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Apparently he has one. A face he reserves for the times he's producing a mushy little number 2. Euuurgh. He makes a little 'O' with his lips, gets a look of extreme concentration on his face... and BAM. Onto cuter things, some photos of the little monster:
spacespacespace I took a few photos of the little guy this morning, but they're sitting on my camera at home. Will upload those tonight, but thought you'd like this photo we snapped of George last night - it's the face he used when we were chatting to his Aunty Momo in Auckland, NZ. It's a face a lot of us use when chatting to Aunty Momo...
I'm still relearning to shoot film using a manual camera, but I'm getting a bit better at it. I really do need to get back into developing my own negatives and doing my own scanning - but we'll see how much time I have when Cracker arrives. Anyway - here are a couple of film shots of Bella that made me laugh (I got the roll back today):
Spacespacespace Spent a lovely afternoon in Discovery Bay yesterday with Sue, Steve, Phoebe and Hermione - and their new addition to the family, Isabella. Check out the cuteness that exudes from her 4 month old self. She's still a fairly excitable pup, and jumps around like she's got springs for legs. Absolutely gorgeous:
forgot to upload this one the other day...
Merry Christmas everyone! We're at the tail end of Christmas day and it's time to kick back and do... nothing. The Challis clan invaded and we survived (it was a close one). We had a great day of food, fun and friends, and the little ones loved their presents (well, Arabella was all about the food). I took a few photos, so here they are - naturally, mostly kiddie focused (I love the last one - Arabella was so excited by the morning's events, the loss of a shoe didn't bother her in the least). It's our last Christmas as a four member family (me, Rachel, cats x 2) and next year we'll be entertaining an almost-one year old. Eeeek.
As you can see, there's the cot, changing table, bassinet and Rachel's feeding chair thingy. The alphabet stops and starts on a new line partly because an unnamed person (not me) didn't leave enough space to finish the alphabet on the same line (!) and partly because we intend to put a large dresser in the spot that Rachel is sitting in (I'll probably get her to move before we put it there...)
one from the archives - ross and i at the unicol ball back in university
beware the geek who knows how to take a screenshot really really quickly... here's kieran in his manly man cooking gear (from our video chat tonight):
top photo was taken last night (rachel scratching poppy's tummy) and the other three were taken on saturday night when I wandered down to sandy bay at dusk to take photos after day 1 of the social cricket tournament.
forgot to upload this rather sweet photo of rachel cuddling molly on saturday morning:
gorgeous little molly popped up for a visit this morning. we both had a lovely cuddle, although i seemed to make her grumble more than rachel did. bah.
nothing quite as nice as waking up to find a kitten purring softly under the duvet next to you... went to a japanese restaurant with cam and carolin last night, then hit the bond movie. japanese was umami @ cyberport (cyberport being a soul and charisma-free fake neighbourhood around the corner from where we live - and it's where i work). food was really rather good and after i busted out several pages of vouchers (oh the benefits of working in the middle of nowhere) it was pretty good value too.
the bond movie was awesome (new bond girl might be entering the narly-top-5) even though i really didn't know what was going on for most of it. action sequences were brilliant, although at times the product placement could have been perhaps a little more subtle - range rover and virgin atlantic certainly got their moeny's worth.
wandering out to discovery bay today to see lisa's jewellery exhibition and to catch up with sue, steve, helen and pete for a spot of afternoon tea (very civilised, i say old chap). then back to central to catch mark and emma for a bit of dinner somewhere and then i'll park myself in front of the television to watch the nz v england rugby game. miracle of miracles, it's being shown in hong kong.
here's popstar this morning in our bed:
we had a great video chat with jonathan and laura last night and got to meet little freddie cary - what a cute little fella! laura looks great and jonathan looks stoked with daddyhood - and the little guy looks as cute as a button. i have taken the liberty of pilfering some photos from his website, i know he won't mind:
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on other matters, i survived through two hours of breastfeeding talk and videos at antenatal class last night. it was actually informative and quite useful, although it would appear that if we give little Spawn of Narly formula milk, all three of us along with our families, friends and people that we meet at the bus stop will be struck down with the plague or the black lung, and then get run over by trucks.
or something like that.
lovely view from our balcony, tragic view in our bathroom:
just thought i'd post an old photo that i only just got around to editing - a lovely little shot of liam (simon and kirsty's little guy, twin of paige). this was taken at our place earlier this year.
