High chair baby moments

Hi Everyone. Our apologies for not posting any pictures recently. Life has been pretty fast paced. Katie is doing a fantastic job juggling being a teacher, Mummy and pastors wife, all of which are demanding enough to be full time jobs on there own.

Evelyn just keeps on growing and surprising and amazing us with her personality and ability to learn fast. She blows rasberries at us now and if we blow them back we have a fun little conversation. She also tries to kiss us but keeps her mouth open so its pretty sloppy but sweet.

She loves her fruit. Banana and apple are her favourites and she is slowly warming to the veges as long as we flavour it with steak juice. Thats right, she is a carnivore.

Katie's mum Sue is doing a fabulous job being Eve's nanny and our good friend Brodie loves looking after Evelyn every Tuesday morning. I personally love Mondays more than any day of the week cause its my turn to look after her then. We always play the ABC game online and listen to some Bon jovi.

We hope all of you are doing well and not basing your confidence in the world but on God. There's a lot of negativity out there that can affect your outlook on life. Its better to feed on the Word than the words of the media at the moment.

That reminds me of a story of a young man visiting the english preacher "Smith Wigglesworth" years ago carrying a newspaper under his arm. After opening the front door to the young man and seeing him with the paper Smith said " you're not coming in here with that"! (pointing to the newspaper). Then Smith said 'Why read the bad news when you can read the good news"

Sermon over. Have a great week.

until next time.

Brook, Evelyn and Katie

Learning to crawl

Hi Everyone. We hope your all doing well. Heres just a few cute shots of Evelyn learning to crawl.

Brook and Katie

Almost 6.......months!

Hi Everyone. Well, Evelyn is almost 6 months old now. Wow! Thats pretty hard to believe ah. Katie and I can hardly remember life without Evelyn in it. She is our precious little one who we love greatly. Here are some of our latest photos. Evelyn loves playing the on line games that teach her the alphabet. The photo here of her on the computer also show Uncle Cam (Brook's cousin).

Over the last month Evelyn has been teething and a week ago we bought her first tooth brush. Mummy brushed her teeth very carefully because Evie was a bit unsure about it. Evelyn is also a little afraid of the vacuum cleaner and gets a cute cautious look on her face whenever we do the vacuuming.

This week Nana Turner and Poppa Turner have been staying in Tawa helping us as Katie goes back to school to teach. Heres a photo of Nana with Evelyn. Evie tends to be very calm around Nana and the other day she lifted her hands up towards Poppa asking for a cuddle.

As you can see our little girl is continuing to grow up.

We hope you all have a good week.

Brook, Katie and Evelyn

Teething and learning

Hi friends and family. Sorry for the long wait between posts. I have started back at work and so things have been a bit full on. Since the last post we have only taken about 20 photos and only a hand full of them are decent, hence the small number here. Evelyn is loving learning the alphabet on line and colouring in on line. It is amazing to find so many tools for teaching babies on the internet I am not sure how much she takes in but she certainly likes bashing the keys on my laptop. She also loves her teether and food time. Her hands and face get a bit messy when we feed her but thats because she tries to help us. Its very cute. There are a couple of pictures here of all the babies from our antenatal group at 5-6 months old. We hope you are all doing well and making the most of the start of the year.

Brook, Katie, and Evelyn

I love eating things

Hello family and friends. We hope all of you are doing well and seeing the God side of life in your circumstances. Katie, Evelyn and I have just been to Palmerston North for the weekend to visit grandparents. We had a lot of fun with Evelyn being the centre of attention most of the time. Evelyn loves eating things! From her feet and fingers to spoons, books and toys, everything goes in her mouth. There are a couple of examples here. She also loves playing on her swing horse and gets reallly excited when we read to her.

Tonight is a bit sad for us though because I start back at work tomorrow. The three week break has been really good for me but leaving Evelyn and Katie in the mornings is one of the hardest things I have to do. Nevertheless, "if a man doesnt work he shouldnt eat" goes the saying so I better get my a into g and get back into it.

Katie starts teaching again on the 30th of this month and so Granma Stiles will be our Tawa nanny for the little one. God has blessed us so much to have Neil and Sue in Tawa and hopefully with Sue's help this year will work out ok. Any prayers you can fire out our way would be appreciated.

God bless you all

Brook, Evelyn and Katie

A day at home with Evelyn

Hi everyone. Katie, Evelyn and I had a wonderful day at home together yesterday spring cleaning. Theres nothing like cleaning the house with the doors open, the washing waving on the line, eighties music blasting from the radio, and the summer breeze drifting through the hallways. In the middle of our crazy cleaning session we paused to take a few shots of the family. Here they are.

Bless you all

Brook, Evelyn and Katie

Farewell Sarah and Russell

Well, the wonderful holiday with Sarah and Russell has come to an end. It was too short but Katie, Evelyn and I are very grateful for the time we did have with S & R. Here are some photos of us all together at the airport. We hope to see S & R in 2010 but its all up in the air from here on. I guess thats why God asks us to trust him. his timing is perfect. we are just priveleged to have such a close knit family that loves one another.

Katie and I hope you are all doing well.

Blessings