Cats

We went to the park for the kids' P.E time and there was a cat sitting on the wall across the road. I took Pudge Pooh to see the cat, hoping that it wouldn't bolt. Pooh was so happy and kept saying "ne" instead of "neko", which is Japanese for cat. The cat was trying to take a nap, and every time she would poke it or touch it it would look up at her with an annoyed expression to which she would shriek with excitement. I should have brought a camera to take a photo.. Finally after having two kids stroking, poking, and hitting it for five minutes, it finally figured that it had had enough and disappeared into the garden of the house. Pooh was too happy to know that she had been a bother and went merrily on her way.

Moving!!

From Saturday it will be full on moving! We'll be renting a truck from the 1st, fixing, setting up, building doors, carpeting, cleaning, etc, etc. We have boxes piled high in our living room ready to move. It's finally come the time.
You don't know how terribly exciting it is to be moving at this particular time of year. Not only is it incredibly hot and humid but we are blessed with sudden and unpredictable showers of rain, just in case we're not drenched already.
Ah, if only the winds of change would blow for a change...
PS: i would also like a cold beer (or two) just about now.

Our wall of boxes


Taking out the trash.

Cool little man

With teacher Sunny. Check out his suave look.

Barbecue and pool fun

It's been a good while since I last posted but we have a legitimate reason, yes sir. We're getting ready to move into a new house within the next week and have been packing, trying to make sense and order of the flood of skype messages that pour in every day (we hear the skype burp every 10 seconds or so), throwing out the trash, etc, etc. Everything that goes into moving homes. Will post more on that soon but for now here are some photos from a few days ago.
The day started off cloudy so we thought it would be great for a barbecue, but right before we sat down to eat the sun came out in full force and barbecued us instead. The kids were already so dirty from rubbing food into their faces so we dragged our baby bath tub out into the "yard" and let the kids play in it. They were all crammed in together but seemed to be having fun in spite of it. We're looking into getting them a real pool.


A frustrated dada cooking over a pathetic fire. The kindling wouldn't light and we couldn't find the proper grill piece.


Look at those cute brown eyes. This boy is going to be a ladykiller when he grows up.


Goood stuffing..


The Loch Ness monster revealed.


Cheese!

Dry Ice

Just to get Professor Higgins out of the first post.

A disgustingly clever song

Watched "My fair lady" recently and was impressed with how good it was. This movie had some great lines and songs. Why can't there be more good movies like this nowadays?
One thing is for sure, the husbands got a great laugh out of this particular song. Hmph.

Of Weaning, Teething and no-Mommy syndrome

Mommy has been gone for the past three days to help with a regional JT camp. So Dada is left with the two and is weaning Pudge Pooh during this time.
As it so happens the day she left the peas had just gotten over a mysterious sickness that brought high fevers of 39 and 40 degrees to three kids and one adult (me) at the same time. If it wasn't so bad it would have been funny how we all went down at the same time. We still don't know what caused it but no one else got it. Thank God.
Pudge Pooh also decided to start teething a day or two after mommy left and is rather surly and unfriendly. I'm sure the past few days of pouring rain hasn't helped her mood a bit. At the moment she is crying non-stop. We can only hope that tomorrow she will be happy with Mommy home. Please pray that she doesn't want to start nursing again. And that the sun will be out.