My First Summer Holiday

Magnus took off for his first summer holiday on Boxing Day. We went down to the Sounds to spend some time with Sally and Olly and Sally’s parents.  Magnus had his first trip on the ferry and a couple of rides in a smaller fishing boat.  He enjoyed the small boat so much that he fell asleep every time, mesmerized by the water  - the first time in a long long time that Magnus has fallen asleep in our arms! We cruised around Picton and went for a ride on a cute wee train – 20 cents a ride – how crazy is that! One of Magnus’s highlights was probably sharing an ice-cream with Mum – he learnt very quickly how to hold on and suck and definitely ate most of it! Magnus also braved the very cold water for a couple of swims and enjoyed chewing on the salty rocks.  It was a fun few days and Magnus had no problem adjusting to a new place and new bed etc – he really is such a cruisy baby and seems happy anywhere with anyone. Check out the holiday shots below…

10 Months Old

The past month has been lots of fun with Magnus’ first Christmas and first Summer Holiday.  Magnus has been a very social boy and enjoyed all the festivities and spending time with lots of family and friends.

The Stats at 10 Months:

Weight: 11.7kg (80th percentile)
Height: 80cm (off the charts!)

Magnus is still a busy little boy crawling around and checking everything out.  We’ve discovered that anyone with food will automatically become his ‘best friend’.  If you’ve got food – look out! He’ll be standing at your feet in no time waiting for his share

Magnus loves being read to and will wait patiently until you say ‘turn the page’ and he’ll turn the page.  He has a couple of lift the flap books that he has sussed…lift the flap-turn the page-lift the flap-turn the page…very clever really!

Christmas was lots of fun. Magnus happily sat on santa’s knee and had his picture taken and tried to have a tug at his beard of course.  He enjoyed playing with the wrapping paper on Christmas day and his favourite pressies were the green crawling tunnel (photo below) and a ball choo choo train.  He also got the royal treatment with the best vege thinnings from Granny and Grandfather’s garden and had his first taste of turkey. Magnus also got a paddling pool that we just couldn’t wait for Christmas day to use, so it was put up a couple of days before to make the most of a gorgeous sunny day.

P.S – For those of you who don’t know or can’t tell by the growing bump in photos of me…Baby Martin Number 2 is on the way…yay!!! All is going well and bubs is due 17 June 2008

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH!

The left one popped through on Christmas Eve and the right one on the 27th. You can just see them in this photo.

Magnus’ first nasty ’egg’ on the head – shot by Dad…Mum was at work thankgoodness! Looks nasty but he was over it in seconds.

Wow – he so can’t be just 10 months old!!!