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Here I am in Auckland on a course so I thought I would test this from my BlackBerry 🙂

In case you don’t like the theme I choose I now have have a theme chooser over to the side 🙂 Have fun!

My friend Rico and I crept through the fence of an old run down theme park at 07:00 this morning to take some photos just as the sun was coming up.  Both of us agreed that there really wasn’t anything worth getting excited about……

Max’s first day at school today!

It all went surprisingly well too with Max showing no signs of trepidation this morning and showing nothing but positive signs this afternoon.

We turned up a little bit early so that he could just sit and watch what was going on in the playground – he had voiced some concerns over “what the big kids might do” when we put him to bed last night. A couple of his mates from kindy are in the same class so within about five minutes they were all tearing around the playground without a care in the world. We had dropped his books off in his classroom earlier and as soon as the bell went he went flying past us, into his classroom and sat of the floor facing the teacher without a word to us! The only reason that we got a goodbye is because I stood in the doorway and yelled out to him! 🙂

After school (which finishes at 2pm for the new entrants in their first week) he was a typical kid (already)

What did you do today at school

Stuff

What kind of stuff

I don’t remember…

Typical! 🙂

All in all it went really well and here’s hoping it lasts.

Max and his mate Freddy outside school

Max hanging up his bag

I’m in Auckland at the moment and had the excitement of a fire alarm at the hotel at 05:55 this morning! Walking down 26 floors in hot, muggy weather is not my favourite way to get my day started 🙁

1. go to www.google.com
2. type in find chuck norris
3. hit the i’m feeling lucky button

Absolute genius!

A six months pregnant Bay of Plenty woman has been charged with drink driving for allegedly being five times the legal limit.
Police say the 19-year-old Te Puke woman had a breath alcohol level of 750 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The limit for anyone under the age of 20 is 150 micrograms.
The woman told officers she was driving her three companions home because she was the least drunk of the group.
She will appear in court next month.
Source: Stuff

The mind boggles at the thoughtlessness and stupidity of some young people!

OK – so no update for a while but a lot of milestones and happenings in the boy’s lives

• We are now in week two of potty training for Elliot (second time around) and he’s doing really well. We are looking at about an accident every two days but it’s usually when he’s really busy and just forgets. The interesting thing is that he’s been dry at nights as well.
• In relation to this we had a lovely thing happen. Max and Elliot had got up one morning last week and wandered downstairs to play and watch some telly. Vic and I stayed in bed and about 15 minutes later Max came up and I asked him what he was doing. “Getting underpants for Elliot” was his reply and my first thought was “Oh God, what’s happened?” What had happened though is Elliot had said that he wanted to go to the toilet and Max had gone off and found the potty, taken Elliot’s PJ trousers and nappy off, made sure he was sitting properly and when Elliot had finished had come upstairs to get him some clothes 🙂 Bless him 🙂
• Max has almost lost his second baby tooth – it’s so wiggly that I think it’ll come out in the next day or two. The amazing thing is his adult tooth that came through way behind his first lost baby tooth has now moved almost all the way into place!
• Max can now ride his bike with no training wheels! I took him down to the park yesterday morning and after a few times holding on to the seat he was off on his own and doing really well. After about 30 minutes at the park he was starting off OK, riding for at least 100 yards in a big circle back to me, braking with front and back brakes and turning pretty sharp corners! Later that day I took him down to a different field and he was going over rough ground that earthmovers had been using. By the end of the day he was doing circuits of the back yard and going up some pretty big bumps when moving from grass to paving. I’m so proud of him 🙂