March 17th - Day 73

Nana will hate me for this one but I had to take it after a busy week at his new centre Tyler has been asleep at or before 6.15pm and on this night at 8.30pm so was Nana and Simba the best cat friend where also in the bedroom either asleep or woken up by my taking the photo.

March 14th - Day 70

We had a lot of rain over night and it carried over to Sunday morning with the storm which seemed to race accross the city with hail, rain, wind and thunder storms.  The pot hole beside our driveway filled up with water and I let Tyler play in it.  He had a blast and loved every minute.

 

March 13th - Day 69

Daddy had a birthday yesterday, but given it was a Friday we decided to celebrate on Saturday with Tyler's idea of a birthday must haves - Cake, candles and presents!  I made the cake (choc zuchinni) and Nana iced it with choc icing on Friday.  Saturday morning after swimming lessons I showed Tyler how to work the icing tubes then let him loose :D  He had a blast and then ensured that Daddy got a birthday song (or three) and blew out the candles - he was pleased it was only 12 not 37!!!

 

March 12th - Day 68

A long road came to an end today - Tyler said goodbye to some of his wonderful little friends and teachers at his old childcare centre.  We provided his classroom (42 children!) with a morning tea of cheese and luncheon sandwiches and watermelon (healthy options rather than another cake, which has become a staple with all the birthdays of late).  

Tyler insisted on sitting with his best mates.  These three little people have been the best of friends since they started at the centre two years or so ago.  Any trouble or mischeif happening and you could count on these three  being in the middle of it.  I wondered at three such different personalities becoming such fast friends so quickly at such a young age - but they did and when one was upset the other two would offer cuddles and kisses and made sure all was right again.  While we will still have conact with the wee girl and her family (hopefully) regularly, we will not with the little boy......so is the way of life i guess.  The little girl was not a happy camper with the news that Tyler would not be at "school" every day with her and kept saying it was NOT a good day today!!!  Hang in there sweetie we will have a play date soon :D
 

March 11th - Day 67

Thursday at last, this was what I noted when I went to close Tyler's curtains for the night.  He had made his bed unassisted (I slept through my alarm and so was rushing) and tucked his special rabbit into his bed - this poor thing has been to hospital everytime Tyler has and we are not allowed to remove his hospital issue name tag.  This rabbit has had an IV, plasters, bandagess, splints as well as an oxygen mask on various admissions.  He only leaves the house to be transported to the hospital otherwise he is a home body.

 

March 10th - Day 66

Three days into our hard slog routine of in and out of the CBD and this photo says it all - in saying that there are also some medical tjings happening to aid to tired look and grumpy behaviours.

 

March 8th - Day 64

Offically Day one of my new job with Regional Public Health and a very busy day was had by all.  It was also the last week of Tyler attending his old centre.  So Nana was flown in to help out with the logistics of a 0730hrs drop off when I needed to be in the Wellington CBD between 0730 and 0800hrs......any one who knows traffic along SH1 and SH2 into Wellington from Whitby and Lower Hutt knows the chances of this happening a about the same as winning the big Lotto draw.   
So it was an 0600 start for us, but given my nerves I had been awake since 0430hrs.  Tyler did wonderfully as did Nana, but that afternoon we had a very tired 3yr old, who when home wanted to continue watching In the Night Garden on the MP4 player.

Check out the mossie bites on his leg - sand pit and humid weather - looked pretty sore.