friends

I have just had a lovely afternoon entertaining our first visitor from home - well home home - by which i mean Northern Ireland. Jill and I went to secondary school together. She has been on a school sports tour of Singapore and Australia but very sensibly waved off the kids in Sydney and came on to New Zealand. She has seen more of the country than I have and now heads off to Fiji for a week then Dubai before getting home the day before the new term. Very jammy. It was great seeing her and catching up on what's been happening with old friends.

Ethan has learnt a new trick today. He managed to pull himself up to standing on the side of his little toy box - which is actually a footstool with a lid that opens. Unfortunately he was so keen to get to a toy at the bottom he ended up falling in head first and i found him with his legs waving madly in the air! I guess there could be a lot worse in store from here on in!

It also looks like we have found a bach for Christmas. We are heading off to the beach with the Bundys. I still can't quite get my head around a beach for Christmas but i'm sure it will come. This winter has been so long i feel like we are in narnia! (only not so cold)