Merry Christmas

Here's your present this year, a couple of photos of Thomas plus a pretty funny video:

Santa Photo 2008

Thomas update

It's been some time between drinks but there's a lot been happening so I thought I better make an appearance on the family blog.

The latest event for us has been Thomas's first birthday. We had invited a lot of friends and family so we decided to have the party down at our local park, Playford park. Fortunately, it didn't rain and everyone had a great day. Thomas loved everyone singing him Happy Birthday so much so that now any time that he hears Happy Birthday sung, he thinks it's for him!



Not too long ago I happened to turn the big three zero and had a few friends and family gather for dinner at the Como Hotel. It was a cold night but fantastic to see everyone there. I was lucky enough to have an iPhone cake and get a real iPhone for my birthday. You can see photos here:



The world welcomed a new Jeffers into the world on the 21st of July. Liam Jeffers of Clogherhead, Ireland was born an amazing 11 pounds 2 oz and his Mum and Dad (Keira and Scott) are extremely happy. "Little" Liam is going great and had his christening last Sunday. Liam has also been lucky enough to have Nanna Jeffers from Australia visit. We'll be seeing them all at Christmas and it will be the first time they see Thomas and our first time seeing Liam. Here's some photos of Liam:

http://picasaweb.google.com/scott.jeffers77

Other than that, Thomas has been having lots of fun with his friends including Taya, Max and Will. Plus, we had a huge haul of oranges from our own orange tree in Autumn.

Also, not long after my last blog we had a visit from Matt, Maria and Ella. We had great fun when they arrived, plus we went to the park, a farm and to the beach. We're hoping to see them again in 2009 with another little one in tow!

Lastly, we're going away to Cairns next week for Bec & Glenn's wedding. It's our first official holiday with Thomas and it will be Thomas's first ride on an airplane. We can't wait to go just to have some time away from everything and have a good rest. Hopefully the weather is great and we can spend lots of time in the pool. We'll have some photos of all the events up there when we get back.

Big news!

What better way to get back into the blogging world than with some great news. Thomas has cut his first teeth! Read that again, that's teeth not tooth. They're the teeth on his bottom gum at the front. I'd upload a photo of his tiny teeth but they're too small at the moment. I can't even imagine how we'll get a photo anyway.

That's not all the news. Thomas has just started clapping! He's been very close to clapping himself because he has been putting his hands on the outside of our hands when we clapped. Last week, as he was about to go to sleep he clapped his hands together. Then he did it more the next day during his swimming lesson.

Since it's been some time since we last blogged I'll try to catch up with some other things:
- Thomas is now 7 and a half months old.
- He can sit up by himself but still needs things around him (eg. pillows, people, etc) just in case he falls backwards or sideways.
- A few weeks he started splashing the water in the bath which was hilarious. We have a video of that so I'll put that up soon.
- Thomas loves watching Lola. He thinks Lola is so funny when she runs around the backyard or chases a ball.

Plus there's heaps of photos of Thomas and how he's growing:

Thomas 5 months


Thomas 6 months


Thomas 7 months


Plus heaps more. You can check out all the latest albums of Thomas by going here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/stubatman.family