Happy New Year from Napier
Yes, Napier: gateway to Hawke’s Bay Wine Country, art deco capital of New Zealand, and the largest crossbred wool centre in the Southern Hemisphere. :) It’s really a very nice little town by the sea, and we have been enjoying our stay in Jenny and Tim’s house this last week. It’s very quiet and peaceful - mostly. Davey and partner-in-crime Hamish Redmore have, between the two of them, enjoyed informing all of Hawke’s Bay that they have in fact arrived.
To be fair to them both, they’ve been a bit sick with colds and the most impressive runny noses I have ever seen! Davey has had a great time though - going to the Botannical gardens and chasing all the doves; going to the sunken gardens and chasing all the sparrows; going to Marineland and chasing all the seals; going to mini-golf and chasing his golfball around…you get the idea.
The other person he spent some time chasing was Michelle. She and Gabriel joined us down here for a few days around New Year’s and that was great. Except, Davey has something bordering on a crush for Michelle - “Shell sit here?”, “me tuddle Shell?”, “where Shell doe-ing?” - and was quite sad to see them leave. But a few iceblocks and lollies and he was back on form and ready for more chasing.
Hamish seems content to sit and watch everything David does. Unfortunately, he hasn’t taken to copying David’s more civilised habits yet - such as sleeping regularly - and has subsequently had a slightly less enjoyable time, given that he seems to be suffering some sort of carlag from the journey down from Auckland and hasn’t really settled. This has meant that Dave and Kath have had little to no sleep and that usually isn’t a good thing when you’re trying to relax. So, they’ve headed back to Auckland this afternoon, leaving us here to have a few more days of beautiful sunny weather and holidaying before we head back up ourselves.
I have made a New Year’s resolution to publish more photos of the munchkin and our other happenings in ‘09. So look for a deluge soon! 
Merry Tismiss!
The house has been ringing out with that cry most of this week - “Merry Tismiss hairybodies!” (”Merry Christmas everybody”) - and also with his other favourite: “Happy burday Jessuss!” (you can guess on that one, right? 
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Yes, Christmas has been and gone for 2008 and David, quite frankly, had a ball! :) From Christmas morning where Santa brought him tickets to the Wiggles concert next year, to breakfast at Nana and Granddad’s with lots of yummy food and more presents, to lunch with Nanny and Poppa and more presents and more yummy food, to the extended family Christmas dinner at Great Aunt Julie’s house for even more food and pressies - what a day! :) We rather cleverly went to (a very packed) Vigil Mass on Christmas Eve which was where he was singing his “Happy Birthday Jesus” song at full volume during Communion. Very cute!
All in all, a great Christmas. Now we’re heading down to Napier for a few days where we are staying at Jenny (friend of Christie) and Tim’s house - thanks guys! We’ll spend New Year’s there with Kath and Dave and Hamish and also Gabriel and Michelle so that should be great fun. Davey is looking forward to it, but I don’t know how he’ll handle the 5/6 hours in the car!
So, belated Happy Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!!!
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