Keeping busy every day ....

Ever the busy little man, he's constantly on the move ...



Almost looking for trouble sometimes based on the faces he pulls. He now very clearly points, talks or yells at things and you can just tell he thinks he is making so much sense to us. He's very keen for us to acknowledge what he points out, regardless of how everyday it is.



Her he is carrying the Xmas wrapping paper to his favourite hiding spot to inspect ... behind the change table.



Here he is helping himself to a shallot out of the fridge

Budding photographer

Aston took these photo's



Clever isn't he!

Smile for the Camera

When I took these photo's of Aston during the week, I said to him, give me a big smile for the camera, and these are the faces he pulled.



I think he definately gets the camera thing now ... let's face it how could he not, we have thousands of photo's of him.

At the beach

You wouldn't know it's summer based on these photo's but we took Aston to the beach on the Central coast and as always he loved it. Especially the waves. He had his eye on a spot way out in the water which he was desperate to head for. Of course we didn't let him.



You will notice in these photo's the need to restrain him from diving in constantly.



The water was freezing ....



And No Raylee we didn't get his trousers wet, ok may just the very end of them but for the most part he remained dry.

Helping with the shopping

Sorry about now posts in last few weeks, we headed to our good friend Christina's birthday on the Central Coast last Saturday, which was a full day out and then Sunday got away from us.

Here is Aston on Sunday morning helping to unpack the shopping. He loves his wholemeal bread.



He was also very good on the 1.5 hr drive up the coast sleeping for 1 hour on the way there, with ony a few minutes of crying and sleeping almost the entire way home. Which unfortunately for us resulting in him not going to sleep until 10pm on Saturday night. A long day for Rob and I for sure.

More nude pictures in the play pool/bath

This picture really makes me laugh.

Climbing into small spaces

He loves finding nooks and cranny's to climb into or sit in.



This one is his favourite at the moment.

Enjoying a splash in the hot Sydney Weather

We've had many 30 plus days in Sydney in the past few weeks. Very hot in our apartment with the sun beating down so around 3pm in the afternoon I take Aston's blow up bath onto the balcony and let his splash around in the water.



Sporting yet another hat with chin strap in the hope he can't get it off as easily Aston REALLY enjoys playing with the containers in teh water.



We use the back corner of the balcony as that's the first place to loose the sun, but as one of his favourite things is to climb out and run up and down the balcony then climb back in, I had him in a long sleeve shirt to protect his beautiful skin from the sun.



As you can see in these pics he really enjoys himself

Hanging out with the 2nd Cousins

And stealing the dummy from Ryan.



Until he spied the gift ribbon.

A walk in the park with his Aust Granddad

Here's Aston enjoying a walk in the park with his Australian Granddad. After a busy and social lunch he really enjoyed walking off his food. Note Hat ON in this photo.



We have an exact similar photo to the one above with Baz and Matthew when he was a little older, taken at Vaucluse I think, though both were in the height of Sydney Fashion 70's style swimwear and neither were wearing hats.



How things have changed.

Enjoying the beach

Watson's Bay is a harbour beach and we also took him for a little sun, sand and surf while we were there ... you will note the hat is OFF in these photots.



A lovely mother at playgroup gave me the tip to actually rub sun cream into his scalp and hair and just wash his hair each night as her little boy also doesn't really tolerate the hat too well either. A tip we are going to try....



If only we could remember to buy the sun cream

A day with the family

Today we met Amanda and Trevor, Rachel, the girls and Ryan, Kerrie & Ray, Matt, Lisa, Petrina, Meggie and Matt down at Watson's Bay for a fish and chip lunch to celebrate all the november birthday's.



We think Aston looks like he's hanging out in Tuscany not the down town harbour beaches of Sydney.



He had a wonderful lunch of cheese on cruskit, mango, orange, grapes and lychee's (a new fruit he truly loves). Then he helped himself to a number of french fries from my plate and we gave him a little white fish as well. So all in all a balanced and wonderful Sunday lunch, very Sydney style.



We also tried a range of hats on the little muffin to help him get used to wearing something on his head.