Spring Update

Well its been a while so I thought I'd better update the blog. 

Its been busy around here lately.

First a couple of photos of Lexie and Josh's first fondue.  We spontaneously decided one night to have a chese fondue which was a hit with all.  Yep thats fondue leaking out of Joshs mouth.

A couple of days later was my birthday which we celebrated - how else  - by going to the mexican restaurant - mmmmm.  Lexie has her candle blowing technique down now and was very helpful.

Then we had our first visitors arrive - Margot and David. Lexie and Josh loved getting to know their granparents better, Josh really took a liking to David - especially his singing! 

They were only here for a week so just spend time getting to know the kids and relaxing after their big trip through Protugal and Italy.

We then had 4 days afer David and Margot left before Grandma and Grandpa arrived.  And what was the first thing they did when they got here - why went to Bob's for breakfast of course.

After a couple of days getting over jet lag we got out and about a bit.

We took a drive out to Connecticut - there's supposably a scenic drive just near the Massachusetts border which we wanted to do - well the drive was a bit dissapointing but we did find a nice park on the lake for morning tea and lunch. 

And it had a fantastic slipery dip going down the side of the hill - Both Lexie and Josh got a kick out of going down that (so did mummy and grandma).

We checked out the local wildlife sanctuary as well as a number of local parks.

and also took the train up into Boston one day and walked around the north end.  Lexie had the best time on the train - spent the entire trip looking out the window and going whoo whoo (her name for train)  and we haven't been able to drive past the railway station since without  asking for another trip.

A trip out to Worchester to the Ecotarium was another fun day for Lexie, though we were all a bit disapointed that the polar bear wouldn't come out to play!

Mum and Dad then left to explore Spain and Ireland and it was up to us to entertain ourselves again for a while.  Our first trip was to one of the local fire stations where Lexie and Josh both got to sit in the fire engine

and Lexie got a chance to play with the fire hose.

A fun time was had by all - and since it was a 30deg day that day we ended up at the local zoo where they have a splash pad for the kids and both Lexie and Josh had a great time playing in the water.

In amongst all this Josh has gotten his first tooth -  and hos second is just about through and then just two days ago he finally got the crawling thing down pat.  He's starting to get really mobile now - can even manage to get up the little step between the play room and the dining room.  And then tonight he managed to pull himself up to standing by himself for the first time.  I don't know if the fact that he did it in the bath makes it easier or harder but I was definitely impressed.