William's First Trip to the Snow

Last Sunday we took William to the snow for the first time. He was very excited when he first saw snow as he has only seen it on the Happy Feet movie or Pengins as he calls it. I managed to find a second hand pair of size 4 ski overalls and I brought him a pair of mittens which were really hard to get on, so they stayed on all day, even as we hand fed him his lunch!!

He love going down the Tobogan Run and even came off and ate dirt at the bottom of one of them - he did have a couple of stacks and a few tears but he had a ball and slept all of the way home!!

You're too heavy Daddy, don't make me pull!

Attempting to build a snowman

This is great fun Daddy

Pull me faster Daddy - up the hill!!

What's that!

Rolling down the hill getting very wet!

Come on Daddy - pull it's only a small hill!

Let's do it again Daddy
Oh No - Dirt

Once with Mummy

July

Making pizza's with Daddy

Riding on Thomas with Mummy

Look who I found in my bed Mummy - it's Esther!

Ring a Ring a Rosy with my friends from Mothers Group

This is a big hat Mummy!

Look what I wrote Mummy

Learning to use the Computer

Daddy's Birthday cake with ice cream - Yum (that's pasta sauce on my face!)

I help Daddy - birthday cake for Daddy

Settling back in at Home

It has been a fairly quite 7 weeks since we have been home. We have started swimming lessons again on a Friday and tomorrow William starts back at Gymbaroo again with two of his friends from playgroup.

William has now moved out of his toddler bed into a single bed (with his Thomas the Tank doona cover) and we have gotten rid of the change table in his room. He can get himself in and out of bed and he is really good at staying there until the wee hours of the morning! He has actually slept right through the last 6 night (fingers crossed) and we can hear the pitter patter of feet as he comes to my side of the bed anywhere between 5am and 6am (on a bad morning 4am!) to climb in for a cuddle and a bottle.

He is talking all the time with a little bit of french as I call it, when he goes into a rave about something that neither Paul or I can understand! He has been asking to talk to Grandma and Grandpa on the Puta (computer) and asks me where Mark is or where Tony or Shiv are and I explain that they are at their house.

Here are a few shots from the last month.

A winters day on the beach

Thanks for the cake Mum

Back at Playgroup having fun

Too tired!!

Muddy playground with Daddy

Kicking the ball and falling over in the mud at Jells Park

For a couple of days William took this hat everywhere

The Trip Home

Our trip home was long and uneventful as long haul flights usually are. William ran into Paul's arms when we came through customs and rode on his shoulders all the way to the car. He has been a bit of a Mummy's boy, but that didn't last long as you can imagine - Daddy all the way now!!

We packed up his toddler bed and moved the change table out of his room to make way for the single bed with Thomas the tank doona on Sunday - it worked well and he is now sleeping in his own "big Thomas bed". A big thank you to Janet and Fred for the Thomas doona and the Thomas trains and track (which was set up constantly in my room at Grandma's and Grandpa's, stepping over it in the night was fun!) - thank you very much also the for DVD's.

Thank you also to Genevieve and Tim for the loads and loads of toys that William had to play with. Pat, I hope Danny the cat is over his trauma of being chased by a 2 year old, thank you for your prayers in the early days, as you can see I think he was listening!

Thank you to Chris & Jools, Mark & Karen, Janet & Michael, Tina & Colin, Peter & Emma, The Birchmores and Mark for your hospitality and the fun we had.

Shiv, I hope you have got that Wiggles song out of your head by now, if you need a reminder, let me know! Tony, I hope you have recovered from the rough and tumble - thank you both for a great weekend in the Cotswolds.

Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa for everything, William had a ball and is still asking where you both are and walks into the study to turn the computer on. He will have lasting memory's of our trip. Enjoy the coffee and hope you get some sleep now.

Finally, thank you to Nana and Pop for travelling with us, you made it a lot easier on the plane, and have created memory's we will laugh about for a long time (now stop counting stairs, Pop).


There's our plane Bobby - I wonder when we can get back on?

I'm sick of waiting Pop - me too William!

Thank God for the video's.

Cooking with Grandma

Cutting the vegetables

Washing the vegetables

My turn Grandma!
Is it ready yet Grandma?

That looks cooked to me - let's eat!

Playing Pool with the Guys at the Pub

Thanks Mark, I needed a lift

Let's play, before Mum comes back

So Mark, what are the rules?

Thanks for the pound Grandpa, I need it for another game!

Where did that ball go?

Show me how to 'rack em up" Mark

Don't touch the balls William

When is it going to be my turn?

Don't let them win Mark

Then along comes Mum, with pjama's and a bottle! Oh Well!!

Fun with Grandma and Grandpa

Buckinghamshire Railway - VIP Treatment

He's so soft Grandpa

Swanage Railway

I bet I can rock you off, Grandpa - let's try William

Odds Farm - great tractor Grandma!

Frogs in Grandpa's pond