post so you can all see soon!

bye for now

Alex

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Valentine's Day and more

well, last post I did promise some piccies from my mum's Party....the lovely Natti from SoF took these (thanks again darl!) love your work ;) It was a lovely morning tea and Mum is STILL talking about it and we are still talking about how she didn't have a CLUE!!

Valentine's day here was not much of an occassion, but it did remind me that three years ago Mark gave me a very special Valentine's day present.... a puppy! Calvin is such a huge part of our lives! Not much has changed! He is still the same goofy (yet highly intelligent) Labrador that loves a cuddle, a walk and a snuggle in bed! I can't believe it has been three years, Love you Calvie! xxoo

Thats it from here,

although we are preparing for cyclone Nicholas, I don't think it will come close though, we are too far inland for it to cause too much damage!

See ya

Alex

been a while!

Well, it sure has BEEN A WHILE! so sorry for all those out there wanting to hear from us!

We had a wonderful Christmas here in Tom Price and are enjoying our Summer (as hot as it is!)

Joanna and I (Alex) have returned from our trip to Brisbane and are glad to be back home despite the wonderful time we had visiting lots of friends, family and of course catching up with our shopping! We also enjoyed suprising Grandma (my mum) with her surprise 60th Birthday Party hehehe (more pictures to come!) Below photos with Carla and Aunty Berta.

Joanna is now well and truly walking (took her first steps while we were away mid january!!) and is keeping us busy as usual. She has enjoyed being back home with Daddy and Calvin and her little friends and even helped her little friend Jorja celebrate her first Birthday the other day by encouraging her to walk! (needless to say that Jorja's parents we thrilled!)

L to R - Joanna, Jorja (birthday Girl) and Sienna

It is my aim to update this more regularly now that we are home!

So look forward to sharing with you more soon!
Alex

Busy busy

Sorry, for all those that have been waiting for photos, it has been busy around here just recently! Well, although I feel that we have been busy there really isn't all that much to tell!

However I have managed to get some more scrapping done recently! This is my favourite layout below.

Joanna is now sitting up very well by herself! Yeh, so much nicer then always lying down, now she can really 'Play'. She is also crawling very well now and frequently chases after Calvin! He does not seem to mind, if she is too rough he just moves away and she crawls after him!

We had picnic day 2 weeks ago on the Sunday, this is where everyone in town goes down to the main oval for a picnic put on by the company (rio tinto). Everything is free, rides, games, food, drinks and entertainment! We had a nice time, it was nice to get out with Joanna and our friends, she enjoyed crawling around the picnic rug and got her first experience of grass ;) Photo above is from that day! In her cute red outfit and hat from Grandma and Aunty Berta!

Hehehe, what a cutie! She is just so happy to crawl around at the moment! Love these overalls that Aunty teeny sent! Once again i am having problems trying to rotate my photos so u will just have to tilt your head to the side! SORRY, will have to find out how to fix this! I love this photo that Mark took the other day! Look at those cheeks!

Well, that is almost it from us! We are most excited (well I am anyway!) that Joanna and I will be coming to Brisbane in January for mums birthday! Can't wait to see everyone and for them to meet the wonderful little girl Joanna is!

Until next time,

Alex

PS next post will be more exciting, promise! As we will have had our trip to Perth!

Lots of Milestones!

Hello again! Yes, I have managed to post without too much time passing!

Last week we started Joanna on rice cereal, she doesn't mind it but is not so fussed! She likes it a bit more now that I mix pureed fruit in with it, so do i! Plain rice cereal isn't that flash, trust me :) So there goes another milestone! sob sob......(sorry about the sideways photos, i cant seem to turn them for some reason!!!)

Joanna also cut her first tooth last week, without me realising (felt like such a bad mum!) No real problems, suppose thats why i didn't really notice. Its the bottom one, and now the other is coming through aswell!

Well this week has been a short one. It was a long weekend here so we decided to take advantage of that and we decided to go camping, well kind of! Karajini National Park is only 40mins drive from us and they have recently opened an eco-lodge out there so we went and checked it out! It was very HOT! 37deg! In a tent with a baby, I don't suggest it! But we had fun, once we got over that. The monday we set off ealry and headed done Kalamina Gorge. It is a nice short walk down adn back, i was told that I would manage it with Joanna in the pouch, which i did. We got to the bottom and found a little stream and joanna dipped her feet in and played with Mark while I fiddled with his camera, see below!

She is starting to really move about lots! Getting up on her knees and trying to crawl and today she was getting very very frustrated when she all of a sudden let out "bub bub" I was shocked! She has been babbling for a while but this was clear as day! :) It made my day! She has been saying it as I have been trying to put her to bed tonight also, I suppose I won't be able to stop her now. (had to put this photo in for Aunty Berta! she got this cute outfit for J!)

As I write this I am also trying to put her to be (and watch the rugby, GO THE WALLABIES!!!) she has also just said "Mama". I picked her up, she looked me straight in the eye and said it! So sweet! Mark is now madly saying dadadadaadaada :) It will come ;)

So there u have it lots of Milestones!

Oh, we also attended a Kindermusiq class today! A freind of ours is starting them next year and she invited us to attend with Joanna as a practice! We had a wonderful time, singing and dancing and Mark came and took some photos for Maggies advertising! Should be lots of fun, another musician in the family hey?! who knows ;) (photo below was taken at Kindermusiq today! :)

Must be off!

Alex

September

Yes, yes I know that it has been a LONG time since I have posted anything and sooo much has happened since then! So let me fill you in......





Well we had my Birthday and Fathers Day (same day!!) which was interesting, I am still deciding what to get, cause we are going to Karratha to go shopping in a few weeks! YEAH shops!!





Joanna and I now meet with our mums group friends once a week and have lunch with them and their bubs! So that has been nice :) The girls are all getting to the age where they are starting to interact with each other! Its is also nice to have someone else make lunch for you!!! :)
The photo below is of Jorja (left) and Joanna!




Mark has recently climbed Mt Bruce (again). Mt Bruce is the second tallest Mt in WA, Mt Meharry it is the tallest, we are yet to do that one!!! They left town at 5am so that they could be up the Mt before it go too hot!



Joanna turned 6 months on the 17th (last week). She is beginning to sit up and is trying to crawl! She is just so cute and is still such a good girl for us!!! We have just started feeding her solids this week :) Rice cereal! Mmmmm fun! She seems to be indifferent on this one, just enjoys making a mess I think!

The video above was taken the day Joanna turned 6 months, please excuse the crazy mummy talk, as this seems to be the only way I can get her attention!

We have also had an extra member of the family come to stay with us! Calvin's brother Jabaree has been with us for the last two weeks, just during the days and then last weekend! They are so funny together. Joanna just loves to watch them! The photo below is the two of them in Calvin's bed! Jabaree is on the left and Calvin the right. They look so much alike that even I have trouble telling the apart sometimes ;)



Anyways I think that is it!
Sorry it has taken so long!

Enjoy the piccies