We're moving ... and so is the blog!

Since I just ran out of space on this blog and since we'll be moving back to England in less than 3 weeks ... Our new blog site is called thepeacockfamilyengland

Here is our new blog URL:

http://thepeacockfamilyengland.blogspot.com

Please change it in your favourites if you want to keep up with photos of James and Rebekah!

Hand update

For those of you who haven't heard we had a bit of an incident with James on Saturday morning. He managed to grab a cup of boiling hot tea and so we took him to the ER. He has second degree burns on his right hand and a little bit on his chest.

We took him to the doctor yesterday for a follow-up appointment and they said that although the blisters look really bad right now they are actually looking good for a full and complete recovery. We have special burn cream to put on and need to change the bandage every day. We go back in one week. Although he gets upset when we change his "special glove" (as he calls it) it doesn't seem to bother him at all when the bandage is on.

It's not slowing him down or stopping him from doing anything - in fact I think he's teaching himself to be ambidextrous! Stickers are a bit tricky but he does them anyway! We have to be really careful that it doesn't get infected so we're keeping him inside (away from the dirt!) for a few days.

I've just exceeded my photo quota on the blog so no photos right now - hopefully will sort this out in the next day or two!

No further comment needed ...

A trip to the local park

"Ok, Rebekah I'm going to play ... see you later!!!"

"Hey, where did everyone go?!!"

"And why do I have to be strapped in?!"

James looks so big on the swing these days!

James seems to enjoy climbing most at the moment

Apparently being pushed to and from the park is ver tiring ... (never mind Mummy did all the pushing!}

Rebekah enjoying some tummy time!

"[YAWWWWWN] This is hard work ..."

Tummy Time is EXHAUSTING ...

Rebekah fell asleep after a while and slept for some time ...
she definitely likes to be on her tummy.

Teeny tiny feet!

Being soothed by the sounds of the rain forest ...

The other day I put Rebekah in James' crib for a minute while I did something in his room. She was crying when I put her down so James put his hands through the bars of the crib and turned on the rain forest musical thing for her! It was really sweet and kind of funny because he hasn't used that himself for months and months and it's the first time I've seen him turn it on for ages. It calmed her down though - what a great big brother!

Just like her brother ...

She looks so much like James as a baby in this picture - I had to double-check it was really Rebekah!

What a cool dude ...

Wearing jeans for the fiirst time

Although Rebekah always looks pretty in her dresses I think she looked really stylish in her jeans too. They're still a bit too big really but I took advantage of a slightly cooler morning and dressed her in them and the really pretty pink cardigan Grandma had made for her!

Double trouble in the double strolelr!

Today I took James and Rebekah out for a walk to the Hub in the double stroller for the first time. Although Rebekah is crying in this photo she soon fell asleep. It seemed to work out ok on the wide American sidewalks ... not sure how easy it will be to negotiate on narrow, wiggly English pavements though! ;0)

Rebekah woke up when we were walking back and seemed to enjoy the ride. It's going to be nice to get out and about with both of them. Thank you, Caryn for giving us the doube-stroller! ;0)

Playing with Kelli and Alyce

Last night we took our A/C unit over to our friend from church Christy's apartment and she invited us for a BBQ. The Joel family were there too and so we had a fun evening with everyone. Alyce has grown so much and was crawling all over the place. She was really interested in Rebekah and I managed to get this sweet photo of the two of them!

James had great fun rolling around on the grass with Kelli!

Upside down!

Happy Birthday, Josh!

James was invited to his friend, Josh's 3rd birthday party yesterday. It had a golf theme and James had lots of fun playing and eating with his friends. Josh lives just down the street and so we didn't have to go far! Thanks for inviting us, Josh - we had a great time!

Sitting in the shade eating pizza (James didn't stop eating the whole time we were at the party!)

From left to right: James, Max, Erin, Jasmin, Cynthia, Christopher and another little girl who we didn't know!

A cute picture of James and Max from behind!

James had a go on the bounce house/castle (once he finally climbed up!) but kept saying it was "Hot! Hot!" even though it really wasn't ...I think he must have sensitive feet like his Mummy!

James had fun playing in the cardboard castle.

Shooting some hoops ...

ANOTHER passport!

Move over Jason Bourne of The Bourne Identity movies ... Rebekah has almost as many passports as he does - and she's not even a spy! Her British passport arrived yesterday [see below] and her American one arrived today.

By the way, do you like the attitude in this photo?!

This one even has a scary picture of a bird inside!

Another attempt at a brother/sister photo ...

Big brother makes his little sister smile!

Rebekah always looks so serious but this morning she smiled for Daddy and today when we were doing this photo shoot James made her smile and I just managed to capture it in a picture! He was touching her nose and I was just telling him to be gentle when Rebekah broke into a great big grin! It was definitely a reactionary smile rather than just gas/wind!

James wanted to take a photo of Rebekah so I let him ... He already seems to know about the "Golden Point" of compostion!! ;0)

Princess Rebekah sitting on her throne?

James let Rebekah sit in his "Towmater" chair today.
She actually seemed to really like it - she definitely likes to see what's going on!

"Oyyy! Hands off my teddy bear!!!"

I don't think she was really waving her fist at James ... she just really likes this teddy bear that Auntie Caroline sent for her.

"Ewwwwwww!! I don't want to be kissed by a boy!!!"

When James gives someone a *kiss* he doesn't actually use his lips ... he just leans in to allow the other person to do the kissing bit!! Rebekah doesn't look too happy about it in this photo ...

The passport arrived!

I know Rebekah doesn't look too happy in these photos but we are VERY happy that her British passport arrived yesterday!! This means we can take her with us when we move back to England in a month ... ;0)

Alligator/Car garage ...

The other day when Max came to play we built the 3D aligator puzzle. Later that day James decided to use it as a car garage instead! It was really funny watching him drive all the cars into their own parking space. You can really see his imagination starting to develop more these days.