ALL ABOARD

These days I like to take friends with me wherever I go. Big Baby and Little Baby especially like to come for a ride on my bike with me. We have lots of fun getting on and off and zooming along.

GUMBOOTS!

On the weekend we all got a letter from my Great Nana. She said she'd had some visits from Bradley and she wanted to know if I had little gumboots like he does. Bradley is very, very proud of his gumboots. Well, here I am having kicks with the ball in my gummys. I have very little feet and even the very smallest gumboots were too big for a long time but I have been growing and now I fit into these gumboots which my Nana and Grandad got me a long time ago. Gumboots are cool. I ask my Mum to get them for me when I want to go outside. Sometimes after work, Dad will come outside with me and show me how to kick the ball. Yah!!

DOROTHY THE DINOSAUR'S DANCE PARTY

Today Mum and I went to Dorothy the Dinosaur's Dance Party. "Wow!" It was really cool. I got all dressed up in my special dress that Nana bought for me and we went to this big big building with lots and lots and lots of other kids. There was so much to look at. Then Dorothy the Dinosaur and all her friends came out onto the stage. I waved and waved to them. They danced to all the songs from the Wiggles that I know. At first I just sat on mum's knee and watched but by the end I was brave enough to stand up on her knee and do some wiggling too. I said "wow" lots of times. Mum and I both had lots of fun.

I missed my baby though, so when I got home I gave her big cuddles and we watched a bit of the wiggles on TV together while we had some lunch. I am a lucky lady. It's been such an amazing day.

POOH AND I

Pooh Bear is my favourite friend. He sleeps with me and I carry him all around the house with me. I even take him in the car when I can sneak him in. Dad reads him and I stories at night time. we love books. Pooh gets very hungry and thirsty, so I give him something to drink and eat. But most of all I give hime lots and lots of cuddles.

MY GRANDMA

Grandma has been to visit us in our new house. She is wonderful. We read stories together, played with all the toys and got up to all sorts of mischief together. She was a big help for my Mum too because while she was here Mum was able to get rid of lots of the big boxes that were everywhere.

While she was staying we all went to Bluff to check it out. The best part of the day was sharing Grandma's snow freeze and going down the slides!

OUR NEW HOUSE

We have moved into a new house now. It is very cool because it has lots more room than a motel AND when I got here I discovered all of my favourite toys again. We have had lots of sunshine since we have been here, so I have been playing out the backyard too. I especially like to appear from behind the washing to suprise Mum.

This is my new room. It has a big rainbow on the wall which I think is pretty special. I have got my own cot to sleep in now and all of my own pictures on the wall. I like to have all my special friends in bed with me when I sleep too. Sometimes there isn't much room left for me. Nana says my Mum was just like this too.

There is a big ranch slider at the end of the kitchen so that I can ride my bike inside and outside. Fun!

SHELLS, WAVES AND SLIDES

Mum and I are now in Invercargill with Dad. There are lots of places to visit from here so on Saturday we went to Riverton to check it out. It was great fun. I shared a hot chocolate with Mum and got it everywhere but my favourite part of the trip was collecting shells and running into the water. Dad showed me the shells in the sand and then I got very busy finding them all and bringing them to Mum and Dad. Dad also got to spend lots of time running after me before I got all wet in the waves. The waves are heaps of fun.

When Mum and Dad said I was finished in the sand I had a swing with Dad and a slide with Mum. Yah! We had a lovely day.

CAN I SWIM TOO?

Nana and Mum took me to feed the ducks for the first time. Grandad spotted us there and stopped to visit too. The ducks weren't very hungry though - Nana says that in the winter time the park people feed them. I thought they were really cool and very lucky because I SO wanted to swim in the water with them. One of the ducks even had lots of gorgeous little babies.

When we were finished we went to play on the playground. I love going on the swings and down the slide. I must take after my Nana because she likes to go on all the rides like this too.