Time is flying past ...

Grandad & Nana have been here over a week already! We've been busy :-) Thursday last week we went to Port Dickson for a few days. Stopped off for lunch on our way and enjoyed yummy fruit drinks :-)

Kids were pretty good over the few days actually. They had some new colouring and activity books which kept them busy! (Maddison is choosing a pink crayon!!)

Today we went to Batu Caves in the heat! Went after lunch ... it was pretty warm climbing up those 272 steps! I took it VERY VERY slowly and was sort of jealous of Maddison having a lift! LOL (Didn't ask Lyndon to piggy back me though heheee)

At the top of the steps there were some men with a snake & an iguana. Maddison was fascinated by the snake, so we paid RM10 so we could take photos of her holding it ... and after Lyndon paid the money and she was sitting there like that, all these other people gathered around taking pics ... should have started a collection! (Why would you take photos of someone else holding a snake when you don't even know who they are (even if she is kinda cute?) Sure beats me! I mean do they scrapbook? With a caption ... "Unknown little girl holding snake"!!)

She didn't like it moving though, she got a good grip around it's neck heeehehe, think she thought it was going to get away on her! LOL

Another lot of steps! Lyndon & Aaron are half way up and Nana & Maddison just heading to the steps.
This big daddy monkey was hanging around ... think I remember him from last time! (nasty thing)
On the way back we got some pics of the kids feeding the iguana.

Here's Maddison leaf.
Gobble, gobble!
And Aaron decided he was brave enough to try ... after Maddison had fed it about 4-5 leaves hehehe ... took him a while to accept it.
But he did eventually.
Oh bother ... we have to get all the way back down there!
This monkey was very protective of this bottle of milk ... was having a hard time opening it though.
Tonight Lyndon has taken his parents to Chinatown ... wonder if they are persuaded to buy things they had no intention of at ridiculous prices, and I wonder if Lyndon will be tempted by any of the watches!! LOL

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I still haven't finished my Christmas shopping ... I have 2 more presents to get and have NO idea what to get that's the problem! Oh well ... something will come to mind hopefully in the next 24 hours hehee

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Grandad & Nana are getting on good ... Grandad is being MOST adventurous with the food! I am impressed ... he's even trying things I've never tried (and have no intention of trying either!) heheee. At Port Dickson Nana told him that this little bowl of 'wild ginger & chilli' was very hot & spicy. But Grandad decided he'd try it hehehee ... but instead of putting it with some food he took the tiniest bit and put it straight into his mouth :-) His eyes watered a bit (and he reached for his water glass pretty quick!). Very brave of him I'd say!

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Okay I have to head to bed. I'm exhausted after today's climbing efforts ... my legs were like jelly by the time I got down off all those steps!

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Thanks for visiting and Happy Christmas to you all if I don't get back on here before Christmas Day :-)

Quick Update

Quick update before we head away for a few days with Nana & Grandad :-)

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They arrived on Monday, their plane was delayed which wasn't so good for them, but meant that we didn't have to wake the kids up so early! ;-) While we were waiting at the airport Maddison had extreme fun in the soft toy shop and took particular liking to this very large B-J!! (no she didn't take him home!)

The kids were that excited about seeing Nana & Grandad that they had a sleep in the afternoon - Maddison had 2 hours and Aaron had 3 ... I had to wake him :-)

Tuesday we spent some time after lunch in the playground playing ball ...

And showing off on the see-saw!
Then we went swimming to cool off :-)

Yesterday, Nana, Maddison & I walked down to the Plaza as I needed some more cornflour to finish making a batch of biscuits and we got caught in a major rain storm! We had to have a frosty lemon tea :) while we waited for the rain to slacken off a bit! hehehee So that's been us. Haven't time for more woffle! Will have to do an update when we get back.

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And I know I haven't posted pics of my card class! Very slack of me sorry ... been a bit busy. Was a lovely afternoon though ... small class, but lots of fun. Didn't actually take any pics during class, although I think Val did. But I will post pics of what we created next week.

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Thanks for visiting. :-)

Card Class #2 Sneak Peek

Tomorrow (Saturday, 12 December, 2-5pm) I'm teaching another card class at Scrap-n-Crop. If you are interested you can sign up here. Details of what to bring to class are here.

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Just thought I'd show a tiny sneak of about a quarter of what we'll be creating in the class. There's so many fun products and tools we'll be playing with :-)

This photo doesn't do the class justice really!

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Thanks for visiting and if you can make it tomorrow, I'd love to see you there :-)

A few pics

Wondering if I actually remember how to blog! It's been a while ... here's just a few pics of what we (well the kids!) have been doing the last few days.

