Lachie had a great day yesterday, at Starlights in the morning and then to play with Ben & Zac briefly in the afternoon.

Fletcher now has all four teeth on top - they just need to grow full size.

Me & the boys playing before bed, a few nights ago. That's a shape sorter on our heads.

Last week Jamie bought a new mountain bike off a guy from work. He's gone for a ride over to Ohope via Burma Road, to try it out. (We sold his old one thru' an ad in the Beacon - it sold in about 2 hours and we had lots of calls about it over last weekend and even thru' the week!)

Lachie went to stay with his Nana and Grandad yesterday so it's pretty quiet around our place. This morning Me Jamie & Fletcher went for a drive over to Ohope.

We had two lots of people through the house yesterday but nothing to get excited about. I don't know what happened with the people who came through twice last weekend.

Its a really beautiful day here today - and warm! So hopefully we will get out for a walk later.

I hope you enjoy that photos, the first in a while. Ben and Zac were here briefly on Monday afternoon which is when I snapped Ben & Fletcher.

Its been a quiet week - no news on the house front. Just been up to the usuals!

You gotta watch this

where was I....?

OK, yes some people did come through the house today so lucky I went and tidied up when I did. While they were here I went down and caught up with Sarah & Zac. At 12pm I picked up Lachie from Starlights and he is still at Zac's playing.

This morning we discovered a cat that had been under our house for a few days. A couple of nights ago I heard a cat meowing and thought, "I bet that cat is under our house", but then by morning I had forgotten about it. Yesterday afternoon when we got home from Lake Rotoma, we heard it under the deck. We have no idea how it got under there. Anyway, Jamie fished him out this morning. Fortunately, he had a collar on with his name, address & phone number. He was Oscar, all the way from 61 James St (we are 224), so he went on quite a hike! He had been missing from his place for about two weeks. Lachie kept calling him "Poscar" which I think was a combination of "Puss Puss", "Oscar" and "Priska" - who is one of his carers at Starlights!

Lastly, yesterday I went to an open day at Port Ohope, a bunch of new sections have come on the market. Where would you buy - Coastlands or Port Ohope?? Leave me a comment or drop me a line!

Well it's been a week, where do I begin??

The latest drama was that the contract on our house fell over on Friday (the 7th). The girl who wanted it unfortunately couldn't get the finance. However, that disappointment was blunted by the fact that we had two people lined up to come through for a look, at the same time as we found out it was not going unconditional.

So we had another lady through on Saturday morning and she came back with her man yesterday afternoon.

Anyway, I've just had a call that some one else wants to come through this morning, so I better go tidy up in case that does happen. More later!

Monday Monday

I'm sure I have entitled many a post with that, but however.

Lovely sunny day.
Boys in bed.
Breakfast dishes done.
Grocery shopping done.
Laundry done.
Just got to get ready for dinner!

Just taking a moment to check things on the compooter. We had a good weekend. Saturday morning I went to the Ohope Craft Market with Abby, which was fun. Then I had my sister-in-law's baby shower at 12pm so that took up most of the afternoon.

We had an open home yesterday afternoon but I suspect nothing will come of that - the girl who has the contract on it came through with her pals, a single lady, and another couple. Apparently the couple thought it a little small and the single lady didn't say much at all (apart from that it was a nice place, of course).

This morning I went and did the groceries at 8am - before Lachie went to Starlights. I thought I did pretty well considering I left my shopping list at home!!

Have a good day!

We got a conditional offer on our house yesterday. So that's pretty cool. But I think I am experiencing a bit of "seller's remorse"..! All going to plan it will be unconditional on 7 September.

And that's all I have to say about that!

Its been a busy weekend!

Saturday morning we went up to Joseph's for his first birthday party. So it was fun to catch up with friends there. During the party, I got a call from our real estate agent and we set up a time for people to view our house at 4.30pm. So we came home around 12pm, put the boys down for their naps and tidied the place up! I took the boys and Zac to the park during the viewing. Anyway the people stayed for ages and the agent said it went very well. We will hear exactly how well tomorrow - whether they make an offer or not! Meantime, we got another call this afternoon and have someone else coming for a look at 10am Monday!!

