Happy Birthday Ross!

Happy Birthday Ross! You are now officially closer to 40 than you are to 30. Sorry, dude. A few photos after George's first night back in Hong Kong.  After a touch of grumpiness triggered by his desire to start his night sleep earlier than usual and his mummy's desire for him not to sleep too early, a Mexican standoff was avoided, and little man had a good night of dozing - with only a few grizzles before morning arrived.  Not bad, given that he ought to have a touch of jetlag.  A bit of tummy time this morning led to an inadvertent roll - which we would like to put down to his immense strength, but sadly have to accept that it was more due to the size of his cloth nappy relative to the rest of his scrawny torso. Poor kiddo rolls around like a spinning top if unsupervised.

As you can see, his afro is really coming along.  I'm struggling to tell whether it's morning hair or a true afro.  I'll let you know after bathtime tonight.

Home again

A few photos that I fiddled with tonight

Seriously - I'm not sure what to photograph when George isn't here. So I played with some old ones (sorry Amanda, sorry Chipper):

Too much coffee

spacespacespace Had far too much coffee this afternoon - a hazard of knowing the owner of my favourite Hong Kong coffee shop.  Still, a great afternoon catching up with Sanjay and I met Jacqui and Zadie for the first time (cousin of Craig, who is an old friend of the Singapore Challis clan).  Spent much of the afternoon wandering around Central and looking at camera lenses, and just checking out the shops (a bit of a treat given that I work just around the corner from our apartment!)

No George photos until Wednesday when he and his mummy touch down in Hong Kong.  So here's a coffee machine instead:

A few more photos from holiday

George with his security detail and George with Grandma Shanti [EDIT - I already posted that photo of Grandma, but it's nice and big this time):

One of the last Auckland shots

There was a gorgeous sunset on my last night in Auckland, and I've just stumbled across this photo in my library.  It's not a particularly well taken shot, but the colour is gorgeous and I'm a bit of a silhouette fan.  So here you go:

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Also, I'm in the process of tweaking this layout so that I can get rid of that column over on the left.  It's pretty pointless and I can upload much bigger and nicer looking photos if I can have the whole page instead of this little column.  I'll do this over the next few days, so apologies if it all looks a bit mucky.

Photos from Mona and Eugene's wedding

There were waaaay too many photos to post in the usual manner, so you get a little Flash photo album for this one.  Sorry that the main pic is so small - I'll try and fix that tonight (EDIT - Should be a lot bigger now).  Just hover your mouse over the main photo and self-navigate around it.  If you have problems, hit me up in the Contact section and I'll see what I can do. [svgallery name="mona"]

A few random photos from the batch sitting on my hard drive

A few more of George hangin' in New Zealand

spacespacesapce More busy days for George - on Saturday he went out to Lydia and Brad's farm in South Auckland and had a lovely lunch out there with Lydia, Brad, Bump (due May), Bridget, Marcus and little Isabel. Just a few photos from there:

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And then a few photos with George's Aunty Jane and Aunty Chipper:

Another day out for Big G

spacespacespace A few more photos from G's day out.  Daddy is missing his editing software (and his cats) quite a lot, but only a few more days until he is reunited with Photoshoppy Goodness. In a late change to the itinerary, Rachel and George are staying on in NZ for another week to chill out, while Daddy brings home the proverbial bacon...

George with Aunty Amanda:

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Hanging with Uncle Eugene in the afternoon (when Mummy and Daddy accidentally stumbled upon him in downtown Auckland and tagged along for a few wines):

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And one last photo from the Stanley Bay ferry:

Photos of various people around New Zealand holding George :-)

Haven't got time to edit or organise photos, but here are a few I grabbed from the camera of little George with various new friends around New Zealand - firstly with Grandma Shanti (one on the couch and one just before bathtime), George and Aunty Jane-O, George and Aunty Kate, George and Uncle Aaron and finally a few of George with Honorary Grandma Joy:

Back in the day, I really knew how to pull off the polyester suit look

A day of play

spacespacespace George met his mates Thomas and Angus this morning, and in the afternoon hung out with Claudia, James and their respective parents.  Daddy went nuts with the camera, and despite not having his editing software here in New Zealand, there are some very sweet ones of the day.

Firstly, Thomas and Angus tearing up the back yard:

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And then some of Teams Pearce, Hayes and Georgeous at Chez Hayes:

Sorry George, but genetics do sometimes suck

spacespacespace A picture of George's daddy aged approximately 18 months:

A few photos from holiday

Holiday is passing all too quickly, but I've managed to take billions of photos in any event... The flight was fine, and we sat next to a lovely Kiwi girl Jenny and her 4 month old Isabel on the way here.  George was impeccably behaved on the flight, and with the exception of a pants explosion before the flight, and a minor flipout after we landed, he was an angel. We went to his Aunty Momo's wedding on Saturday, and again he was impeccably behaved.  Slept through the good bits, smiled through the photos, and passed out during dinner.  A few photos from the week and from the wedding. More to come later in the week:

The Daily George takes a short break

Internet access in NZ is suckysucky, and so the updates for the next three weeks until Easter will either be sporadic (at best) or via my mobile phone. But I will be taking plenty of photos of him, and I'll upload what I can whenever I can. Rachel packed his stuff today, and I think it's cute that a 4.5kg kid has a 12kg bag of stuff.  I also think that the days of sprinting to try and get to the front of customs and immigration are long gone, and I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that we'll be needing a luggage trolley for the next, oh... 15 years?  Not to worry - tomorrow will be a wicked learning experience.  Our taxi arrives at 4:30pm and our flight leaves at 7:15pm.  Plenty of time to chill out and settle the wee man - and we get to take the stroller right up to the door of the plane (it magically meets us when the plane doors open, too).

I'll leave you with some photos of post-breakfast playtime this morning:

Yawn contest

A few random photos

spacespacesap I took a few photos of little fella this morning while he was half sleeping and half flirting with his mummy - and I got a few of the world's most shy cat trying to look fierce (well, yawning).  I'm too sleepy to touch these up or go all  Anne Geddes on you, so enjoy them in their brutally unedited glory:

Two working days to go...

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Here are a few photos from this morning in the lounge.  Daddy did the nappy change and hung with little man on the window seat in the lounge.  And then Ben arrived to check out his new sibling:

George laughing

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