Alex

Alex First Months

Still renovating

The renovations are still coming along nicely and at a fair pace 2. In the past week, the builders have framed up the ensuite, removed the adjoining wall between the dining room and kitchen, framed up the downstairs wardrobe and finished boxing up the skylight. I've removed a few wall linings and dug a whole at the weekend. I don't like to brag but its a good hole... seriously Alex is keeping me more than occupied so its good to have a few pros on the job to do it right the first time ;) I don't want to be on DIY SOS in a few years time. Check out some photos.

oh yeah and... other stuff I forgot to mention

We went on a trip to Stewart Island earlier in the year here are some pics from there. It was nice - I wouldn't call Stewart Island exciting but it is a very picturesque quiet place with great birdlife to boot, we did see the elusive Kiwi our native icon and they are very strage birds - their mating call is a loud screech - they are nocturnal over all of the mainland but the ones on Stewart Island are seen in the early evenings as well as the dead of night, anywhere from dusk onwards really. Some of the larger females come up to about the knee of an average person. We also travelled around the Catlins and up to Milford Sound - its awesome countryside down there on the Lower South Island, its all rolling hills up to the fiords and huge mountians and spectaculer scenery. Its highly underrated in my opinion. Plus there is little or no traffic on the roads. Great if your from Wellington which no matter what route you take out of seems to turn into 1 big bottleneck ;) Why not view the slideshow...

Alexander John McCormick - busy busy busy

Well.. its been a while since we've posted anything on here but from now on we should be a bit better a keeping you informed of our movements and goings on at the McCormick/McGregor household. Firstly, on the 25th March 2008 Suz gave birth to little Alexander John McCormick, weighing in at 3.62kg's (8 pounds exactly) and a length of 53cm's (tall I guess?) he seems tall and has massive feet and pianists hands to boot. He has rather a lot of hair and given that his grandfather and uncle on his mothers side are both bald as badgers I'm guessing this is the fathers genes coming through ;) Now not content with all of the commotion that having a newborn in the house entails, Suz and I have decided to begin renovating the house. I'm no DIYer, I can hold a hammer but by no means profess to be the next MasterBuild young builder of the year, so we have enlisted professional help and they began their job - coincidentally, on the 25th March also. So for the next x weeks we will be giving as regular updates as sleep deprivation permits on both. Here are a few of the baby first photos and house demolition photos to ponder and see what we are talking about.

Young Alex is progressing well and our initial experiences with parenthood haven't been too bad, sure he crys a bit and we don't know why, we don't sleep much and we do know why, but we are treating it all as teething problems - god only knows what we will do when he actually has teething problems. The birth although not easy was nothing compared to the horror stories people for some reason feel the need to tell you as soon as they find out your due to have a baby. I think its a way of unloading for some mother's, others seem to enjoy watching you squirm in your seats as they retell obviously some quite harrowing stuff. But for us I wouldn't say it was beautiful but I would say it has in no way deterred us from ever setting foot in a maternity ward again.

Anyway the first week have been an eyeopener, I've finally changed a few dirty nappies but have thus far avoided any projectile vomiting (touch wood long may it continue)