Round-Up~ June

On our bookshelf this month....

Little Treasures Magazine I brought it because it was supposed to be two issues for one but the other issue was their pregnancy and Birth Mag- I read all the birth stories it made me wistful. Creating Keepsakes Magazine- so glad I went with the decision not to re-subscribe! They have now gone to a bi-monthly issue and seemed to think that 5 extra pages of content was enough for them to justify charging their subscribers two issue for one. With Becky Higgins, Ali Edwards and other big names all having left lately and now this a lot of people are unhappy- I think the writing is on the wall.

Any Mommy Out There? Super awesome Mom Blog!

Merenia is reading lots of Saddle Club at the moment and Jacqueline Wilson. And Will is still digging Pamela Allen and Lynley Dodd.

Loving on the box....

Dr Who, Grey's Anatomy, Underbelly- The Golden Mile (Love this!! Can't wait for the shit to hit the fan in the next couple of weeks), The Good Wife, the AB's game and FIFA WC- a few 5:30am starts to watch the NZ games we have recorded before any media contact spoiling the result for us.

We seem to have significantly reduced our telly watching which is great and have managed a couple of nights with no telly at all- yay!

For you...For me?

Flowers and Balloons for Saskia and some stuff from Smiggle and some cash for Sam. Plus a few things have started going in the wardrobe for Christmas and we did the big Toy world Lego Layby for Christmas.

A Finapple and a Framango for Finlay and Fraser.

Germs and bugs and botherations....

We all (except Les I think) got a coldy icky thing mid month and I had a second cold at the end of the month. I have also had a tooth ache on and off. Blah.

Today was good today was fun, tomorrow is another one...

Saskia's birthday was nice we had a good day at Brown's Bay.

Will and I have had a couple of great Wednesday's at Brown's Bay- we discovered a new park where we can feed the ducks- the playground is a little limited for shorties like Will but we still have fun. Will also enjoyed the beach when Merenia was doing her Choir/Uke performance at the local B-Bay rest home- yay for living somewhere where you can paddle in winter.

We went to work the day the Rescue Helicopter came and Les, Will, and Merenia got to go inside and have a turn on the flight sim.

Yum, yum, yum....

Just more of the same really.

'It was on sale'....

Will got a toy vacuum cleaner, kitchen, and some new dress-ups from various sources- how many other two year olds do you know that say "Let's go Op-shopping Mum!" I did a little scrap shopping. :-) And got another set of Grey's Season 4- this one works!

We collected the entire set of McDonald's FIFA Coke glasses. :-) And have quite a few of the new Lego Mini figures. :-)

Our home school money for the first half of the year came and Will finally his Ukulele and we got some play food and a few books. We are saving the rest for some new software for the computer.

Bugger!

The camera is playing up which is driving me a little batty.

Hooray!

The kids had a couple of wins for sport.

Les won the Soarfest.

Will won a little Blue (Blues Clues) toy in a colouring competition.

Etc...

Kieran was in the Year 7 & 8 team for the BP Challenge.

Alyssa had a sleep over.

We went and watched one of Jakes soccer games one Saturday.

Jake stayed over and we watched the AB's game.

Merenia went to Petra's birthday party.

We got a new-to-us car- A silver Toyota Caldina.

Lots of rain and broken pipes has meant lots of floods at the end of our drive and lots of water fun.

This year's Weet Bix All Blacks Promotion has started consumption of weet bix is up 50% in the Stockley house- funny that.

Will enjoyed the Wiggles car at Countdown.

I tidied Merenia's room- phew!

You know who's good idea this was? Katie The Scrapbook Lady. Go check out her list of tasks to do at the end of each month as well.