Wanting a Pony

The inevitable has happened. Now that Lily is 4 she wants to have a horse. It could live in a stable behind the garage, she reasons.

I suggested that the garden wasn't big enough. "We could just get a bigger garden" she thought.

But you can't just make the garden bigger, we said. "No," she replied, "We could just get a bigger house, in a bigger garden".

Problem solved...

Speedy Toby

Toby is now 11 months old and crawling speedily across the floor. He likes to make a run for it when his nappy is being changed. He crawls like a puppy, wiggling his bottom as if he had a tail to wag, cackling wildly as we chase him.

Kids Fest

In some places, us parents dread the winter holidays when there's nothing to do and the empty days stretch ominously unfilled into the distant horizon. But here in Christchurch the council puts on Kids Fest which fills the days up with stuff.

Yesterday they had a bouncy castle and face painting event in the car park at Rolleston Square shopping centre. And then we went to the lantern parade in Christchurch which was unexpectedly good. Hundreds of people turned up and followed a giant blue sun starlantern thing to Cathedral Square for a free sausage sizzle event. The salsa band from the school of music came along and provided drum and trumpet noise. All the kids brought torches or paper lanterns.