Willem Basson

Fun in the sun

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It’s nice and hot, so I’m working outside in the garden while Zoë plays in her bath.

I’m posting this entry from my iPhone and I must say I’m impressed. So what else is new? I bought a skoda last week but its going to be 2 months before I get it, sucks.

Zoë & Elmi

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We went to the asparagus festival this weekend in Fouriesburg and while it was a bit of a disappointment we did have a lovely time in Clarens. Here’s Elmi and Zoë with her new ladybug hat.

I have recently realised how amiss I have been in not blogging about Zoë development as it happens - I have already forgotten at exactly what age she started sitting on her own (I think it was around 3 months) or when she rolled over for the first time.

So now I will try to remedy the situation and leave a record for myself (and her!)

Two days ago she said mama for the first time - we were playing with her in bed early in the morning and she just came out and said it! And then she repeated it again yesterday and today. If only she knew what it meant!

She has also started properly crawling this week - not just wiggling her bum around. She is pulling herself upright against the furniture, my legs… whatever she can find really. And as we have tile floors throughout the house this is proving to be a bit problematic! I have to throw duvets and blankets everywhere to cushion the inevitable falls.

I also took Zoë swimming for the first time this week (well swimming is stretching it a bit! I took her into the water and she loved it!) I only hope the weather starts warming up soon so that I can take her into the water more often.It has been really windy and rainy the last week.

In general things are going so much better now than in the beginning, although Zoë’s sleep patterns are not great by any means… She wakes up between 2 and 5 times per night… how I miss the good old days when she slept through (before we went to Joburg and ruined it all…) But I am sure it will one day happen again! For now we consider ourselves very lucky if she only wakes up once or twice.

View from the room

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Went to Port St Johns this weekend. Quite nice and relaxing, though it’s a bit dry at the moment. It’s a lovely relaxed town, but a bit dead out of season. It’s beautiful though.

Zoë

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Zoë on her play mat.

My sister took some video of Zoë. I compressed it a bit.

http://www.willembasson.com/ZOE.MP4

Or if you want to try to stream it open the following url in quicktime:

rtsp://streaming.willembasson.com/streaming.willembasson.com/ZOE.MP4

A year ago today Elmi told me I was going to be a father. I was very excited, but I had no idea what this would actually mean. A year on and my life has totally changed. It’s weird, I sometimes miss the freedom I had a year ago, but I’m very glad it happened. I’m amazed how much I love Zoë, never thought it would be like this. The last three and a half months with Zoë has been amazing, and I can’t wait for her to start speaking to me and interacting more. She’s growing so much each day, and it’s amazing to watch her develop.

I’m really looking forward to the next year…

Discovered Facebook. Seems like everyone joined before I did, but I must say I’m impressed, nice convergence of loads of interesting things. Might try my hand at writing a facebook application.

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