The Terrible Underpants

Today I bought The Terrible Underpants - written and illustrated by Kaz Cooke for our small person bookshelf. Have you ever read this book? It is sooooo funny!!! and has great illustrations too.

All the good underpants are in the wash and Wanda-Linda has to wear the terrible underpants - they have bung elastic, a stain, a hole, baggy bits, and a scratchy thing, then ... everybody sees the terrible underpants ... what will Wanda-Linda do?

Due Date Today

Today is Tiny's due date.

Tomatoes

My cherry tomatoes are growing soooo quickly. I can't believe how big they have gotten already.

They even have flowers already and that is very exciting.

I can't wait to be able to go down the stairs and pick my own fresh tomatoes.

Finally Finished

I can't believe that I finally finished painting and re-assembling this dolls cot for Emily. I bought it a long long long long long time ago from a garage sale and it was ugly!!! I pulled it apart and started sanding it down and re-painting it. I have worked on it on and off for a long time and moved it around with us.



I finally finished it yesterday and Emily will get it for Christmas this year (shhhh, don't tell ... its a surprise). I am really pleased with how cool it looks and that it is finally finished.

Handprint CupCakes

Little boy and girl hands ... which will you choose?

Yum!

A Night Away

Ashley had to go to Taupo for a location recky on Monday. I suggested to him that since I am on maternity leave now that I come along and we go down on Sunday and have a night away. So we had a look and found a bargin on http://www.wotif.com/ and headed away for the night. When we got to Huka Falls Resort we were pleased to discover that it wasn't just a hotel room in a building but instead they had all these cute little chalet's set in a beautiful area.






We had a great night away, just relaxing, with no pressure to do anything. We shared delicious fish and chips with a couple of ducks beside the lake at sunset and then I curled up with my book and Ashley played his guitar ... nice!


In the morning we had the yummiest scrambled eggs in the onsite restaurant and then headed off to check out the locations. The first one was just up the road:

This horse jump at the location was chest high and I sat up there reading my book while Ashley did his work things. Sounds simple right? ... not so much! It was quite a mission to get me up there! It would have been very funny to watch.

Off to the next location which was near the half way shop (a place from Ashley's childhood) and another gorgeous area. Then we settled in for the drive home and made it just in time for band practise - yay!

A great night away.

My New Eco Friendly Lunch Wrappers

I recently found a link to www.4myearth.com from another website. They make these awesome eco friendly, completely reuseable, easily washable lunch wrappers. They keep everything fresh and yummy, ready for eating.

So I thought I would try them out ...

The plain pink one is for me: a little snack packet, it opens like an envelope at the back and is for a snack - fruit, bikkis, crackers etc. I like that it is flat for easy storage and that I can have it easily in my handbag for a quick snack.

The patterned one is for Renee (don't tell her!) for Christmas, she moves up to the Steiner school next year and I think this will make a great eco friendly addition to her lunch box: it is a sandwich wrapper, it closes with a velcro tab but opens out completely flat when you unwrap the sandwich, making a little eating surface. I think it is a great idea for the school lunchbox.

Very cool products!