We foolishly thought that the tummy bug was behind us, but Archie was leaking things all over the floor this morning again, and then of course Harry started vomiting. So much for the planned visit to the dental clinic this morning. Ah the joys of family life! Still the boys are happy as it means [...]

Once again I have proved to myself that if I don’t blog every day, I will fall by the side of the information superhighway in a pile of unmotivated goo. So once again I am resolved to take up the baton of bloggliness and put up a post every day, even if it is a [...]

Harry has taken to adding “darling” to the end of his sentences. A real life example:
HARRY: It’s cucumber.
JAN: No, it’s tomato.
HARRY: No, it’s cucumber darling.
Other new amusing words: “wow”, “cool”, and “for god’s sake”

I just haven’t been inspired to blog much recently - post-wedding we are all a bit flat and tired. I cannot say how long this sad state may persist. But rest assured I am still here, concentrating on chemistry, Spashley and recovering from cold I seem to have come down with.
There is some excitement - [...]

I took the boys to the park yesterday and they astounded me with their athleticism! Harry is an accomplished climber and has mastered rope ladders and metal curvy ladder-like structures. Archie is obsessed with the little flying fox and can go the whole way dangling and holding tight with his hands. Of course his overprotective [...]

Unexpectedly got tickets to the Return of Fly My Pretties at the Opera House on Friday night, and managed to find a babysitter, so off we went! It was a great show. I had been to the gig at the Paramount but I think I enjoyed this one even more. Maybe cos it wasn’t being [...]

The highlight of the weekend was Friday night’s kindy disco. And guess who was selected to be the DJ? Yes, yours truly. Due to peer pressure from fellow parents, I was forced to play Crazy Frog, the Wiggles, Hi-5 and Bob the Builder… if it had been up to me it would have been much [...]

Happy birthday Ren! Sorry to say we haven’t sent your present yet, but it WILL COME and it will be GOOD.
No tantys today from Harry thank god. Maybe it was an aberration?
I’m going out to dinner with my grandmother tonight who I haven’t seen for ten years, and then tomorrow she’s meeting the boys [...]

Harry turned 2 only a couple of weeks ago, but this morning we were treated to our first real toddler tantrum! Archie never really had tantrums so it was quite a shock to us. As I put him in the high chair for breakfast, he just started screaming his head off. Of course our first [...]

Jan had got to the end of her fulltime mummy tether by last Friday afternoon, so it was time for a weekend off from children. I took the boys up to my mother’s house in Greytown (about an hour’s drive from Wellington) for the weekend. They are both sick with colds and thus rather ratbaggery, [...]