School Holidays

The kids have holidays this week and I have been very lucky to have my darling husband at home this week too :-) (phew!!)

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Monday we went to the airport, Tuesday we ended up having a day at home, Wednesday we went to a mall and the kids went to the MUCH requested "dinosaur playground"! I don't actually think it had anything much to do with dinos at all, but there are dinosaurs on their sign so that's what Aaron calls it. It was a bit like a Chipmunks playground in New Zealand. Thursday we went to KLCC Aquaria (which is very similar to Kelly Tarlton's in Auckland). So here's a few photos from yesterday's adventure.

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This tank of fish at the beginning was neat.

A look at the top of the tank.
Shark.
You can't really see her here as she's in the pram between Lyndon & Aaron (you might be able to a bit if you click on the pic to make it bigger), but Maddison had her mouth wide open when I took the photo. She was pointing out a shark and saying "ooookk (look) Daddy it's a shark!" hehee
Lyndon laughed when he saw this eel so he had to take a photo of it.

Taken from a viewing window outside of the tunnel.
Stingray.
A couple of schools of fish.

Mother and her children (not sure if Maddison belongs or not heheee ... why does she insist on being goofy when you want to take pics???)
After we'd been around the moving walkway 3 times we decided it was time to leave! So on the way back to the car we had a stop at a clothing shop for me (and surprise surprise I managed to get a couple of tops), and of course Lyndon's choice of shop ... watches :-) He was good though and just looked ;-)

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While he was looking, Aaron entertained Samuel by whistling to him hehee (it entertained me as well!) :-)

"Did you like that Baby Samuel?" :-)
Friday - we haven't done much today. Kids have played around this morning ... Aaron did a bit of coughing (mostly fake!) so Maddison took off to the bedroom and came back with Bob the Builder & his torch. She shone the torch into his mouth to check his throat and checked out his back (they have discovered that Aaron has a spine and you can feel the bones ... Maddison's is too well covered hehee) :-)

Then Aaron read his dino book to Maddison :-)
This little munchkin was 4 weeks old yesterday :-) These pics were taken just after he'd had a shower this morning. Love his spiky hairdoo.
And the fingers :-)
And this is his big brother! This photo was taken when he was 6 days old. I think Aaron's face is a bit rounder ... Samuel's is more oval.
Ahhh you do forget how little they were!

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Right - now it's raining with thunder & lightening and I have got a mountainous pile of laundry to sort out and put away, so better get to it.

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Another Photo Catch Up

We seem to have been rather busy the last few days ... our friends have wanted to catch up with Mum before she left, so we have been very popular! ;-)

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Discovered Mum taking some photos of Samuel ... oh no it's twins! ;-) heehee (3 weeks old in this pic)

Maddison has had fun dressing up in Aaron's bear costume ... but Aaron wasn't interested in getting into her sailor outfit! I wonder why! heheee

Admiring herself in the mirror! ;-)
The kids have been busy doing some colouring.

Being groovy with their shades on :-)
That's my Daddy with the camera!
Saturday lunch we went to a Chinese restaurant with some friends ... these lychees were part of the dessert.
On the way home we did some ticki-touring to check out some of the local real estate tucked in among the construction of new condos!!

Can you imagine the stench from this rubbish bin ... and under those big umbrellas were "shops or stalls" and some of them selling food!
3 motorways above the one we were on!
Sunday lunch we were taken out by some other friends to a dim sim restaurant.
How not to eat with chopsticks! (it will end up on the floor!)
Aaron drunk more than he ate!
Monday we took Mum to the airport :-( We left home about 10.30 am ... traffic was pretty steady. Spot the train?
Traffic was really scarce after about 30 minutes.
I think this is what we would call "in-fill housing" in New Zealand hehee ... the photos don't show it justice because it was hazy and I was just snapping out the window as we were driving. But you will get the idea I think.
So many houses exactly the same ... for miles and miles!
HAPPY (not) kids ... they so didn't want their photos taken - they just wanted to go back to the playground.
So that's us. This morning we haven't done anything much at all! Caught up a bit with the laundry and watched the kids make huts in "Grandma's" bedroom with pillows and blankets!

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Grandma is back safe in NZ, but not home yet ... another 8 hours or so before then ... been a long trip home for her. We are missing her already ... but like she says, she has to go home so she can come back hehee :-) Thanks Grandma for EVERYTHING. :-) And thanks too to Grandad for letting her come :-)

School Concert

This morning the kids participated in their school concert. It was an early start as we had to get them to the venue before 9am!! We made it in good time though and got front row seats (unfortunately right in front of the speakers, but thankfully it didn't seem to worry Samuel ... he slept on throughout the noise!).

The concert was based on the topics the kids had studied in the last 5 months - animal kingdom, dinosaurs & everyday transportation.

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Maddison's class were supposed to dance & boogie to a couple of songs (The Big Ship & Put Your Hands on Your Hips). Maddison just stood on the stage with her hands in her mouth! She appeared to be stage struck like a few others in her class heehee But they looked pretty cute with their little sailor costumes on :-)

Aaron's class had joined up with another class and did as song/skit about "Going to the Zoo".
Aaron told us he was a big brown bear, but I think they were Panda Bears! ;-) They had elephants, monkeys, bears & seals in "cages" and there were 3 "visitors" inspecting the animals and when they got to each cage those animals stood up and did a sort of dance depending on which animal they were (e.g. the monkeys did a lot of scratching hehee, the bears were supposed to be growling I think!!) LOL
Aaron didn't do much growling hehee
Samuel did a fair bit of frowning when he wasn't sleeping.
The last part of the show all the kids were on stage together and they danced to "Everybody Walk the Dinosaur" & "Best Years of Our Lives". Maddison really got into the dancing this time - not sure if it was the chocolate bar she had clenched in her hand which was the incentive to dance heheee
Here's Aaron's costume.
Complete with tail :-)

And Maddison's (spot the choc bar!).
This was at the end of the show - Aaron had already asked for his face paint to be wiped off.
Was a fun morning. All the kids were sooooo cute on stage whether they were getting into their act or just standing staring at the crowd hehee

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Leak fixed

And tiling replaced ... but I do believe the plumber/tiler might be colour blind! Does the grout look like it matches in with the existing to you? LOL

Oh well at least it's fixed and the shower can be used again! He did clean up after himself this time as well which was a relief!

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