Biker Chick

This was one of the toys we bought with the voucher I won last year and it has been sitting in Charlottes wardrobe waiting for her to be big enough for it. Andrew decided to try her out on it today. She thinks it is great but can only go backwards at the moment. No doubt she will master going forwards soon.

An obsession with fire

Charlotte just loves to watch us light the fire. She looks around us to see the flames. So it is a good thing her Poppa made her a fort knox fire guard to go around the fire. The touched the gas fire at Granny and Poppa's the other day while it was going and she hasn't been near it again. it didn't burn her, but I think it was hot enough to give her a fright.

Well it was back to the doctors today for her last Menz B jab. She was great. Screamed as it went it, but got over that very quickly. She had great fun entertaining the oldies in the waiting room afterwards. We had to stay for 10 minutes after just to make sure that she had no reaction. She doesn't need jabs again until October and then none until she she is four - YAY.



Charlotte is having great week and has been in the best mood. When we got to daycare on Monday to pick her up, she was sitting with the other children on the mat watching the very hungry caterpillar being read to them. She looked so cute.

Not a good week

Poor Charlotte is teething and this time they are actually popping through. She is getting her top middle teeth, but the eye tooth on the right has made an appearance under her gum as well and I am sure that is the tooth that is giving her grief.



We ended up at the doctors on Wednesday afternoon (after I had spent an hour at the dentist getting fillings). Charlotte also has a cold and we thought that we should also get her ears checked out. They were a bit pink, but not infected.



Sam was going to babysit for us last night, while we went to see a play that the local production group put on. But as Charlotte had been having a bad week and not settling well, Andrew stayed home with her and Laurie my pregnant friend from work came instead. Murphy's law Charlotte was an angel and went to sleep easily and slept until 7.30 this morning. Sam would have been able to handle it.



Charlotte made me a mothers day card at Daycare yesterday - I will try to scan it and post a picture of it for you to see. We are having the big extended family lunch at mum and dads tomorrow for mothers day. It will be the first mothers day without Nana.



Andrew had a job in Reporoa yesterday filming the Prime Minister opening the new canteen at their school. His footage made two news items as they got him to interview her about another current issue in New Zealand at the same time. He has had a bit of work the last couple of weeks. Last week he attended another fatal accident and then he had two days filming at Wairakei International Golf course for a golf show.



Next weekend I am off to Wellington for Guides. It's going to be my first time away from Charlotte. I am really not looking forward to leaving Charlotte.



Here a few photo of Charlotte coming back in the front door this morning:

Charlotte pulling herself up - take 2

Here is another go at putting it on this site:

Charlotte pulling herself up

I haven't quite got this video clip thing worked out yet - but here is a link to the movie of Charlotte pulling herself up onto the coffee table:

http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z271/mbleakley/?action=view&current=MOV01549-1.flv

We have a new toy and it was FREE

Now that Charlotte is crawling very confidently, she has started to explore. Andrew was doing the dishes on Thursday and he hadn't heard in a while. He called out 'Charlotte' and up popped this head outside the kitchen window. Yes she has managed to crawl right out the front door.

So with Charlotte going through this exploring stage we decided she needed a toy that would help. So we got her a box. Gizmo fell in love with it right away, it took Charlotte a few minutes to decide whether she liked it or not.

For more pictures of Charlotte in her box see the tickle website:

http://www.tickle.co.nz/photos/Michelleb

A photo

Woohoo - now I've worked out how to put a photo on as well.

My First Entry

Well, this is my first attempt at this so I will make it short just in case I lose it. We (I) have decided to start this Blog so that we can keep Yvonne updated on how Charlotte is doing and put some narration to the photos that we post.