Monday's doings

Monday is Jett's day off so we went to the Museum.  They had an exhibition on Moana -my ocean and the children are always keen on seeing things there anyways!  So, here is Owen...

And Keith.

 And Amelia and Owen.

 And Bridget a model of a real life great white shark.  The kids thought this was pretty neat. Not at all scary.

 Daddy giving the fake penguin a tickle.

 After the museum we went to the North Shore.  Long Bay has a lovely adventure park, and they have expanded it since we were there last year with John and Naomi.  The kids of course REALLY enjoyed this part.

 And of course the next bit was just as exciting...the beach!

 Looking out.

 Hahaha, I look thrilled.  It was very hard keeping track of two boys who wanted to run straight in the water!!

 As you can see!

 They thoroughly soaked their pants but they had such fun I couldn't hold them back!

 Splash splash!

 Our only daughter.

 And look what Aaron found!

 I thought he was joking at first, but nope it was a real life starfish!

 We tried taking our own portrait and agreed this one looked nice.

And of course this is supposed to be winter here in NZ!  And instead we've been enjoying spring temps and gorgeous sunny days.  Soo nice! :)  

We've been stressed (or maybe it is just me) over our visa's because they were returned...we have to get medicals for another two of our children so hopefully Monday we can send it all back to them....such stressful times! 

Randomness again

It has been another busy week here.  Schooling the kids...and uhm, not much else.  There has been a couple of nice days this week and we took advantage of the sunny weather.  

Owen really took to Amelia's helmet and to her bike, and to her pillow she got...uh yeah. :)

 

He also has a dirty mouth here...but who is checking? :)

These are my kefir grains which are starting to multiply...ahh!  I make it instead of buying lots of buttermilk for a certain person in our family.  ;)  I want to find a good recipe for blueberry kefir... that would be yum.

Here is Amelia doing a science experiment.  Actually it was another birthday present she kindly received from a friend.  They really make you "dress up" for this.

 She found it fun, and Aaron found it interesting too.

 Owen enjoying a wee ride on Amy's bike.  He has to be pushed around because his legs aren't quite long enough to reach the pedals.

And here is my 1 yr old going on 3 or 4...*sigh* he just has to be doing what the older ones are doing!

My son giving me a goofy grin finally!  Very hard to get him to smile at the camera lately.

 Whereas this guy has the opposite problem... :D  And yes that is my pointed nose.  I inherited from my mother lol!

Right, and the last thing I should say is we submitted our visa's this week...so hopefully within a couple of weeks we'll hear back to see whether we can stay or ...  

Right, I'm done my hokey pokey ice cream (think vanilla ice cream with the crunchie bar in it minus the chocolate...very yum) on to other things. :)