My fun day at "Jumping Beans" today

I was pretty lucky today, both Mummy and Daddy took me along to my favourite place called “Jumping Beans”

I get to do all sorts of cool stuff with lots of other babies once a week…check me out below in the photos…it’s a pretty cool place!

"I love the swing...but daddy had to take millions of photos caus I was swinging so fast and he always missed me in the shot!"

"Fun tummy time on the trampoline!"

"I'm not entirely sure about this thing though..."

"Playing peek-a-boo with all the ribbons."

"Wow, trippy man...these bubbles are pretty wicked"

"After all the excitement of Jumping Beans...I'm way starving now...Bring me some food!

Sophiexx

At home with the girls this week

It’s been great being home with the girls this week.
In fact Sophie’s enjoyed it so much I think it’s busted up her routine…the past 3-4 nights she has been a little horror. She’s going to bed at her normal time of around 6:00 -6:30pm, but then waking up about 45 minutes later and NOT wanting to sleep at all. Last couple of nights she has cried herself into a stupor and it’s not even food she wants, just a bit more human contact…need to knock that on the head pretty quickly though.

Apart from Sophie transforming into the antichrist after 6pm, she’s been a little angel the rest of the time.

We’re heading off to Tutakaka on Friday for the weekend; friends of ours from work are getting married up there. We’re staying at the same place Ingrid and I went on holiday at the start of the year…it’s awesome. Sophie should enjoy it too – the resort has a huge heated swimming pool so she’ll get to try out her new togs and little arm floaties…(just hope they are the only floaties in the pool after we get out though…) It will be the first time in her porter cot too, so lots of first for her this weekend.

Tutakaka - a snap-shot from when we stayed there early this year...beautiful.

The couple getting married have a baby boy around the same age as Sophie, and a few of the couples coming along have little ones too…so they’ve organized babysitters during the wedding and reception, (which is 2 minutes from the place we’re staying) fingers crossed Sophie snaps out of her post 6pm freak-out before we go!

Brad

Sophie tries to crawl...

She's trying really hard to crawl...but is making more progress going backwards!

A big Week and U2

Slack again for not updating – It’s been a big week.

Ingrid and I went out for dinner for a work function on Tuesday and had Steve and Maria come around to baby sit, along with Maria’s parents who have just flown in from Boston. Sophie was a little angle for them too.

I spent most of Wednesday recovering from far too much alcohol from the night before and managed to miss an extremely important meeting at 9am…Ingrid woke me up and asked what time I needed to be at work…that was 8:51am…whoops!

Some great news on the Sophie front, we have finally knocked out her late night feed and she’s slept right through from 6pm to 6am for the past three nights! The only stink thing about this, if I get home late from work now, I won’t have seen her all day long!

My two sister’s came up Friday night and babysat for us while we went to U2.
Wow what a concert too…this gig would certainly have to be up there among the best I have ever seen. We were bloody lucky to scam a corporate box there so the entire Rock crew along with partners went along…I have spoken to a couple of people today and I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling a wee bit dodgy…we didn’t wend up getting home till well after 1:30am. Sophie again, was on her best behavior, she woke a couple of times so Nic and Rochelle went up and gave her a quick cuddle and she went back to sleep again.
I dropped the two sisters off at U2 tonight and I’m sure they will have a blast there as well…the gig was truly amazing.

Brad

Striking a pose

Sophie striking a pose for the camera...show off.

Overdue Update

We’ve copped a bit of flack that we haven’t updated for nearly a week...sorry

Sophie is over her little cold now and is in really good spirits. She had her Poppa (Michael), Ingrid’s father up here for a few days this week which was nice and also good for Sophie to get some more male contact too, because apart from me, Sophie pretty much only sees female’s everyday. There’s her lovely mummy of course and really only Ingrid’s coffee group friends and their babies the rest of the time. I noticed it last week when Sophie came up to work, she was a lot more dubious around all the blokes and she seemed to flock towards the girls at work.

"Check out my new High Chair"

It’s been full on at work recently, so I’m taking some time off at the end of next week (Ye-haaaaa!). Ingrid and I have a work dinner next Tuesday and Steve and Maria (Ingrid’s bro and girlfriend) are coming around to baby-sit which will be great and then Friday night, U2 are playing! My sisters (Nicki and Rochelle) are both coming up from the Naki so they can baby-sit for us and then they’re both off to U2 on the Saturday evening - so it’s worked out brilliantly. It's hard to believe though, 2 nights out together in less than 4 days…christ, we haven’t done that since way before Sophie was born!

Happy that daddy is taking some time off work soon

Sophie’s cool little high-chair arrived on Monday too, but tonight (Saturday) was the first time I’ve actually seen Sophie in it and eating…crazy! I’m normally off to work before she has her morning feed and her dinner time is becoming earlier and earlier these days… so I’ve missed bath time and feed-time all bloody week!...at least with some time off soon I can spend some overdue quality time with my two girls…can’t wait.