Me and Jamie are now all "Bourne-d Out". We want to go and see The Bourne Ultimatum, so we decided we had better rent the first two out so we know what is going on. We had to get The Bourne Identity on VHS! The lady at the store asked Jamie "do you still have a video player?". Hmmm...anyway we might get to the flicks this week.

This afternoon me and Lachie went to the Wintersons as it is Zac's 4th birthday today. Lachie had a great time playing with all the trains and I had a great time gas bagging to Sarah & Gaynoll. Jamie wasn't feeling very well so he stayed home with Fletcher - sounds like the two of them slept the afternoon away!

Hopefully I will have more news on the house front tomorrow night! Have a great week.

On the Market

We listed our house for sale this week.

Click here if you want to see the real estate agent's page on the Web.

We would like to buy a section and build a new house. So we will see how that pans out. Of course I will keep you posted. The house was listed Wednesday morning and we in fact had someone through that afternoon. But I don't think anything will come of that - the agent said they were just seeing what their money could buy here in town. It sure was a nice way to kick things off! We are not having an open home this weekend, but next. I do not know how I am going to keep the place tidy enough - and I think we need to do a bit more tidying up over the weekend!

Jamie's gone fishing today....me and the boys went for lunch at the Rose Gardens, a play at the playground and a few jobs in town. The unfortunate thing about this particular stage we are in is that Fletcher has a morning and afternoon nap, while Lachie only has an afternoon nap. So by the time we got out the door at 11.15am, after Fletcher's nap, Lachie has started to head downhill and we have only 2 hours before we have to be home for his nap. I imagine in another 6 - 8 months they will both be napping around the same time.

Another busy weekend tidying up around the place - we had one friend come over to prune our trees and another to do some plastering! Jamie will be doing some painting over the next few nights - after our new bifold door was put in two years ago we never finished it off properly. So by the end of the week it will be done!

Sunday night we went to the Wintersons to celebrate Ben's 7th birthday! Happy birthday Ben. We got him some cool quiz cards so it was fun asking him the questions, and being asked. He's a clever cookie, that boy.

Lachie was playing with a microphone at their place too - he was so cute singing away with his microphone (the Harold song) and then Martin got out his video camera.

I went to work last Thursday while Jamie stayed home with the boys which was great. And Friday I didn't do much ' cos I had a wee cold. But that healed up really quickly.

Fletcher has two teeth coming through up top - and I can see a couple more on the way. He can now get himself from his tummy back to sitting up.

Jamie and I are going to do a session (hopefully more) of a Marriage Enrich course. So last night we started off by filling in a questionnaire about our marriage that gets sent to a computer for analysis.

More soon!

Here is Fletcher and I guess you would call it his 'commando crawl'. He's just been doing it in the last couple of days.

See Fletcher Crawl!

Some pix of the boys

Fletcher likes to stand up in the bath now!

Fletcher in his highchair watching his brother's antics

Its a cold night here - colder than we've had for a while. Jamie is working a late shift so I am on my way to the woodshed for more firewood!

Over the weekend me and Jamie got into some spring cleaning. Jamie washed the house, which took most of the day. I cleaned skirting boards and ceilings and walls. And the oven - I did such a great job I kept peeking inside to see how shiny it was. I felt sad that I had to spoil it by making lasagne last night. Lachie stayed with his grandparents for the weekend so that we could attend to our tasks pretty much uninterrupted. But Jamie did wake Fletcher up from his afternoon nap by cleaning outside his bedroom window.

I went to the orthodontist last week. You see, I have a tooth coming through and there is no room for it, and my bite is all wrong. He said that I could do with braces, but I don't have to. Something will eventually have to be done. So I've just got to decide whether I have $5000 to spare for orthodontist bills!!

Fletcher is now pulling himself up on the furniture and sort of crawling around. He doesn't know how to use his legs properly - he gets into crawling position but doesn't know what to do next. I've tried to show him!

Lachlan is also great. I was reading a magazine last night and he pointed out the letters 2 and 0 on the cover to me! How impressive was that?

I also took both the boys to the Plunket nurse this morning after coffee group and they are both going great. Unfortunately I can't compare them at similar ages - I missed Fletcher's 5 month check (but did get to Lachie's) and I missed Lachie's 9 month check (but did get Fletcher's). She said I should take Lachlan to see the dental nurse. That shouldn't be a problem, he loves brushing his teeth lately and loves the taste of the toothpaste.

Bye for now!