It's birthday party season at the moment with 4 parties over 2 weekends so it's been sugar central lately. The boys are getting very excited about their own birthday coming up now but it's hard to explain they have to wait for months!!

We had a real treat last weekend when our friends let us look after the lovely Jake who is 10 months old for the whole night. The boys absolutely loved having him here especially Jack who doted on him constantly. Ade and I had a lovely time with him - no answering back just smiling nicely and being gorgeous. It did make me clucky getting all the boys old baby blankets and cot out though!

We also had Mother's day this month which was lovely, the boys let me sleep in for an hour before giving me my breakfast in bed. They told me that my present was a surprise and they weren't going to tell me that it was a necklace...hehe guess what it was!!

We also had my uncle Peter here this weekend from Invercargil which has been great but unfortuatnely I've managed to get a horrible flu so I haven't been the best hostess this week! Adrian's been really busy over the last few weeks and was very excited when his van came back from the mechanic - I'll post some pictures once it's been signwritten.

Cute story for the week - I asked Tom what he wanted for his birthday and he thought really hard and then said, "I'd like a small cloud"....not sure where I'd buy one of those!

Lastly a few pics of our little fish at swimming lessons....

As you can see they are really looking forward to going to England!!

Busy few weeks around here, I’ll try to remember what we’ve been up too!

We had ANZAC day and I took the boys up to a local Fortress in Wrights Hill behind our place which was built in the second world war, it’s a fascinating place full of underground tunnels and was brilliant, the boys loved it and also the soldiers there for the day with there guns. Jack decided he wants to be a soldier when he grows up but then told us that he also wants to be a Mechanic, Astronaut and Superhero so he’ll be busy! Tom was busy telling the soldiers all about why we have ANZAC day, he told them that we have the day “cos the soldiers all died and we have to remember them" he then looked at them and said "but you didn’t die though” - I'm sure they were pleased about that!

Adrian was working on a girls school production on Joseph which Jack gorgeously called “Joseph and his favourite jumper with lots of colours”. Adrian and I took them to the show and they loved it sitting riveted to the stage and have been singing the songs ever since. Adrian’s work is going well with the opening of the comedy festivals last week, the Opera this week and next week it’s the comedy festival so very full on. He’s also extra happy as he brought a van, it’s getting a bit of work done but it’s going to make a great difference to him being able to get around with all his gear.

We've now got a new camera so more pics and updates next week.