Meet Baby...

Big brother Noel is babysitting 'baby' here. 'Baby' is a Peterkin doll that is 40-43cm and is anatomically correct. I got him for Noel when Abel was first born. He wanted a 'boy' baby doll and I hunted all the shops I know and online shops but to no avail. I resorted to scouring on Trademe. Even then I kept losing in all my bids on all the boy doll. Finally this one came up and the seller is in my area BUT the doll is a SHE. I couldn't wait any longer as Noel kept asking about it. He wasn't too bothered that the doll is not a HE.

Over the months, Baby has had many names. Nathan, Dolly, and now that Abel is also playing with it, they prefer it to be "BABY". so i guess BABY it is.

Here, Abel has put Baby in the 'exersaucer' , activity station whatever you call...and was checking him out. i caught him on the pic, it was so cute watching the boys play. Noel was cooking in the background.

Then it was cuddling time. The next thing, Baby has joined them in their pretend play.

Are you Jackie?

Abel's vocab has expanded a lot more these days.  After I got home from work today, he fetched my mail for me, and said " Yours?"

Me: Yes. That's for me.

Abel: Are you Jackie???  (As if he can read the name on the big envelope)

I had to crack up laughing!

Superhero outing 2

Here are some of my favourite photos from the Light Festival.

We all attempted to fish the ducks. I think jake got a duck for Noel while I didn't have any luck.

Noel wanted to go on the safari trip. They had to spot what people dressed up as on their ride.

They spotted Darth Vader running about.

I believe the Charlie Chaplin is the pastor of the church

Noel with his popcorn snack.

Superhero outing

Abel was dressed up in Noel's old superman outfit for the light festival @ st columba church. He went on the baby bouncy castles.

Here he got a sausage dog balloon.

The man of Steel and his sausage dog.

sign of new life

The boys and I found this nest sitting on our fence. Two baby birds waiting for Mother Bird to bring back some food for them.

Playgroup - November

Abel likes to drive the bus at the playgroup. Sometimes he would take one or two friends with him in the bus.

He also loves these bikes. He scoots them very slowly while the older boys just race past him.

Noel and his hotel.

The two brothers on the see-saw.

Parachute

The boys were at Playgroup doing the parachuting activities.
Lots of laughter and lots of giggles.
Photo taken several weeks before I went back to work.

Fishing

I noticed Noel gets lots of satisfaction from home made toys especially ones that's he's improvised from things he found around the house. He found a stick and my old belt and he decided to make them into his fishing rod. He asked me for something blue to make a sea and I gave him his baby blanket. He then asked me to cut out some fishes for him. Then he asked me to put sticky tape at the end of his fishing rod so the fishes would stick to them.

After he fishes them, he puts them in a plate. Below he cooked them with his veggies at his kitchen and showed them to me.
That kept him entertained for all morning.

Courgette

This year, I bought a courgette plant from the sale table at the Horticultural show. After 2 months, it started fruiting.
but the courgette i get is very tiny and they are about 12cm long. I wonder if it's due to lack of fertiliser.

Thomas fans

Weather was sunny and two Thomas fan don on their sunglasses

The fans having a drink on the hot afternoon before hitting the pools.

Spring Festival 2011

Bouncy castle ...bounce bounce boing!!!!

Target throwing..

More games thingie - Abel checking out in the background

Treasure hunting..

With fellow spiderman buddy Logan..

Two pics of Noel and Abel in the bouncy castle.

Brothers getting ready for Spring Festival

Our church does a Spring Festival every year to provide alternative to halloween festival. Abel dressed up in his japanese costume and noel dressed up as Spiderman.

The two of them posed for some photographs before we went to church for the festival.