Funny, Sweet and Embarrassing

A few nights ago Ara was off to bed.
She did her usual rolling round on the bed for a little while sorting her self out and then I said
"Nite Nite time Ara"
She then threw her self down on the pillow face down and started pretend snorring...we don't pretend snorr I've just got a bad cold at the moment and I must be really bad in the snorring department.

So me with my bad cold I'm feeling pretty shattered after our weekend.
We went on the river boat on the Kaipara. Very good...long but good.
Dave said that Mummy needs Nite Nite time when we were in the car on the way home as I must of looked terrible.
Once we got home Ara collected up her Max the Mercat and walked me down to the bedroom and stood beside the bed waiting for me to get in. I pulled her up beside me. She pushed Max in my face and said shhhh then crawled off the bed and went to see Dave for 15mins.

On the boat we were all sitting together having some lunch when a young mum walked past with her baby. The baby had a a lead on which Ara spotted.
Ara can't say much yet but she said it all
"Woof woof woof" and pointing at the baby.
All four of us just about melted into the carpet.

* Here is Grandpa

I thought I would put this up on the blog for you Kara as I like the idea of being able to share the photos of Grandpa.

Grandpa did a little boxing at one time.

He did a little hunting a lot of the time.

I remember him telling me often about how he went and got his first job as a Tram conductor came home and told his Aunt (I think) who was horrified as Grandpa couldn't count or use money so they spent all night teaching Grandpa about money and how to give change.

Nanna and Grandpa did a lot of fishing with their family when they were younger. I think this photo is taken right up north.

David and I have been lucky to do a few tramps with Grandpa. We did the "river walk" a few years ago. We spent most of our time looking for the track (typical Warren navigation...sorry dear) but we had great fun swimming most of the way and Grandpa really enjoyed it. This is where I broke my little toe and needed Grandpa to help me back to the hut. He spent a lot of time telling us about his days of looking after Whakatane area and huts. He was a wildlife warden for the whole of NZ.

This was the last tramp we did with Grandpa up to the local hut here which has since been taken away. This was about 1-2 weeks after his cancer op. Loved every minuite of it. Had heaps of plan's to revamp the hut and clear the tent spots. DOC saddly had other plans.

* Its been a long time

I'll not up date on everything just tell you what's been happening in the last few days. No reason for not have'n the blog done other than spending a bit more time outside.

I've also been reading a lot as well....we did a big amazon buy and I'm still working my way through.

One book which is really great and totaly recomend is "Our Babies Ourselves" I'm still working my way through it but have to share with Dave who is also working his way.

Ara is a neat freek...well you decided. She saw a bird poo on the window just a little mark so she wanted to get a tissue I thought she wanted to wipe her face but then she tried to clean the window (she's on inside...mess is on outside). So Mummy had to get the washing stuff out and off we went...she even knows where the rags for the bucket are...I never showed her.

Ara just loves water play and will take any chance that she can to get wet and splash.

We are off to Islay's birthday party tommorow I can't wait to see how she is.

On Sunday if the weather is still the way it is we'll be cleaning out the water tanks.