You are a star. After your 18 hour arrival into this world five years ago in California, you have certainly turned everything upside down. You arrived early, which I was super happy about because it felt like you were getting bigger every day – it …
It finally arrived last Thursday, and as much as Ethan loves his kindy I couldn’t believe his excitement about leaving. He has had the MOST fab teachers who have pushed him hard and made sure he has been completing his work and participating in everything. …
Ethan’s birthday week is always crazy, compounded this year by that inconvenient employment issue I have been having for the last six months….MY JOB! I really love it actually, I just like to complain.
Lucky for Nana, Grandparents day was the day before Ethan left kindy for ever, so they got to enjoy a special day together before his departure to school.
Ethan and I had the pleasure of spending Miss Freya’s Very Special 6th Birthday with her last week. She got her splendid new pink cast put on in the morning….and then we kicked off Freya’s Special Day with lunch. Her choice, of course, but it …
Dave and E went fishing with Mikey and Gemma today and came home with a bin FULL of big fish.
Ethan reeled in his biggest fish yet, an impressive 8 pound snapper – hooked and brought to the boat all by himself, I think today was the best day of his life! He caught 3 keepers (all snapper) and one jack mackerel that was used as live bait.
Oddly enough he was most impressed with Daddy’s Kahawai and wouldn’t put the fish down, we were surprised that he actually let Daddy and Grandad fillet it!
One of Ethan’s mates turned 5 on Saturday and had his party at Clip ‘n’ Climb on Dominion Rd. Dave did the honours and the boys had an amazing time, Ethan has not stopped raving about it and how high he is going to climb …
Jobs are for suckers and I feel like this job of mine has got in the way during these first holidays since I have been employed and also the LAST holidays with Ethan as a pre-schooler. He has had a great time though, he has enjoyed sleepovers at his Nana’s, playdates, a birthday party, a theatre trip to see Jack & the Beanstalk and I have tried to treat him to a couple of special days this Wednesday and Thursday.
Yesterday we went to the Auckland Fish Market. Why you ask? Ethan is obsessed with fish, has been since he was 18 months old, it NEVER gets old for him. Looking at dead fish on ice is just about the most amazing thing he could ever do, especially as you can even TOUCH THEM if you so desire, ‘go ahead’ I say, ‘no-ones going to care just don’t drop them because we can’t afford to pay for that ‘spensive snapper you’re fondling over there’.
After the excitement of the octopus post-mortem and the live eel tank we headed to the Auckland Museum for The Dangerous Museum for Boys and The Daring Museum for Girls activity hunt. E is now the perfect age for this sort of activity, it was so much fun working our way through the activity book, finding the 6 most dangerous bugs in the museum, identifying the weapons and cracking the secret codes.
Today, I thought about what he would desperately LOVE to do, checked the tides, made some dough balls and we went fishing. Or more accurately, we went casting, or went and dropped our line, or we practised what we should do in case we were faced with the possibility of catching fish. Ethan didn’t care that he had nothing to show for three hours of little boy bliss, casting again and again, re-baiting his hook lovingly with the balls of dough he helped me roll out and narrating the whole experience with the skill and verbose lexicon of a well practised fisho.
Look at those things! I would totally want to eat them up if I were a fish! Best dough ball recipe yet and the nice thing was their texture, they stayed on the hook beautifully and weren’t sticky.
2 c. boiling water
1 c. white flour
1 c. cornmeal
1/2 c. sugar
Then flavoring is optional: vanilla for carp, rum for catfish, Velveeta cheese for trout, yeah I skipped the flavouring because at best we were hoping for a sprat!
Sourced from www.cooks.com
After I was totally cold and out of Coke Zero we headed home for a quick lunch before we went to the movies and saw UP.
Seriously, this is THE BEST animated film I have ever seen. It was hilarious and every character was so real and endearing. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Ethan loved it, I have never seen him so totally on par with a movie, he laughed throughout the whole thing, asked questions and talked about what was going on, it was well worth the $22. 5/5
September 18th, 2008 Impulse shopping – I purchased this wooden railway for Ethan for no other reason than it was on sale. I know, I know……it came with a wooden storage box ON WHEELS YA’LL! September 18th, 2007 A super fun play date with Freya …