Amie Warrior Princess

Hello all.
Well Amie is definitely becoming as battle scarred as they come. In the last two weeks she has been beating herself up like you wouldn’t believe. To start it off we took her to a birthday party the other night & somehow she tripped over at the bottom of the driveway and smacked her nose on the concrete. Well the screaming, blood & snot that followed was incredible, the poor thing screamed for about 30 mins & I was about 5 seconds away from throwing her into the car & screaming up to the A&E. For about a week after she had a nice bruise across the top of her nose. Then this morning as I was getting ready to go to work she tripped on a bag that she was carrying and went face first into our front door. I scooped her up and then as I pulled her away from my chest to try and calm her down I saw the blood coming out of her nose & pooling in her mouth. She had managed to give her self a blood nose & stick her nice new teeth into her top lip.  Now tonight as I was trying to get the lawns mowed before it got too dark she fell over and skinned her knee on the concrete. We are currently thinking of getting her a hockey mask complete with elbow & knee pads. The funny thing is that I freaked out more regarding Amie & all the blood than Becky did.

We have done some work around the house in the last week as well. Thanks to Dad Guptill we put in a new ranch slider and window in Amies room. This now completes the windows in our little house. My brother Robert is a builder so we have arranged for him to build us a new deck as our old one was too small and dangerously rotten. I got all enthused & tore it down on the weekend. Apart from standing on a nail and sticking my foot to the floor it was relatively pain free. I even got to burn it all at the end….it was great.

So apart from all of the above life has been normal. Amie as you will see in a sec is growing like crazy, work is busy & Becky is wearing her self out by working too much.
Rebecca had the 20 week scan the other day. Apparently everything is fine and where it should be. I haven’t seen the footage yet as they recorded it to a VHS tape. Who in the blue blazes has a VCR these days? I’m going to have to find one & run it through a HDD recorder or something. I’ll upload a pic or two when I get round to scanning them.
Timmy is coming home tomorrow so it’s going to be a 4.15am wake up, well that is if we actually sleep. Becky is so excited, it reminds me of being a kid & counting down the sleeps leading up to Christmas.
Well here are a few pics of things that have gone down since the last post.

I got snapped giving her driving lessons

Trying to find her belly button

Man I love those big brown eyes (Also note the dried blood up her nose that she won’t let us clean & the fat lip)

Yumm

Dad preparing for the new window in Amies room

Thats a big hole in my lounge

As you can see… hard at work

Notice the nice blue sky??

As you can tell by the glasses, shes a book worm

Breakfast time

Party time

We are still alive!

It may not have seemed that way since it’s so long since we’ve done a blog – life has been pretty uneventful in the last month or so.
I am now 15 weeks along. I had a scan at 10 weeks to confirm my due date and it’s 9th February – and there was a heatbeat – so that’s always a good sign
Katie & Wai’s wedding is fast approaching. I am getting really excited for them. I am still losing weight too – so that’s an added bonus – Bridesmaid beside a size 8 & 10 – scary!!!
Amie is into everything and lets us know when she’s not happy about something.
Here are a few pics:

10 week scan of Baby Haworth #2. Head is on the left.

This one’s for you Uncle Tim

After running into something – can’t remember what ?!?

Amie with ‘dolly’, she gets taken almost everywhere at the moment

Amie playing with Macy

Surprise!! & happy birthday

Hello all.
Well last week Rebecca turned 25. Yep, that’s a 1/4 of a century. She can no longer rub it in that I’m so old as shes now in the same tick box as me when ever she fills out any forms.
Not only is Becky old, she’s pregnant. Yes you read correctly…Pregnant. Some time in early Feb Amie is going to get a little brother or sister. We are really excited, Amie has no clue but I’m sure she would love a little brother. Either that or I would love a son. I’d be happy with either really.
Apart from the above nothing too much has been happening so I’ll leave you all with a couple of photos.

Happy Birthday Rebecca   

Just thought we would take a photo of ourselves

 

We miss you Uncle Tim

HM Rage

Hello again. Well better late then never.
Over Queens birthday weekend we all went down to HM Rage at Matamata to lend a hand. It’s a camp that Becky & I have been going to for many years. In fact we were both going there before we even knew each other. Anyway it was a great weekend & we all including Amie had a blast. We managed to hang out with great friends & I even managed to catch up with a few that I hadn’t seen for years.
As for normal life, well it’s ….. normal. I’m working and Rebecca is also working(too hard if you ask me). Amie is a crack up. She now has 2 more teeth on the bottom and is getting faster on her feet every day. Tonight we took her to the mall for dinner and she loved running all round the place, nice big wide open spaces and colours to look at. She even discovered a ride on car that you put $2 into. Well we didn’t have the $2 but she loved it and started to get really upset when we decided that she had had enough.
Here are some photos for your enjoyment.

We brought Amie some chairs and she loves to sit on them & read

She also loves to help with the Vacuuming

Amie has her own tree!

We have been incredibly slack at taking pics of Amie lately. So over the last week she has had a whole lot taken!
On Saturday we went to a tree planting day. Our local council run them to get babies along to have a tree planted on behalf of them, then they get a certificate say that they are a ‘valued member of our city’. So Amie got a Kahikatea, which grows as wide as a Kauri but taller – or so we were told.

This coming weekend we are heading down to Matamata for HM Rage. So it will be Amie’s first camp.

Here are some recent pics:

Amie’s First Birthday Party!

How time flies! Yesterday we had Amie’s first birthday party. It was lots of fun. And she seemed to have a really good time. I was surprised how quickly it was all over though! I guess kids do have a shorter attention span. Amie was very spoilt! (What’s new!)

We also said bye to Tim again. He’s back off to the USA for about 7 months this time. So Amie will well and truly be running by the time he gets back.

