I'm crawling! Army style

Hi Guys, We hope all is well with you all. Sorry we haven't posted photos on the blog recently. Both Katie and I are pretty flat out at work. Evelyn is crawling now in an army style crawl but it won't be long before she is zooming around the house on her hands and knees. I put down a toy across the room from her and she crawls towards me and picks it up. She is also begining to talk more. Not words of course but she is saying more than just MUMMUM! I heard her say DADDAD for the first time yesterday and she says another word that sounds like hello.

Evelyn loves music and you can see her listening to the speaker in our lounge in one of these photos. She listens for a long period of time facinated by the sound waves. It is really cute.

We hope you enjoy these photos and pray God's blessing and provision upon you.

Brook

4 Generations of girls

Well, well, well. What a week we have had. Nan and Pop have arrived from England and Evelyn instantly fell in love with them. There is a photo here of Evelyn with her Mummy, Granma and Great Nan. Amazing! We also talked to Russell and Sarah on skype and had a visit from Cam and Marie (Brooks cousin and cousin in law). And just we we thought we had seen all the family possible for the weekend, Brook's Aunt and Uncle visited and Nana Turner arrived on Sunday.

The other cool thing about this week is the fact that Evelyn just learned to clap. She also loves playing the guitar with Daddy.

Having kids is so much fun. You should try it.

God bless.

Brook, Evelyn, Katie

Evelyn and Brooke at almost 8 months

Hi Everyone. Here's some new shots of Evelyn with her friend Brooke. These girls are almost eight months old now. Amazing! Every month presents new challenges and new learnings for a child. It is amazing to watch. The random photos of the bathroom are for our family oversees to view. This is the done up bathroom for Nan and Pop who arive from England this week to live with Neil and Sue (Katie's parents).

We hope all of you are living the dream and keeping positive.

Brook, Evelyn and Katie

I'm sitting up!

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Hi everyone. Our apologies for taking so long to post new photos and fill you in on what the Turner family has been up to. Here are a whole bunch of recent photos to compensate. Katie and I have been busy buzzy bees at work balancing parenting with bringing home the bacon. School is going well for Katie and I am enjoying my study through Unitec. Evelyn is learning new things all the time. One of her latest feats is sitting up all by herself. But she does get stuck in that position and needs our help to get out of it.

She has also learned to wave hello and goodbye - probably from watching Teletubbies with Granma! She is enjoying her solid meals and has just discovered yoghurt this week...Yum yums!

Mummy is also teaching Evie how to clap and she is slowly getting the hang of it. The most annoying thing of the week has been the fire brigade down the end of our road that sound a siren every fricken time there's a call out waking our baby. Have these people heard of text messaging or pagers? I never thought I'd say it but that is one bad thing about Tawa. One in a Million though. Remember that!

We hope all is well in your worlds and look forward to catching up soon.

Brook, Evelyn and Katie.

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