Brad

Daddy trying to be cool with Rockstars

This is my daddy pretending to be cool with the new singer of Rockstar Supernova (Lucas Rossi) when he visted The Rock Studio this morning...what's with wearing shades inside dad?...uncool.

Sophiexx

Sophie makes Brad sick...

Things are good, Sophie is back to full health (well almost, she’s picked up a niggly little cold, nothing major) but apart from that she’s in good spirits.

Showing us she's feeling much better, no more nasty viruses thank you!

Sophie has been absolutely hoovering down her food lately as well. I on the other hand, almost passed out while she ate her runny, disgusting mashed pumpkin for dinner…I was holding her pretty close to my face feeding her and the smell of the stuff made me dry reach on more than one occasion (I’m not exactly sure why I hate the stuff so much, I’m bound to have some repressed childhood memories relating to a horrible pumpkin incident...or it could simply be, Pumpkin is f*cking awful!)

"OK daddy, so tell me, what exactly is your issue with pumpkin?"

Anyway, Sophie awoke from her morning sleep just in time to catch the second half of the emphatic slaughtering by the All Blacks over France this morning. Although I must have frightened her a couple of times when we scored with all the screaming and jumping around! The poor little thing shit herself!...no surprises whose turn it was change her either…

Brad

The Mighty AB's...you beauty.

Sophie is back in form

As you can see, beautiful Sophie is back to full health and doing well.

Much better today

Sophie had a much better day today. She’s still not quite 100%, but certainly on the mend. She spent most of the day sleeping. (the poor wee thing needed it too after spending most of yesterday awake and not eating). Bit of a scare though last night…at one stage they were going to give her a spinal tap among the kazillion tests they did…thank god they didn’t have to in the end...that would have been real scary.

The colour is now back in her face and she was full of giggles and smiles this morning…so apart from a few out of character grizzles and feeling sleepy all day, little Sophie is a lot better.


Changing subjects entirely, we were sent a complementary copy of this months Bride and Groom magazine…with Sophie's parents starring in it!…sweet as.

Brad

Rough day for Sophie

Poor little Sophie developed a sudden fever and became quite hysterical this afternoon. Ingird took her along to the doctors and they recommended she go straight to Starship Hospital – She became inconsolable at times - friggen aweful when you can’t do anything to make her feel better.

Got to the hospital around 5:30pm. and Sophie got the full examination including a couple of chest X-Rays…and man, X-Rays suck for little ones …forcing a screaming baby to hold it’s hands above it’s head, while having to keep her completely still, ain’t an easy thing to do...

Anyhow, the good news, after a few hours at the hospital she slowly came around and her temperature dropped as each hour passed - the Doc's said it was a nasty viral thing and obviously we needed to keep a close eye on her over the next few days.
When we left the hospital, (after Sophie's traumatic day) she even managed to sneak out a couple of cheeky grins to all the doctors and nurses...

Brad

Fun with Sophie.

Sophie looked so content by herself, so Ingrid and I popped off to the pub for a few hours...Sophie was fine by herself....really.

BRAD: "Hey Ingrid, Sophie has fallen over again!"

INGRID: "Oh well, it'll toughen her up...I'll get to her after my sandwich ok!"

You should have seen what we dressed her up in before this shot!

Sophie now 6 months old

Mummy and Sophie enjoying the day out

We took Sophie out to the park today for her 6 month birthday.
Its funny how small things amuse, she was absolutely fascinated by all the grass. It makes sense I ‘spose why she loves it…we don’t have any lawn at our place and it was the first time she’s sat on the stuff. (Without falling over too I might add!)

The forecast is pretty good again tomorrow, so we’re heading off to have a big picnic lunch – I just hope she manages to sleep alright tonight…because as I write this, it sounds like World War 4 outside…there are fireworks and crackers everywhere!

Look, sitting up all by herself!

Brad

Rockin' out at daddy's work

Mummy packed me up and dropped me off at daddy’s work today…she was mumbling something about wanting to hang out with grown up people for a while…surely they can’t be as entertaining as me!!!

Anyhow, daddy did the same thing like last time I was there, he ran around his work with a big grin on his face showing me off to everybody in the building, I of course played along, and smiled at everyone there and gave the odd giggle and squeal to make him feel good. I did notice though, daddy got very angry when people starting talking about the colour of my hair?…he started yelling stuff about fruit I think?...mentioning strawberries and blondie things...I don’t get it though?

What did you just say to me!...You can't say that on the radio!

I could get used to this...chilling out, talking dribble here and there...

After showing me off, we went into the studio thingy and I got to have a talk on the radio…I couldn’t understand what I was supposed to do, so I just dribbled into the big microphone thing, then daddy told me my dribble sounded much better than the real dribble he has to listen to everyday….shucks.

We had the coffee group girls and babies round here yesterday

Sophiexx