Had a good weekend, it was nice and sunny both days.  Saturday morning took Theo to swimming, he was great again.  He's so keen, loves to listen, does what he's told, tries really hard.  His googles annoyed him a few times and that upset him, but once I tightened them back up again he was super happy.  His kicking styles leaves a lot to be desired, but Jill told us that for their age all children do a really silly, totally useless kick.  In fact one of the exercises this week was to hold their legs and kick them properly for them.  Anyway, we had a great day swimming, Theo was just great again.

After swimming we did a bit of work outside, Sarah took Theo to the supermarket while Beth and I did some work outside, had a play, she helped a bit with the lawnmowing.  I did a...

The most amazing thing happened last night!  Sarah found a Big Bae on TradeMe.  She was just randomly looking and there it was, a second hand Big Bae.  BUY NOW!  So hopefully sometime this week or next, a backup Big Bae will arrive for our little Linus, just in case BB ever gets lost.  Though as Sarah points out, losing a massive blanket seems like a pretty impossible thing to have happen, especially because we're quite cautious about where we take it.  Still, it'll mean I'll sleep easily knowing we have a backup in case it is ever needed.

Had a great Birthday night out on Friday night.  We went to Brave Brewery for a few pints (as I was leaving they gave me a free birthday bottle of beer which was nice) and then we headed to Piku at Red Barrel.  Simply amazing Japanese food, I couldn't...

Whew!  Was woken up at 5:30am by Beth standing in the bedroom saying "Mummy and Daddy Theo is upset and crying can you come and help him".  That was nice of her.  Theo was crying, his Big Bae had fallen off and he was just generally sad.  He was also very upset that I hadn't come down to help him after he'd been crying out for me a lot.  Poor little guy, usually I hear him straight away (or at least fairly quickly) and go down to help him, but this time neither I nor Sarah had heard him crying.  Oh well, a few cuddles and a kiss on the head and he was OK, though I have no idea if either of them actually went back to sleep before it was time to get up an hour later.

Yesterday Beth went to school for an hour, to see what...

We just got back from a weekend in Taupo, we stayed at the same place we did when Granny and Bilby were here a few months back.  We headed up on Friday night and arrived about 5:30 pm or so, and checked into our room. Once settled in we all headed up to the pools to go for a swim.  Sarah had bought the kids $3 biscuits, which they totally loved.  They spend the whole weekend cruising around the pools in them.  I thought Theo might have a bit of trouble, but he was in it first go and just loved cruising around the place.  "Paddle Paddle Kick Kick" he'd call out as he tried to motor around the place.  Beth's really good with getting around, she spend a lot of time on Saturday night jumping in and out, swimming out and swimming back.  She's a better swimming now...

Theo has been thoroughly enjoying his new scooter.  We were a bit worried he'd keep defaulting back to wanting to ride on his Motorbike, but I'm pleased to report that hasn't been the case at all.  He took the Scooter to Grandma's on his Tuesday visit and they went to the New Playground.  She said that while he liked the playground, he spent 2 hour just riding his scooter in the little scooter/skateboard area having a real blast.  I'm so glad he loves it as much as he does.

So anyway wind back to last Friday night, which was Theo's birthday party.  Just a small gathering at home, Holly, Age, Joseph, Isla, Peter and Mary all came over.  We ordered pizzas and had a nice night in, he loved his Captain Barnacles cake.  It was a very tasty cake too.

Saturday morning was 10 pin bowling out in Hastings for...