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Off to Sydney for the whole of this week so I’ll see y’all next week!

Here’s Elliot at his birthday lunch.

Elliot’s one today!

I was looking at the entry for Max’s first birthday and although I thought that his first year went quickly I’m sure Elliot’s has gone even faster.

Not much planned and certainly not to the extent of Max’s first birthday.  Family around tomorrow for lunch and that’s about it.  At one it all seems to be about the parents anyway

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So now all I have to do is remember what’s happened since last we spoke……. I think I’ll do my normal trick of bullet points

• Elliot now has seven, yes seven, teeth!  He’s turning into a real little charmer as well with his toothy grin, blonde wavy hair and cheeky laugh.

• In one week he will be one. I know!  I have no idea where the time has gone 🙁 I was talking about it with Vic last night and I remember the day he was born (at least from when Vic and I left home for the hospital) with crystal clarity.  Before I know it he’ll be leaving home…… hopefully

• Elliot has also got the stage where he is standing for periods of time on his own without realising it and then crumpling to the floor when he notices.  Very funny to watch.

• Max is the same wee boy – a joy one minute and a right little shite the next.  He gets on really well with Elliot and it’s very funny watching them interact in various ways.  After dinner tonight Max was crawling after Elliot who was crawling away and squealing hilariously.  When Max caught Elliot he’d blow raspberries on his bum and then it would all start again.  All great fun until Elliot filled his nappy and Max comes up from the next raspberry with a wrinkled nose and tells us that “Elliot’s got a really stinky bum” lol!

• Max said this morning “I don’t want daddy to screw it up” about something that I was about to do.  Bizarre.

• Vic and I had a weekend away with some friends a couple of weekends ago – yay!  Max stayed at home with his Grandad and Elliot spent the weekend at his Granny’s.  We went to Martinborough which is both a town and a wine growing region about an hours drive away.  A very adult weekend was had with food, drinking, wine tours and much silliness – great.  We stayed at the Secret Garden which just lovely and a perfect size for six people.

• I started playing football (soccer) again, after a break of 23 years, and am playing for the Masters team (35+) of Naenae football club.  The first game of the season (3-2 loss) I completely knackered my achilles tendons and have been unable to play the last two weeks.  The physiotherapist has no idea when I’ll be OK to play 🙁 Getting old, I tell ya………

Other than that life just seems to have been passing me by at a crazy rate.

Two quick pictures (and a sound file!) to give you an idea of how the kids are coming along.

The first is Max.  Yesterday he disappeared upstairs to his room and wandered down about 15 minutes later dressed like this!  These are all clothes that are on a shelf for when winter arrives but he’d got them down and added (on top of t-shirt and shorts) trackpants, a shirt, a fleece dressing gown and a wooly hat.  The funniest thing was that he came down and proudly announced “Mummy, I’m all fancied up” ! lol! Where he got the term fancied up we have no idea….  When I was editing this picture for the entry this is what he said:  mp3 file (if you want a translation email me or leave a comment)

This picture shows that Elliot is getting everywhere he shouldn’t be!  The first flight of stairs is eight steps and he was up the all the way on his first go.  We now have a couple of gates……

Another milestone in Elliot’s life!  For the last two days he’s been pulling himself up on furniture/people/laundry baskets.  Given this, another round of “Elliot proofing” has had to be carried out (at about 12” above the previous round )

Not much to say except that the boys are growing up fast.  Vic walked in on Elliot today half standing up in his cot and we have since dropped the level of his mattress down…. Did I mention that he’s been crawling for about two weeks now?  We keep finding him in all sorts of interesting places that are much further away than we would have considered possible!

He’s also just moved into his big boy, forward facing car seat – and Max has moved into a booster seat that just uses a normal seatbelt.

On another note Max’s playgroup bought a pirate outfit today and Max just had to try it on

But things are crazy busy at both work and home….

I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well.  We’ll update properly in the next couple of days.