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We all made the trip to the Tulip Festival (at the Hobart Royal Botanical Gardens) today, and came back armed with numerous photographs. Aware and fearful of the mob demanding photos of Henry and company, I shall go on a bit of a splurge and post a heap over the next few hour. That should save my skin for another week or so.

Here he can see the star of the show himself, appropriately equipped with an ollibollin in one hand, and a chocolate coated strawberry in the other. Never deterred from a challenge, he made short work of both!
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Isadora said…
:) He is a chip off the old block, ey! Just wait in a couple of years Ezra will be helping him along and you look on in amazement. :)
5 October 2008 at 16:20
Priyanka Khot said…
Yipeeeeeee!!!

finally a Henry photo... don't keep him absent from blogsphere for so long!!!
5 October 2008 at 19:21
Anonymous said…
How tall does he look?
What happened to our babies?
6 October 2008 at 02:16
freefalling said…
What's an ollibollin?
6 October 2008 at 09:01
freefalling said…
Oh hang on - I found it -
"oil balls".
M-mmmm??!!
6 October 2008 at 09:02
Kris McCracken said…
Isadora, Ezra is well on his way to catching up, I’m already amazed!

Priyanka, I shall try not to.

Tania, they’re monsters...

FF, Ollibollin = delicious!
8 October 2008 at 13:00
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