Up and Up

Easy peasy for Noel

Abel is determined to follow suit

 

Here I come, one step at a time..

 

Hurrah Abel made it.

Meeting the Queen

Meeting the Queen - Noel's kindy recently celebrated the Queen's birthday. He was all dressed up for the ocassion.  Everyone brought a dish to share. I attached the link to the movie the teacher's posted on their blog.

After kindy that day, he told me, " Mum, girls have to curtsy, and boys have to bow when they meet the Queen" and proceed to show me how to Bow :)

Note: Noel appeared from about 2:35 into the movie :)

Sliding down is so much fun

 

Waitangi Day @ Barry Curtis Park

 

During Waitangi day, we brought the boys to the nearby park for waitangi day celebration. We love it because there're usually lots of amusement /entertainment for the kids ie Jumping castles.

I really like these two picture as both Noel and Abel were totally engrossed with the jumping castle.

Lantern Festival @ Albert Park

When Abel was 1 month old, we brought him to the Lantern Festival @ Albert Park. It was a disastrous outing as he was too young and he was crying and he wants to breastfeed.
Fastforward, this year, we went early in the afternoon to avoid human traffic and here're some of my favourite lanterns.

The obligatory rides that NOel went on. As we went early in the afternoon, all the jumping castles were still not ready.
 

 

 

 

Love the taiwanese sausage.

 

Summertime summertime..

 

Quad bike

 

 

The boys christening the quad bike.  We got Abel the quad bike for his birthday present .

Yumchar @ Majestic 鸿图

 

 

 

 

we tried out yumchar at Majestic. The location is on courtenay place, kinda next to regal (the other chinese restaurant).  Food was pretty nice and was jam packed when we went there for lunch.

Wellington City



  After going to the High Comm submitting my application, I had to wait until afternoon to collect my documentation.  So I brought Noel and Abel to their favourite playground. Actually it was Noel's favourite.

Boy he loved that lighthouse slide.

Abel playing on the baby slide.

Look what I found..

A seashell..

While watching the boys play, I walked about and looked up shells on the beach.

Beach time @ Raumati beach

 

 

After the Fish and Chips, the boys changed into their togs and waste no time running and playing at the beach. 

I had packed a bit of beach toys but they were far more interested  playing with the fish and chip paper.

Fish & Chips @ paraparaumu

Many years ago, (like 10?) we came to Paraparaumu in summer and caught lots of pipi (a type of clams) on the beach.  It was a memorable trip, but the more memorable thing was the fish & chips shop there. They serve the nicest bread crumbed fish & chips and also have very good selection of fishes, like hapuka and etc..

We had a bit of trouble locating the same shop we tried so many years ago, we ended up buying from two of the F&C shops there.  If you want to know, the one facing the beach in our opinion has better fishes. crumbed to perfection.

The first F&C shop we went served us too many fishes as they got our orders wrong but they gave us the wrong order as well..

 

 

we were waiting for our food

first  f&c shop we went ..noel wanted photos taken with the fish & chips

taihape - the gumboot capital

Sorry my laptop has been giving me grief this last two weeks.  The battery adapter thingie is not working properly so it's always out of battery :S

Anyhow, here's more photo of our 'little' drive to wellington.  After Waiouru, [the army musuem] we passed by Taihape.  The icon is the gumboot - humble but hardworking community [excerpt taken from the www.taihape.co.nz]

We stopped by for a quick photo taking session while Abel was still napping in the car.