Happy Birthday Adrian

Sorry folks kept you waiting an extra week this week but we're all feeling a lot better so we've been rushing around with work and lots of visiting!

Last weekend we spent Saturday morning in the gardens with Ben and his mum Linda before an afternoon of visiting friends Nigel and Cat and their little boy Sam who was delightful as always. Then we had a pizza night with Jeremy, Anna, Libby and Simon, Val, Al, Tyler and Jessica. It was great but raucous with all the children, and I did laugh to myself thinking of us all pre-children having lovely sophisticated dinner parties in the old days! Sunday morning Adrian took the boys on their Sunday adventure to Fidels, Te Papa and then to the skateboard park to watch the skaters and the boys were fascinated and sat watching for ages. Jack then asked "daddy, could you ask those boys if I can borrow a skateboard?"......ahhhh. Then in the afternoon we headed to Marc, Tis and baby Fynn's for the afternoon.

This week of course was dominated by Adrian's birthday on Wednesday, I think the boys were more excited than daddy (possibly because all birthday's must involve cake) so Adrian finished work early and we had a little family party with Jeremy, Anna, Simon and Libby coming over and had chocolate cake that the boys and I made, fairy bread, jammy dodgers, cherio's with sauce and Adrian's favourite egg mayonaise sandwiches. It was a lovely party and that night Adrian and I even managed a nice night out in town to celebrate in adult style with wine and beer involved.

It's been so busy for us with work this week that we were really looking forward to this weekend and had perfect weather for a great day at the beach eating icrecream and visits to the park. Adrian and I also had a great night out on Saturday for our friend Al's 40th birthday which he had on the Eastbourne Ferry which he booked for the night, it was an open bar with pizza for everyone and it was a perfect still night on the water (thank god!). We headed out to Sommes Island where we stopped for 3 hours then back to Wellington before midnight, it was a great night but free drinks are a great idea at the time but a bad idea the next morning!

Cute stories for the week: I went to the toilet while the boys were in the bath and Tom looked at me and laughed - "what's funny" I asked and he giggled and said "you have really big underpants mummy" (I'm buying some g-strings this week!)

Jack woke up from a nap this week and I asked him if he had a nice dream, he got really upset and when I asked him why he cried and said "I forgot, I forgot to have a dream mummy".

The boys told me in the car this week that they were looking forward to going home with daddy "cause he's gonna tickle us", I said "he's a good tickler isn't he" and they replied "yeh, he's a better tickler than you mummy, he does fast tickles and you only do slow ones", dad's eh!

Pic below, the boys are really into cutting with sissors at the moment especially Tom, when I said to him he was a really good chopper, he said "I'm not chopping mummy I'm sissoring!"