Six day’s on and we’re doing great. Alice is feeding well, calm, placid and a little charmer. She’s already worked her magic on Charli and Sophie, who are absolutely besotted with her.
Of course Dan and I have felt exhausted for much of the week, but now it’s the weekend and we’ve both had [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on August 17th, 2009 9 Comments »
All these virtues were met with reward on Sunday.
Patience was Charli waiting a year to grow the 110cm minimum height requirement to go on the simulator rides at Te Papa museum; The Deep Ride and The High Ride. On Sunday morning the tape measure did not lie. It revealed the extra Weet-bix in [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Dan, Sarah, Sophie on September 9th, 2008 4 Comments »
Babar is a very well-loved elephant in our house and we were ecstatic to hear the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra bring the story of Babar to life on Saturday at Te Papa. Miranda Harcourt narrated the story and held most of the audience in raptures (though many of the very young ones preferred to [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sarah, Sophie, YouTube on September 5th, 2008 4 Comments »
As I write there’s a mean southerly blowing and over dinner SJ asked me who was whistling. Erm, that’ll be Mr. Wind love, he’s a regular visitor to these parts! :) It’s always at this time of year I question why I live in Wellington and start perusing real estate websites the world [...]
Posted in Charlotte on August 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
This little Kiwi has been spending time at Te Papa’s Nature Discovery Centre learning how to make some wise choices on her packed lunch…
Doing well…
She followed up by showing disgrace at the over-packaging of boxed lunches in Te Papa’s cafeteria, commenting to one of the staff, ‘That’s not good for the environment!’.
When we do the [...]