Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Kat-kat. Ahh-wooh ...

Lucy's chatting is starting to turn into a vocabulary.  Ahh-woohs (hello), byes and noooes (no) are thrown out regularly and interspersed with names like Meil-ya (Amelia) and kat-kat (the cat).  

Lucy likes to practice on the cat, who feigns disinterest.



Iceblock on a Hot Day

Saturday afternoon, summer returned and turned the afternoon back into a blistering hot day. There was lots going on, getting ready for Christmas, however the we enjoyed a timeout with a welcoming cool ice block.


Open and Shut



Thursday, December 9, 2010

Christmas Tree

It was the time of year to put up the Christmas tree. Instead of getting involved I took the opportunity to capture some photo's of the girls getting into the event together. Lucy was rather taken with the shiny coloured decorations, as an one year old would. She just couldn't help herself.




While Amelia enjoyed the result.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Wairarapa Away

Last weekend we'd had enough of hanging around the house. Luckily the Cakebread's had invited us over to Greytown to share a weekend with them at their batch. The last one in fact, before they sold the place. The weather kindly obliged, dosing us with generous quantities of clear skies and hot sunny days. Which is what the Wairarapa is all about.

Both families have kids the same age so it works out great. Saturday saw us hanging around Greytown and visting Masterton for a swim with the kids and a play in the local park. On the Saturday evening we took the kids to the park for a play and dinner. The camera came out and I did my level best to capture some nice shots of all the girls at play. Here is one of Lilly I quite like.


Lucy has started to sprout nice photogenic angles. Recently it has been Amelia that was easy to photo. Now Lucy is filling into her person she is starting to steal some light from the sun too.



On Sunday we took the girls to an animal farm where they could interact with local farm animals. Sheep, bulls, donkeys, goats, ponies and rabbits. The girls just loved it, plus the ice block afterwards in the Martinborough square. I managed to get an interesting shot of Amelia surveying the animals in their hutches.


More shots of the weekend are here.