Nel Mezzo del Cammin

All my NZ friends, including me, are having boys. Where are all the girls?

My friend, S, who is about 19 weeks pregnant, had her ultrasound yesterday and she is having her second boy! So she joins me with two boys, our friend L who gave birth to her second son on November first, our other friend L who has two sons, who are probably about 10 and 8 now. R & S also have two boys and another school friend J, has a two month old baby boy.

We do have one little girl, in our bunch of boys. K’s baby girl was born in October 2005.

And we can’t even get the water tested, as my boys were both conceived in Seattle, as was L’s oldest boy. The rest of the boys were conceived here in New Zealand.

We had a super weekend weather-wise and Saturday morning we headed off to the Auckland Zoo with our friends, A, S and 2 year old O.  The last time I went to that zoo was with J when he was just one, and the time before that was probably before I was married. L doesn’t remember the last time he went. It was N’s very first zoo visit.

They have done a great job improving the zoo and making the environment right for the animals. We had a lot of fun, and J enjoyed recognizing what animals he could. However, he did say that his favourite animal at the zoo was his little friend, O !!!!

The giraffes with baby,  Ntombi, who was born in July, 2007.

one of the elephants – I don’t know which is which. This is either Burma or Kashin.

We actually had a yearly pass to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, but unfortunately had to return to New Zealand before the year was up.