Break in Transmission

You must be wondering what's happening. Why has a serious chronological chasm is opened in this little blog. Well, granted, it has.

I guess Christmas got in the way, access to the blog was a bit limited and I got out of a the weekly habit. Well I'm back into the world again and the typical rhythm and hum of life and the year is rolling on.

I best blog with pictures, so here goes. We spent Christmas enjoying the beaches of Leigh and further north.

Both the girls are really involved with loving the water and the beach which is great to see. 

One of the memorable events this summer was catching a first wave together at Omaha with Amelia. The glee in her face was a picture unto itself.

The days rolled lazily by with a dream/rhythm of eating, fishing, swimming, play and the normal dynamics of families with young children.

As typical of summer holidays, once we startted to relax the days accelerated by faster and faster until before we knew it, it was time to return to Wellington.

Now we find ourselves back at work, school and missing the play of summer.

Flax in Summer Morning Light

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

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.

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.