An Artsy-Fartsy One...

And here is the final instalment in our family photos from the professionals entitled "Us2 - Boys"

We are family

Look at the picture we had made. 1 skinny little English dude snapped a couple and came up with this. I reckon it is okay - there is probably only one person who could have done better but I guess he is in the picture with his mum, dad and younger brother.

Sit back with a coffee and enjoy our beauty.

Gimp out

The All Blacks are Pants!!

These are our "fake smiles" for the camera. We are showing brotherly solidarity but are none too pleased about the fact the All Blacks let us down YET AGAIN and got booted out of the World Cup.

In fact, Asher was so heartbroken that he ate Joe Rokocoko - you can see Joe's remains around Asher's mosh and on his bib.

Cousin Nerys - we feel your pain.

THE CLAW!!!!

Can you see it? The dreaded crushing crunching CLAW??? I had to barricade myself into the corner cupboard in the kitchen to save myself... luckily I survived to tell the story.

We went to have some family photos taken recently. I haven't seen them yet but Mummy & Daddy tell me I am pretty handsome and the photos are works of art.

I am a big boy now and go No. 1 on the toilet on a regular basis. I use the big toilet and I don't even need the pathetic "kiddie" seat... that's for amateurs. I am yet to squeeze a No. 2 on the porcelain throne but it won't be far away. I will soon be wearing my Thomas undies just like the big kids at daycare (or "Big Plow Plow" as I call it).

Ta-ta for now
Jude

Water-Child

Here I am in the bath with a spiky do, a UFO squirter and a goofy look on my face.

I have a bad case of "purple diarrohea" or should that be verbal diarrohea? I talk talk talk all the time - I ask "who's that guy?" a lot and sing lovely songs and nursery rhymes. My Nana Vic asked Mummy whether she took fish oils when pregnant with me because I am shaping up to be a genius!!!

I love my little brother Asher - we play together quite a bit. I pat him on the head and poke him in the eye from time to time, but Asher likes it.

I now also have a cousin called Nerys way over on the other side of the world - I am looking forward to meeting her via webcam some day soon.

What do I want? I want to go and stay with my Nana & Poppa D this weekend WITHOUT MUMMY AND DADDY for the first time ever. I am such a big boy now that I can do this without it worrying me in the slightest (I hope...) Mummy better remember to pack my trains or there will be trouble.

Spiderman comes in the night

On candystripe legs the spiderman comes softly through the shadow of the evening sun stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead. Looking for the victim shivering in bed, searching out fear in the gathering gloom and suddenly a movement in the corner of the room!

There is nothing I can do when I realize with fright that the SPIDERMAN is having me for dinner tonight!

Sleep Well my Pretties...

I'm a big boy now!!!

Poppa's Brain

Poppa Thomas came to see me the other day. He pulled this thing out of his ear. It is his brain. He didn't seem to change too much once it was removed. I used my Bob hammer and my crushing crunching claws on it then I put it carefully back in. He seemed to work much better after I had tinkered with the shrivelled up membrane.

I added some extra neural pathways into his cerebal cortex and his cerebellum. He can now make reasoned arguments and will be able to control his bladder better. I guess you will no longer struggle to talk your way out of having wet patches in the front of your pants now will you Poppa.

I have also wired him up to give me lollies whenever I say the word Skarloey. Don't give me any of those stink lollies either Poppa, I want Penguin Naturals. If you do not obey I will work on some other areas of your grey matter.

Skarloey
Skarloey
Skarloey
Skarloey
Skarloey

Jude out.

I ate his liver

Nemo was getting a bit lippy so I dealt it to him. Yeah you can see his tail popping out but he can't be saved.

My swim lessons are going really well. I can't kick and paddle like the 18 month old kids but man you should see my bombs. Those little suckers don't even see it coming. I line them up and then ...... damn, just like I have been dropped from the enola gay.

Jude (& Nemo) out

I am a little egg beater

I like the egg beater, especially when it has sugary icing on it.

People have said that licking an egg beater makes you cross-eyed. Personally I don't believe it, there is no proof .

I have been pretty good recently, I now count to 4, do high 5s and can give a bit of skin.

All the chicks love me.

Jude

Can I fix it?

Damn right I can.

Now where did I put my hammer.

Roger - that's a 10-4 Little Fat Buddy

Here I am in my new Red Hawk chopper. I had to go rescue a small fat 4 month old baby who answered to the name"Asher" from the jaws of his exersaucer the other day. He wasn't very grateful.

You can just glimpse Great-Poppa Dick to the left of the photo. He is madly trying to take photos of me with his camera. It's like having my own personal paparazzi (correct term is "Popparazzi" according to Nana Vic).

