Check out these pictures of Liam and James, both taken at around six months - can you tell which is which ??!!!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Twin Waters weekend away
We had a long weekend up at Twin Waters a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary. It must be time for the seven-year-itch!!!
We arrived on Saturday afternoon, after a (disastrous - don't ask) swimming lesson for Liam in the morning, and bunkered down while the wind and rain howled around us outside. Just the right sort of weather for a bit of movie watching and drinking / eating the night away.
The next morning we awoke to a gloriously blue, cloudless sky and the mercury rising to around 30 degrees. Nice. We headed off to our local cafe, The Lounging Lizard, and had brekky with our friends Jason, Juanita and their kids Alex who is three months older than Liam, and Monique who is about 12 months. It was great to catch up with them. Afterwards the boys let off some steam at the playground across the road and then we headed back to the village for a relaxing day by the pool.
We thought we would be very adventurous and headed out for dinner (how scandalous!!) to the restaurant on the other side of the lagoon, I think it's called Nouveaux. They have a buffet. I don't know why they let Liam in for free because he ate more than Zane and I combined!!!! He loves a good buffet. James grizzled a bit but overall he is quite a pleasant dinner companion.
The following day was more sunshine, so after a bbq breakfast of bacon and eggs, we popped our cozzies on and headed over to the activities area and did a spot of kayaking, digging in the sand and swimming. Liam has been eyeing off a huge blow up tyre thingy they have out on the water but isn't quite daring enough to get on it yet ... that might be a project for our next visit.
Morning tea time
Kayaking with Daddy
... and Mummy!
Ange, Liam and James horsing around
We arrived on Saturday afternoon, after a (disastrous - don't ask) swimming lesson for Liam in the morning, and bunkered down while the wind and rain howled around us outside. Just the right sort of weather for a bit of movie watching and drinking / eating the night away.
The next morning we awoke to a gloriously blue, cloudless sky and the mercury rising to around 30 degrees. Nice. We headed off to our local cafe, The Lounging Lizard, and had brekky with our friends Jason, Juanita and their kids Alex who is three months older than Liam, and Monique who is about 12 months. It was great to catch up with them. Afterwards the boys let off some steam at the playground across the road and then we headed back to the village for a relaxing day by the pool.
We thought we would be very adventurous and headed out for dinner (how scandalous!!) to the restaurant on the other side of the lagoon, I think it's called Nouveaux. They have a buffet. I don't know why they let Liam in for free because he ate more than Zane and I combined!!!! He loves a good buffet. James grizzled a bit but overall he is quite a pleasant dinner companion.
The following day was more sunshine, so after a bbq breakfast of bacon and eggs, we popped our cozzies on and headed over to the activities area and did a spot of kayaking, digging in the sand and swimming. Liam has been eyeing off a huge blow up tyre thingy they have out on the water but isn't quite daring enough to get on it yet ... that might be a project for our next visit.
Morning tea time
Kayaking with Daddy
... and Mummy!Liam and Alex - BFF
James being adorable!
Liam enjoying a lemonade in the bar before dinner
Liam enjoying a lemonade in the bar before dinner
Ange, Liam and James horsing aroundZane and his king-size coffee!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
James is really enjoying his food, as you can see from these pics. He is a little ray of sunshine - he makes us laugh every day! He's not crawling (or even rolling!) yet and is quite content to sit on his mat, like a little dumpling, inspecting his toys. Liam loves entertaining him and works very hard to get a chuckle out of James, with lots of wacky dancing and singing.
Liam loves showing James how all his toys work too - he is a very helpful big brother!
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Phuket!
Sorry it has taken us so long to get a blog on after our holiday to Phuket last month, but I'm sure, dear reader, that you know how it is with two small children (and a workaholic husband) to look after!!!
We had a fab time in Phuket last month - we stayed for a week and a half and the reason for our holiday was Zane's cousin Sarah was marrying Tim. There were 32 people at the wedding - very impressive for an overseas wedding! and it was just beautiful. Chae was a flower girl - wasn't she gorgeous! And Sarah was absolutely radiant. It was one of the loveliest weddings I think I have ever been to, very laidback and relaxed, but also very thoughtfully planned out and well organised. The vows were exchanged on the beachfront and the reception was also on the beach - one lovely huge table, on the sand, laden down with the delights of the Thai cuisine. Liam and James had a babysitter that night so for once Zane I let our hair down! A definite highlight of the night was "krumping" with the girls on the dance floor to Beyonce's latest song ... if you don't know what krumping is, it's basically lots of high speed boob and bum jiggling!!!
The resort we stayed in was fantastic, with lots of pools and restaurants and it was right on a beautiful beach with white sand and crystal clear water. The food was scrumptious - I am a Thai food convert! Poor Zane has been enduring my haphazard attempts to recreate the delicate fusions of Thai flavours for dinner nearly every night since we got home ... with mixed success!! ... I think he is craving a good old fashioned roast or shepherd's pie after all the asian food I have been serving up.
The kids travelled really well and there were no disasters - a nice change! No one got sick and the flights there and back were pretty good. We might even do it again!
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