Playing with mum

I decided to sit beside mum and show her (and Acorn) how to play with the shape ball.

Hide and Seek

Mum puts the washing up on a A frame clothes rack so I thought 'how about a game of hide and seek'.

The only thing was I forgot to tell mum we'd started.

She's really good at this game and found me pretty quickly.

Latest Addition to the Henderson Household

Young Ava was born 5 weeks ago and we went to visit her and her parents for afternoon tea.

Everyone commented that I was the big boy and how much I'd grown.

I'm quite a bit bigger than Ava. 

I wonder if Acorn will be that tiny.

I Can't Bear It!

Mum and dad keep dressing me up in cute outfits and then taking embarrassing photos.

They claim they're going to put them up at my 21st Birthday party!

:(

Lets Play In The Park

We regualarly meet up with Lucus, with his mum - Stephanie (they're Kiwi's but have a Hong Kong Chinease background) and Alexa, with her mum Ivanda (they are Latvian).

Lucas is 2 months older than me and Alexa has just turned 1. 

Usually we meet at an indoor play area (Bees Knees) which has a slide and lots of toys.  This suits all of us as there is something sutable for each of our development stages.

Recently, as the weather was nice (sunny but still quite cool - approx 15C) we went to a different play centre; this one had both indoor and outdoor areas.  It was very busy so we found a spot close to the action yet far enough away that the older kids wouldn't hurt us.

As you can see Alexa is standing.  She is also very capable at racing around the playground and climbing up and down the slides.  Whereas Lucus is almost crawling.

I loved watching all the kids playing.  In particullar I liked it when mum put me into one of the little cars and pushed me around. 

On our way home we went through Battersea Park (a very large park).

Given the success of the day we are planning to spend more time outdoors and at playgrounds.

Shop Till You Drop!

Mum and dad took me to the supermarket and as a special treat let me sit in a trolley - in the big boy seat at the front of the trolley.

Ohhh.  It was fun.

I got to sit upright for the entire time within reaching distance of dad whilst they kept putting stuff in the back.

The whole time I just kept chatting to dad and looking at all the people putting food in their trolleys. 

A couple of times dad got a little too close to the items in the isle shelves; this allowed me to reach out and grab them.  :) 

He soon wised up though.  :(

Then we were at the check out and one of the help desk staff started to chat to me.  I liked the attention so gave her a big smile.  She then told mum and dad that I was a very cute baby. 

I didn't want to get out of the trolley to go home.

Nursery

With dad's work being unpredictable at the moment they've decided that it might be a good idea for me to go to one of the local nursery's whilst mum is working.

I think its been harder on dad (he was hoping to spend some time with me).  Mum and I have spent quite a bit of time together so she has had a bit of adjustment as well.

There is a special baby room (all under 1 year old) where I am enjoying all the activities and playing with the other babies (there's only 5 of us at the moment).

So far I've been going for a few mornings as this is the settling in process.

From next week I'll be going full time on Monday's, Thursdays and Friday's. 

In May I'll go to full time until mum goes on leave in August.