The Last Post of August.

August has been a bit lean here so I'm squeezing this last post in.

Here are some random pictures from the last few days/weeks:

After a few weeks without a dishwasher and after paying Defy R400,00 to NOT fix it, I arrived home 1 afternoon to find a new one waiting for me!! (NOT Defy!) This month I have been without a dishwasher, microwave and domestic helper at one time or another and all at once in a particularly bad week! I am glad to say they are all back!A couple of times a year Niave has a "pyjama party" at her school, also known as a babysitting evening. You can drop your kids off at 7pm and fetch them at 10:30pm and have a night out. They watch DVD's and have a torch hunt (treasure hunt in the dark!) and pass out at random intervals. The first one was just after Grant had come out of hospital so we stayed very much at home while Niave went to watch DVD's at school and fall asleep in her sleeping bag! This time Grant had been out all day and only come home at 6pm so instead of us going out I invited Kelsey over and she and Abigail had their own pyjama party. Sometimes there are DVD's that are suitable for Abigail but not for Niave, Nanny McPhee is one of them that Abigail has been dying to see, so they watched that while they munched on popcorn and chocolate! Abigail was riveted as you can tell!!!

No, your eyes do not deceive you, that is Grant in a boat! He has been out a couple of times recently to Teewaterskloof dam in Villiersdorp with his uncle who has a boat there. Although he is smiling in this picture it was, apparently not a pretty sight getting him in there!! (I won't post those pictures, not very dignified!!) However he did get in and they did go out on the water and he had a marvellous time.On Sunday Niave was invited to a party at The Play Shed at Oude Molen Eco village in Pinelands. There is also a horse riding centre there so afterwards they each had a ride, Abigail was in her element, loves horses, and Niave was nervously happy! She used to run a mile but is now happy to go for a short ride. Abigail rode Milo (in picture) and Niave rode Tinkerbell but she wasn't in a photo mood!While going through my photo's earlier I realised that I had not taken a single picture of Niave in August! Shocking, I know, so here it is - the only picture of Niave from August 2010.