A momentous week

Theo did a couple of new things this week. First, he rolled over. Neither of us have actually seen him do this but on a few occassions now Jackie has left Theo on his back in his gym, only to come back when he was grizzling because he was on his front.

Jackie took this video in an attempt to get evidence of this happening but he was stubborn...

The other first this week was Theo had a poo in the bath. No pictures or videos of that you'll be pleased to know.

Theodore Kemble - International Man of Mystery

Theo has a passport. We were worried we'd left it a little late when we found out that he needed to get a citizenship certificate before getting a passport but Jackie spoke to the good folk at the embassy here and they were able to do both applications at the same time.

So Theo is now ready to be leaving on a jet plane for NZ...

Less than 4 weeks now and he'll be in NZ.

An interesting situation Theo has is that because he has NZ citizenship by descent, if he ever had children and they were born outside of NZ, his children would have no entitlement to NZ citizenship. Which would be an awkward situation if he was living in a country in which his children didn't qualify for citizenship. He would have stateless children.

We'll hopefully be able to get that fixed at some stage but if we don't can someone remind us to let Theo know about this situation when he's a bit older.

We've finally had some snow here over the past week. Nothing major but enough to settle for a day or so. And we've had cold temperatures too, minus 7 yesterday when we got up and about minus 5 when I went out for my run. It was a beautiful day though with perfectly blue skies all day so we went out for a good walk around Tooting Common.

Here's a few photos from the past few days...

Ready to face the cold last weekend.

Looking happy with mum who is glammed up for a hens party in town - the boys have a day together

On Sunday (after the hens party) out for a walk in the fresh snow that fell overnight

Theo dribbling at the prospect of lunch

View from our building of the snow

Crashed out, but not for long. 

All quiet on the home front

It's been a bit quiet on the home front here.

I was away at a conference last week so it was Jackie and Theo's first nights alone, unfortunately Theo had his 12 week vaccinations and reacted badly. He had a fever and was generally quite restless, he didn't sleep very well so it was tough on Jackie but she battled through on her own very well.

Since the vaccinations Theo hasn't been sleeping through the night like he was before but otherwise he's back to normal. Happy and smiley.

Here's a video of Theo working out in his gym. Theo likes to get up at about 6am, have a protein shake and get to the gym while mum gets some more sleep.

He likes to chew on his fist but I can assure you there are lots of smiles behind the fist.

When I got back from my conference on Friday I was greeted with a birthday cake and pile of presents which was a lovely surprise. My actual birthday was very low key as I was at the conference, I didn't tell anyone it was my birthday so there was no fuss.

Here's a couple of pictures of me and Theo blowing out my birthday candles. Theo clearly doesn't get it yet.

That's all for now, I hope all our kiwi readers have an enjoyable Waitangi long weekend.