Early 2012

Hi everybody!

Hope you are all having a good 2012. We have been enjoying ourselves since our last blog. We had a very nice Christmas. Thanks for all the presents! It was really nice to have some time at home together. Lyn and I also celebrated being together for 10 years with a day out on the town - walking around the city, drinking a glass of Champagne, going to the cinema and having a nice meal.

Sam is now really settled into school and really enjoying it. Max has grown up a lot recently and is making friends and tearing around the playgrounds. And Leo is now crawling around and hardly ever stops smiling.

This winter was by far the mildest since we've been here. It's only snowed three times and one of those was back in October. We've been joined in New York by Caroline (one of my Sussex Uni friends) and her boyfriend Nicholas. It's really nice having them here and Lyn and I have both enjoyed nights out with them. We also all went to the circus which was great. Leo really loved the lights and music.

We also had Lyn's sister Joanne and her boyfriend Dave staying with us. It was great having them here and they crammed an enormous amount into their 9 days! We went to museums, ice skating in central park, a broadway play, an ice hockey match as well as numerous playgrounds. The boys loved playing Angry Birds and Cut the Rope with them in the mornings and they enjoyed the NYC nightlife (and beer pong)!

We've put some photos of early 2012 up on our flickr site here

You probably saw Lyn's appearance in the New York Times. She had a photographer following her around for a couple of hours and you can see a selection of the photos here

Finally here are a couple of videos on youtube:

Sam ice skating

And fun on a tire swing in Central Park

Lots of love, Tom, Lyn, Sam, Max and Leo xxxxx