Oh how busy we have been

Zach is now five months old and about 8kg. He loves to talk, watch his sister, smile, giggle and kick his legs.

A few weeks ago Terry, who is Mum's older brother from Australia, came to visit. Mummy says he looks lots like her cousin Lisa.

We did have a great photo of Uncle Ant helping Daddy weld, but we seem to have lost it. We love Uncle Ant coming to visit from Auckland - especially if he brings Easter Eggs.

We have been to Palmerston North twice recently. The first time was for Grandad John and Denise's wedding. Jessica was a beautiful flower girl. Daddy and Uncle Mike were groomsmen and looked 'dashing' in their suits.

Wee Max was the ring bearer...not that he did much bearing. We are all sad cos he is moving to Australia with Uncle Mike and Aunty Ezara.

Our cousin Liam is going to Australia too...we are not so happy about the Aussies stealing all of our favourite people.

When we went to PNorth Granny and Pete let us stay in their big house. Thanks Granny and Pete!

Uncle Richard isn't moving to Australia or even to Auckland!!! We think that's great.

Love Jessica and Zach

xxoo

Busy busy busy

We had such a busy weekend. Granny Val came to stay and to watch Daddy do his bike race. We are proud of Daddy for doing so well.

Zach learnt to suck his fingers and to grab at toys. He also learnt how to hold a conversation! Very very cute.

Uncle Ant came to visit too. He had a really fun gig at the San Francisco Bath House in Wellington. Daddy and Mala really enjoyed it. We all wished we could have seen him.

Jessica spent lots of time changing Dolly and Pooh Bear's bum bums and giving them food. She is so helpful.

How quickly has Zach grown!

Chilling

We are just hanging out for Playcentre and music to start.

Zach has grown lots and loves to have a chat. That makes three talkers in the house...poor Daddy!

What Zach has been up to.

It's been a busy life so far. Had Dad turning 30!!! not long after I was born. Had Xmas, went to a wedding and got baptised. Have two more weddings to go to this year already. I have to say that being baptised was hard work, I had to have a large nap to recover from all the effort I put into it.

Last weekend Mum, Jessica, Mala and I went to visit Gram and Ian. It was lots of fun - they do seem to spoil Jessica...I hope I get that much attention when I'm her age!

Zach Mathew William Devery (my parents obviously thought I needed a big name???)

Holiday Time

I had lots of fun meeting Father Xmas and I liked his big chair.

We had lots and lots of fun with our huge family during Christmas time.

Aunty Chrissie came up from down south, Uncle Ant came down from Auckland!

Aunty Gel and Uncle Mike came over from London. We had great weather so people went for lots of walks. This is Mala, Aunty Gel and Aunty Chrissie after a fun walk. I was potty trained during the holidays. Aunty Gel and Aunty Chrissie helped to train me. I wear undies now!

Christopher and Jolene came over from the States and they gave me fun presents!

It was all very tiring for me and Zach!

Wedding - cheating...!

Hi

Have a look here http://fgduncan.blogspot.com/

What is love?

We are all home now working out how we function as a family. It is fun to do things together...especially dress ups.

Aunty Ezara came with Max and Uncle Mike. We had fun bathing.
We like Mala and Popop coming to visit. They are good at looking out for everyone and hanging Christmas decorations.

Home Now

Zach Day 3 Compared to Jess

Jess Day 2
Jess Day 2

Zach and Jess
Zach

Zach Day 1

My second birthday - the actual day!

Yesterday was my actual birthday - I had loads of fun. Mala and Popop came up for afternoon tea and they gave me this cute cute cute outfit. It was perfect for bouncing on my tramp - I have hardly left my tramp since I got it from Liam, Martina and Vin. Today I got more parcels in the mail...it was so much fun...Mum and Dad say that I'm cute in this lovely lovely fairy dress from Sarah, Shane and Mac.

It all got too much though - I had to jump into Mum's bed and have a rest...Her book was interesting...but I did get a little bored of it.

Still no baby brother...I think Mum may just be fat forever.

My early birthday party

Just in case my brother arrives on time, or there abouts, we had an early 2nd birthday party. It was a teddy bear's picnic. We were going to have it at the park, but it was a wee bit windy so we had it at Mala and Popop's house instead. Thank you Mala and Popop.

Malay bought me a wonderful cake! It had Pooh bear on it. Pooh was my teddy at the picnic.

One of my presents was a tool kit from Granny - after the party Daddy and I built the basinette for the baby! I was so helpful, I love to use tools. I have fixed the new SUV I got at my party nearly every day. I keep telling Mum that it is broken and I need to take the wheel off to fix it.

Thanks everyone for a great 2nd birthday party!

We Went Visiting!!!

We went to vist my grandparents in the Manawatu! It was so much fun. I got to ride my cousin Max's bike! It goes fast.

So much to do...

My great grandmother gave me a dolly. I like to get her undressed and put her to bed. Dolly loves to dance.

Do you like my cat ears?

Jessica

The Best Daddy in the world

I have the best daddy in the world. He has taught me so much in the last nine months. I am sad that he is back at work now. To start with I thought he was playing the 'going to work' game, but he didn't come back for hours and hours. I only go for 30 seconds when I play that game. He does take his keys and his bag and his lunch...just like me...but he takes a lot longer to come home.

Now I have to put up with Mummy. She's not as fast as Daddy and I'm not sure she knows all of the games to play. She does put me in the trolley at the supermarket...but it's not the same. I spend lots of time in the supermarket calling for DAddddddddyyyyyyyyyyy. Dadddddddyyyyyyyyy. But I can't find him anywhere.

Every time a car comes up our shared driveway I think Daddy might be home...I'm only lucky once a day.

He built me a swing trapeze thing! I think that it is lots of fun. Pooh likes to play on it too.

He taught me how to drink the best beer and even how to spot a Tui and gets beer from the fridge. I can say 'beer Daddy' and 'tui'. I can spot a Lion on a car and say 'grrr'. Daddy says they only have lions on the best cars.

He taught me lots of people's names...he has great techniques for doing this. Here is me learning
Aunty Chrissie's name. I'm looking forward to seeing her again at Xmas.

Daddy made me a poor man's slide. It is so much fun! I can climb up and slide down for ages and ages. Pooh likes to go on the slide too. Daddy even lets me ride my car down it (Mummy can't watch that...she says it freaks her out - she's a big scardy cat).

Dad used some of the same wood to make a car for Playcentre. He made it like Liam's favourite car! Red and fast!

I am going to miss Daddy at Playcentre...and so will lots of the mums. Dad is very good at building things for them.

Daddy also taught me how to sleep in a big girl's bed.

I will miss you lots Daddy. Thank you for all that you have done with me and taught me.

Love love me

Jessica

PS I am looking forward to the baby coming out of Mummy's tummy. He has been having night nights in there for a very long time! I like to give him kisses and cuddles. I'm not sure how life will be when he arrives. Mum says that I will not get as much of her time and attention...but I always say please and then get what I want...right?