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One year old today!
Boy how time flies. This time last year we had our little girl at home after an exceptionally good delivery in the wee hours of the morning, with just 4 hours or so in hospital. Since then she’s delighted us as she’s grown up into a cute little girl who will soon be running around after her cheeky brother.
For a look back on the past year in photos, check out Amy’s Introductions, 3 Months, 6 Months and 9 Months albums.
A little belated, but hey.
Matt is now 3 years old and Amy is 9 months – oh how time flies!
The lad turned 3 on August 2 and had a fun party with some of his friends at Tinytown in Kilbirnie – toys, playhouses, cars, a bouncy castle and party food! Lots of party food and an awesome clown cake out of our new kitchen!
And his fav toy is of course from his parents(!) – his new scooter,
Along with his third birthday came a new room at Kindercare – his creche – “Pre-school One”. So far so good – he loves the new room, new toys and big kids playground!
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The day after Matt’s birthday, Amy turned 9 months old – meaning about now(ish) she’s spent as long with us as she did growing inside Mum! How’s that for a random fact and celebration?! She’s going great guns with her growing – 95th percentile for height, and weight, well, um, apparently it’s not polite to mention a girls weight (or her thunder thighs!). Moving along, she’s also crawling now and for the most part has abandoned commando crawling in favour of all fours,
This has created all sorts of new challenges for the boy as Amy can now get to his toys! Additionally, she’s very vocal and has teeth,
Actually that popped out around a month ago and now the front two bottom ones are well up.
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So there you go. A quick update on the kids, and for the family we’ll try and get some fresh vids online soon so stay tuned…
A quick update on our little girl – not so little any more at 7.5 months!
Amy is going great guns on her food (apparently I’m not allowed to mention her thighs, and I’m definitely not allowed to call her “thunder thighs”… oops! 
) and as a result is looking very healthy on the charts. She’s a happy wee girl and with Lou recently returning to part-time work I’ve had the pleasure of some daddy-days with her of late.
While still not crawling, she does do a good beached whale impersonation, and can sit fairly well now with her first vocalising sound being “ba”. 
She’s also found her toes, loves anything with buttons (has her own cell phone as a result) and thinks her crazy brother is hysterical.
Finally, here’s a recent vid (~6 months) having fun with Mum,
A little late in the making, but here’s a brief update on our Taupo holiday at Easter.
In short, we had a fantastic trip with 3 nights in Taupo staying at a friends holiday house. The kids travelled really well – this being our longest car trip with both Matthew (2yr 8mth) and Amy (5.5mth).
The trip north took around 6 hours, including 2 decent stops for the lad to run around in Otaki and Waiouru. And to further help out the little guy combat boredom, we broke out a portable DVD player for the last part of the journey, which inevitably meant driving to The Wiggles!
Once in Taupo we played tourist with a toddler friendly focus – including playgrounds, train rides, visiting the Huka Falls, the Honey Hive and the AC Baths.
For the trip home, we decided to take an alternative route, sneaking through the Gorge, down SH2 and over the Rimutaka Hill to avoid the inevitable nightmare traffic on SH1 trying to get back into Wellington at the end of a long weekend. Our route was thus,
and took just half an hour longer than the trip north, and again we stopped twice for Matt to run around. Google maps tells me that route is about 60km longer than via SH1 and I’d definitely do it again – I’d far rather drive a little further and stay moving than be in a stop-start queue between Otaki and Porirua!
So all-in-all it was a successful holiday and we’ve uploaded a few snaps to my Picasa Web Albums here.
The logo on Google.co.nz made me smile today,
The Very Hungary Caterpillar is still one of Matt’s favourite books – he normally asks for it every night at storytime.
Congrats to my sister Nic and hubby Andrew on the arrival of their second child. Kathryn (Katie) Rose Chinn was born on Saturday (one week early), weighing in at 3.925kg (8.65lb or about 8lb 10oz for the imperialists). Here’s a couple of pics,
The happy family – Andrew, Nic, Katie and Oliver,
And a very cute little sleeping girl,
Best wishes to the Chinnobles!
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