Timo's entry for the lego competition. It's a cattle truck. He has won a prize in the local competition as the judges were impressed with his entry. Has yet to collect prize.

 'Bubba E' as Lennox calls him, 2 weeks or so. Doing very well. So far so great!

 In between feeding baby and other things have embarked on a gibbing process. Have never done anything like it before and is highlighting a different process required. It's good.

beaching while Jeremy was a few hundred metres down cutting firewood.

 Timo estimated it would take him less than a minute to run to the seashore line and back and surprisingly he was right! He took 54 seconds. Caoimhy took 1.5minutes. Both T and C (and Lennox has one too) get out their math u see books by their own choice to do maths :). 

Meeting some second (or third or second once removed?) cousins.

 Big big big brother with Ezra.

First bath in front of the fire

with the nice sea sponge Sara sent

 action shot, straight out of bath. not smiling (dd used as attempt to placate) but he does enjoy a good smile :). yes, caoimhe has cut her hair again. inspired by 3 brothers no doubt.

1.5 days old

Sweet baby boy

Here he is only a few hours old. He's pretty lovely so far and relaxed, the labour and birth was very nice and relaxed so he's had a good start :).

He weighed in at 7lb 3 oz, the same size as Timo and Lennox when they were born. Caoimhe was 7lb 14oz.

So far we think he looks more like Timo did when he was a new baby.

When Lennox met him for the first time he said baby about 20 times in amazement and then said "baby is cute" and was quite taken with his feet and hands and the fact he was wearing a hat. Lennox loves to hold him and is quite in awe when he does.

Caoimhe asked to cut the umbilical cord so she did after he was born. She doesn't think she wants to do that again as it was a bit hard.

Timo and Caoimhe have been debating on what the baby should be called. Timo is going for Ezra and Caoimhe is going for Otto, but said she quite likes Ezra too. Both names we have suggested, so we'll see what sticks. He seems more like an Ezra than Otto. Ishmael has also been a suggestion (first ancestor to NZ of the Pemberton family?).

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