Giff's World: January 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Splish, Splash , Splosh

We found another one of this paddle pool thingie at The Warehouse. This time I picked this one, simple and not complicated like the Pirate Ship. This took 20minutes to fill up. After that, the boys played inside for 1 hour plus. THey would have loved to stay and play forever but I dragged them out. Scary thing is they had gone couple shades darker from all that play. It was the one and only time for me to set this up for them. Subsequently, the weather was just too crappy for me to take the hassle to set it up.

There's no doubt someone is The Wiggles' fan

小白

小白is MIL's pet rabbit for 3 weeks. The boys loved to pat it and feed it with lettuces, cabbage leaves, carrots and silverbeets.
Sadly FIL gave it away one Sunday or maybe he threw it away? It remains a mystery. I hope it found a good home.

Omelette for brunch

Jake made this omelette for us on a Saturday. Thanks dearie!

Trip to Raglan

We made this little trip to Raglan in October. The town had an old wooden jetty bridge. It also had nice beach. We decided to have fish & chips for lunch.

Noel found himself this chip longer than his face.

There's a walkway around the reserve thingie and quite a few people fish there.
Noel with his big mouth told me, "Mum, there's no fish here, why do they fish here?"
Me super embarrassed, quickly dragged him away and ask him to keep quiet.

We tried to look for the wooden jetty only to find out they had it replaced with the concrete one. It was a lot less charming than the old one.

Next we headed to the beach. It was a surf beach. Heaps of surfers in their wetsuits and surfboards. The boys were happy playing with the black sand.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Smurfed

Noel enjoyed the movie. Not quite sure about Abel.

Tree climber

While Noel is having photos taken by jake, me and abel were stuck in some gondwana land. We somehow got split in part of the garden, and Abel wanted to touch every single pebbles on the ground, so i was starting to get real annoyed and had to take the long winded way to get back to the general area of the garden.

Botanics Garden

We had a quick bite before exploring the botanics garden in October.

They had this sculpture garden thingie.

The boys found a small hut and rested for a bit before wandering further into the garden.

Playtime

Skills developed : Sharing things

We bought this Diego playset for Noel's 2nd Christmas. It sat sadly in the toybox not getting any attention whatsoever. So I stored it away in my toy storage. This spring, I took them out and the reaction was very different. I heard him making conversations, reenacting the scenes he watched from the Diego DVD.

Auckland Museum

笑一笑。。。

做鬼脸。。。

Blooms everywhere

The following shots are taken in the big glasshouse. The colours can lift anyone's mood. A week later, we went back but all the display had been changed.