Sweet as Weekend

Ingrid and I sat back Sunday night and both said what a great weekend it was.

The weather was hot, we had plenty to do and the kids had a blast! Sophie had her first sleepover  and after Sabine left on Sunday, we invited Leo our neighbour over.  Sophie and Max love it when Leo's around.  Ingrid took them all to the park for a while, then later we all swam in the pool and  afterwards we slapped together a wicked water slide (the kids couldn't get enough of it!). 

 

We've also started a new tradition, Sunday afternoon's we take Soph and Max to the local pub, they share a packet of chips and a glass of water together, while the two grown ups unwind with a cheeky cold one...it's pretty cool indeed.

After the pub, we ended the weekend sharing a picnic dinner with subways outside on the lawn, and to top it all off, Max and Soph went to bed nice and early to end a memorable, sweet as weekend.

The water slide was a hit

Leo from next door

Mum and Max watching on as Soph and Leo have fun on the water slide

Then kids at the pub - they love being all grown up.

Video Here of Sophie and Leo on playing.

Sophie has a sleep-over buddie

Sabine stayed over last night.  Sophie had been looking forward to it all week! It was a stinking hot day so the girls swam in the pool, played with in the sprinkler, bounced onn the tramp and made lots of iceblocks.

I asked Sophie if she enjoyed having a friend over and she siad it 'yip, it was awesome'.

Max's Birthday (with photos)

Yay - Finally got the bloody photo upload working on the blog!

Our future surfer dude

 A party fit for a (2-yr old) King

 Max hardly moved from his spot at the head of the table all afternoon

 Lots of food and lots of kids

 Auntie Nicky made an awesome "Bob the Builder' cake...Max's favourite

 "Bob the Builder!"

 Max being a little cutie

 The Pinata went down a treat with everyone

 Max and his girlfriend sharing a yarn

 What the?

 Even snuck in a couple of beers with Nana at the party

 Sophie and dad hanging at the beach the next day.

 Dancing with her shadow in the water

 Kids playing in the sun

Sophie's water slide!

Max turns 2!

With the carnage of Christchurch this week - I've had no time to update Max's birthday party from last weekend (plus I didn't really feel it was appropriate showing loads of photos of Max and his mates having fun while so many are suffering) but now I have some time over the weekend and the damn photo upload won't work!

Bugger, I'll try again tomorrow.

In the meantime, you can views some video's of his birthday below (thankfully YouTube still works!):
Birthday Cake and buddies
Max chasing his girlfriend Lilly around the pool
Sophie bashing the Pinata...sort of
Max enjoying Bob the Builder

Birthday party fun!

Yesterday was the start of the birthday season...for the next 6 weeks or so there is a birthday every weekend - (including Max's 2nd next Saturday)...and boy do the kids love them!

 Leo from Kids Klub 4th Birthday

Leo's parents win the prize for best kids birthday party ever!

Even organised a freakin' traveling zoo!

 Soph was ecstatic!

 Her BFF from Kids Klub Nadine

 Sophie's first horse ride...and she loved it

Max and his girlfriend Lilly-Rose..the two of the are inseparable!

 Mr. Romantic - check out his hand cupped around her back...

 More swing-time

 Caden and his ladies

 Games down the hill - Sophie won the sack race but blew out on the rolly-polly race

 Leo's Birthday Cake

Max knackered and full after a big day

Video here of Sophie riding a horse

Video here of Sophie reading Max a story

Ouch!

"Don't slip Doc!"

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After months of talking about it...I finally plucked up the courage and went in for the big snip yesterday. It wasn't as bad as I'd been told and the entire procedure was done dusted in just over 30 minutes. I got some great sedation so I had a nice afternoon buzz going on along with plenty of pain killers afterwards for when the swelling and throbbing kicked in. 

Auntie Nicky came to the party out and grabbed the kids for night too (I was pretty much parked out on the couch afterwards and the last thing my boys needed was 2 energetic kids jumping all over them)

They couldn't get into her car fast enough when she arrived - it was like Christmas all over again!

On the downside, Sophie has been having the odd night-terror lately too, she woke up last week screaming about monsters in her room ...every time she closed her eyes or drifted off back to sleep she would start screaming in horror again...not nice.  (and just spoke to Nic then and she said Sophie woke up around 2am this morning screaming again about monsters in her room again....will keep you posted.

Brad

Funtimes on the tramp!