Sorry its been so long...

Ok, I know ive been slack about posting. its been real flatout lately and ive got out of the habit. But no excuses, back into it now.
First of all I had better bring everybody up to date (for those of you who know what been going on, please bear with me)
Weelllll.... to start with back in september, we went down to gisbourne to stay with Nana (Lorraine) and Grandad (Trevor). On the way down we spent a night in Tauranga. then met a lady and her girl in the morning that we had been chatting too on the internet from when we were due at the same time. was good to finally put faces to names.
Down at gisbourne, John was roped into helping to build the deck with all the boys (ness , nigel, emily and scott were all also staying)
Was really good having the cousins together (Emily and Ethan) although Emily did start to get a little put out when Ethan was getting cuddles from Nana.
Ok, enough of that trip... got lots to get through,
Next trip was Mum and I (and Ethan) down to Paeroa, Tauranga, Katikati, and Hamilton.
bit of a tikitour midweek around visiting friends and family. We took Ethan down to meet his Great Grandparents who thought he was wonderful, and Grandma Eades loved having cuddles.
The weekend after that trip was 4wdriving at Poutu (near dargaville) with the landrover club.
This was Ethan 2nd time 4wdriving and he seemed to enjoy it. We shared a cabin with Grandad (brian) and a friend Andrew,
The latest Trip was just this last weekend down to Napier for a friends wedding. We stayed hwith a friend whos little boy is 11 days younger than Ethan. Was really neat having the 2 boys together as they are just getting to the age where they are really starting to notice each other.
The wedding was really lovely and some mutual friends (Tori, this is you guys) were also up for it, so the night befor the wedding we went and caught up with them and stuffed ourselves silly on chinese food at their motel...
On the way home on the sunday we stopped at Taupo and Nana and Grandad were up form the weekend so had lunch with them, then onto huntly where we visited a frind with a week old baby girl. It really made it obvious how much my little baby boy had grown... hes not a little baby anymore hes a little boy.
Sorry theres no photos at the momoent as im at work (yes, work.... im back at roverland just once a month doing saturday recption, today being the first) so i will post some photos when i get home so do keep and eye out.
Oh and other things you would like to know about... Ethan is now rolling all over the place, not quite crawling but definatly trying, hes is also on solids and loves his banana. Can drink out of a sipper cup by himself. And not far off teeth coming through if the dribbling/rosy cheeks are anything too go by.
Hes got a really lovely giggle and still just the happiest wee boy though.
Ive also joined the plunket commitee as well as running the local plunket coffee group. and as its been their annual appeal week, ive been pretty busy with the door to door collections etc as ive been dropping stuff off to collectors, counting etc as well as doing my collection runs too.
And I now also babysit a friends 4 years old daughter every friday. So as i say pretty hectic round here, but Im loving being a mum...