Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Eilngsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy!
An update coming soon I promise……… does anyone read this blog anymore (excepting my faithful Gina, Lor and Jen 
)?
Not a big fan of Santa our Max 
This year we sent off a picture that I had taken of us with our Christmas cards. The top one is the one we used – the second was about 20 seconds later – LOL!
This year has been one of huge change for Vic and I with the birth of Max, a change of country and a new job for me all within this calendar year.
All I can do is hope that your year has been as exciting, fulfilling, challenging and awe inspiring as mine.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Well, I’ve made it back from Sydney in one piece The week there was OK at best – training’s never that exciting and it was getting a bit warm for my liking at 37C/99F. Phew! What topped the week off beautifully though was the three and a half hours that it took me to check in for my return flight! The check-in system had gone down and so they had to do the process manually so you can imagine what a nightmare it was. The really bizarre thing though was the woman next to me in the queue was an old flatmate from about 15 years ago!
Two Max related things have also happened in the last week.
? He is now walking as much as he is crawling. I can’t believe the change in a week and he’s even got to the stage where he can toddle along and carry quite large objects. Good on ya Max
? On Friday he had his first major fall – all the way down the stairs from upstairs to the lounge (13 steps)! He only stopped when he hit the kiddie gate at the bottom……. Luckily he was OK and Vic (after much wailing from both of them) took him straight to the doctors to have him checked out. A bump on the head and a bit of blood from the mouth were all he had to show for it. You can imagine what I was like when Vic called me in Sydney to tell me……….
Max took his first proper steps a few minutes ago!!!!!
He’s been taking a couple when moving from one piece of furniture to another for the last week or so but this was about 8 steps over a couple of yards. He even took four steps, stopped and looked back at me, and then carried on towards Vic.
11 months old to the day
So cool !!!!!
I have just got back from Auckland after a 3 day work trip and have a whole 21 hours at home before leaving on a week long trip to Sydney…….. such a jetsetter
Last night though, was our company xmas party and work flew Vic up to Auckland for it. It was her first night away from Max and she coped admirably. She didn’t even call home to check up! We only have 6 staff in NZ so it was a fairly quiet affair which was just as well as the night before we’d had our customer chrissie function. I had about 20 glasses of Bollinger and staggered back to hotel room at 02:00……… I felt surprisingly good when I got up and after a couple of Panadol was ready to face the day
