Our ski holiday. The video of tristan says it all doesn't it
Apparently he wanted to continue skiing down the hill but the instructor told him it was time for morning tea....not happy.

Once again sorry for the delay in posting updates, I endevour to do more of it. Here is Tristan crawling for the first time (or there abouts) He is now a machine and gets about very quickly!! Also have attached cute photos of him and some of the lovely Olivia too! She is a bit blotchy at the moment so not taking the best photo!

The other video is Tristan's false start at crawling, he crawled into the coffee table!

Meanwhile Peter is showing his more feminine side - there is nothing wrong with looking like Paris Hilton!! Poor petey! Annabelle will be done tomorrow night.

My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.

I have had to get blogging for a few reasons...the main one is to reply to the nasty rantings of my borther in law - Mr Ken Taggart and his comments regarding my new hair styles that he would have people beleive look a lot like the lovely Ms Julia Gillard. This is not too insulting except i think I don't really look quite the 40+ that she is....however I am happy to be considered so smart!! I have invested in some substantial facial recognition software to try and gauge more accurately who I look like, and more pointedly, who Ken looks like - see the results below! I must say that I have always thought that Molly and I (shes a supermodel you know) have always been startling similiar - in fact, I thought they had had a pic of me on their file when the results came in!
My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.



My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.

Sorry for the long absence between posts but that is now my reality with two children!! busy Busy Busy! As is the lovely Olivia. she thinks herself as quite the artist and here is a little video to prove it. Had a good time at Easter, will post some photos of that later as I have to get back to do some work but this is so cute.

here is a lovely shot of me and my boy! He is looking a little dazed and confused..poor lad!

I have finally managed to get some good shots of the lovely Tristan and even a video of him smiling madly at me! He is currently asleep in his swing, lucky boy.







Meanwhile after a very late night refusing to go to sleep at our neighbour's place Princess Olivia had to return to the castle for kinder nap at 8.30am!! She had been up for less than 2 hours! She slept for 1 1/4 hours and then I woke her to go to daycare. Poor baby.

I also found this very cute photo of Liv with Nana in the garden. She was very helpful!

Just looked at Anna and Ken's blog and they recently had a photo shoot with Ken's family when they went to the UK. I hav posted some of the photos of Anna, Ken and Calum as they are fab!

Well, t'was the day of Christmas yesterday and how cold was Melbourne!!! Coldest day on record at a chilly 14.5 degrees! The day started with some presents for the lovely Olivia. She is wearing the lovely towel from Cousin Michael , Kate and Jacqueline. Tristan didn't really care about Christmas, he only has eyes for his mummy as always.
Livvy also received a lovely vietnamese gown from her nana!

the day got underway with the usual suspects including a well known elf! I would answer the critics (namely Annabelle and Ken) who questioned the value in purchasing the elf suit seen below by saying that it has now been worn twice and will fit a certain Self boy next year so that for three years running there will be a "self Elf" so There!!!!


The selfs and their Elf and Master Tristan sat for a portrait or two.

Then it was time for lunch. Liv insisted on wearing her "raineeer ears" and ate an awful lot fo turkey and veges given she ate her body weight in doritos before lunch. Tristan sat at his mummy's feet and looked adoringly at her.....and when he was passsed to his aunt, his response was resolute.

There was tonnes of food and we all had a great lunch and then it was time for one small child to have milk and a story. Tristan passed out at about 7 - a record!! Mummy then spent some time cleaning up but it was worth it - lovely Christmas 2006!
By the way - anyone seen Toby???

Well Christmas is almost here and it has been a busy time as it is for everyone I think!
Tristan is growing nicely and you can see that he takes up much of my time given the infrequency of my blog updates. He is very loud and still looks quite asian at times but is smiley and loooooves his mummy and her milk! Livvy is great. She is getting into the spirit of Christmas by realising quickly that Santa gives presents and so whenever she sees santa tells me that "santa give present". That is in top of quotes such " i don't like it" and "come 'ere mummy".
The house is great, very cool on the 40 degree days which is a nice change to our old place. We are really enjoying it and also playing with the kids not that the newborn part is over and Tristan sleeps teh whole night (god I love that about our children, we got very lucky!!)

merry christmas and i ahve attached a photo of Toby's latest exploit - the dangers of toilet drinking when there are toddlers being toilet trained!

I would like to be able to add photos but for some reason I am not able to tonight...as I said, check out my flickr site, that has them all there.

As usual, long time between posts for me. I have loaded a heap of photos onto flickr.

check it out... http://www.flickr.com/photos/60068285@N00/sets/

By the way Tristan is good. Not sleeping as much as his mummy would like but I am getting trained very well by him! He is also becoming massive.....quite a boomby....and so he should be with the amount of milk he drinks!

Updated blog and photos on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60068285@N00/sets/

The day started rather early for us ... Toby was a bit confused but decided not to argue and went for his pre-dawn walk with the usual dash about him.










I guess you could say we all have our different way of dealing with the pains of labour!!





Somebody must have done something right ..... Little Tristan turned up safe and sound in his mum's arms at 12:36 7th October, 2006 ... Hooray!!





I guess the Asian influence in the food at the Self household really has had an impact!!



In more ways than one .... Tubby little bugger! (8 Pounds, 8 Ounces for those schooled in the old ways)



One minute everything is just fine.



And the next minute not!!



Here's a mother looking rather happy.



And a cousin or two ...... too!!





Under guise of an "Assistant Holder" ......



...... A very keen Aunty swoops in for the prize.




....... Imogen ..... reclined ..... discussing the events of the previous couple of hours " ......... and then they said like to push and stuff ..... and I was like ..... whatever .... and they were like .... NO .... REALLY and I was like ..... WHAT .... EVER !!!! .... and Pete was saying like .... you're doing great honey .... and I was was like .... I know I am honey!!! "



....... and then in a dramatic turn of events ..... Olivia packs up her baby doll .........



....... addresses the press .... commenting in no uncertain terms ......

"I just want everyone to know that it doesn't matter how cute my little brother is ....... I'm still number one around here"



....... and symbolically storms out of the room ......



...... She enlists the support of a senior member of the family ..... "Come on Grandpa ..... let's blow this joint ...... and Riley .... you can go and bring the car around .... and make it snappy ....."



Only to return some time later armed with a few shifty negotiating tactics .....(suggested quietly during a walk back to the car by a certain senior member of the family) ....



...... Negotiations were swiftly concluded and with a quick check around to make sure the agreement had been properly witnessed .... an inevitable dynamic between older sister and younger brother has begun ....



... The peanut gallery is clearly enthralled by the high drama.



..... and a final pose for the camera!!



...... Initiated with a team hug ...... festivities commenced once more ...... minus mum who is back on the phone again ....



Smiling Uncle Simon Brandishes the trophy.



A whimsical "Grammy" savors the moment.



..... Meanwhile a shuffle nearly erupts again as Olivia makes a move to intimidate her rival ..... Nanna poses unaware .....



..... A rather cavaliar, handsome, brave and pleased with himself ..... cousin "Riley Cooper Meens" steps in to save the day .....



Meanwhile mum somehow manages to get herself another nurse ....



....and they're all mine ..... she gloats ....



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