Is it just me or does the idea of a small person using a peeler make you nervous too? If we'd sent him to a Montessori preschool he'd have mastered this skill long ago. I think they practice on carrots. As it is I had the bright idea to put the potatoes on a fork to keep his fingers from getting peeled. Icky! It worked pretty well though and he's keen to do it again soon.
Our youngest has been asking if he can have a friend to play lately. He's a little envious of big brother's after school play dates and wanted to be having his own. So we invited his best friend home from kindy for lunch and a play. She is a sweet girly thing (such a change). They played footsies under the table at lunchtime. It was too gorgeous. Then they sat very close together on the couch and read a book before playing dress ups and hide and seek and lego and little people.
So last weekend's pie was delicious. However the planned outing turned into a bit of a disaster.
So here were are, my little sister and I, in our mummy-made Wonder Woman costumes sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. Aren't they so cool? My lovely Auntie emailed me this photo after reading that I was looking for it. This is also the lovely Auntie who is going to Australia soon and if I wanted anything from Ikea!! Oh how I love Ikea :o) I need to head over to their web site and start making me a wee list. I promise it won't be too big!
Here's my kindy hero proudly showing off his mummy made costume. The mask template can be printed out here. I just made it with two layers of felt and sandwiched the elastic in between. The cape is a repurposed shirt of B's, hacked up, zigzagged around the edges and with a bit of velcro at the neck.
Our school boy was super proud of himself last week when he was awarded one of the "role model" sashes in assembly. They give them out to kids for a variety of reasons and they get to wear them for a week. He was pretty keen to wear it to bed the first night! Apparently he got it for "all round greatness"... wish we'd been there to see it. He is a great kid, and so grown up since starting school two months ago. 
Check out the awesome pie the boys and I made this morning (I was up far too early). It's filled with bacon and eggs and tomatoes. Yummo! I have process photos too but we're off to Motat for the day (our year pass expires tomorrow) once B and #1 have finished washing B's mate's boat. If I feel like it I might add the other photos later on. Have a great Sunday, hope you get to spend it with your family.
I can't believe how much fun we had at the pool with our new underwater camera. It is super sweet. It wasn't the easiest thing to get the older one to go under for a photograph though! In the end he did really well. We really need to sign them up for some swimming lessons soon. The little one is completely fearless, in a dangerous way. Cousin Maddy (1) came for a swim too, she's pretty fearless herself.
Really, even at three and a half, he's still completely adorable when he takes a nap during the day. It doesn't happen that often anymore which is both good and bad I guess. Good because he can cope without it quite happily... and not so good because I really enjoy the peace and quiet! 
Not much to say except we're back! Had a fantastically madly busy time away in Christchurch visiting family. B & I got plenty of time to play Dominion and the boys got lots of grandparent and auntie and uncle time too. All in all a lovely time but it's nice to be home. It's such a sweet photo I needed to upload it right away. We had his first parent-teacher interview last week. It's so weird that we're the parents now... it doesn't feel like that long ago since I was the student and my parents were heading off to chat to my teachers. Time goes so quickly.
