A busy two months?

Hello people. Well how slack has my mummy been in keeping the blog updated? I can't begin to imagine what has been keeping her so busy? I mean, sure, we do get up to quite a few adventures, and there has been lots going on around the house, but really, given she manages to play Mafia Wars on facebook every day, she can't really say she hasn't had time... slack bugger.

We've had zillions of trips to the zoo, and I've managed to stay awake for most of them. What I like most at the zoo is pulling up the grass with my hands. And I like the birds. But those monkeys are way too noisy - they woke me up screeching and I almost jumped out of my pram. Cheeky things.

This is me being a crocodile - Amanda and Malakai sent it to me

I have also managed to grow my teeth bigger, although I still only have two. Mummy thinks I look like a little chipmunk now. Daddy keeps checking to see whether the next teef are there, but I haven't decided to grow those ones yet.

We had a fun trip to Wellington and we saw trillions of friends, which was really lovely and made mummy and daddy smile a lot. I wasn't keen on the port-a-cot, but I liked the cable car and the swings a lot.

Me and daddy playing on a cannon up Mt Victoria in Welly

Us playing on the bed in the hotel in Welly

We have had lots of men around the house making noise and banging things. I didn't care - it didn't stop me napping cos I am like mummy and can sleep through anything. When the noisy men had finished, we had a new kitchen and two new bathrooms - they were very clever. It all looks very grand now, but for some reason mummy and daddy still want to move to a new house. They keep saying stuff about dangerous stairs and child-proofing. I don't know what that means but I hope the new house has a garden so I can have a swing and a slide!

Another thing that changed was mummy's car. She kept calling me a hippo just because she's too weedy to get me and my car seat into the back of her two-door car, like that's my fault. Two words mummy - The Gym. Nuff said. Anyway, after all that moaning, she seemed happy enough when she finally spotted the car she wanted and her and daddy got one with a body kit and sexy alloy wheels and two sunroofs (so I have one of my own!), plus the back doors slide open like on a van and they open and shut electrically so I just sit there and it feels like I have a chauffeur who does it all for me. It's fab. Mummy calls the new car Big Flomsk, and she says it's like an A Team van. So much for moaning about her back!

The new car is like this, except it's black

Ooh and it was father's day - so we spoiled daddy, but I refused to say "dada" even though mummy and daddy said it to me alllllll day. What am I, a performing seal!

Me and daddy having breakfast in bed on fathers' day

I had my first sleep-over last weekend while mummy and daddy were off disco dancing with all the other mummies and daddies from the antenatal group. I thought the group was for me and the other babies, but I'm beginning to wonder now. I think they drank lots of Ribena cos they looked a bit funny when they picked me up from Auntie Rachael's, where I'd been pampered and spoiled by everyone and tickled by Spanner the dog. I like Auntie Rachael's cos she tickles me and sings to me and makes me laugh. I think when I can walk I might run away there sometimes to get spoiled!

Me and Auntie Rach up to no good (again)

While all these other exciting things have been going on, I have learned to sit up, to roll, to sing, to raspberry, and to feed myself. And I have graduated to the big boy bath now, too, so I can do lots of splashing. Life is so much fun once you can sit up by yourself.

Me in the little boy bath, before I graduated to the big one

Starting next week I will be having swimming lessons - apparently I will be a Little Limpet. And I star my singing sessions at the local church, which has scared daddy, but mummy assured him we won't be singing hymns. Not that he can talk - he's been known to sing "If I had a hammer" and "Oh Jesus I Have Promised" in the car when he gets giddy. he can be very silly sometimes, my daddy.

Bye for now xxxx
Monty