One more month of winter...

We are all so glad winter is almost over and looking forward to using the warmer weather and our garden. Nathan just has too much energy to be cooped up inside , and is really wanted to get outside and play with his toys. You know boys and their toys!

So another quiet week at home, besides Playgroup and the ELC Centre (for Nate) we have not done much. Oh the victory blind guy came over the other day to measure the windows that need blinds.

So Guess what that means... I certainly hope you are all sitting down for this. The house is pretty much finished. Woohoo about time. The builder only has one small job to do now, which he is waiting for dry weather and not windy (which we have had a lot of wind and rain). As he needs to get up on the roof to do the last job.

Then we need to organise carpet in the kids rooms and blinds in the all the other rooms. Nige has not done much more on Nathans bed so we are not in any hurry for the carpet. He is using the rooms (yes both) to paint the car part of Nathan's bed, and the other room has the bed frame in there. Nige has been busy this weekend trying our new tent out... well putting it up and seeing how it all works. And also making a cabinet for the laundry so l finally have somewhere for my washing powder and out of reach of little ones....

Tahlia is getting more confident in her walking with assistance. She is a character as you can tell in these photos, she is blowing raspberries while walking all the way to me.

She is pulling herself up on everything now, and loves "wally" our vacumn cleaner, leans on it and has a "chat" to it. She is very fast with her crawling now and loves to chase Nathan around when she ever gets a chance. She also loves bathtime with her brother and loves the ABC letters that stick on the bathtub... and gums on them all the time in the bath.

Yes that means poor little girl still has no teeth. She is a bit fussier then Nathan was at this age with food. Her favourites would be banana, loves her veggies but is not too keen on meat at this stage. Where as Nathan loves his meat but not keen on veggies.

I made the joke to Nige the other day "Oh well that will save on food, one meal between them and Nate can eat the meat and Tahlia can have the veggies".. lol

Wednesday was the anniversary of mum's kidney transplant and now has made 16 years with the new kidney. So we all went out for tea to celebrate the milestone. Nathan enjoyed seeing everyone (as it is not often we are all together). There is even some funny photos of them eating lemons... and they both love them... no joke. The things we give our kids!

Lemons, we love lemons..... yum









Tahlia and Aunty Tori

Tahlia and Uncle Stu
Tahlia with Poppy

Some more funny photos of Tahlia standing at the toybox and yes blowing raspberries as usual. She is not very often without her raspberry blowings.

Nige finally has been able to put together his BBQ l brought him for our anniversary last weekend.I know it was late but we have been waiting for our patio to be done so the BBQ has somewhere to call home.

So that meant a lot of empty boxes to play with. Nige made a cubby house but then it turned out more like a pirate ship for the kids to play in. Nathan and Tahlia (as you can see) love it.And also it entertained Nathan on a cold and windy Saturday morning.

Well best get tea ready now as we are out to see the Watoto Childrens Choir tonight. Be back next week with some more adventures from the Murden Clan.