Under Offer

The tender for the house closed on Thursday afternoon. We received multiple offers, and have accepted one of them. Subject to a couple of conditions, but it should be all confirmed by Thursday or Friday this week.

It all worked out so well. We got a price we were happy with, sold to people we liked, and the time frame matches up with the purchase of our new property. So all being equal we will be moving house in December.

And in other news...

It is currently school holidays, so the girls and I are enjoying a break from our regular activities. Last week we went to Te Papa, but unfortunately most of our time off so far has been marred by illness. Last weekend Peter and I both came down with a bad case of food poisoning. Kathleen seemed to escape but Victoria was a bit poorly as well. Then no soon had we gotten over that, than Kathleen came down with coughing and sneezing and itchy spots on her legs. I knew she had been exposed to someone with chicken pox a couple of weeks ago, so took her to the doctor. Luckily he said the spots were insect bites and the coughing and sneezing was just a regular cold virus. So thankfully no chicken pox. But still one very sick little girl. We have spent a lot of time in front of the TV these school holidays. Then over the weekend Victoria came down with something as well, waking up with a fever one night. She has already had a couple of ear infections in the last few months, and I suspect she had another one. Making her very grizzly and sleepy (but is also back to waking up during the night again, grrr). And now Peter seems to have come down with something else as well too. So it has really been a house of illness over the last week and a bit.

Next term Kathleen will start going to Playcentre two days a week. Victoria and I will still attend one day a week, but Kat will go on her own on a Monday. However her creche has closed down due to staff leaving. So the net effect is that she still only has one day at preschool by herself a week.

Victoria is quite proficient at crawling now, and pulls herself up to stand on everything. She cruises the furniture with ease but isn't yet showing signs of standing on her own or walking. She's now 10 months old which is one of my favourite ages. She is learning so much. She can respond if you ask her to clap or bounce or wave. I've also started teaching her a couple of baby signs, and she has so far learned the sign for "more" pretty well.

I've been slowly going through our photos from the last few months, and hope to have them uploaded to Flickr soon. Keep an eye out.

Cheers,
Megz