Road Rage

Party Time...

My birthday cake

Opening my present from Georgia and Mackenzie

Happy birthday to me....

Eating Cake

Playing pass-the-parcel....

...and it stopped...

Playing with the trains

Opening presents

Jonathan knows his place in the family (thanks aunty sue!)

...more presents...

Last saturday we had a party to celebrate my 2nd birthday. My birthday is not actually until tomorrow but we thought we'd have the party early so mormor could come. I am very interested in Ladybirds at the moment so mummy had done lady-bird invites and made me a ladybird cake. I had four friends who came over with their parents, Georgia, Mackenzie, Eliot and Hector. Jonathan is so little he slept through the whole party! Hector, who is Jonathan's age, watched the rest of us playing.

We had morning tea, during which everyone sang 'happy birthday' to me and mummy brought my cake out. I thought the cake looked great - mummy is really clever! I still need to work on my 'candle-blowing-out ability' as mummy had to help me again this year. Next year I will definitely do it myself.

After we had eaten I opened some of my presents (mummy and daddy have kept some for my birthday so I will tell you about those later) and we played pass the parcel. We then played with my train set that mormor and morfar gave me. We had great fun, all driving trains (and cars) round the tracks. At 12 the others had to go as it was lunch-time - driving trains is hungry work. After lunch I opened more of my presents - lots of books from mormor and my cousins in Belgium and a lego zoo set from mummy and daddy. I had lots of fun playing with all my new toys. I think Jonathan wants to play too as he is growing as quickly as he can!

My first haircut

My first haircut...

Almost finished...

Tidying away my lego bin

Jonathan is a happy one

I love jumping into the pool

Reading with Mormor

Jonathan sits up well in his new chair

Playtime!!

Who says you can't sleep on all fours?

Jonathan playing

Jonathan sitting back and relaxing

Jonathan at tummy-time

Its been another busy week here in HCMC. On monday, mummy, mormor, Jonathan and I went out for a bit of shopping in the morning (we were checking out a new toy shop) and then met daddy for lunch in town. Its always nice to catch up with daddy at lunchtime. Mormor and I were sharing a portion of pasta with a tomato chicken and herb sauce but mormor said she wasn't very hungry so I ate 2/3 of it. Apparently people think I eat a lot, but hey, I'm a growing boy!

Tuesday and wednesday I was at school in the morning. On wednesday mummy, mormor and Jonathan picked me up from school and then went to get my hair cut.... my first ever haircut!! Apparently mummy and mormor thought I might be scared (mormor said cousin Ellinor was) but I thought it was great. I got to sit on a special chair on the hairdressers chair and then to wear a special apron. The man who cut my hair was very nice. No more baby-curls for me... I now have a 'short back and sides' style like daddy!

On thursday we had a quiet day playing at home and on Friday I had school again.

Bed-time

Hello,

Jonathan and I thought you would like to see us at bed time (weekend morning snuggles, day-time sleeps and evening):

Weekend morning play...

We're all exhausted...

Trying out mummy's bed

Jonathan and friends...

Jonathan likes his bed as much as I do

Daddy taking me and tiger off to bed

Fun and Games

Here we are at play...

Jonathan is really good at tummy-time now...

...he lifts his head really high

Taking it easy on the watermelon

My boy-racer look...

Isn't my little brother angelic?

Mormor is here...

Whats up?

This is the way we wash our hands.....

I'm a bit wet


Its all a bit much...



Do you like my hat?

Mormor and Jonathan at brunch

Jonathan after his bath

Mummy and Jonathan at the market

I love my bike

Hello,

Jonathan and I are very excited at the moment - on Friday daddy brought Mormor home from work!! Not sure what she was doing at daddy's work.... mummy says Mormor came from France and is going to stay with us for two weeks... that may give me time to show Mormor all my new skills (we haven't seen each other since January) and all my toys...

Jonathan loves having another person to cuddle him and being allowed to go out in town with mummy and mormor - he is becoming a real cafe-fan! He also feels he is now a big boy who can sit up so mummy and daddy have bought him a new chair to sit in...being a consciencious brother I made sure I tried it out first - very comfortable and stable. Jonathan tried it out on Saurday and loved being able to sit up and get a different view of the world.

On saturady I also had swimming again. Daddy is getting quite good at swimming lessons now - of course, he has not been going as long as me as last term I went on a Thursday with mummy whilst daddy was at work. After swimming we went to a bazaar where mummy and mormor went shopping whilst the men in the family chillied out with a cold drink in the bar by the river. Jonathan was asleep so I entertained daddy and uncle Rob who was aso there. We then went for lunch with Uncle Rob, Aunty Tash and Mackenzie and Georgia. It was yummy and I had my second ever icecream. Its good stuff!!

Today I was at school so mummy, mormor and Jonathan went to the market whilst I was busy and then picked me up from school. It was fun to show mormor my school. Whilst they were at the market mummy bought 'supplies' for my birthday party on saturday but she won't tell me what. Apparently its a secret.... Just in case you had forgotten I will be 2 on 21 November (and Jonathan is 4 months on the same day) but we are having my party the weekend before so mormor can be here. I will tell you about it in my next blog.

Love Oliver

My Weekend...

Hi

These are the pictures from last weekend that I promised. Hope you like them. Love Oliver.

Playing at Mekong Merchant (one of mummy and daddy's favourite lunch spots)

I like the ladybird maracca

I like puzzles

My first face-painting...

Playing with a balloon at Noah's Club party

Dancing with mummy

Running along the 'boat' to daddy

Jumping to daddy off the boat

Rolling to daddy