Wet and Sandy Silas!

Hi! Happy Father's Day to all the Daddy's out there! I hope that you have all had a good day and know that your children love you!! We have had a good couple of days and celebrated Father's Day in style with pancakes, sausages and bacon for breakfast!

Our friends, Becky, Darin and the boys have been staying with us this weekend, which has been lovely! They arrived on Friday evening and all the children were very excited about seeing each other again! We were pleased to see each other too and talked until too late on Friday night! It was lovely to have a good catch up though!

Esther was very funny on Friday though as she was wondering where Eli was going to sleep. She was very kind and suggested that he could sleep in her bed but I said that he couldn't. She then went onto say that if she moved her toys down to the end of the bed, she would sleep on the rough pillow and Eli could sleep on the soft pillow! I was very impressed that she could think so selflessly but still said that it was not possible,  not least because Esther likes to sleep at 90 degrees across the bed rather than lying straight!

Yesterday morning we spent the morning at home, Tim, Darin and Becky had a group session on the Rock Band game which was fun for them all and in the afternoon they went to the zoo and we had some other friends over for the afternoon!  These friends are the other English family at church and we took them to the Pine Lake Park which was great fun! Naomi and Rebekah get on really well together and this morning when Naomi arrived at church, Rebekah had saved her a seat next to her and was looking out for Naomi, which was really good!

We had a fun time with the family and I cooked the ham in the pineapple juice that Mum made when we were home; it went down very well!

Today, Becky and I cooked breakfast and then we all went to church. After church we said Goodbye and we went to Discovery Park with 2 other families. WE had a great afternoon; it was warm and sunny and the kids had a great time! Silas loved the water and spent a long time throwing in stones or sticks as well as playing with a plastic drinks bottle. I put the monkey reigns on him, so he couldn't go too far in but he still managed to get soaked and get sand where little boys really shouldn't!  One of our friends gave me a shirt to put him in on the way home, which was good otherwise he would have been a bare boy!!

Although i had at the last minute remembered to take our prepacked bag with the hats, sunscreen and towel in, we weren't really planning on going to the beach and going in the sea. The girls ended up hitching up their skirts into their knickers, a most strange sight to our American friends but it did the job! At least their skirts stayed relatively dry! I am past caring now!

The children spent ages building dams, filling up sand holes with water and generally having a great time! We hope to do it again soon!

Naomi finished at the Montessori school on Friday and she was very sad, bless her! She cried for ages when I picked her up and we sat in the car for about 20 minutes before we came home. We had had 2 lovely days with the girls Carnival at school, which is where they can do lots of craft and there is an extended playtime that parents and siblings can come to. I ended up going on both Thursday and Friday and the children all had a great time. They had their face painted and went on the bouncy castle as well as just enjoying playing outside! IT was a great end to the school year!

Silas was funny this week; he has really learnt how to say "May mee" (Naomi) and shouts it loudly when he wants her! He can't say Esther though, which is funny! He does love Esther a lot though as he went in to wake her up the other morning and I found him, with just his nappy on, giving her a huge hug in bed! Bless him!

Well, that is it for now. I am going to bed and leaving the ironing until tomorrow, something I will regret then but there you go!!

Love to you all!