water play

we have been lucky enough to have nice weather for the last couple of weeks, which means zara and i have had a couple of oppurtunities to hang out in water..... at home we empty our toy baskets and have one each




we have also made a couple of trips to bishops park which has a really cool paddling pool for littlies like us, one day we went with caiden and daisy and there was no time for mucking around with swimmers, it was a la natural for us :-)

hanging out with zara

Mum needs eyes in the back of her head

took about heading for trouble, and it takes two of us to keep an eye on her, I said "mum zara is standing on my chair" and mum was like "thats nice dear" and I said "mum zara is standing on my chair" and mum said "thats nice dear" but when I finally said "MUM ZARA IS STANDING ON MY CHAIR" mum said "OH MY GOD ZARA BE CAREFUL"

Its here

Yippee the bike is here, i was so excited i just about couldn't wait, but when mum opened the box it was all in peices and she said i had to wait until dad came home. But when i was asleep she put it together as a surprise so i gobbled up my lunch and off we went to the park



and the fun didn't stop there, with all good toys come boxes and boxes just spells fun with a capital F.

with a little help from me

no expanation required - I wanted to take a photo and although mum looks a little worried i think she thinks i did alright with this one, ok a little cropping was required they weren't quite as centered as they appear but all in all not a bad shot. watch out national geographic here i come!

a lion in the jungle

she's a fierce one this one.... zara daisy hanging out in the backyard while mum hangs out the washing. i was having a sleep so mum spent some quality time with zara...

here's some more photo's of my wee sister

hanging at home

with the countdown on to dad starting work - 2 more sleeps, we are enjoying chilling at home and playing with dad, he is really good at building towers and zara and i take great delight in knocking them down. nana has gone away to cornwall with uncle sean so there are no snaps of her today but she'll be back in the weekend. here are a couple of hanging out at home snaps, and one getting ready to go out snap

tate modern

along with what felt like every other londoner left in london on the long weekend, we set out on a cold and wet london day to visit the tate modern, an excursion well worth while and one we will definately take again. i had to wander through the galleries and find items of interest like monet's water lillies and picasso's candle/bottle, and we queued for 25 minutes to see two very large parrots and a crackly tv on channel 7.... the best part was having nana with us, it is very cool to have her in london.

there was plenty of time for just hanging so zara and i made the most of playing amongst the art with nana.

all in a days work

we had another one of those really lovely summer days in london today so mum put up our tent so we could have our lunch and play outside... she also took a couple of snaps, check out mums blog for more shots too

A Mothers Photography













A Mothers Photography

hanging out at home

mum dad zara and i are making the most of our last week at home together, thats right next week dad has to go to work so these happy times carefree days with two parents at home are about to come to an end. we are all in for a hell of a shock but seriously this happy family thing has gone too far, i mean look at the photo's we are always smiling and having fun, someones got to get out there and earn us some pounds, thanks dad your a sport, we'll miss you though.

when daisy came to visit

zara and i had our friend daisy come to visit, mum got out the old faithful popcorn and we had a popcorn picnic in the reception room (lounge). the highlight of daisy's day was definately the wiggles, although she was introduced to a lot of new things that we kiwi's see alot of
1. popcorn
2. wiggles
3. 2 minute noodles
4. vegemite
5. speights (joking)

we think daisy would be a great kiwi kid......

she also introduced a few things to me like
1. postman pat
2. wind the bobbin up
3. fimbles
4. paddington bear

i guess its lucky we are so universal