The last week in pics

Maddison's class dressed up in Malaysian costume for a song/dance performance at a school assembly last week.

 Aaron got new soccer shoes which Samuel thought were his for a while!  ;-)

 Last Saturday we went to a BBQ with a bunch of "kiwi's" associated with the school.  Was a lovely evening - heaps of food and the kids enjoyed the pool.

 I didn't let Samuel go swimming because of his cold, but he had great fun in the playground.

 Sunday afternoon Aaron and Maddison made a lego game.

 It was pretty neat.  They threw a dice and then moved their mini figures around the board.  :-)

 Tuesday Samuel had his first visit to the dentist.  He quite liked being able to "spit" in the basin all the time hehee

 Today at school the kids wore yellow for a fund raiser for cancer children.

Maddison had a dance a thon in the morning which I went along too.  Such fun to watch them leaping and hopping about hehee  Do you like her "brown banana"???  (That's what she called her bandanna hehee she couldn't pronounce it properly!)  :-)

 Doing a spot of break dancing!

and heel kicking!

Tonight we've had a practice for our New Zealand performance at the school's United Nations concert early next month.  The room we were practicing in had floor to ceiling mirrors along one wall ... Maddison thought it was WONDERFUL and spent much of her time swinging her Maori poi's around, dancing and leaping about looking at herself the entire time and generally getting in everyone's way!  Sigh ... I live in hope she will be somewhat more restrained and at least looking part of the NZ kids on the day of the performance!  ;-)

That's what's been happening around here!  Tomorrow's biggest task is getting Samuel's hair cut - if you hear a little boy screaming, don't worry ... it will just be him!  For some reason he doesn't like getting his hair cut at all!  He's well overdue for a cut though, I could put his hair in pig tails at the moment I reckon!

Thanks for visiting.

What's been happening ...

I'll start with Samuel!  He's been having lots of fun with all his animals ... we don't go out of the house with at least a "horssse, horssse and ellee (horse, zebra and elephant)!  :-)  Still working on him saying zebra!  haha

We didn't have his birthday party on Saturday as Maddison was sick on Friday night and Samuel was a little bit too, so we decided to be safe and cancel the party (we have rescheduled for the following Saturday).  Turns out there were a few from Maddison's class that were sick over the weekend I found out this morning!  You might recall that we've been to a few Dr's about a rash Samuel has on his arms and sometimes on his stomach and back.  He's had it about a month now, the 1st Dr said it was hand foot and mouth, 2nd said it was measles, 3rd said bacterial skin infection and gave us some steroid cream, which cleared it up within 24 hours ... BUT after 3 days I missed a night and a morning putting the cream on and it came back with a vengeance and I haven't been able to clear it up since.  So back to the Dr's again and this time she said she wasn't sure and referred us to a dermatologist ... and we have to wait 2 weeks for an appointment!  I decided to get yet another opinion since that Dr was the one that said he had measles and last Friday went to a pediatrician, who said he had contact dermatitis.  So now I have to wait another week for our appointment with the dermatologist.  I do hope we can get it cleared up before we go on holiday next month ... it looks awful!  Mind you the shock of the cold weather we will be heading to might freeze it off him hehehee ;-)  Just glad that it doesn't seem to be bothering him as far as being itchy goes.

One day last week Aaron's school had student lead conferences ... so Samuel and I went along to listen to Aaron tell us all about what he had learnt and show us his work folders.

 Samuel was great and sat in the pram and played with the teacher's lion and hippo :-)

We've had trips to the dentist.  A LOT different to my days at primary school I can tell you!  I didn't get to wear funky sun glasses - all I seem to remember is a foot controlled pedal drill that made the most terrible noise!  

The Dentist was lovely and showed the kids how to brush their teeth.  Mind you it's very easy to practice on a set of teeth that aren't surrounded by cheeks and you can open the jaw back 180 degs heheee

I won't even go into the hideous traffic we've experienced the last week coming home from spelling tuition!  I will just say it was painful ... very very painful!

Lots and lots happening over the next 3 weeks!  The end of the school year is fast coming to a close.  My diary is chock-a-block!  I have some serious amount of baking & cooking to do as well! Maddison has requested a special cake for her school leaving party (she's been accepted into Aaron's school for August, so super excited about that) ... the trouble is she can't make her mind up  exactly what cake she wants!

Right better get off here.  Thanks for visiting - have a great week.