Christmas in Blairgowrie | Part 1

We spent the last weeks of 2012 with my family at Blairgowrie, celebrating mum's birthday, enjoying the great outdoors and eating way too much good food!  

Atti loved  being outdoors all the time and having so many people to play with all the time!  He's started to  put words together to form mini sentences and has become quite strong willed  about getting his own way.  He would constantly be grabbing someone's hand, pulling them towards the door, demanding "side, side side" (outside). "bye bye mama, cya" "bye bye nina" "go away penser" (spencer), "no no no"

atti speak

My current favourite Atti word is FWAWA! I point to plants and flowers as we walk along and say "What's this?" "FAWA" he yells, "FWAWA!" "Smell the flowers" I say, he opens his mouth wide to bite and says "ah ah"

fireworks

We arrived at this year's Christmas Fireworks with a tired baby strapped cozily into his ergo...anticipating that he will doze off to sleep quietly while we enjoy the fireworks. Boy were we wrong! Atti took a while to warm up to the crowd and the sound of the carols, but once he got going he was unstoppable. Playing in the dirt, flirting with strangers, hijacking my awesome potato on a stick. The excitement stepped up a notch with the arrival of Alik, Ninna and Dee Dee, and we soon realised how delusional our idea of a calmly dozing baby was. When the fireworks started to burst in the sky, I was worried that Atti would be frightened by the loud noise, but he calmly looked into the sky, pointed his finger and said "Star!""ooo wow! Stars! Stars!" He sat in my lap through the whole show...mesmerised. On the way to the car, he dozed off in his ergo after a big big night out and was walked home in the babywearing cuddles of "dada".

november on instagram

walking to the park without pram, burnt out and family dinner 

 horse gazing, freeze dried strawberries with dee dee and ball games

 making new friends and developing a taste for at the national gallery of victoria

 beach days, bath hair and being center of attention - always

 discovering the wonderful world of david bromley

 food is for playing, and watching newspaper being blown around the courtyard

 discovering taps and water, climbing stairs and tushie naps

 sick naps, twins with mama, sushi monster

 beach days  and babychino moustaches

 the wonderful world of walking

babychinos, train love and eating dirt...

walking!...in blairgowrie

Yet another wonderful weekend spent in Blairgowrie. Lots of beach walks and breakfasts out. Atti revelled in being able to explore the garden on 2 feet and would have been happy to spend all his waking hours digging in the dirt, trying to catch bugs, sticking his fingers into every nook and cranny, chasing the dogs and generally getting up to mishcief.