i'm six.....months!!!!

Mummy showing me my new room...

I can sit up all by myself now that I'm a big boy...

Mummy teaching me how to play with my new toys...

Practising my new shuffling technique...

Off on my adventures...

Look, I really do have hair!...

Skal...

Hello everyone! I have had another exciting week - not least of all that on Thursday I turned six months... or half a year!!! But I get ahead of myelf... Last Mummy and I went to see Aunty Tash, Georgia and Mackenzie to drink milk/ coffee (i'm sure you can figure out who drank what) and eat chocolate biscuits (i get them second hand) whilst we sent Daddy off with Uncle Rob to Metro - an expat supermarket here in Hanoi. With two Kiwi-men in the family, the purpose of daddy's trip was simple...MEAT!!! As daddys trip was successful, I tried meat (beef) for the first time on Monday - very nice! Since then I have also tried chicken which was also good.

I have learned a new trick this week - mummy puts me down on my back on the playmat, and a little while when she comes to check I am OK, I am on my tummy, over a metre away from the playmat. I let mummy and daddy puzzle over this for a while and then I showed them that I have found reverse gear!!! Turning onto my tummy is now easy, but I have now worked out that if I push with my hands when I'm on my tummy, I go backwards!!! Its very exciting, though the wood floor is a bit hard when I put my head down to have rest - as I don't yet know how to get back to the playmat, I call for help at this point and either mummy or daddy lifts me back - aren't parents good!

On saturday morning another BIG event in my life occurred when I moved out of Mummy and Daddy's room into my very own one. Apparently some babies find this quite traumatic, but I'm a big boy so I've coped really well. Mummy seemed less sure it was a good idea so I suggested that we put my baby monitor on so I can reassure her if she gets scared... ...though she still has daddy to look after her.

Today I was measured - I can now anounce that according to mummy and daddy's scales (not always so accurate but we got the same reading three times) I now weigh 7kg and I am 68.5cm tall. Yet again we've had to break out a larger size in clothes!

Must go as my bath is ready. Love Oliver

Continued travels

My sleeping buddha pose...

Practising my cool look...

Me with Mummy & Auntie Helana at the Petronas Towers...

Playtime with cousins Carl & Edvin...

I want to be like cousin Carl when I grow up...

Me with Mummy & Daddy on the skybridge (good thing I'm not afraid of heights!)...

I'm carrying on my travelling habits - last week I took daddy and mummy to KL to see mummy's cousin Helena and her family. Daddy had a couple of days holiday from work so we thought it was a good opportunity to see some more sites in SE Asia. It was great to see them and to meet uncle Christer, and second cousins Edvin and Carl - I know they are only kids too but they seemed very big!!! Carl played with me lots which was great - I am obviously one of the big boys now!! As usual, I was very well behaved on the flight and I tried airplane food for the first time - baby rice (yum!!). I think mummy had brought it with her as the airlines don't serve baby-food!! I can't understand why as my food is really good - looks much nicer than what mummy and daddy had! Speaking of food, I am now tucking in to potato, carrot, parsnip, pumpkin, sweet potato, apple and pear as well as baby rice. Mummy reckons I have hollow legs as I eat so much, but when you are hungry and there is food on offer...Eat i say!!

Anyway, back to KL... we did some shopping (I now have some more books, some drinking cups that I don't know how to use yet, bigger clothes etc), and went to Petronas towers which daddy was very excited about - personally I felt we were an awfully long way up, but I did take the opportunity to cuddle Cousin Helena - very nice! Mummy and daddy also had a go at silk painting so now I have two really nice pictures for my room and we visited a pewter factory - aparently they are really famous and make really nice stuff - can't comment as I took the opportunity to have a snooze! We had to fly back home to Vietnam ridiculously early (up at three) but it did mean we got home in time for my morning sleep. It was a really good break and I'm looking forwards to seeing Helena, Christer and the boys in Sweden in June.

I've attached some more photos from my travels...