A Busy Day

Alasdair had a very busy day yesterday. He started in the morning at William's birthday party. Things needed to be dug:

Then in the afternoon a little bit of swinging was in order, all, of course, while looking super cool:

Then it was time to jump into the pool:

And of course, put all that swimming training to good use:

And of course, there's always time to beat Daddy up:

Christmas Trip

Here are some pics from our wee trip back to the UK over Christmas and New Year.

San Diego Slideshow

Here's a slideshow of our pics from San Diego. As ever, there are bigger versions over at the Picasa site:



Grandparents (or others), let me know if you want a copy of any of them and I'll be happy to oblige with the full size version.

Japanese Garden

Recently the 3 of us went for a walk round Houston's Hermann Park. We'd being intending to visit the Body Works exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science, but it was rammed with people. We took a stroll around the reflecting pool instead and came across the Japanese Garden. I knew it existed, and had even been in before, but could never remember where it was exactly. I had wandered around the park looking for it before (because using Google would be cheating), and was beginning to think I'd imagined the place. Anyway, now we know. It's a lovely, peaceful place and I look forward to going back in the summer when everything's in bloom.

 

 

 

 

Renaissance

We went up to the Renaissance Festival last weekend, it was a lot of fun. Alasdair was so cute and charming that he attracted lots of attention.

In the end we had to disguise him with some cool shades. The day was really sunny and he found it hilarious every time I put these on him. I'll have to get him a pair of his own so I don't lose mine forever.

I also got to have a go on a bungee trampoline thing. It was great, despite the large amounts of greasy deep fried food consumed earlier in the day.

Friday night a couple of the families on the street hosted their annual Halloween party. Here's a bonus photo of two very scary characters...

New Clothes

Alasdair is now big enough to fit into some of the cool clothes various nice people sent. First up there's this cracker from Stephen and Louisa:

Mine too buddy, mine too.

Then there's this fantastic exercise in territory claiming by Innes and Susie, as exhibited at Kelly's first birthday party today:

Yep, that's a full Scotland strip. Nice. Let's see that in close up:

Mummy claims she doesn't mind, but she's also telling me she's buying an England rugby shirt when she's at home in November...let the arms race begin. Speaking of Mummy, apart from the fly away hair, she's happy enough with this pic to let me post it:

Shopping List

I don't do shopping lists very often, but when I do, they're pretty intriguing:

And yes, my handwriting is still that bad.

Going Posh

Better late than never...

The official photo from the Schlumberger Christmas party came in. Doesn't it make you feel all festive?