Kitty Cats

So I blogged a few days ago about the cats following us down the road-turns out they are now taking it further and try to jump into the car every chance they can. As soon as I open the car door there is a cat squeezing through the gap. Lara thinks its the funniest thing ever-me, not so much. The cat fur all over the house is one thing, its another to have to deal with it all through the car!

Botanical Gardens

Lara and I headed to the Botanical Gardens yesterday to enjoy the sun. Was a beautiful day and I'm so glad we got out.
We hit the Gardens and started out looking at the Tulips. I love tulips!

Lara went and sat among the tulips so I could take some photos. (Pity I couldn't get her to smile!)

After posing in the tulips we went to feed the ducks. Lara loved feeding the ducks, even after one cheeky duck stole an entire piece of bread from her hands. She thought it was so funny, and the duck tried to get as close to her as possible. Lara was sad when the bread ran out, but looks forward to another trip to feed the ducks.

Headed up to the park where we played for almost a hour. There was hardly anyone there and we almost had the park to ourselves! After we played on everything we could we thought we'd head to the Rose Garden. Sadly the roses had all been trimmed recently-so they were nothing but stalks. But we stilled checked out inside the area. Lara took some photos of the plants she liked, but most had a finger through the middle of them-need to work on the camera hold. 

All in all we had a super awesome day together!

Baby names-suggested by Lara.

This morning Lara and I lay in bed and talked about her baby sister. I asked for some name suggestions and this is what I got:

• Duck
• Dinosaur
• Chicken
• Brother
• Crocodile
• Nana
• Aunty Emmy

Hmm I think I will leave naming little sister up to Mummy and Daddy. 

Oh no...

I think Lara must be coming down with some thing. She had a nap today, then crash really early on the couch with out eating any dinner. She didn't even want chocolate milk. Temp seems to be up a little. Hopefully she hasn't caught anything nasty. We've had more than enough sickness in our house.
On another note-Wellington put on another spectacular day weather wise.  Had a great trip to the zoo with Claire, Rebecca, Jaki and Brigitte (and the kids) Afterwards while Lara slept in the buggy I got to enjoy the sun while resting on a bench on Oriental Parade.

Nesting List!

I can't help but think I should be writing a list of all the cleaning jobs I need to get done around the house. Then when I hit my nesting phase I won't miss important chores.
But where should I keep the list? I would hate for Silas to find it and add crappy jobs he doesn't want to do to it.

Sunshine beautiful sunshine!

While news websites report on snow in other areas of New Zealand Lara, Silas and I are sitting outside in the sun. There is a huge storm heading past New Zealand causing mayhem everywhere-except Wellington. Auckland has had heavy rain, strong winds, then random sun. Southland has snow-snow so bad that roofs are collasping. Approx 3500 homes have no power. But for some reason the worst Wellington has had is rain, thunder and lightening, wind (but it is wellington!) and two days of gorgeous sun.
Yesterday we had all the windows and doors open, while Lara played outside all day. Today we have had lots of sun, but its starting to cloud over now as I type this. Its so nice being outside. Ok maybe the clouds are disappearing.
Bring on summer, long days filled with warm weather, sunshine, beach time, water play and all the other joys.

Whoops!!!

Crap I managed to delete all the comments that had been posted! Sorry!