Zara meets Samuel

Today Zara and baby Samuel got to have their first "official" introduction....

Shaun put Samuel next to Zara on her play mat, as you can imagine at 2 weeks old, little Samuel was completely oblivious to her, but soon enough she realised that her toes were not quite as fascinating as her little "boyfriend". At one point she even wanted to take his dummy from him, but Chris was too quick and we'll never know if she actually would have managed to grab it or not.

We are so looking forward to watching little Samuel and Zara grow-up together. They will hopefully share the same bond that Megan & Jason do - practically like brother & sister - at least we know that Zara will have a great protector round her a lot of the time!!!

Fooled you.........

Since we have been back from Durban, Zara's sleeping habits have left much to be desired!!! So I have been trying to keep her a bit more awake in the day in the hopes that this will help her sleep better at night - hmmmm wishful thinking but worth a bash...

Today I had to go to my beautician who is a few blocks from home, so off we went in the pram - Zara loves going walking and had a great time looking about. I had my treatments and then on the way home, I thought the same would apply, but no sooner were we on the road and she had pulled her "dog book" over her face, closed her eyes and drifted of into lala land.....I couldn't resist taking this pics of her - she was so exhausted that even when I picked her up she still wanted to sleep some more.

Swimming with Dad

At last summer has arrived and the pool has heated up enough that even I will get in!!

Today the temp was about 24 degrees so we decided to give Zara a swim with her Daddy - not surprised at all at how much she enjoyed it - they stayed in for about an hour or so....

AHHHH Sweet !

Today we went to Gareth's birthday party at the Lonehill fire station. Zara was pretty oblivious to the fun being had by the older children - sliding down the fireman's pole as well as going for a ride in the fire engine and then spraying each other with the hose....

She did however love seeing her Grandpa and Granny Hilton again!!!

After the party we went back to Mike & Laura for the present opening - wow Gareth - what a lot of great goodies you got!!!

Gareth & Emma were also very taken by their baby cousin and spent quite a while loving and entertaining her....

Johanna came to visit

Since Zara was born, we have been trying to find a suitable time for Johanna to come meet our baby girl. As you will remember, Johanna, worked for Chris & I for the past 10 yrs after Brett & Lara left for London. Unfortunately she could not come to work for us full-time as she has been working for Julie for many more years and is about 2 years away from retirement. Anyways today was the day that we were all available, when she arrived, Zara was asleep but soon enough, with sleep time over, she and Johanna got to meet each other and have a bit of playtime too.