Baby Animals

the local primary school had it's annual fete on saturday so we took lachlan for a walk to check it out. they had a baby animal farm set up there and after about five minutes of watching the animals from his pram outside the enclosure, lachlan decided he would like to go in and give them a pat. he seemed most interested in the chickens and ducks and spent a bit of time walking around trying to catch them.. with a little help from his daddy, he even got to give a couple of the chickens cuddles! obviously the six months that has passed since his last experience with this type of thing has made a huge difference in his reaction..

Caring and Sharing

lachlan is turning out to be a very affectionate little boy who willingly shares everything with those he considers to be his nearest and dearest, even if they aren't actually real.. here are some pix of him feeding crackers to his clown "gymbo", giving him a little kiss and then laughing hysterically because he knew i was taking his photo.. note the scary molars on the bottom gum..

Some New Stuff

thought i would post some pix of some of the new toys that lachlan has gotten since i did the fisher price corner photo. there are way too many things to fit into one corner now and we consequently have toys scattered throughout the house.. mind you, this is a good thing seeing he doesn't seem to stay in the one place for very long..

Artist at Work

lachlan has recently discovered the joys of "drawing" and spends a little time each day at his table scribbling with his crayons.. at the moment, he is mostly drawing lines, and not always with the right end of the crayon, but you have to start somewhere i guess!

Dig Dig!

last week we took lachlan to toys r us with the intention of buying him a motorcycle ride-on that was advertised in the catalogue. although he was practically screaming in excitement when he saw it, he quickly lost interest once we sat him on the demo one and instead pointed to a bob the builder digger that was on display nearby. there was another digger that was advertised in the catalogue that was $30 cheaper and also had a movable scoop so we decided to buy that one instead, even though there wasn't a demo model in the store for us to let him play with to see if he liked it.. once we got home we discovered that fortunately for us, we had chosen well and he was thrilled with his latest addition to the play corner..