Looking after Monty

Today we went to chipmunks for Ayla's birthday. Nathan took Monty as well (see Rat that features in the pictures). He was given the responsibility of looking after Monty for a few days by his Pre-School. The first night he took Monty to his Nana's house. They watched a DVD while Nana cooked Nathans dinner. Nana wanted to put Monty in the bath as he looked like he could do with a bit of a wash after going home to the different kids houses :) but Nathan said he would get too cold. The next day while Nathan went to Pre-School he gave Monty to Ayla to look after. She took Monty to Gymnastics with her. Man Monty gets around alright. So yep he got to go to Chipmunks and we took a few pics of him to put in the book that chronicles his adventures at the kids houses.

I guess giving him to the kids to take home is suppose to nuture responsibility and empathy etc etc. Don't tell his Pre-School but truth be told, I don't think Nathan was too overly fussed about ol Monty, he left him in some random places at Chipmunks and when I told him maybe he should let Monty sit on the couch instead of the floor he said 'nah'. When we got home he said Monty could just stay in his bag instead of coming out to watch a bit of T.V. I'm not sure if I need to be worried that he wasn't too fussed about taking special care of Monty, I wonder if he thought he is just a stuffed animal and why should he get any special treatment over all the other ones we have in the house???? I guess I could have made a bit more of a lesson out of the exercise about taking extra care of certain things.

Anyway here are some pics from Ayla's birthday at Chipmunks

Ayla opening her presents, Monty looking on
Lucas, Nathan, Ayla and Monty

I raced Monty over to the Merry go Round to get a photo with Nathan to put into the 'What did Monty get up to?' book

Ayla's birthday cake

Look out Robbers!

Maia had fun too :)

Chipmunks trip 1

Yesterday we met up with Talei, Cadence and Rico at Chipmunks. The boys had a great time racing around the place and the the little girls hung out together while we big girls had a good catch up. Keep an eye out for more Chipmunk fun, we're going again on Thursday for Ayla's birthday, Yay :)

Maia and Rico, they'll be racing round like the boys soon enough

Nathan and Cadence having fun

What to do with ourselves??

We had arranged for the kids to stay at their Nana and Poppy's house for the weekend as we thought we were going back to Taupo to do some work around my Nana's house. But as we are going down there next weekend also my Nana cancelled the trip as petrol had hit $2 a litre and she didn't want all the cousins to have to travel two weekends in a row.
Miriam offered to have the kids anyway so Dean and I thought we better make the most of it. So Friday night we went and had dinner with Carsten and Michelle before they headed back to Brisbane. We chatted till late and got home around 1.30am which is very late for me :)
Saturday I slept in until 10.30am which is an absolute record for me, well it hasn't been done in a looong time! Later that afternoon Dean and I went into the city and did some shopping, some looking around and then we went to the IMAX theatre to watch U2 in 3D. Neither of us are major U2 fans, we do like most of their music I guess, but it was just cool seeing the whole thing in 3D - pretty amazing. We were pretty full on popcorn, Ice Cream and Coke but went and got some dinner anyway.
Sunday morning we had another little sleep in before zooming over to see the kids that we had actually really missed.

Scott Dickson look out
The best thing about 3D is the groovy glasses you get to wear!

Seeing the City Lights