Meeting Santa.

With much excitment we went and meet Santa at the mall. Max was very keen to tell him what he wanted for Christmas but Jay was a little reserved so mummy had to step in for support so unfortunally the pic features my legs, never mind. We look forward to him visiting our house in a few weeks. 

Christmas Wonderland

Today I got my fix of christmas lights big time. Took the kids to the Christmas Wonderland in Birkenhead and all I can say is OMG there was every christmas tree you could imagine even a "where the wild things are" tree which was Max's fav and my fav had to be the silver crayfish and crab tree sounds weird be truely magnificant. Jay liked the Tonka Truck tree the best.
This is a must see if your in Auckland and have kids or just love Xmas.
http://www.christmaswonderland.org.nz/

Christmas Blooms

Here we are, the first day of December and the pohutakawa have just come out at the Stillwater Reserve.

So Pretty and the true indicator that Christmas and Summer is here (hopefully)

Pine cone search

Yesterday was spent down the forest to search for some pinecones for our xmas display.

Max found a baby New Zealand Xmas tree.

Christmas Tree Time

I decided today was the day the tree was going up. I know its not offically the Xmas month but all the shops start the decorations early so why cant we.

Jay is a much older this year and was delighted with the big box of decorations that was brought out.

Lotos of fun but as usual I  ended up doing most of it as their attention span was all off 30sec.

Im a Big Boy Now !

The time had come to move Jay from his cot to a bed.

The cot was left up in case but only used again once this first week when a middle of the night "fall" called for some familar comfort. The next night we made a bed rail out of one of the cot side and there's been no turning back.

He's even staying in the bed till 7am YAY !

I've dismantled the cot with tear in my eye and realised this was the "baby years" over......... well maybe ;-)

Strawberry breakie

This Morning we had a yummy breakfast of cornflakes and homegrown Strawberrys YUM YUM.