21 months update

It has been a while since we blogged what Andrew is up to so I thought I'd better.





Andrew seems to have grown up a lot in the last few months.





While he still doesn't have heaps of understandable words that he says spontaneously, he loves to yabber away, and will copy what you say lots. His comprehension is pretty good most of the time. If he is in the mood he will follow simple instructions like "go and put this in the bathroom". If you say "lets go out" he starts looking for shoes and will bring you a pair if he can find them. Often they are behind closed doors.





He likes to play at his friend Aleesha's house. A few weeks ago I drove down their drive to discover I couldn't park down there so had to turn around and go and park on the road. He got upset that we weren't going to Aleesha's house.





He is better about being left with other people and not so clingy to mummy. Which is a relief for mummy.





We talk lots about we are going to have another baby but I am not sure how much he really understands about that. He does like to lift up mummy's top and poke baby.





He is doing lots more walking and can now walk from our car to the house or vice versa. For those who haven't been to our house. There is a steepish slope down to our car from the steps. This is great on mummy's back.





He still likes his sleep and sleeps about 12-13 hours most nights and 2-3 hours most afternoons. he is a good eater. He has gotten over whatever was causing him to not eat dinner back in November and December. He discovered stone fruit this summer but stills thinks that bananas are essentially for a balance diet.





We get some temper tatrums but he isn't too bad.





This term we are involved in playcentre, Church mum's group, antenatal group and a council run music and movement programme.





Now I'll post this, and send some photos later.

Trip to Auckland

We just enjoyed a lovely week at Orewa, just north of Auckland. Once again we stayed in a holiday home we get access to through Stephen's work.

We all drove up taking two days, stopping overnight in Taumarunui and then Andrew and I flew back from Auckland and Stephen drove back in one day.

We did lots of tripping around to the north and west of Auckland. Some of the places we went to were walking around Orewa Shakespear park at the end of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Kumeu, the Gannets at Muriwai, Puhoi, up One Tree Hill, Warkworth, Matakana, a reptile park near Leigh, Piha, Whatipu, to name a few.

We also caught up with a friend of Stephen's from uni and some of Stephen's cousins who live in Auckland.

The biggest negative about the trip was that Andrew decided he didn't like the portacot where we were staying, and it was taking all or half the evening to him to sleep most evenings. He has been pretty good since we got home.

Andrew and Stephen at Shakespear Park

Gannets at Muriwai

Kathryn and Andrew at Shelly Beach

Kathyrn and Andrew at Wenderholme Reserve