I am a very good little boy. I rarely have tantrums and those that I do have can be dealt with by giving me treats or "tweats" as I call them. I also respond well to threats of having my trains taken away. I have an affinity for taking my nappy off at the moment. My parents found me lying (bare) bottom up the other night with my nappy and a pool of urine beside me. Lucky for them it was just No. 1!!!! Next time they might not be so lucky...

Anyway, time for me to retire to my boudoir. Take care y'all.

J.E.T

Now I have to share!!!???

As if it isn't bad enough that I am not the sole centre of attention anymore, I now learn that I have to SHARE stuff with my little brother... like photos!! What's with that?

Anyway, here's me and Asher with Nana & Poppa D - I am not amused. Asher looks pretty happy though - probably 'cause he knows he's in MY photo and on MY nana's knee!!

I won't mess with that baby though - have you seen what he's gonna do to cousin Noah?

Ciao for now

Jude

Some People Sleep Funny

You have got to be really careful these days. My brother tries to steal my things.... especially my piddow (pillow for those who don't speak Jude).

I found that the best way to protect it is to sleep like this and have baby Tad keep watch.

That damn baby Tad, why is he always smiling? Some sort of deviant I reckon. You slap him in the guts and he replies with "thats the red button". I know it is the red button, you know it is the red buttton, for goodness sake even Helen Clarke knows it is the red button. I have to slap him around a bit.

Dad is taking me to swim lessons for the first time tomorrow. I reckon he will drown. I worked it out, he is heavier than water therefore when he hops into the pool he will sink and I will have to save him.... again. I saved him the other day from a mosquito, I slapped him on the back of the head trying to get it. You know what he did to thank me. He put me on the ole naughty step. I am becoming quite friendly with that step.

I can count to 4. Thats right, I am now more intelligent than Nana Thomas.

Adios fools.

Ohhhh I love a good thriller...

I've given up sleeping in my "single work-bench" bed - I much prefer Mum and Dad's Queen sized bed... as you can see I also prefer reading Dad's books to my childish ones. Bad Jelly the Witch? Huh!!

I am off to see aeroplanes today at the airport. I hear that my Uncle Nick is going away for a long long time on one - I will be taller than him when he get's back!

And here I am playing feverishly with my new wooden train set. I like to make the trains "CRASH!!!". I went around to my friend Cameron's place the other day and he had a cool Thomas train set - I played so hard with that train set that first my cheeks went a bit pink and then my whole head became bright red. Dad called me "saveloy-head" and I got browned out.

Well that's about it from me - Bye for now.

J.E.T

You're Beautiful

I thought it was about time we had just a lovely photo of Jude to remind you what great genes have gone in to making such a beautiful boy.

And yes, that IS a Thomas T-shirt he has on AND yes, that IS a Thomas train he has in his hand...

TTTEA

That's right folks - I need help in the form of rehab... Thomas The Tank Engines Anonymous (TTTEA) in actual fact.

I am obsessed with Thomas - I must be playing with Thomas duplo while watching Thomas DVDs while reading Thomas books.

I know the names of all the engines and can be heard having conversations with my (imaginary) Toot Toot friends in the middle of the night.

Please donate your gold coins to this worthy cause.

The Welsh Dragon

Fly my pretties.

The Order of the Dracul... the Dragon. An ancient society - pledging my forefathers to defend the faith against all enemies of Thomas.

This is no laughing matter! We Draculs have a right to be proud!

I am the last of my kind.

Feel the wind beneath my wings as I rain fire and brimstone down upon thee. Jude the dragon is about.

See you soon mere mortals.

As I live and breathe - it's Jaws!!!

Happy Birthday to me!! I am now 2 years old and don't I look just the cutest in my new shark suit? Dad didn't want me to have it but even he couldn't resist smiling (or smirking) when he saw me in my costume.

Here's a photo of my "toot toot" cake - Mum's quite proud of herself for making it from scratch, so I thought I'd better put a photo on here - it even tasted quite nice. Thanks Mum.


I had a great birthday party - I had heaps of guests and they all brought me wonderful pressies - I got:-

Dragon's tail that roars
Shark suit
Trike
Books
Clothes
Gumboots
Shoes
Giant Truck (to put "Rabbie" in)
Bob the Builder toolbelt
Money

So I've been very lucky.

My Nana & Poppa D took me to see Thomas in the flesh today out at Glenbrook. I went for a ride on a train and had lots of sugar. I drank a "fluffy" like a grown up from a cup and saucer.

So thanks to everyone for attending my Birthday - see you next year!!

Judabil Lecter

A census taker tried to test me once - I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti (slurp!).

If you don't get me a good present you will be next.