It feels like we’re living in the tropics this weekend in Wellington with hot humid weather and that feeling when you’re waiting for the rain to come and cool it all down again (it just arrived!) The busy Xmas season has started and we’ve been busy all week buying presents, making cards and decorating Christmas trees but we managed a nice family weekend all the same.

Adrian spent Saturday morning helping Chris and Sue insulate their new house so I took the boys Christmas shopping to the busiest mall in the world so we gave up and had Devonshire tea instead (we all finished covered in jam and cream – lovely), then we met Adrian for a play in the park in the sun. Adrian and I even managed a brief night out of Saturday as the lovely Mel is off home for the holidays so it was our last chance to have a babysitter for a couple of months. Sunday was absolutely glorious so we had a great day at the beach. The boys chased seagulls, dipped their toes in the water and got covered in sand and ice-cream.

Well I can confirm that the boys will be New Zealand’s answer to the “Cray Twins”, the crèche told me this week that Thomas was in a slight “altercation” with his friend Bethany over a favourite push car and when he couldn’t get her off he got quite upset. Jack “bully boy” O’Donnell, came to Tom’s rescue and sorted Bethany out getting her off the car and giving it to Tom. Now I have to say that although this behaviour is not something I would like to encourage, I couldn’t help feeling a little proud of them all the same.

The boy’s vocabulary is motoring along and we have to be much more careful of what we say. This week they had us in hysterics when they started copying their mum by standing at the hall door shouting “ADE, ADE” complete with mummy’s fishwife accent.

Have a great week everybody.