Charlotte's 1st Birthday

Friday was Charlotte's 1st birthday. She had a great day - she went to daycare as normal and they made a huge fuss of her. They made her a card and a birthday crown which she got to wear at mealtimes. They also did a collage of photos to put in her profile book.

Sam, Brooke and their flatmate Dean came around after work and they gave Charlotte a TMX tickle me Elmo. She was scared of it on Friday, but now loves it. She laughs back at Elmo.

On Sunday she had her birthday party with the other coffee group babies. Aeriell made an awesome train cake for the babies.

Here are a few photos from her birthday:

Reading her birthday card from Mike and Ange

Playing with bubbles at the birthday party

The awesome birthday cake

Blowing out the candles

Opening Presents

Playing on her swing (birthday present from us)

A busy few weeks

Well what a busy few weeks we have had. We had our holiday in Auckland a few weeks ago. We took Charlotte to the Zoo and Kelly Traltons. She loved the zoo, but at Kelly Traltons she was more interested in running her hand along the carpet on the wall than looking at the fish. We had to come home earlier than expected as Charlotte got sick again! This time she had a chest infection and ear infections. So we didn't get to catch up with anyone sorry.
She has a bad mummy her took her to watch uncle Sam race at the track. It was a miserable day and She hadn't quite gotten over her Croup - bad mummy.

Last weekend we went up to Waiuku for Alia's 21st on Saturday night. I think Charlotte really enjoyed herself. It was really good to catch up with Warwick and Katrina also. Unfortunately Charlotte started vomiting, so at 3am when we had run out of spare bedding and were onto the last set of clothes we packed and drove home. June wasn't a good month health wise for Charlotte.

On a more exciting note - Andrew has had some work recently including shooting a story about the boyracers in Taupo. His brief was to film the public meeting and then interview the organisers and a boy and girl racer. He interviewed Sam for the boy racer and it made it onto the news on Saturday night.

Here is the link to the story: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1210430?bandwidth=128k

We also got a new digital camera about a week ago. I have put some of my favourites up on our tickle website.

Only 16 more days until someone turns 1.