We’ve reached that stage of parenthood where we feel reasonably confident in ourselves; and more importantly, in starting to leave our two kids to themselves a little bit more. Heck, Tolii is four and a half now, and surely he can sort out the odd problem or two. And if our two year [...]

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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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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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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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