The King's: Puddles

The sun has been shining in Auckland today (which makes a change) so after our weekend ritual of walking down to the local cafe for a fluffy, we headed off to feed the ducks.

Sophie thought it would be hilarious to stomp in all the puddles and swampy grass while we were there...and by the time we got her back to the car, the bottom half of her was absolutely drenched!....never mind though, it was a nice way to spend a sunny Saturday morning.

We've been in our new place for around eight weeks now, and we still haven't got around to unpacking and finishing off the spare room or the guest-house out the back...yip, we're slackers... but Sophie seems to be settling in well and enjoying her new home, although, she does refer to this place as 'the house' and every time we drive past our old house, she drops her bottom lip and yells out "Home...home..."

We've been seriously thinking of moving Sophie into another daycare that's closer to where we live, which will mean Sophie will get to grow up with kids that she'll be going to Kindy and school with. The other reason is, we've both started to feel that her current Daycare isn't as great as we once thought (not to mention they're putting the price up in a couple of months + they don't subside the 20 free hours like other day cares!), but more importantly, Sophie doesn't seem to be enjoying the place like she used to for some reason. Ingrid has already enrolled Sophie into a couple of cool Daycares nearby, but they both have massive waiting lists (between 6-18 months we were told), but to our surprise, one of them phoned as back last week and told us there's an unexpected opening early October....so watch this space...