First up, the shinanigans that go on in our house during the morning time. Noah doesn't set off for school until 11am so we have that morning period to all hang out together which is great but he then finds it pretty hard to pull himself away and get ready for school. Anyway, heres a series of shots showing the fun that can be had in a tiny apartment on the dark side of Hong Kong.
noah as a fairy
india with veil
tobias being doctored
funny faces game
Making a bed under the couch
Whoops, where is my head meant to go?
Tobias head riding in his bouncer
At present myself and another kiwi lady by the name of Fiona are setting up Mainly Music at our church. It is quite nice to have actual "meetings" to attend, wahoo, something official sounding that you can txt to someone....."sorry, have a meeting at that time, can we meet up a bit later" - makes it sound like I really have a job or something :) Anyway, no photos from that little endeavour as it doesn't start until this Friday as shame anyway as I am by some cosmic joke, going to be leading the thing from the front!!! ha ha......if I don't mention it again on the blog then you know for sure that I am dreadful at that role :) But that aside, what I wanted to show you all were photos taken after one of these said meetings when Fiona and I took in the Hong Kong Flower Show....not exactly Chelsea, but a lot of fun.
Globe trotting
remember the Munch Bunch?
I have said it before, but I say it again - COME AND SEE US HERE!!! THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO!!! HONESTLY, IT IS A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT (we are keen for you to live here of course but don't want to be too heavy handed in trying to attract people to our overseas post :) So just to seduce you here is another one of the Crowhurst trips around town.......Paul probably rues the day our friend Angelene gave me a book about things to do in Hong Kong. Being a rather detailed individual I have set about trying to complete all the activities in the book, I have a long way to go but it is fun planning something for each Saturday (well fun for me, can't speak for Paul....I don't think he would say fun as the first thing that springs to mind, but he comes around to the idea once we are in a new place!!)
So one of our latest adventures, a walk through Wan Chai markets up the hill to Hong Kong Park. Great fun and as it isn't too hot here yet I have been banging on about doing as many walks as possible.
You know the song, "It started with a kiss...." well our song is "it started with silence, never thought it would last so long!!"....the new MP3 player is working a charm on the train....aaaahhhh the bliss of no talking, love it.
First stop was Wan Chai markets. I am such a mean mummy, I didn't even let the kids buy one thing at the market....we just didn't want to lug it up the hill to the park. But I must come back and let them have a little bit of money to spend as they want because this market is great...not really for the vegetarians among us as they do believe in their meat being freshly cut up which seems to involve alot of dead animals hanging around in the open air, fascinating playing the 'guess what animal that is' game.
I talked about the hill, well it was epic man!! I only took us up about 100 wrong steps so wasn't in the bad books too much :| I was jolly glad Paul was carrying Tobias, I mean I did my time, but he tells me he now knows exactly what it would be like to be preggers with a 17 month old baby, oh boys do exageratte don't they...:)
Once we made it to Hong Kong park our first stop was the walk through water feature. Now I just can't believe they have this in Hong Kong. It is so out of character for them to actually let us make a decision concerning safety....I mean someone could slip and fall into the ankle deep water....it surely couldn't possibly be within my mental faculties to decide if I am prepared to take this risk....but apparently somehow someone somewhere forgot to abolish this wonderful fountain, so yeah, we leapt at the change for a bit of controlled risk in our cotton wool existence.
To let the kids dry out we stopped off for lunch at a nice Thai restaurant. Tobias chilled out under Pauls arm, while the other two were totally overcome by the effort of eating some different kinds of food!!!
The park is in a pretty hilly part of town so it was a trek to get to the playground, but well worth it! It actually has a sand pit....wow.....so the kids had a grand old time commandeering a couple of diggers of their own to move sand around. Of course the whole trip ended in tears, it always does, but the rose coloured glasses are on again and I can honestly say - it was a great day :)
On a more parental note, Noah had his first sports day at school. I have added a couple of obligatory photos to show the physical prowness of our son (actually I was shocked, I mean how hard can it be to throw a wee ball through a basket ball hoop just centimetres from your own nose?? But you know the great thing about Noah, what he doesn't have in physical coordination he makes up for with social skills. He was the only kid in the whole Reception class who was calling out hi to all sorts of kids. Most of them didn't answer him back, from shyness I have to infer as we have been told quite a few times that Noah is quite the catch in Reception...a number of marriage proposals have been aimed in his direction. We are of course taking this very seriously as our financial security could very well be in the hands of our 5 yr old son....if he chooses well we could be retiring in .....hmmmm gee another 15 years....hmmm doesn't sound so good when I say it like that :(
Meanwhile little India has become obsessed with princesses. We were lucky enough to be in a shopping mall that had erected these massive shrines to Disney. She happily skipped right up to have an intimate moment with Snow White.
And wee Tobias...he is a monkey....poor guy has ecshma we think, spotty and dotty all over so not the best looker but he has a wonderful laugh and is a very happy baby. He is rolling around (when he can be bothered), and has two bottom teeth poking through (making chomping on your finger a hazardous task!). He loves his food and chows down on most things. He is not interested in a bottle at all, hmmmm lucky mummy!! He is the worst sleeper our family has encountered what with his eratic wake ups and early morning howling but he is a total joy in our home and the kids love having a little brother. Paul keeps stirring the pot by asking for votes from the backseats on who wants another brother or sister....they both cry "yes, give us another one", and they both think next time they would like a sister. Well not out of this tired old body, no siree....this busted tummy is going to spend the rest of its life trying to revert back to its former glory...in vain I feel :)
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