Bebe

Baby will be joining us Earthside in August.
Very excited to finally put to use all of the handknits!

In which we ....

Flew to Australia

Went to an AFL game

Ate a lot of seafood

Relaxed under some Palm trees

Ate A LOT of ice cream! (my record was 4 separate occasions on the same day.)

This pretty much sums up our holiday, but I'll have a few more photos to show in the next few days.

Crazy Puppy Loves his Ball

And then he dug a hole in the lawn.

Rosemary for Remembrance

My Grandad passed away last Wednesday, and I spent Thursday through Sunday in Nelson with family.

We spent some time looking through photos- here are some we got developed from the boxes of slides Nana had tucked away. Here are some ones of Grandad with Mum, and the little boy is her brother, Uncle Chris.

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2010

And today, cherish your loved ones, squeeze them a little harder. Remember that however long we get, it will never be long enough. Peace xx

A little bit of Pedro

I've been moving pictures around between the computers, and consolidating 5 years of digital photos. I found some photos of P-dog from when he was just so wee, I thought I'd re-share them here, as well as a few newer ones.

He's probably about 4 months old here,

And over a year here. We got rid of this chair when we left Christchurch, but I like how it shows the passage of time in these two photos.

I took these three photos in December last year. Pedro has calmed down recently (Finally! He's only 3 years old), but I think he will always be a cheeky puppy really.

And this is more his true colours. The other day we had contractors on site at work, and in one of the elcetrician's trucks there was a beautiful, distinguished black lab, who had been going to work every day since he was 10 weeks old! I don't think Pedro will ever have that kind of decorum!

We are having problems at the moment with him getting hotspots in the humid Auckland weather. In the warm, moist conditions Staphylococcus multiplies rapidly, getting into any small nicks or scrapes, causing a red, inflamed, itchy patch, which quickly becomes a pussy, weepy sore. (Sorry for the mental images!) Pedro was recently on a two week course of antibiotics, and is now on another week-long course. It's beginning to look like this may be an ongoing battle for us during the summer-time, has anyone else had any experiences with these hotspots? Oh and if you have a double coated dog (e.g. lab, rottweiller, german shepard) please be on the lookout during this warm weather!

The way he loves our dog.....

.....makes me love him more.

My favourite picture from the evening.

I just really love this picture- look at those crazy eyes! He knows where the ball is, he just can't get to it! Pedro looks like this about 90% of the time we throw the ball straight up for him to catch- slightly manic.