sunshine!

Hi
This week we have seen some sunshine, yay! Dylan and I have been out enjoying the sunshine, we even had a BBQ on the weekend. Deon, Nicky and Ethan came over for dinner and we had a great time in the backyard. Dylan especially enjoyed the kebabs - as you can see from his face.

On Monday we took a trip to TePapa for Playcentre. (I kept getting TePapa confused with Papa and kept saying to Mummy we're going to see Papa today!?, Mummy said it was a bit of a long flight to do just for a day.....). TePapa is the national museum in Wellington. Everytime we go we revisit our favourites (the animal display for me) and check out some new features. This time we were mainly based in Naturespace. Dylan found the computers and was quite happy moving the mouse around, they have some cool games their for us to play on the computers and (unlike at home) no one says you can't touch the computers they are there for us kids to use.

Then the next day we were at swimming and Daddy came to see me at my lessons. He says I can swim like a shark now! And so I had to get a new swim cap, it even has 'dorsal fins on it'.

Lots of love until next week

Jakob and Dylan.

loooong weekend

Hi, this weekend Mummy was at work so we got to spend a cool weekend with Daddy. On Sunday we caught the bus into Lower Hutt and went for a long walk before getting lunch and popping in to see Mummy (just to make sure she really was working!).

Today we took the car because we drove in to Wellington, we went to see the Wrights Hill fortress. Which is only open a couple of times a year. Its where Daddy says the army protected Wellington during WWII. I had lots of fun running through the tunnels, lucky there were lights down there or it would have been very dark. I got lots of excercise but Daddy said it was a bit tiring climbing all the stairs to the gun turrett - but that may have been because he had to carry Dylan in the backpack all the way to the top. The picture of both of us is at the top in the gun turrett, Daddy says the gun was really big, you can see the markings around the edge for lining it up.

The view is Wellington from the top.

See you next week,

Love Jakob and Dylan.

PS Dylan has been talking this week, new words are: "night Jakob" and "bob bob" (bob the builder)

Here we are!

Here we are back again, we haven't forgotten you we've just been busy. This week Dylan and I had lots of fun with boxes. It started with a big box I brought home from Playcentre as a 'car' and then Dylan and I just kept going.....Dj wanted his own so Daddy got him a little one and we had a great time. Popping in and out like jack in the boxes, using them as cars and houses and boats. What a great days we had.

more inside stuff

Hi again

Well apart from the baking last week I also got to play with Mummy's guitar. I have been strumming on it and making up some songs. My last one was "its a rainy day, its a windy day". Mummy says she will have to get it on video next time.

On wednesday the sunshine came out for a little while and we went to Showtime at the Belmont Playcentre. We saw some plays and then got to play outside where they even had a bouncy castle. Una and I had a great time jumping around and waving to Mummy through the windows, Dylan seemed more content in inspecting the straw they had laid over the ground as a base for the bouncy castle. Dylan also conceded to have some face painting (not for me) a little spider.

Love Jakob and Dylan

winter again

Hi

Well it seems that winter has been back with us for the school holidays.

Dylan and I have had to spend a bit of time inside lately. Last week Mummy and I did some baking - I made some yummy Thomas muffins and Dylan made some little cakes too.

winter again?