Happy Birthday Ben

To my gorgeous God-son, Ben.

Happy Birthday spunky boy, have a fantastic day.

I love you HEAPS - see you at Christmas time :)

oxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Another precious baby is born

Congratulations to Robyn & Daniel on the safe arival of their precious baby girl - Keeley Shae born at 11am this morning.

Remember - Life is filled with lots of things that make it all worthwhile but none is better than the love found in your baby's smile. Enjoy every moment together as you embark on the wonderful new journey of parenthood :)

Our love, thoughts & prayers are with you always.

Fun in the Sun (well, shade actually....)

These photos were taken of Patrick on Thursday 22nd November 2007 at Al Safa Park while we were having a picnic. He LOVES the outdoors and is here holding his favourite toy. Patrick is 3 and a half months.

I know - we're slack!

Sorry everyone - I know it has been weeks since we have posted anything here. Things have been very busy though (as usual). Let me tell you all what has been happening here with us.

Jodie and Jasmine have been here visiting for two weeks, so we have done heaps of shopping, sight-seeing, eating and just catching up in general. I hadn't seem them since February and of course, they hadn't met Patrick. Jasmine learnt to ski while she was here so she was very proud of herself. We did a road trip (with some other friends) to Fujairah and spent the day at the beach. We spent an afternoon having afternoon tea at Al Qasr hotel and an evening wandering around Souk Madinat Jumeirah admiring the Burj Al Arab by night. Jodie, Jasmine & Cameron did the tour of Jumeirah mosque (Patrick & I stayed home) and then we all went and wandered around the textile, spice and gold souk, before having dinner and touring the Dubai Museum.

We did A LOT of things in the time that they were here and were sad to see them leave yesterday. We not have 2 and a half weeks at home before flying back to Oz for Christmas!!! We can't wait :)

If anyone is interested in seeing the photos of everything we did while the girls were here on holidays, follow the facebook links on the right hand side of this page to "Out & About in the UAE - Albums 1 & 2"

Time flies when ya havin' fun!

We CANNOT believe that our baby will be 3 months old on Saturday! He is already 12 and a half weeks and is growing so big and strong so quickly. He is starting to try and roll over (not that he has managed it on his own yet) and he loves to stand and sit - while we are holding him of course. He was 5.095kgs on the 20th October when he had his last lot of immunisations and I am predicting that he will be in clothes the next size up by the end of the month or very early into December. Lucky we went shopping for them on the weekend!!! These photos were taken today while we were at Sema's house for lunch. Patrick is 12 weeks and 4 days :)