The Cowley's Housewarming

On Saturday we ventured out South to Manurewa to visit Donna and Ali's new house. It was great to catch up with them and see the lovely house they've bought. The kids had a great time tearing around the place, I also had a great time eating Donna's divine Chocolate brownies!!

Marcus' 1st Birthday

Today we went to Marcus' 1st birthday party. Marcus and his mum Lisa go to our playgroup and Mainly Music group too. Lisa did a great job with the party, there was yummy food a cool cake and a playground for the kids. Happy Birthday Marcus!!


The cool cake

Nathan with the Birthday boy

The Park Has been Mowed

Dean, Nathan and Moses took advantage of the newly mowed reserve next door. They kicked the soccer ball around and then played in the hay. Moses quite enjoyed being covered in it by Nathan. He puts up with a lot our poor cat, he is quite tolerant, thankfully.

New Table and Chairs

I bought Nathan a table and 2 chairs from the Warehouse and when we got home I told him one of the chairs was for Ayla so for the whole week he was dragging the chair around saying 'Ayla Ayla'. It is rare for them to go a whole week without seeing each other and it seemed he couldn't wait for her to get to sit on 'her' chair.

Warming up the seat for Ayla is 'Moo', having weetbix and peaches for breakfast...




Yay!! She finally gets to sit on her chair

And later that day a bit of dinner together...

Parents and Child Expo

Nathan and Ayla are always so excited to see each other, even though they see each other so often. It's lovely seeing them being nice with each other, they give each other kisses and cuddles. Here they are holding hands on their way to the expo :) The expo is good for sussing out all the cool things out there for parents and kiddies and also to score heaps of freebies!! The kids get to enjoy a bit of Banana's in Pyjama's too.

Preschool Day Out

Nathan goes to Daycare on Wednesday afternoons, his cousin Ayla goes two days a week too. On thursday they had a morning over at the Primary School for the 'Travel Wise' morning. They had an obstacle course and then we did a mini walk-a-thon to raise money. They had lots of fun as you can see.

Moments in Motion

Hello friends,
Well I've slowly been getting myself organised as far as my business goes. I would like to show you my temporary website. I've opted at this stage to create a blog site as it is free :) Hopefully I have enough information in here so people know what I will have to offer. I'm also doing up Brochures to hand out to all the mums at the various playgroups we attend, and also just to whoever I come across. This is my initial marketing strategy. Nothing huge, but a start nonetheless.

You will find me at
http://momentsinmotion.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to comment or give any advice you think might be helpful. Also feel free to refer anyone you know may be interested in using the service to the website, he he.
My email address for the business is momentsinmotion@hotmail.com you can comment below or via email if you wish
I value your opinions
Thanks

Back to the grind

Back from a great two weeks, we got into a bit of spring cleaning. Nathan helped me with the windows, and the next day when we finished them off he cooled off in the bucket which he was loving so much I got the bigger tub to put him in.

School Holidays - 2nd Week

Contemplating life, in Mt Maunganui

School Holidays

We went up to Coopers Beach again for the holidays. This time the boys took some time off work and came up too, they heard how much fish Eddie was catching on the new torpedo they couldn't resist. It was a good investment, even though on an evening fish it got snagged and we thought it was lost forever, but they went out the next morning on the dingy and rescued it. So we had heaps of snapper to eat, and heaps of mussels too, as you just need to walk out onto the rock to get them. The kids had a great time. Nathan went earlier in the week with his Nana, and didn't even miss me. I missed him a little bit but actually enjoyed my time to myself and got heaps done, like sleeping in :)



the bubs and their daddy's


Fishing on the new family investment, 'the torpedo' it has been named betty, don't ask me why. Betty nearly went missing, but the boys saved her and she caught us heapsa fish over the 4 days we were there.


fishing with Uncle Eddie



ayla the pink frog

giving a flower to Nana

It's hard to see in this pic but Nathan has the funniest ice cream eating style, he opens his mouth real wide and has a quick lick, and it's like he gets a fright each time

This is Ayla's been at the beach all day hairdo

Dummy stealers

Last Thursday Lisa and I took the kids up to Mel's house so Mel could cut my hair and I gave her a massage in return. A great swap. The kids love it up there too. The little monkeys got up to mischeif though and while Cameron (mel's 8 month old daughter) was sleeping they snuck into her room and stole her dummys, Nathan found this funny big teeth one on the shelf, whereas Ayla went straight to the source and stole one right out of her mouth... Cheeky monkeys! Neither of them took to dummys when they were younger. There was also a cute cat visiting from the neighbours who had a number 1 cut on the body (too many knots) but her tail, head and feet were still fluffy, it' looked very funny but very cute.

Nate the builder

While having a bbq at our friends Warwick and Lisa's, we managed to score a few hand me down toys that their son has now outgrown. We got a couple of bob the builder wooden puzzles, a truck that moves around by itself and finds it's way back into it's garage, and this cool builder's kit. He loves the hammer. Unfortunately the other day he got the potato masher out of the drawer and thought he'd use it as a hammer. I heard some banging in the bathroom and there was my little builder, hammering (more like hacking) into our bathroom wall, chipping off paint and plaster. Great!

Raranga - Maori Weaving

Over the last 3 terms, I've been doing a night course in flax weaving. I've quite enjoyed it as a creative outlet and a way of connecting with my culture. I'm not going to do the class next term, but hopefully I'll keep it up and try keep improving as there is a lot more I can do.
Anyways just thought I would share with you some of my work... These are some things I have done so far, they are in order too so hopefully you will see some improvement :)




My class and some of our work

Boy fun

We had the boys from next door come over on their new go cart. They saw our table soccer game in the garage, Dean got it out so they could play it. Nathan was right into it too, and wouldn't let his dad try and help him. As you can see it needs some legs but the boys were happy enough on the ground.

Sandpit

My herb garden wasn't looking too hot so I turned it into a sandpit for Nathan, he needed something to cheer him up after a rough week of grizzling from his sore ears. I only had a bucket full of sand to put in, Mt Maunganui sand, only the best!! But it was enough for him to get everywhere and have some fun.

Yo mum! Thanks for the sandpit ;)
Bikkie break

Bob the builder

We had our Brisbane friend Hal visit us after his snowboard trip down south. Nathan was quite sick with an ear infection and very bad cold, so was not very friendly to start with. He did warm up after a while and here he is building a tower with Hal. He even got a good giggle going while busting it all down (his favourite part)...

So much for the snow

We had a snow trip planned for the weekend but didn't make it, the man at the snow shop said it wouldn't be good for the kids with strong cold winds predicted. Bummer!! Well since we were all geared up to go somewhere we headed off to the Mount where Dean had a good 'boy fun' filled weekend, with fishing and corporate box viewing of the Bay vs North Harbour game on Saturday and golf on Sunday. Mum, Reid, Nathan and I went out for breakfast on Sat, and just hung out in the sun wondering if it was really that chilly at the snow???? Oh well hopefully we make it sometime this year. On our way home on Sunday we called into the Hilliards for a lovely Sunday roast where Nathan finally caught up with his cousin who he hasn't seen for nearly 2 weeks, that's a long time for them. While Ayla was in Fiji he would walk around with her photo at his nana's house and give it a kiss. SO cute.