http://ianandgarb.com Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:11:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en They are growing up so quickly! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wb0qBq4sbU[/youtube] http://ianandgarb.com/?p=802 Yesterday we were Day 2 into toilet training Charlie and all in all she was doing okay.  She had the odd accident but 50% of the time she did remember to tell me, however she came in from outside to tell me she was wet.  So I told her to ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=800 I took the kids to the little local park yesterday .. Charlie has definitely inherited her parents tenacity when taking on tasks as she does not give up easily.  Meanwhile, Jonny thinks now that he can walk he can do everything Charlie can - bless him. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndM-gYWReTA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QV2ahcm1U[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLC1G4HNnjQ[/youtube] http://ianandgarb.com/?p=798 Well we are in week 4 of Ian working up in the ReachLocal Manchester office and only being home on the weekends!  So far so good, I've only had to resort to alcohol once however I am pretty brain dead by about 6.30pm after I've put the kids to bed.   ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=794 More pics of the kids, taken in Wellington and on Bondi Beach! We spent the day shopping at Otaki and then went down to the beach .. it was a little chilly and blowing quite a bit but that didn't stop the curly girl from wanting to go down to the ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=787 Its been a few months in the making, starting with an impressive commando crawl which turned into crawling on all fours while we were in NZ to cruising furniture, to walking with the aid of Mum or Dad and today he stood up and walked all on his own with ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=780 A couple of family pictures taken at Charlotte's (Ian's cousin) 18th birthday party in late May.  Given Sue and Ian's (Charlotte's parents) sense of humor there were a number of child/adult games played .. it was all very entertaining and I must admit I enjoyed trying to cut one square ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=775 I had to take these as I had never seen anything like it .. but given the kiwi culture for doing the unusual and in some cases insane, I shouldn't have been surprised!  Any one for walking on water with the aid of a clear bubble :) The family out and ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=771 Sorry its taken me so long to get around to posting this update, time has flown since we returned to the UK. The flight home was pretty average with 51 hours of traveling from our door in Wellington to our door here!  The kids were pretty good and I take my ... http://ianandgarb.com/?p=752 Its been two years today since we landed in the UK.  A small mile stone conquered and now on to the next two years - see you all again real soon :) http://ianandgarb.com/?p=749