choppy from gaga

This is what happens when you give a little 1 year old chocolate. But lucky he is such a helpful little dude and loves to help clean up. Big Minol gets him doing trips to the rubbish bin too. Such a good little boy (most of the time)!

pics of the birthday boy

MY BABY NO MORE

Yesterday we had a little party for my baby no more.  One year old today!  Whooohoo!

BIRTHDAYS

What a beautiful mother, grandmother, and friend.  On the 7th of March we celebrated Mum's birthday!  Whoohoo.  

BATHS

BRISBANE

We had an awesome time in Brisbane!  We were up for Mick and Rhiannon's wedding and it was just beautiful.  We got to stay with Bianca and Nick which gave Minol some bonding time with his cousins!  

Barbeques

A few weeks ago we had a club (bjj) barbeque with friends and family.  As always we enjoyed good company and awesome food.  Lucky we are having another one this weekend!  Gotta get them in before it gets too cold!

Just some random pics.  Little man helping me juice.  Well he was actually tasting the fruit.  Little man wanting to get down from the table.  Little man having a ball running around the Maccas playground and Little man standing up!  Ooooh, he's been walking around with help.  It's sooo cute seeing his confidence growing.  I love this little dude so much!!  I love his little hands, I love his big smile, I love his cute giggle, I love his hypo show off moments when he should be going to bed he'd much rather stay up with the big people and play, I love how he throws balls, I love how he likes to carry plastic spoons, forks, or brushes around the house with him, oooooooh isn't there just so much to love!

Bathtime Fun

Babies and baths are awesome!  This little munchkin LOVES his bath.  He'll stand next to the bath and patiently let me undress him.  Very cooperatively.  He steps out of his trousers and puts his hands up for me to take his top off.  And then gets all excited when I lift him into the bath.  He splashes and drinks the water, what a fun time for us!  It's just getting out of the bath and into pj's that causes the stress!

I didn't end up posting much about Brazil.  I guess in the end there wasn't much to post.  I left a heap of photos on Minol's computer in Brazil so poo.  Oh well, I'm over it.  I'm loving being home though.  Tassie rocks.  Last week Anker came down and we got together to make some Brazilian pizza.  Chocolate pizza is yum!  I love the pic of baby Minol with Aunty Annie!  How exciting that Mic and Annie Oops get married in less than two weeks!  Anyway, I'm trying to be a more diligent blogger.  It helps having a battery charger for my camera now after losing it during the flight to Brazil.  

making brazilian pizza

Begging for Ice-cream!

I'll start with the end.

I thought I'd post some latest pics of the little munchkin man... who STILL doesn't have teeth! Oh, they are there ready to pop out any day now, yeah, yeah, whatever. Anyway, we had a bit of an adventure on the way back with the stupid airline. That's another story but it was crazy, just as we were landing in New Zealand Minol did the hugest puke...EVERYWHERE. It was gross and I got GOT. So everything stank and lucky I had his little stripey jumpsuit to change him into but I only had a change of top so my jeans got a good wash down and spray with perfume! He had a ball with our little stop at the New Zealand airport. He zipped around everywhere and found some seats to crawl under. And he loved doing blowfishes on the window! He's a crazy boy.

Back and ready to BLOG!

Ahhhhhhhhh, so cold but soooooooo wonderful! Hello Tassie!! Home again home again jiggity jig. So much to post about. Taking a break from unpacking to check up on everyone! Wow... so much to catch up on! Will do big big posts over the next few days. Whoohoo.

How boring not being able to post pics! Anyway, we finally made it up to see the famous Christ last week in between all the rain. Did I mention that it has been RAINING here? Just when you think it´s over it starts up again! So anyway, the view of Rio is amazing so I´m glad we made it up! Haven´t really been up to much more, just getting ready for Christmas. Anker comes to stay with us tomorrow whoohoo! After Christmas time will go so quickly and before I know it bye bye Brazil! Ok, going now, Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy New Year!!

Just another post from Brazil

What a pooey week and a half... it has been raining non stop! Big flooding and mud slides further south of Brazil and where we are staying the roads are dirt so they´re all muddy. So much for working on my tan in the RAIN! We´ve been entertaining ourselves by hanging out at Minol´s Aunt´s house. His cousin has a dog that he´s training. Plus we like looking at their turtle. And the little monkey that comes to eat bananas on the roof. I´m just getting over a cold. Little Minol has a cold. And big Minol seems to be getting one. Minol and I have been told to make more babies so people here can buy them. Everyone thinks Minol is adorable. Grandma Luci just loves her Grandson and is enjoying having her own son home for a visit! Nothing much else to report. Wish I could post some pictures! On Sunday we went for a drive the the bottom of the Elephant rock. A beautiful spot at the end of the beach. Oh and before I finish this post... seeing as it is still the 3rd of December here... HAPPY BIRTHDAY BINKY! Haven´t forgotten you! Hope you got spoilt! LOVE YA!