The new best thing... and least for a rainy day

A rainy day and we've discovered the BEST amusement for a toddler - the mini shopping trolley in a hardware store. A very serious business helping us, as you can see. So cute! It took two hand stamps and a balloon on a stick to prise him away when the trolley couldn't come all the way home with us!

A little liquid sunshine...

...couldn't dampen the fun in our Mum's group Xmas get together. Here we (Amanda, Teresa, Anike and Julia) are with our not so little ones (Benji, Nicholas, Sophia & Toby), Dads (Steve, Dan & Neil) and a couple of newer additions (Rory and Benji's due-any-day-now sibling). And this is just the half of it. Once we could have tea and cake whilst our babies gurgled on the floor. Now it's a full person's job to wander.. to the sea...to the swings...to the dog water bowl... in the rain. What fun! So great to grab the minutes we did together, though.

"Who IS this guy?"

" I didn't get him last year. And he's still a bit strange. Maybe next year I'll get excited or, at least, understand." This photo was taken at Nicholas's Childcare's Christmas party - complete with presents, food made by the kids (luckily mostly the pre-prep kids), a show and, of course, Santa. Very cute.

Swinging in the rain, just...

...swinging in the rain. Well, it wasn't raining just yet, but it did before we made it home. Please note (although not in any league near our northern hemisphere readers!) the warm get-up for this SUMMER day...4th Dec...wearing longs. Whatever the weather, it's getting hard to get the little fella off the swing these days.