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Last Thursday we put the Christmas tree up ... while they were waiting for me to put some things away Aaron was playing the "drum" on the Christmas tree box!

I put the lights on (only 3 sets this year!) and the kids did most of the rest of it (with some guidance ... although I don't know why I bothered as it's been arranged so many times since hehee). What made me laugh the most was when I was setting the tree up Aaron was busy telling Maddison and I how it went together and which piece went on first etc. etc. and then at the end he says "ya got all that?"!!!!! What on earth! I just laughed ... he must have heard that a few times at school I think ... don't recall me saying that to him :-)

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Here's 'Mr Know It All' fiddling with the control for the musical set of lights! ("You do it like this ya know Mummy!")

On Friday morning after taking the kids to school I discovered Aaron had been busy adding a few extra "decorations"! :-)
So ... Friday was their last day at school for the year. It was a pot-luck party and they could wear their favorite costume. Well I'll confess now ... this mother doesn't have a dress up box for her kids! (deprived I know). Anyway I asked Aaron (out of curiosity) what he'd like to wear to school as it was a costume party. He said he didn't want to wear his Indian costume hehehee ... I thought not! ;-) Then he said he wanted to go as "Ben 10" (bother it all!). So off I went hunting for a Ben 10 tee-shirt (my way of getting around a costume! cheaper too!) He's VERY proud of it ... I can't stand the jolly thing, but anyway he's happy! I bought Maddison a new dress and thought she could wear the butterfly wings she got for her 2nd birthday. But she was just pleased as punch with the dress and didn't want anything to do with the wings ... so no costume bits for her!

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Here they are ready to go to school with their backpacks on and a little bag holding some "Christmas treats" for the other kids in their class.

Later on in the morning I went back to school and took the camera hoping to get some photos of the kids with the teachers. Maddison wasn't at all obliging, but I did get a nice one of Aaron.

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When I arrived Maddison's class were having "lunch" ... if you could call a bowl of popcorn and the mini muffins I made with icing and sprinkles on it lunch! I understand they had their "desserts" first! LOL Needless to say Maddison didn't eat much of the other stuff (e.g. pasta). Was interesting to see too that she wasn't the only little one to lick all the icing and sprinkles off the muffin and leave the actual muffin on the plate heheee

In the afternoon once they were home Maddison asked for some more sprinkles so I gave her another muffin ... this is the correct order of things in eating it (e.g. sprinkles & icing first) ;-)

Saturday I discovered more activity in the Christmas tree ... Aaron had been "driving" hot wheels cars around about and in and out!!

I tell you the tree decorations are changing every day ... several things have been broken all ready. Luckily there's nothing priceless or extremely precious in amongst the decorations is all I can say!. We've had the tree for 14 years and interesting enough the decorations we bought at the same time are the ones he's attacking and breaking first! (all the little red, silver & gold apples). Last year it was Maddison chewing them that destroyed several, this year it's Aaron whacking them about with a section of his hot wheels track, which he informs me is a very good bat!!!

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So school is finished ... I have survived the 2nd day of the holidays! ;-) This afternoon we spent some time in the playground ... these two rascals spent a lot of time "driving" their cars in and out of the fountain!

And I love this pic of Maddison's hair after she'd come down the slide hehehe

Lyndon is in Japan this week ... hopefully this is the last of his travels this year. And next Monday Nana & Grandad arrive! :-) Every day (and more than once a day!) Aaron asks if it's time to go to the airport to pick them up hehehee I told him he has 6 more sleeps yet, but he said no it's just one! I suppose 6 sounds like forever for him!

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Thanks for visiting.

Have to record this ...

Before I forget!!

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I've been wearing one of my new tops today and Aaron asked me where my tummy was LOL (as if it wasn't obvious!!). So I pulled the top tight and said "it's right here"! He goes "Oh" and has a feel. So I decided to ask him if he thought the baby would be a little boy or a little girl. He looked at me and then at my tummy and said "a baby girl, because his name is Zapnia" (spelling it like he pronounced it!)!!! My eyes popped out a little and I tried not to laugh out loud and I asked him "do you have any other girls names you like?" hehehee He then proceeded to list a few names of girls that are either in his class at school or that he knows ;-)

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I said "don't you think it would be a little strange if we had a little baby girl with a Chinese or Indian name in our little New Zealand family?" He promptly said "No, because it's not Chinese". LOL (at least he has that right!!)

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At that I dropped the subject!!

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I think Aaron's conversations about this coming baby are only going to get more and more interesting :-)

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p.s. we won't be calling the baby Zapnia if it's a girl! lol