His last day with Chubb in Auckland will be on Friday 27 October, and he starts work in Wellington on Monday 30 October. At this stage we don't have a date for when Kathleen and I move to Wellington. Hopefully it will be the same weekend as Peter, but that will depend on how things go here. We've got lots of work to do before we leave.
We have decided to sell our house, so have a lot of work to there to get it back up to standard. The yard has been pretty much ignored since Kathleen was born, and to be quite honest it was never really taken care of very much before then either. The outside of the house needs a good clean. The carpets are a mess - when we move our criteria for new carpets will be "must not show cat and baby puke stains!".
It will be good to get to Wellington and be nearer to our friends and family. But it'll still be sad to leave Beach Haven. I'll definitely miss my coffee group. It's been really good watching the other babies grow up with Kathleen and seeing what they're all doing. Kat is still the only one crawling, but I don't think Xanthe is far away from it now. I hope I'll be able to find another coffee group in Island Bay, but I doubt it.We are going to be living in Island Bay once we get to Wellington. New contact information will be sent out via email once it is known.
In other news, Kathleen and I had a great time visiting in Wellington the other week. The weather was lovely so we took Kat to Lindale Farm where she got to see sheep and ducks and pigs, and to the beach at Days Bay where she had lots of fun playing in the sand.She is growing up so quickly. Eight months now. She's really good at crawling, and shoots all over the house. She is now eating three solids meals a day. Loves Vegemite, carrot and yoghurt. Doesn't much care for meat, greens or corn. She now has the cutest habit of sleeping face down with her bum sticking up in the air, on top of the blankets with her head at the foot of the bed. She is currently learning to wave hello and bye bye. She now has six teeth, four on the top and two below, with the top ones just poking through in the last month.
She understands a lot of what we say. If we say "pussycat" she will turn around and look for the cat. And, in what I suspect is going to be typical behaviour for the rest of her life, she completely ignores us when we tell her "no" or "don't touch that". Case in point, the wires leading from our stereo to the speakers on the other side of the room. She likes to play with them. She likes to put them in her mouth (she likes to put EVERYTHING in her mouth). We tell her "no". She looks up at us then goes right back to playing with the wires again. We pick her up and put her on the otherside of the room with a different toy. She puts the toy down and crawls straight back to the wires again. Oh, I look forward to moving and being able to baby-proof the house.Kathleen also loves playing games with us now. But I'll let you read about that in her blog.
-Megz
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