5 months and moving

Happy 5 months Olive, you are pure joy! You are so easy going, you smile and laugh so readily, everyone loves you. Olive you love to chew, chew, chew everything.

Olive is getting her commando crawl on.
Go Olive go!

Four months.
Three months.
Two months.
One month.
Ada at five months.

a buzzy birthday

We had a great birthday party for Ada's second birthday! She loved dressing up as a bee and a fairy, over and over again in fact. Ada and friends played on some gear from the toy library while the adults ate cheese and enjoyed some light refreshments. I was so impressed with the two year olds on the day, very few meltdowns from the crowd and even Ada was on good form 95% of the time. In the end this felt like an easy party, I had lovely helpers, Liz and Granma Lizzie on decorations, Jo on the cake and Cam and Grandy Gav set up a marquee. Ada was a bit spoilt with presents from her friends, you are all so thoughtful. Thank you all so much!

Here is the must see singing invitation.
Here is the birthday letter.
Here is our new fave photo, and some others!

into it

Olive loves life. Behold the rocking horse.

Ada is, of course, drawn to all that positive energy... 

o christmas tree o christmas tree

Ahh, Ada is too cute when she sings carols. We know O Christmas Tree and Jingle Bells so far. What should we learn next? Maybe the one with the "Gloria!" in it, we sung that in an Olivia book a few weeks back, it was a good time.

We had a lot of fun putting up our tree! Ada helped hang decorations and Olive did some taste testing. I am loving slowly adding decorations Ada has made. Next we need to add our traditions that help Ada and later Olive understand the significance of Christmas. We sung Jesus happy birthday...  Hmm!

 

swingsational

We are in Te Awamutu and the grandies have a swing set up on a bar over the washing line. Ada is in attention heaven, well almost, she has a very painful ear infection so is mostly rather sad about that, but the swing helps any how!

Olive has been loving the swing too, here she is for the first time on the swing!