Guess who is 6 months!!

We love this wee man very much.

Especially with the smiles.

They are contagious.

:) Who does he look like?

Amelia's photography.

And again.

I've always enjoyed watching my babies develop new skills.  To us they are so basic (the skills that is) but they are the starting point for so much more.  A baby needs the strength to be able to crawl, and balance to be able to stand, and more strength and balance to walk etc.  What is even more cute to see develop is the child's character.  And Keithie is showing quite the character!  He is our strongest baby yet.  Even in the womb he was a strong baby in comparison to the others (his kicks and punches were very strong).  When he was first born he was already keeping his head up and the midwives were wowed over his strength.  Jett is going to put his strength to good use when he is older such as cleaning the car and mowing the lawn... :D  Keithie is also energetic, not slow like Aaron was, but energetic like Owen was.  He is also a very smiley baby like Aaron was.  So...we've got quite the mixture. :)  One of my favourite things to see first thing in the morning (you know when I'm still half awake but Keithie is wide awake) is to look over to his cot and between the rails see him talking to himself and then once he sees me he gives this gorgeous big smile...ahh, it is lovely. :)

Auckland Museum

A very large waka (canoe) or rather a war canoe.  I forget how many warriors they were able to fit in but it was around 100 or so. 

One end of the waka.

 So yes, we went out today (Monday is J's day off)  so we opted for the Museum.  Good thing we did too as it began to rain heavily while we were looking around the museum.  I really wanted to get a picture of the outside...because it has these lovely Grecian or Roman (don't know the difference) columns/pillars, but like I said it was raining.  :)  The museum is free for Aucklanders.  If you can prove you live in Auckland that is!  So free for us! :)

Scallywags!  These two are good friends.

The kids enjoying running around on top of a miniature map of Auckland and area.

 They had a kid's section at the museum which was pretty exciting for the kids (the above photo is not in that section)!  Hands on stuff is great, and being able to get very close to cockroaches is double great too because we all know how much mommy likes those buggies! 

Letter to Diana written after we went to the museum.

Letter to Anne Roos... we was eating! LOL

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Me and Tanya

L-R Monique holding Laura & Bianca holding Maria

Keithie and Laura

Rev and Mrs Rayner with Owen

We thoroughly enjoyed having them!

Photos! :)

Amelia asleep.  Notice the purple bear is perfectly tucked in.

Gotta like how kids sleep!

Your smiling aren't you??  I knew it!  I wonder who can not smile at a cute happy baby!

Amelia and her new best friend Diana. Amelia has a lot of "best" friends by the way. :D

So this is what happens when you discover the camera still works.  You turn on the bedroom lights and take pictures of your sleeping children regardless if they wake up or not.  Yes I am slightly crazy.  :)

But isn't this exciting?  I gave one last try to see if the camera works.  I wiped the areas where the batteries would be in the cam. and then popped new and good (a good brand) batteries in and voila it worked!  So we are happily taking as many photos as we can, because really who wants to lose these cute cute moments of Keithie?  Not I! :)