It was a wonderfully sunny and warm Saturday. We spent the entire afternoon outside in our garden after returning from the swim lessons.
Out came the water squirters and model canal. The kids also helped mummy with some planting of spring flowers around the garden — and watering them (use your imagination).
Of course, what [...]

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A young couple is moving in next door this weekend: They are renting the place for a year from the two blondes who bought the place last autumn. We don’t know why the blondes moved out; but Andrew is very disappointed. He had already bragged to many people about living next door [...]

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Tonight Katya opened our new kitchen’s oven door to have its outside part shatter spontaneously into a million pieces!
Luckily, Tolii and Tosha were not near.
But what are we to do for our planned dinner party this Saturday!?
Have a look at the result in the picture to the left. A full-size image is also available (right-click [...]

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The first daffodils came out for St.Valentine’s Day this year!
And with Mother’s Day this Sunday all daffodils in our garden are blooming.

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Now that Tosha has contented himself with gumming up Daddy’s computer’s DVD drive, he has moved on to more interesting experiments.
Daddy had taken Tosha upstairs to brush his teeth; and then left for work after returning Tosha downstairs.
A bit later, mummy told the boys to go upstairs to brush their teeth. Tosha said that [...]

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Earlier this month, Tristan (Tosha’s friend from nursery) came over with his older sister Autumn. Everyone had a blast playing around our house; no more so than Autumn who directed everyone to start washing all our stepping stones in the garden.
The thought was well placed, but not unfortunately, the water. Buy, hey, what [...]

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“Tolii, go and do a wee-wee before going to bed.”,  says daddy.
“No, daddy, I have lost my penis!”, says Tolii.
“Well, Tolii if you have lost your penis then you turn into a girl and we’ll need to dress you in pink!”, retorts daddy.
“No, daddy, don’t do it, I’ll go have my wee-wee.”, answers Tolii.
Off Tolii [...]

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Tolii helped mummy pick the cherries from our cherry tree today. A few got eaten along the way!
Its been quite a cool summer so far this year - just 18C on some days and lots (!) of rain. No flooding here, but lots up in the north of the country.
In spite of this [...]

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Last October we bought a new kitchen from Ikea. Today the fourth (or was it fifth?) counter top was finally installed. Ikea screwed up most bits of the process in various ways - and for the counter top in many, repeated ways.
It does all look marvelous at last, though!

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Our garden has its first daffodils in bloom! Around town, there were some on that snowy February day a couple weeks ago.

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Our new Ikea kitchen is coming along - the old one was ripped out last week; and our new one is looking pretty good today; albeit with just temporary counter tops until the end of the month…

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Grandpa put together Tolii (and later Tosha’s) bunk bed!
Tolii sleeps on top; and sometimes on the bottom.

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Well, it was a simple query from Katya: “Do you need anything from the store?”. When I said, “Yes, I want to replace my office desk phone, pick one up from Argos please”, little did I realize the implications.
I pulled the old phone off the wall and saw that its cord went to a [...]

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Well, I think we’re there. It took just a few days to finally wean Tosha from mummy’s milk. There was a little bit of fuss when the morning feed was abruptly removed, and a little bit more fuss when the last remaining feed, just before bedtime finally disappeared.
We don’t know if it is [...]

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