NZ Trip

Hi,

Back in NZ I travelled back to NZ with Mummy and Daddy. It was a lot of fun, especially meeting up with Jasper who had travelled back from Denmark, hanging out with Poppa and Grandma again, as well as meeting my new friends: Liam, Hosea and Benjamin...

Hanging out with Hannah...
Doing my truck driver impression...

Enjoying my first visit to a beach...

Waiting for the next big wave with Mummy...

Enjoying the feeling of sand between my toes...

Hannah teaching me how to splash people...

About to cool off...

Telling Liam how it's done...

Getting dizzy with Jasper, Leighton & Sophie...

Discussing which way to go round next...

Exploring a tunnel all by myself...

Hi,

I know it's been a while since my last blog but I have been busy touring the world - firstly with Mormor and Morfar to Sapa (northern Vietnam) in January and then back to NZ in February. Here's a few photos from my trip to Sapa...

Mummy making a new friend when treking around Sapa...

Mummy checking out the rice-paddy fields...

Strollin through Sapa...

I think Mummy and Mormor are in there somewhere!...

Checking out the roadside scenary with Mummy & Daddy...

Why walk when you can catch a ride with Daddy?...

A few videos from around Christmas...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Christmas Celebrations...

Exploring the big wide world...

Family dinner are such fun!...

"Smashing" my first gingerbread house...


Enjoying my present from Grandma & Poppa

Daddy teaching me to open presents...

Reading with Mormor...

Showing off my walking style...

The bathroom mohawk...
Hi,
I know that Christmas and New Years have already passed but I've been a little busy so this is my first opportunity to say Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you all. My Mormor and Morfar arrived about 2.5 weeks ago, closely followed by Uncle Erik, so I have been busy keeping them all entertained and showing them around Hanoi.

In anticipation of their arrival, I had been holding back on showing everybody my latest skill - walking by myself without holding onto anything! Everybody was very excited - especially Mormor who takes lots of photos of me! Mummy and Daddy are very proud although they have complained that I do wander off from time to time without telling them where I am going. However, there's a big world out there for me to explore so I'd better get started...

I enjoyed celebrating Christmas although I was a little confused as Mummy wanted to celebrate it on 24 December but Daddy wanted to celebrate it on 25 December. I mean, can't they get their dates right? Either way, there were lots of presents for me so a big thank you to all those who spoiled me!

At least Mummy & Daddy managed to agree on which day to celebrate New Years although I was a little sleepy so didn't see the new year in. Emma and Magnus came round with my friend Elvin, which was all very exciting.

It's my party!!!

Hi,

As you know I've turned one year old and I'm now classified as a big boy! To celebrate, Mummy & Daddy organised a whole lot of my friends to come round and party with me. Hope you enjoy the pics...

Oliver

Aren't balloons fun to play with?...

Sharing toys...

Enjoying being the centre of attention...

I had lots of people to read me stories...

Mummy explaining the cake thing to me...

I have turned ONE!!

I have just had my birthday!!! Before the day arrived I didn't know what a birthday was and wasn't sure what the fuss was about, but now I reckon should have birthdays more often! After breakfast mummy and daddy took me to a huge pile of presents which were all for me! Thank you Mummy and Daddy, Mormor and Morfar, Grandma and Poppa, Uncle Barney, Aunty Sue and Jasper, Aunty Katti, Uncle Matthieu and Alexandra, Charlotte and Ellinor, Emma, Magnus and Elvin, Uncle Murray Aunty Steph, Hannah and Hosea for all the parcels. I had great fun climbing over them and then mummy and daddy showed me it gets better - I could open them and there were things inside!! Of course, I had to play with each toy and read each book before moving on and I'm not very good at removing sellotape (mummy and daddy helped with this), so at nap time I hadn't finished opening - all good as I carried on after lunch... and after my afternoon nap! I feel very spoiled. I decided that as everyone had been so kind I would thank you all by showing off a couple of new skills - standing without holding on to anything and taking my first three steps... as I said, aren't birthdays great!

Here are some pictures from the day...

Love Oliver

Playing with my new truck

I bang here... right

I'm getting the hang of unwrapping parcels

Reading my new book

Daddy and I

I can get anywhere under my own steam now

Unwrapping presents...

Putting my cards up

Climbing over my presents

My new Bible

I didn't know giraffes bounce

Can't you see I'm busy?

Hanoi Adventures

All tired out after a long journey...

James and I sharing our toys...


Do you like my new pinstripes?...

About to call cousin Jasper...

Walking my trolley...

Hi,

Sorry that it's been awhile since my last blog but it seems like I'm hardly ever home now to write to you all... As I informed everybody in my last blog, my standard week now involves going to baby group on Tuesdays and bible study on Wednesdays. I also go into town once a week to have lunch with daddy - just to make sure that he's okay. All of this makes me a busy little boy...

I have noticed that I haven't seen Mackenzie & Georgia for a couple of weeks. Mummy informs me that they are on holiday and will be back soon. I have missed them lots but they did lend me their car (& most importantly to daddy, their driver) so we could still get out and about. So yesterday, I took mummy & daddy along with their friends Will & Fiona and my friend, James to Dong Ky, which is a place east of Hanoi that specialises in making furniture. I was so exhausted once I got there though that I slept through the visit but apparently it was very interesting watching how furniture is made in Vietnam. I do enjoy hanging out with James as he is only a couple of months younger than I am so we're into similar stuff...

The Saturday before we went to Bat Trang, which is a pottery village just outside of Hanoi. It was very exciting that mummy & I had met another Swedish family at the baby group I attend so we invited my new friend, Elvin, & his mummy & daddy - Emma & Magnus to come as well. I must say that it was fun to speak Swedish again...

Since it's been a few weeks since my last blog, I've attached a few videos of my recent developments. I do enjoy rearranging the dining room chairs (for some reason, mummy & daddy always put them by this big flat thing in the dining room) and pushing my high chair around. Daddy thinks that I'm showing impressive technique & that Mike Cron would be proud of me. I hope you enjoy them...

Lots of love,
Oliver...