Clever little Sophie

Sophie enjoyed herself out in the sun yesterday. It was a cracker day so the little rudie ran around the house with her top off!...actually she spilt the entire bottle of pump,all over herself in the car and she was drenched!

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Dad and Marc surprised us yesterday which was nice, so we picked up some Subways and all headed to the park for a picnic. Sophie normally always sits in her highchair or little portable chair when she eats, but yesterday she simply sat with us all on a blanket quite content and ate her lunch while checking out all the kids running around in the park.

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Sophie enjoying the sun on her back on a beautiful day

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The past couple of weeks Sophie has really started to try and talk...she's still making no sense at all, but at least now, she's saying saying more than just 'Mumma' and 'Dadda'! Every now and then she'll blurt out a hundred different noises all at once and then get really excited, It won't be long now before words start forming properly.

Click here to see a little video showing how clever Sophie is. She's is a book fiend and makes us read books to her more and more but it's paying off, she might be a little brain box this kid I reckon...

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Brad

Housework?...Na, that's what kids are for...

We're all feeling a lot better today, so it was time to do a bit of housework...I mean, it was time to show Sophie how do to all the housework...and the best part...she bloody loved it!

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She didn't want to stop sweeping!...we even bought her a little baby broom, but all she wanted was the big grown up one!

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The vacum cleaner used to give her the sh*ts...but now she can't get enough of it...good work Sophie!
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"Sophie, you can do the vacuming and housework from now on OK...what do you say to that?"
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Brad

The Sicko's

I normally start off by saying we've been slack and haven't got around to updating, but this time we've all had pretty good excuses...the entire King house-hold has been as sick as dogs.

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Last weekend I thought I was simply feeling the effects of playing rugby from the Friday before...as it turned out, I was starting to get bloody shingels!...it's a nasty, hideous thing to get, and I've spent more time at home this week than at work. I was going to post a photo of what it does to you, but I didn't really want anyone black-mailing me with the photo later on in life...lets just say it looks like really bad acne mixed in with blistering sunburn...and the shitty thing is, it feels a lot worse than it looks!

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Anyhow, enough self-pity, Sophie's cough hasn't quite gone away either and to top it all off, both Ingrid and I picked up bloody colds mid-way through the week...and becasue Sophie didn't want to miss out, last night she developed one of the worst cases of nappy rash I have seen...which kept her and Ingrid up all night long...thankfully the cream you get for it these days is pretty good and the good news is, it's healing up at a quick rate.

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We did (just) manage to get out and enjoy a bit of the sun today in between our sneezes, coughs, aches and burns...(yes this is where you say "ohh you poor things...)...lets hope next weekend is better!

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A cute photo of Sophie sitting outside with her beloved toothbrush and ball...although it took almost half a day before she could could sit down properly...

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Little Video of Sophie...again with her bloody toothbrush and ball!

(you my need to hit play twice to start)

Brad

Beachtime and Rugby games

Mummy and Daddy are too slack to update, so I guess it's up to me then...

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Daddy pretended he was an 'All Black' on Friday, and went along to play a rugby tournament with his work buddies...they lost (surprise!) and then I had to listen to him moaning all weekend about how sore and unfit he is...(as if I didn't already know that daddy...)

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"Ohh come on Mummy - I don't need a jacket...I'm outta here!..."

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When daddy finally got off the couch this weekend (and he wonders why he's so unfit...) we all went along to the beach and I got to run up and down for ages, screaming at the top of my lungs at everyone! then, I got to eat my favourite food in the world...SAND!

I had a pretty cool time at the beach on Saturday and I even got to play qt the park that afternoon too...you beauty! On Sunday, mummy took me down to another park by the sea (while Daddy watched some more rugby on TV and pretended it was him playing...) and I got to play with some friendly dogs, and then got really soaked from jumping up and down in the water!

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"mmm...I spot some nice wet sand over there...all of a sudden I'm hungry again! "

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Last week I picked up a pretty nasty cough from one of my buddies at Kids Club, and I haven't managed to shake it, so I had to pop along to the docs yesterday to get some cough medicine (Mummy some-how forgot to tell the nice Doc, that she let me play in the cold water that morning by the way...), but anyway, I'm happy to say the medicine is working, and I'm feeling a lot better today!

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Thats enough from me now...lets hope Mummy and Daddy don't forget to update this again in hurry, otherwise, I'll jump back on and tell more stories about them...

See ya!

Sophie xx

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Daddy's Rock Rugby Team...That's daddy in the 2nd row right in the middle...pretending to be an All Black...

Museum (and Ingrid updates!)

We have had a full on weekend. After Brad got over his hangover on Saturday after a big night in the corporate box on Friday night supporting the Warriors, we got it together to take Sophie to the park where she had fun on the swing, the slide and playing with the other kids. After a stop at the supermarket to get supplies for the next week we went home for a play in the sun. When Sophie went to bed we had a long wait to watch the All Blacks take on Italy at 11.45pm! I am too much of a softie these days and had to have a nap for a couple of hours before the game started and then fell asleep before it finished, but am happy to report that we kicked ass!

