I wish I had a garden...

Luckily I have a few tin cans and a small patch of gravel just big enough for a few chairs and and a fire pit. It's all we need for now.

We planted basil in my tin cans and Seb very creatively named them A, B C and D. Then he named the rosemary plant outside Big B. Nice and simple, I like it. We're also currently trying not to kill a brocolli, a savoy cabage, some swiss chard and a banana pepper plant. He talks to the plants daily and sometimes kisses them so I'm sure they'll all grow nice and big. Every day he also asks me when they'll grow food. I think he thinks there will be cheese sandwiches hanging off them one day : )

Anyone for a cuppa?

Miss Bel is a cutie pie, she's becoming more hilarious by the day, marching around with her baby or her Charlie dog ordering us all about and cleaning up our messes :) I swear she thinks she's the Mummy of the house, she certainly does more cleaning than I do! Another rather grown up thing she loves is a nice cup of tea, she has her own special kiddie tea sent special delivery all the way from England courtesy of Auntie Cake and likes nothing more than to slurp it slowly, sometimes while sticking out her pinky finger.

I love this photo, how delicately she's placing her cup down even though it's already spilled all over her leg. And her little scraped up knee, sums her up perfectly...she looks all delicate but she's secretly a tough cookie.

And this is the "Stop taking pictures of me" face. I get that look a lot.

Time for a switcheroo...

So this was Belly's room (above) and this was Seb's room (below) and everything was fine and dandy apart from one thing......Miss Bel likes to wake up in the morning at about 6 am and Seb prefers to slumber until after 8am.

In order for Bel to get out of her room and into mine to wake me up at 6am ;[ she needs to pass through Seb's room and apparently stop and play with his toys and bang around clattering and chatting to herself for 15 minutes or so. This was causing Seb great distress and every morning we'd hear him shout "IS-O-BELLLL!!! I'M SLEEEEPING!" and then he'd be cranky all morning. We decided to take action and although I loved the kiddies rooms just as they were we needed to switch things up. So after some quick furniture dismantling and remantling Sebbie's room is now Belly's room and Belly's room is now Sebbie's room. got it?

I quite liked Bel's room as soon as all the stuff was in there (she has a lot of stuff it seems.) Her little weeny bed was more suited to the smaller room and she's still got space for her kitchen and table.

Although his bed was a bit more to scale in the big space Seb's room looked bland as a bland thing and I was quite disappointed. It was just too dull. After pondering the dullness for a few hours I came up with a plan and dug out my trusty coloured paper and scissors. A couple of minutes later, with the addition of a few slightly rushed sea creature cut outs, things are looking a little brighter in there.

And the results of all our hard work....Bel did NOT wake up Seb this morning.....but Seb still woke up at before the clock struck 7. Grrrr!

Neil finally gets his wings (well a kite)

Neil is sooooooo excited! I'm SOOOOO excited! After about 6 or 7 years of wanting to kite surf, his little dream has finally come true (sort of, he hasn't actually kite surfed yet.) He has a kite and a board though and lots of rope and stuff to keep him attached to both and he's ready to go. He had his first lesson the other day, which to my relief took place on a day with almost non-exsistant wind and thankfully on the relative safety of a beach. His instructor told him he's a natural and that he's never seen anyone control a kite so well on their first try. I'm not sure if it's his natural talent or if it's all the hours and hours of youtube video instruction he's taken over the last week or so. I'm surprised he's not already doing 50 foot jumps with the amount of "study" he's done ;) Anyway, here are some pics of Neil with his new toy and, trust me here, the biggest smile he's possibly ever had......