Two Grandkids,Two Knees

it was john's birthday today so we had the family over for lunch.. popsy had a lovely time playing with his grandkids.. good thing he's only got two though, he'd have to grow some extra knees otherwise!

Beep Beep

lachlan's current favourite thing to do is to get into one of our cars, stand on the driver's seat and press on the horn as many times as he can before i can't stand the noise anymore and remove his hands.. he thinks it's a pretty fun game though and will keep doing it over and over and over.. so when popsy came over to visit, he decided to take a "drive" in popsy's ute..

GO GO GO

we recently bought lachlan a new bike during the toy sales.. he had been getting proficient at pushing himself around backwards and forwards using both feet at the same time on his other bikes so we thought it was time that he got a new one.. he has quickly gotten the hang of pushing himself along one foot at a time and even has steering sorted out! he isn't very fast yet, and you can tell there is a lot of concentration going into it, but it won't be long until he is scooting around the house faster than i can keep up with..

Strawberries

lachlan has always loved fruit and strawberries are one of his favourites.. now that they are back in season, he's been enjoying having a handful of them as dessert after his dinner.. here are some photos of him and his daddy enjoying a little picnic on the kitchen mat..

Fingerpainting

one of lachlan's favourite things to do is to play with his fingerpaints. i bought him a new art smock during the week in an attempt to keep him clean but it's waaaay too big for him still. doesn't seem to bother him too much though, as you can see!

Green Thumb

with the skies clearing and winds dropping, we decided to do a little gardening this morning.. lachlan as always copied what we were doing and then decided that he would take over.. after "helping" daddy for awhile, he decided it was time to go solo with his weeding fork.. and no, he didn't destroy the back lawn, it was already like that..

Congratulations Mike & Neri

some friends of ours got married on the weekend and we were lucky enough to be able to attend the festivities.. lachlan stayed with his grandma for the night and was apparently extremely well behaved for her.. it was our first baby free evening in a long time and it was nice to be around other adults doing adult things.. even if we did end up talking about our babies for a good part of the evening!

congratulations to the new mr & mrs harrington!
thanks for a lovely night..

Cot vs Bed

as many of you may know, john and i are both taking some time off from work to do some sleep therapy with lachlan.. unfortunately, we've all come down with colds so we've had to postpone the night sleeping training, but we're getting there with the day time naps. and for anyone who is still a doubting thomas, i have photographic evidence that at some point, lachlan has slept in his cot instead of our bed..

King Of The Castle

lachlan has been getting more adventurous when it comes to playing with his cubby house. he now will normally refuse any offers of assistance we give when he is climbing up and insist on doing it on his own. he has also decided that he can fly and will often stand at the top of the steps and then lean forward and free fall expecting that we will catch him. so far he has only done this when we are close enough to reach him so there haven't been any bumps and bruises to speak of.. not sure if this lack of fear is to do with his belief that no harm will come to him when we're close by, and therefore he can only do things like that when we're there.. it's pretty scary letting him do things on his own when you know there could be lots of tears if things go wrong, but the smile on his face when he makes it to the top all on his own is worth the butterflies..

Climbing Monkey

i've been slack lately and haven't taken any new photos so i went to through my existing ones looking for some that i could post. these pix are from a few months ago.. lachlan and i were at one of the many local parks that has playground equipment suited to little climbing monkeys.. as you can see, he was getting quite adventurous even then, and has gotten even more independent and daring since these were taken..