Shot puts and Beach's

Happy to report Max had the explosion we've all been all waiting for. After two trips to the ER, four enema's, days of torture and severe stomach cramping...he finally let it rip...the poor bugger almost passed out too - it was the size of a regulation shot put and just as bloody heavy!

Max was shattered and crashed shortly afterwards, and poor old Sophie hasn't been given much attention while Max has been crook so we decided to take her to Urenui beach for the day.  I remember spending a large chunk of my holidays at the place when I was young, so it was kinda cool going back this time with kids.  I think we may even look at camping there next year - Sophie had a blast!

Braving the cold river

Sliding down the mudflats - Soph (and Daddy) thought they were pretty cool

Show us your triangle

The Beach

Done the mudflats - so we moved around to the beach

View from then other side

Fun on the swing-bridge

The mudflats (and Rock car) from across the river

Sweet day

Christmas in the Naki

Things got off to a rough start when we got to Taranaki.  We arrived late on the 23rd after a sweet trip down and awoke Christmas Eve morning with Ingrid having a nasty tummy bug, the poor thing spent most of the day in bed and couldn't keep anything down!  Things did improve later on that night and Xmas day thankfully, she was back to normal - she thought it was a quick 24 hour bug...my guess was she drank too much the day before...

We had a great Xmas Day and had a massive feed for lunch, Nan, Ray, Rochelle, Darren, Nic, Nana and the four of us all pigged out.

The only shitter (literally) is Max's bowels - he's taken after his big sister and is going through a hideous constipation phase, we even took him to the emergency doc's while we were here because the little bugger was dropping to his knees in agony with stomach cramps.  We ended up giving him two enema's which didn't relly help, a bucket of 'lactalose' and more fruit than you would see on Pononsby road!   He's being stubborn and not wanting to push anything out - lets hope it comes soon!

We've got Riccardo from work looking after the house and no real plans when we're returning to Auckand - we'll play it by ear and chill for a few more days - the kids love it here!  

Sophie's reaction when she saw the milk and cookies gone she left out for Santa!

Sophie helping Max unwrap the pressie's

Xmas morning at Nana's!

Thanks Santa for the presents

A little natural...go Max!

Cool paddling pool that has become a tent

Nana's rockin chair

Max taking a peek at someone's clevage...dodgy.

Xmas lights

Sweet mountain 

Dad and Soph at Pukekura Park

10,000

 I checked the blog statistics the other day and noticed that it has had over 10,000 views! - that's pretty impressive, just imagine if we updated it more regulary...

Life is pretty good in the King household. The kids are in superb form, they love the house, the pool and playing with each other, I'm officially on holiday for a month now, Ingrid is enjoying her new job and we're off to the Naki for a week or so in a few days time...what's not to like! 

Sophie phoning Santa

Happy after a swim with her old man 

Our little man growing up

My hot wife

Feeding the ducks on a lazy Sunday

Sophie and Max decorated most of the tree by themselves

Pools are awesome!

Hot days and U2

I managed to scab a ticket to U2 on Thursday and man, what a show!.  Apparently it's the biggest stage show ever in NZ and all of 50,000 people there went nuts all night long.

The weather has been great the past few weeks but today was an absolute scorcher!  - Max still hates the pool but he's quite content playing with toys and reading books by himself (with his shirt off) while we hang by the pool swimming.  Max and Soph are pretty good at entertaining themselves now too.  They often run off together playing in the sandpit or in their rooms while mummy and daddy sneak a few moments of adult chillin' time! - On ya kids!

Relaxing and enjoying Bob The Builder (his favourite show)

Stage set up was pretty surreal for U2...looked like a giant spaceship 

Pretty good view form our cushy spot!

Down on the Farm

We went on a little adventure in the weekend and vistited Poppa and Nana Carol in Pukekohe - they were house sittnig a farm for a few days.  The kids had a blast!

and a video here of Max feeding the goats

Who said you need a big tramp?

Bee stings & broadband

Playtime in the sandpit

What you looking at?

Story-time

They both love books

Sophie got a bee sting today.

The poor little thing was playing with her dolls out by the pool when all off sudden she started screaming – I freaked out and ran towards her and then saw a bee stuck to her arm. I flicked it off and scraped the actual sting/barb that was sticking out – but Soph still had no idea why it was stinging so much. After lots of cuddles, ointment and an ice-pack, she started feeling a little better. She kept on asking though why bee’s have stings in their tails – mmm, I had no idea but I told her “bee’s have stings bubs so birds and naughty animals won’t try and eat or hurt them – because if they try, then the bee will sting them with their tail” her response: “but I’m a nice girl daddy, I wasn’t going to hurt the bee…so why would it want to sting me?

Max is talking up a storm these days and growing quicker than the Asian population in Auckland and Soph is becoming far too clever. She’s a whiz with technology and nothing for her to jump on the computer and:

• Log on

• Click on the internet icon

• Jump into favourites

• Scroll down to her 6 or 7 U-Tube clips she has saved

• Then watch them over and over and over again – or she’ll turn the TV on, swap remotes, then flick on MY SKY , scroll down to her favourite (Ariel the Mermaid is flavour of the month at the moment) , then hit play, fast forward the adds and watch that over and over. The one downside to her computer skills…she’s eaten up our monthly broadband (the one thing she doesn’t do well is log off… – so now were on shitty dial up for the next 15 days)…and she’s lost the blimin’ camera! another new passion of hers – taking a million photos. (Just as well I’ve got a camera on my phone)

Brad

Goodtimes