Here’s some pics:

Amie in her sandpit

With Poppa and Stephen Hill (cousin from USA)

We are sad that Tim is leaving

We are happy Tim is leaving???!!!

Tim with Grandma and Grandad Rae

Tim and Amie’s last snuggly cuddle

The boys: Dad, Wai, James, Tim

Amie’s cake – it took 3 hours!

Singing happy birthday

Julia and Amie

Kayla & Katie partying!

She’s walking!

We just realised James forgot to mention that Amie is walking – well pretty much anyway! She regularly walks halfway across the lounge and then starts trying to run, so falls over and decides it’s faster to crawl!

Easter Holidays!!

As usual I have been super slack in doing another blog. It’s been almost 3 months, people are even asking me when this one is coming.
This Easter Becky & I thought we would join my parents & take Amie to Sydney with them for Easter. So we packed our bags, including Amie’s pink suit case and jumped on a plane to Sydney. We stayed with some family friends over there in the suburb of Panania, which I think is South West Sydney. Becky wanted to hit all the shops so on various days we caught the train into town and walked about the place. I have to admit that their rail system is very efficient, Auckland could learn a lot from it.
We took Amie to the Zoo and the Aquarium in Darling Harbour & from what we could tell she had a great time.
My Dad hired a large 7 seater wagon and we all piled into it and headed up the line to a little town called Mudgee. It was quite a cool little town and didn’t take long to navigate though it’s entirity. The next day via a local vineyard we all headed to a town called Gulgong and visited a Museum thats showed off everything old about Gulgong. It was actually really interesting.
After this Becky & I decided that we would like to go out on our own for an evening so after getting back to Sydney we traded the wagon for a smaller car and headed down to Wollongong. I had splashed out and hired a GPS for the trip and fell in love with it. This thing was amazing. Anyway after spending a night there at the advice of the Thorpes we headed further inland to a little town called Berry for a pie. Becky actaully thought the pie was the best she had ever eaten.
On the way home Becky decided that she wanted to visit Miranda Fair which is this huge mall near Cronulla, so with the help of my best friend (GPS) we made our way to the mall and then on to IKea at Homebush.
Anway I’m most likely boring you now with our holiday so I’ll leave it here. I’ll post some photos for those who are interested or not friends with me on facebook.

In two weeks Amie turns 1. I’m actually struggling to see where the last year has gone. Becky is throwing Amie a party & brunch at her Mum & Dad’s place with a fairy theme. & No I’m not dressing up as a fairy.
Well I’m running out of things to say so I’ll get to the photos.

We cruised past the Opera House on a beautiful day on the way to Manly Beach

Amie playing in the sand at Manly Beach

The view from Circular Quay Train Station

I came across this little bad boy in the back yard where we were staying

Man Aussie is full of things that creep me out!!

The 3 sisters in the Blue Moutains

Becky at the Museum in Gulgong. It’s an actual bakery that’s over 150 years old.

Amie giving Ken a cuddle

Amie playing with Margaret

Amie attempting to play with the penguins

Some nasty looking shark

Cronulla Beach, we loved the place

More of Cronulla Beach

Man I want a snake sooo bad!!

Amie fell in love with the Bilbys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilby)

& Becky with this guy??

She discovered Easter eggs

At Taronga Park Zoo

& again

This mean machine had just eaten a whole pig!!

I have no idea what this is but he looks wicked

This is the Emirates plane that we flew home in

We thought we would let her try and feed her self

Cheeky

She is her fathers daughter… uummm coffee

9 months old

It’s hard to believe that in a couple of days we will have a 9 month old baby – man does time fly!

A lot has happened since our last blog. Amie had more playdates with Charlotte, Amie had her first swim in the sea. There was Christmas – Amie learnt to crawl (at last!) on Christmas day, then we went away to the South Island for 10 days, then to Mt Maunganui for a week. And now Amie is spending her days with Grandma H, cause I am working for a few weeks at my old job while they are in-between staff.

She loves brushing her teeth!

Amie’s first swim at the beach – just before Christmas

First present on Christmas morning, at home

Poppa aka Santa

Trying out her new car

Even Macy got a present

Nana G & Amie re-fueling

Overwhelmed by all the pressies!

She’s still young enough for us to be able to open them!!!

All that present opening is hard work

With Charlotte on Boxing Day – the last time they’ll see each other for possibly 18 months

Bluff

Checking out the view in Queenstown

With Matt at Benmore Dam

Puzzling world in Wanaka

James & Amie relieving themselves at Shantytown

Cuddles with Penguins in Oamaru

Moeraki Boulders

Cadbury World – best day of my life (except getting married, having Amie etc etc)

A statue we stumbled across up Mt Maunganui!

Almost Christmas!

It’s less than one month till Christmas now. I am sooo excited – Amie’s first Christmas!
We put up the tree a couple of days ago and put all the presents out yesterday. James thinks I am crazy for doing it so early, but I couldn’t wait any longer. One side of the tree is all Amie’s presents and the other side is everyone elses!

Last Wednesday Amie had Plunket. She is now 71cm long and 8.04kgs.

Miriam & Charlotte came to stay for a couple of days earlier in the week. Amie decided she was top of the pecking order and starting beating Charlotte up! Didn’t last too long though – Charlotte starting fighting back! But now they are great friends.

Here are some recent pics:

Amie having fun at Western Springs

Hanging with Gran

With Uncle Rob at Uncle Will’s farewell dinner

Saying goodbye to Uncle Will

Deciding whether or not to take up rugby

Amie with her 2nd cousin Heidi

Amie’s first swim in the big cold pool at Mum & Dads

Hanging with Uncle Timmy

Almost crawling

Chillin’ with Sara

Playing nicely with Charlotte…

Then the violence starts!