Monday, January 28, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Feeding the ducks
We discovered a cool quiet park where Preston can go to feed ducks. He has a great time yelling "Yummy Bread!" to all the ducks - as if they didn't know!
Friday, January 04, 2008
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Preston's 2nd Birthday at the Zoo
We went to the zoo for Preston's birthday, and I made a Blue's Clues cake!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Preston and Amber looking cute!
So cute in fact that they made it to the Honorable Mentions in the Knitty competition. Yay!
Preston's Space Invader Jersey gets another special mention!
Yay! Well I didn't make it to the winning 12 photos for the calender, but it's very cool that 2 of my 3 entries made it to the Honorable Mention section!
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Preston counts and calls the cat
Preston can count to 10! He has counted 1,2,3 for a while, and he hasn't quite got 4,5 but he knows 6,7,8,9,10.
The other day we were at Nana's and he fed the cat (read: tips biscuits everywhere). He had scared away the cat in his excitement, so Nana says "Preston, lets call puss puss." Preston responds by running away and she says "Come back, we're going to call puss puss". He was actually running to the phone, which he picks up to his ear and yells "pusspuss!!". So he 'called' the cat... so funny how his logic works!
Here are some recent pictures:
The other day we were at Nana's and he fed the cat (read: tips biscuits everywhere). He had scared away the cat in his excitement, so Nana says "Preston, lets call puss puss." Preston responds by running away and she says "Come back, we're going to call puss puss". He was actually running to the phone, which he picks up to his ear and yells "pusspuss!!". So he 'called' the cat... so funny how his logic works!
Here are some recent pictures:
Saturday, October 27, 2007
What can Mr Mischief do now?
Preston is such a mischief boy - he even does the shifty eyes action when he wants to do something sneaky. He has some amazing planning skills - he thinks two or three steps ahead so he can get the item he wants. He also has a good imagination and talks to his bears and other toys all the time and gets them to do things (like share his food, or jump on the couch, or 'fly' off tall objects....). His communication gets better every day - he copies words or phrases much more correctly, and is he says a word to us that we don't understand, he will eventually try another method to describe it, like tell us that it is in a blue bowl for example, and then we can figure it out. He's got the hang of intonation, so he says 'Muu-mmyy-yy?' with a sort of 'whyy-yyy?' feel to it, or 'Mama where are you?' with either a cheeky 'i want to play' inflection, or a 'wake up!' urgency if he's bored in his cot and I haven't woken up yet.
He's also figured out knock-knock jokes somehow! So the other day we came home and i said to knock on the door. Preston says 'knock knock, who's there, ME!' Totally cracked me up! He also tells knock knock jokes to his toys which is hilarious.
Preston is quite the tech-savvy toddler. Dan thought his iPhone would be safe in locked mode, but its intuitive touch screen is so simple to Preston to figure out, so he knows to swipe to unlock, then click on the photo gallery, then swipe through all the family photos - turning the screen for a better view where necessary. He can also operate the tv and xbox - the other day he wanted to watch his Mr Men DVD, so ejected the current dvd, put in Mr Men, closed it, found the remote, turned on the tv, chose the story he wanted to watch and pressed play - then sat on the couch with his bears. Some of this might have been fluke, but he knows what he's meant to do which is quite amazing!
Preston is really cute with other kids, particularly his faithful friends, Amber, Manea and Carmen. Amber is totally his best friend and he talks about her when they haven't seen each other in a while. At daycare, the kids each have a photo book with what they've been doing, and Preston and Amber have a special page titled 'Best Friends' and there are photos of them cuddling and the two of them playing without the other kids. They both light up so much when they see each other!
It's nearly time for birthday number 2... I can hardly believe it. I'm knitting Preston a big toy dinosaur (he loves dinosaurs) but I doubt I'll get it done in time - might have to be for another time instead.
He's also figured out knock-knock jokes somehow! So the other day we came home and i said to knock on the door. Preston says 'knock knock, who's there, ME!' Totally cracked me up! He also tells knock knock jokes to his toys which is hilarious.
Preston is quite the tech-savvy toddler. Dan thought his iPhone would be safe in locked mode, but its intuitive touch screen is so simple to Preston to figure out, so he knows to swipe to unlock, then click on the photo gallery, then swipe through all the family photos - turning the screen for a better view where necessary. He can also operate the tv and xbox - the other day he wanted to watch his Mr Men DVD, so ejected the current dvd, put in Mr Men, closed it, found the remote, turned on the tv, chose the story he wanted to watch and pressed play - then sat on the couch with his bears. Some of this might have been fluke, but he knows what he's meant to do which is quite amazing!
Preston is really cute with other kids, particularly his faithful friends, Amber, Manea and Carmen. Amber is totally his best friend and he talks about her when they haven't seen each other in a while. At daycare, the kids each have a photo book with what they've been doing, and Preston and Amber have a special page titled 'Best Friends' and there are photos of them cuddling and the two of them playing without the other kids. They both light up so much when they see each other!
It's nearly time for birthday number 2... I can hardly believe it. I'm knitting Preston a big toy dinosaur (he loves dinosaurs) but I doubt I'll get it done in time - might have to be for another time instead.
Monday, September 17, 2007
What Preston's up to nowadays
Belinda's on holiday, so I thought I'd give a bit of a status update on Preston. He's definitely a chatterbox now. He can talk for hours on end, mostly gibberish to me, but he seems to know what he's talking about. If I listen for a while I can figure out what he wants.
He can climb now too - certainly able to get up to chair height, and almost to bed height. Its kinda scary. Even worse is that he can now open doors. I have zero luck trapping him in any place alone - so he pretty much gets constant attention.
Food -wise, he's totally addicted to tomatoes, grapes, and cheese. He'll eat everything though, including some palak paneer last night and chickpeas, celery and lettuce from the night before's salad.
He also loves being outside, and can fully sort all of his plastic shapes into the shape-ball. Pretty cool, since I haven't given it to him for a few months - he just picked it up and did it!
He can climb now too - certainly able to get up to chair height, and almost to bed height. Its kinda scary. Even worse is that he can now open doors. I have zero luck trapping him in any place alone - so he pretty much gets constant attention.
Food -wise, he's totally addicted to tomatoes, grapes, and cheese. He'll eat everything though, including some palak paneer last night and chickpeas, celery and lettuce from the night before's salad.
He also loves being outside, and can fully sort all of his plastic shapes into the shape-ball. Pretty cool, since I haven't given it to him for a few months - he just picked it up and did it!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Brownie Fundraiser: Cool pens and jewellery boxes!
Our Brownie group is fundraising for Mutual Aid which is a Guides NZ fund for supporting Brownies & Guides in poorer countries. This year, the Mutual Aid Fund is going towards building a safe and fun campsite facility for girls in Fiji to enjoy.
We have made some items to sell as our form of fundraising, so you get something nice for your donation. We've made cool scoubie pens for only $2 and also some very cute jewellery boxes for only $5. Check them out in my zStore in the Brownies section.
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