Merry Season...Christmas is almost here!

My last blog post was Duncan's 9month......I wrote all about it and somehow it just disappeared and I just didn't have the time to rewrite it all again.  Now we are in December and leaving for the beach in 5 days time so there will be SO much to catch up on when we get back in January...

• Duncan's first time to the beach
• Cathrine's Wedding
• Moniques birthday
• Duncan 10months milestones
• Christmas
• Grant's 2nd birthday

So just a quick catch up
 Duncan has 2 bottom teeth now....no more are coming...YET.....I think those 2 bottom teeth are just the cutest thing I've ever seen and he now munches on all sorts of crunchy fruit, especially LOVES

• Spanspek,....like L.O.V.E.S spanspek and watermelon
• strawberries...but only if they are sweet
• Cherries....I take the pips out of course
• apples
• not too fond of bananas but will munch on it
• tomatoes especially sweet baby tomatoes    
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 Dad thought it would be fun to pour water over your head....it was!  Duncan laughed his head off

 First ice-cream ever.  A berry blaze lolly.  Devoured!  Never seen such blue little fingers clinging onto an ice cold ice-cream for dear life!

 What's going on here?  Looks like fun. 

oooo what are these?  cherries? strawberries?  I'll pick one anyway

 rock hard!  Can't get a bite!  What's going on?

 I'll just swallow it whole

 Slippery!  It keeps popping out!   What is this nonsense.  I can't focus on my photoshoot anymore

 Ok let me lick it then...

 Ok mum...now I see.... this is so much fun!

 Take the photo quick cause this hat aint made for my big head .... (Mom had to cut a slit in it to fit)

 How much more crap do you wanna add?  This silver thing is irritating me...take the photo quick!

 That's it ..I've had enough....

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9 months in ....9 months out

and 2 bottom teeth have cut through

10 November and 15 November

isiXhosa 101 - practicing "the click"

Living in the Eastern Cape - and can't see myself living anywhere else....becoming part of this unique crowd of people and being able to live an enjoyable life here, two things are for sure.
1.  You must be down to earth and
2.  You must learn the lingo..... isiXhosa being the main language of the province but then also...what we call the lower Albany twang...the "boet and swaer" of the English language...I can't explain it...you'll just have to wait and hear one day! 
....maybe there's a third...like drinking pineapple beer and playing cricket or something down those lines...

But for now.... Duncan has been practicing his clicking for about 2 weeks!  We think it is hilarious!

The Journey to recovery begins - The Op

 

 On the 20th of October we packed our bags and headed for the Cape...for Dunci's double nerve harvest operation.

• First stop - Port Elizabeth Airport Lounge

• Here he is still using his right arm, trying very hard to rotate that wrist to hold the rattle

 The Cape....Southern most tip of Africa....butterflies of nerves in my tummy....

•  Next stop - Water Front for lunch....table mountain in the background - little does this one know whats coming his way.

 being a good boy at the fancy pancy restaurant - Baia

 Reading "Fishy Fun" at a seafood restaurant :)  A book we bought for hospital.

 Shoe shopping with the dad...can see how he is using his left hand to assist the right arm - bring the right hand to his mouth. 

 Although he looks like a druggie from the cape flats, he was a very nice porter who was responsible for getting Duncan from his bedroom to the theatre...which was a helluva long walk through a bloody maze and about 4 different lifts!

 Ta Da!  Done and dusted!  With a little drip in the left hand.  He performed for about an hour after coming out of the anesthetic, and eventually passed out.  The fist night of his life that he basically slept through (except waking once when his drip fell out at 4am)....BUT being a pediatric hospital....mom on the other hand got zero sleep..there was a baby (1year old) that cried blue murder from about 9pm till 1am when a doctor finally came and gave her a suppository then she whipered till about 3am....was too terrible!   

 All smiles first thing the next morning like he doesn't even know that he just had a 2.5hour operation the night before!

 Strapped in and ready to go to Uncle Francious in Paarl

 Then we did a tour of Uncle Jacques new house being built

 Wednesday - next stop - check up with the surgeon/specialist

 Waiting in the waiting room of Dr. Solomons practice in Vincent Pallotti hospital (hand clinic)

 Wednesday afternoon - next stop - airport lounge Cape Town

 Thursday morning - home sweet home

The sling doesn't bother him one bit!

 It aint over till the fat lady sings

Mommy's little one armed monster fast asleep

Sam John Kyle - a visit to the EC

 

 sort of matching rugby jerseys

 deep in thought

 Mom and Son

 I wont repeat what was done to get Sam to look up at the camera and get his eyes off the grass!

 Desperate to crawl!

 Cutest little face by far!

 six months old

 The look on Duncans face is priceless

 Best Cuzzies

 mmmm sweets, how do we open this?

 Halloween pics

 Dunci the vampire

Missing these 2 very much already!  Aunty Monique came to visit for a few days with Sam, bravely leaving Grant aka Buddha behind for the first time, and Tyler too.  She helped us with a day time routine and some sleep training.  Things have gone a bit pear shaped since she left but we trying hard ;)

The cousins loved playing together, staring at each other and keeping each other occupied with their antics.  Can't wait for the day they run around together (suppose that will also come with tackling, biting, pulling and fighting) but so what!