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Getting ready for a big afternoon at the Museum

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Sunday was another busy day. It was typical Auckland weather with the rain settling in for the day, so decided that a trip to the museum after Sophie’s sleep was a good way to spend the afternoon. Its such a great big place that it was easy to let Sophie take off and run around, although she isn’t the best at looking where she is going and managed to make a few people take a few quick steps sideways while she ran full tilt around the place yelling 'dada dada' – her favourite word these days. I don’t get a look in, I am also called 'dada', as are her toys, the cat, the car, books and anything else she sees – talk about a daddy’s girl!

Sophie oblivious to the scary polar bear about to eat them!

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"I'm lost...Where's my mummy and daddy gone..."
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"mmm that crab looks good enough to eat!"
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After running riot around the Museum...daddy tries a different trick to keep Sophie in one place!

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Speaking of big weekends, Brad took Sophie to New Plymouth for a visit with her nana and aunties and left me back in Auckland for a weekend of ‘Ingrid’ time. Although I missed them both terribly and spent all my time thinking about them, I also made the most of it and had a very busy weekend. I shopped, which is a luxury these days as it’s very hard to try clothes on with Sophie around who HATES shopping (as does her daddy – see how similar they are). I was looking for a dress to wear to a wedding next month and found something lovely. Bit summery though, so here’s hoping for a nice sunny weekend for the wedding. I also booked in for a massage and facial which both were absolutely divine and very decadent. On Saturday night, Katie came over, so we headed out for a nice dinner and bottle of bubbly at the local pub, where we gossiped and caught up on what each other is doing, although seeing as I don’t get out much, I probably bored her silly with stories of Sophie – I try not to but I can’t seem to help myself! We came home and cracked another bottle of wine and watched lots of mindless crap on TV and then crashed fairly early! Gosh I remember the days when I would have just been going out on the town by the time we went to bed. Sigh.

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Sunday was another busy day where I made the most of being on my own and did the groceries, tidied up all the leaves outside that we get inundated with from the bush around the house, patched up some holes in the walls in the bathroom (another drunken night thanks to Brad) and did a good spring clean around the house. It was meant to be a relaxing weekend and I was even busier than normal! But it was great and I felt very refreshed come Monday where I got up early and met my family at the airport. Sophie was happy to see me and she looked like she had had a great weekend with her extended family. It was so lovely to see them and a big thanks to Brad for giving me that time to myself and to the extended family for looking after Sophie so well, she loves hanging with her nana and aunties and Grantz and its so nice for her to spend time with her family when we live so far away.

Bath-time on Sunday night after a BIG day

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Ingridxx

New Plymouth: Day 3

Sophie woke up pretty early this morning and nana kindly did the honors of getting her up out of bed at the ungodly hour of 6:30am, and I got to have a nice fathers day sleep in…Thanks Nana!

We hung out at the park this morning and then had a lovely lunch with Sophie’s Great Nan and Ray. I think all the excitement of seeing lots of new people and running around outside has knackered out the wee thing, as Sophie’s ended up having two monster sleeps today. We did manage to pop around and see Grantz today also which was nice.

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Sophie getting a little bit big for her boots...or is that too small for her shoes...?

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Nana and Sophie playing catch!

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It’s been great having a break here in New Plymouth hanging out with the family, Sophie has had an absolute blast with her nana and aunties, and I know they’ve loved having us here too. Sophie has missed her lovely mumma though, as she keeps pointing to an old photo of Ingrid and I hanging on Mum’s wall and getting all excited saying ‘mumma…mumma' over and over again’
We fly back to Auckland tomorrow morning and Ingrid will meet us at the airport…I know she’s missing her darling terribly…and Sophie too of course.

Aunty Nicky and Sophie playing at the park.

Brad

New Plymouth: Day 2

Sophie had a full on day in New Plymouth today.

She slept really well over night (apart from when mum woke her up singing in the passage at 12:30am after a few wines and a long game of cards in which Sophie’s daddy kicked arse…) anyway, Aunty Nicky stayed last night and she got the honors of getting Sophie up this morning. It is Nic’s birthday today and even Sophie gave her a lovely present to start her day…a present that she had been saving up all night long for…

After a long play outside and a couple of trips to the shops, Sophie had a monster sleep and then we all headed out to Kauri Cottage where Aunty Rochelle works as a pretty mean chef.

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Aunty Nicki on her birthday feeding her lovely neice

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We had a great birthday lunch with Mum, Nic, Rochelle, Sophie, Dad and Marc. Sophie was well behaved (of course) and even got to run around inside the restaurant and play with the house pussycat called ‘latte’

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Aunty Rochelle and Aunty Nicki pissing themselves over something...

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After lunch, Sophie and I popped off to Dad and Marc’s place and Sophie hung out with Bob the Dog and the rest of the zoo around their place! We then bolted home, had a quick play again outside and another go on her new favourite toy…The TRAMPOLINE! then a quick dose of Hi Five, dinner and then into the bath…that’s where she is at the moment, her nana and aunty are having lots of fun washing out all the food from her hair!

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Sophie sitting in her little high chair charfing out...you should have seen her 10 minutes later with her pasta and sauce...what a mess!

Brad