Birthday month

December, christmas and Sequoia's first birthday - what a big month.

Sequoia's birthday was celebratated with a little party of family and mother's group friends. It was so good to reach one year - it has been such a hard year and with so many changes, Sequoia had such a rough beginning that it is so lovely to look at her now and see such a well, thriving baby - who now has teeth, and can crawl!!







Her celebration was a morning tea, and cupcakes - due to her egg allergy she had a piece of soft bread with icing - and was a very happy baby as it was her first taste of sugar!




Jessi came up for the weekend before her birthday and we had a lovely time all playing together.





The kids cousins, twins Christian and Alexander came for the little party had fun playing with Jasper and with Sequoia. (Jasper's old music machine/one man band - his first birthday present all that time ago from mother's group -is still a huge hit with the kids and especially with his little sister.



The next day Juliana and Daniella, Zoran's nieces came up to say happy birthday and have a play, while Trene (Zoran's brother) helped Zoran fit a huge steel support on the front balcony. The all had a ball with dress ups.



We have also been working on the driveway - we hoped to have it done before Sequoia's birthday but we have had a very cold wet summer and the concrete pour was held up 6 weeks due to rain!!



Here is the final earthworks.



We hired a roller mauch to Jasper's delight, which Zoran fearlessly drove up and down (over and over) the driveway cutting to compress the soil - a mix of pockets of sand and clay.



Jasper loved his chance to be up high in the roller which was four times his size!

Txx