A day in the life - Queen's birthday - Monday 2nd June

I'll confess to being a sporadic blog poster at best - but I found myself thinking recently about the idea of illustrating a 'day in the life' and not because any of you are going to find it particularly interesting to read (ok, so I'm obviously thinking 'average' day here, not one where i'm doing something particularly excited like getting kidnapped by pirates - oooh Johnny Depp!) but as a testament to this busy time of my life, a record as to what happened. Because the weeks, months, and years are quickly passing by.

This was our Monday - Queen's birthday - the 2nd of June

The day started off with Vivi climbing into bed with me at 6am, so we snuggled under the covers until around 7am when she decided to run off and get her brother out of his bed. We found Henry (or 'Hick' as she has taken to calling him) laughing away to himself in his bed, pleased to be getting up. I am still thankful every day that he no longer wakes up for the day at 5am!!

7:30am - feeding the cat. One of Vivi's little jobs.

A little boy with a snotty nose, windmills are such fun.

We had to make a trip to the Warehouse today to get Vivi some new shoes (who could resist a 40% off sale) and just because, well, the idea of rattling around a cold house all morning was pretty unbearable! so while I got Henry ready Vivi sat and practised her drawing skills, and writing her name. She can write all the letters but not in the right order yet :)

Dressed now, and practising writing her name.

After an 'exciting' trip to the Warehouse, Upper Hutt that involved a trip to the Pet Store (killed another half hour) we stopped off at my brother and sister in law's place. The kids love Uncle Glen and Aunty Amy, and they live down the road from us which is just awesome. They are always great at entertaining the little ones.

We visited Uncle Glen and Aunty Amy after heading out in the morning. 

What is it with kids and diggers?!

I managed to escape in the afternoon to the 'Armageddon Expo' (I'm a geek). Tim stayed with the kids, they had fun on a digger - roadworks are happening opposite our house at the moment, much to the little ones delight (not so much ours). Armageddon was fantastic, I decided to get my hair done up to look like an elf from LOTR. Tim liked it ;)

LOTR inspired hair.

Then it was time for the usual madness of dinner time. After resorting to a lot of bribery, I got Vivi to eat all her dinner - she got ice cream as a reward, much to Henry's annoyance. So he tried to climb over the table to reach her bowl. My kid's are so well behaved (heavy sarcasm). As you can see, his yoghurt got the better of him, but I'm sure he had fun! (not as much fun as I did cleaning it up).

Lastly, it was crazy time right before bed. But by 7pm both kids were in bed asleep and Tim and I were sitting down to a dinner of Carnitas with the promise of a 'Game of Thrones' episode later. Life is good.