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At the playground- March 2013

 

 

Dressing up as a Pirate for Finn's party

 

 

Easter fun! April 2013

 

 

Easter bunny Isla

 



Heading towards the BIG 1 :-)

Isla has been doing some amazing things in the last two weeks. At 11 months old she started to stand unsupported, much to my amazement! She has been getting better and better at it as the weeks go. She now has 5 teeth too. We are two weeks old from her First Birthday, but will celebrate with a party/morning tea for her at the end of May. Isla has been doing swimming lessons this term but hasn't really adjusted to the colder water....even with two sets of togs on her!! We will leave term 2 and see how we go later in the year. She can say 'mum  mum', 'dad dad', uh-oh (when she drops something) and 'this' (when she wants something). She starts pre school with Niamh in 2 weeks also for two days.

Niamh has turned three and is still keeping me on my toes. She recently had a cute Minnie mouse party with her 3 year old friends, complete with tramp bouncing, party food and lounge dancing! It was a busy/crazy one and a half hour with 10 children 3 and under, but she had heaps of fun. Niamh is doing so well with swimming that for term 2 she will be solo swimming! Not that she can touch the bottom of the pool yet!! She is so motivated when it comes to letters and the alphabet. She is asking me to spell out words for her to 'write' with letter blocks.

We are counting down until Isla's first birthday now. The last year has been pretty busy for us, baby, building new house, relocating for 7 months, then back again, and now landscaping ourselves. It's been full on but worth it in so many ways.

Happy 3rd birthday!

Happy 3rd birthday to our beautiful Niamh!

Growing up!

Isla had her Plunket 9 month checks at 9 and half months. She is now 7.46 kg, 67.5cm long and sits on the 25 percentile for both weight and height. She is moving around everywhere with her own crawling style! And she's getting faster!! She is a much happier Isla being able to move now and scoots after her big sister. Isla tries to pull herself up on furniture and is getting really good at 'walking' around the furniture. She still has the two teeth and has dropped her third day sleep, making only two sleeps per day now BUT sleeps the whole 12hours from 7pm- 7am which is great!! Isla has started swimming this term and is loving it.

Niamhy is really settled at Pre school now and waves Isla and I off in the morning. She is doing really well. She loves 'spelling' out her name with letters. She loves dancing and music. We have started back at music again on Mondays, and wriggle and rhyme at the Library on Fridays. This term is going to go incredibly fast and before I know it'll be term 2 with two children in preschool for two days while I go back relieving. It's all go!

We are loving being in our new home and are currently busy getting the landscaping sorted with Anth building the first deck now. It's going to be great to have that finished.

9 months and counting...

Isla is 9 months old today and celebrated it herself by starting to crawl!!! She was getting pretty close to doing it recently and could get into a crawling position then move 2 steps along, but today it all 'clicked' for her. She is so proud of herself. Just might need to get the gates out soon to keep things safe!! Isla still has just the two teeth, is majoring having teething issues though, and can say dada. She still just loves getting out and about during the day as she seems to get bored easily :-/ She's doing really well, wants to copy what Niamh does and has a favourite person- her dad! We started Isla with swimming lessons on Saturday, and have to say it she didn't do too bad. I'm looking forward to a Plunket visit soon to check out her weight and height measurements.