On Thursday we headed out to Chipmunks indoor play area with my mate AT and her kids. Isabelle and Ethan had great fun on the bouncy slide. Ethan took a bit of convincing at first - too many steering wheels and helicpoters to distract him - but once he got the hang of it they were up and down it dozens of times.


The attraction in this pod was another steering wheel. Ethan called it his helicpoter or "oct - tok" in Ethanese.

Imogen couldn't understand what all the fuss was about.

Ian still can't believe he has a daughter.

We have had a week without the help of grandparents to keep us sane. It has all gone pretty well and Ian has managed to be around a fair but despite being back at work full-time. He is having another week off next week when he plans to throw himself into working on the sleepout as our consents came through last week. We have a busy weekend first though as the guys from church are doing an extreme makeover on one of our number's house. They are going to try and build a fence and gate the property and paint the whole house over 2 days this weekend.

It's getting cooler here - it was only 24 degrees today! No seriously, the mornings and evenings have a bit of a nip in the air now and the days are markedly shorter. Autumn is coming.