Sweet as Sunday

Say that again Sophie

"Bouncy castle fall down"

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It's official: Sophie is a little chatterbox! She's forming loads of full sentences and talking up a storm lately and one thing she tends to do a lot (and I mean A LOT) is repeat the same thing over and over and over again, obviously it's how they learn but it does get a tad bit repetitive as you could imagine.

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I played Rugby with The Rock team a couple of weekends ago and Sophie and Ingrid came along to watch. There was a huge bouncy castle there for kids to play on and lots of other things to do. At some stage during the afternoon they took the bouncy castle down...and since that point - Sophie has told the following story: "Mummy and Fofie watch Daddy play wugby and then bouncy castle come down, mmmm"

The little 'mmmm' she says at the end of each sentence is very cute though, even after we've heard the same story 150 times...

Brad

Chillin' out in the Naki

Sophie and I took a few days off work and kids-klub and headed on down to the Naki - it worked out well, Ingrid got a couple of overdue days of R&R and we got hang with the Nana in New Plymouth.

I was a little bit apprehensive about driving with Sophie for 4 hours, but it worked out really well: I left home around 7pm her normal bedtime - and she crashed out after 40 minutes in the car and then woke up about 40 minutes from Nana's place. I did get the fright of my life on the way down though...It was dark, hosing down with rain, we were in the middle of nowhere, I had the radio turned off so I wouldn't wake Sophie and as I was winding my way through the Awakino Gorge deep in thought...and then from out of nowhere a voice boomed out "Daddy go fast!" - talk about giving me the shits!...I thought she was fast asleep in the back!

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Sophie enjoying the fast slide...

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...enjoying it over and over and over again
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A quick spin on the tyre ride...
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We don't have parks like this back home...check out the view!
- Family snap with Aunty Shell and Nana...
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Daddy trying to be arty again with the camera

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Sitting with Nana wearing my new princess crown - thanks Grantz!

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Exploring at the beach with daddy

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It's been a very relaxing trip and Sophie has been a little angel. We're gonna head back tomorrow around noon...fingers crossed Sophie sleeps for a long time during the daytime.

Sophie (and Daddy) will miss Nana heaps, but Sophie (and Daddy) are looking forward very much to seeing mummy again too.

Brad

Painful weekend...

"Check out my chinny chin chin"

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Sophie has been in the wars all weekend - the poor little thing tripped on the step outside and started a a chain effect...she smacked her chin - then bit her tongue and moments later twisted her ankle trying to run after the ball - then to top it off - she was given an enema from a nurse this morning as she hasn't been to the toilet for days...an eventful weekend!

Cuddles

Sophie has been little Miss Cuddly all week, I'm not sure what's come over her, but for the past 5 days or so she's been literally jumping up into our arms and then wrapping her arms around us and giving Ingrid and I some gigantic cuddles!...it's been very cool.

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"How you doin!"

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We've had my family up last weekend - It was Aunty Nicky’s birthday so Nana, Aunty Rochelle and Darren all came up for weekend. It was great to see everybody and Sophie was extremely excited having the extra attention all weekend long. Mum ended up staying and then babysitting Sophie on Monday though, because she developed another batch of hideous nappy rash and couldn't go to Kids Klub. We’ve taken Sophie back to the Doc’s (again) as her bum rash flares up something chronic still and she still isn’t coping with ‘number 2’. We suspect it may be allergic to something so we're cutting out various things from her diet to see if it makes any difference -the docs have all scoffed at the idea she may have an allergy to something and have prescribed more medicine for her...guess it's a waiting game for a couple more weeks.

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Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth...yeah right!

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"Fun-times with my Aunty's!"
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Feeding the ducks...then ripping out half their feathers!
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Ingrid is feeling a lot better now too - the first three months of pregnancy have been pretty rough for her - but she seems to be feeling heaps better now...she's just missing her wines!

The due date for baby number 2 is 23 Feb - we're all very excited obvioulsy and Sophie keeps on touching Ingrid's tummy saying 'baby in dere...baby in dere!'. I think this time around too, we may even find out what flavour it is...

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Feeding the ducks and a couple of greedy little eels showed up!

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Brad