Bright sunshiney days

Caleb: "Mom, can I have a bite of the skin of the kiwi fruit?"
Me: "Why would you want to do that?"
Caleb: "It's delicious".
Me: "That's gross, it's all hairy, but okay then".
Caleb: "A peach is hairy too - you just have to move your lips out the way," ... proceeding to eat most of the skin, having emptied out the rest with the spife (or knoon). 
Seriously?  Eeuw! 
This from the same boy who suggested saddles for Grampa's eyebrows.

The boys participated in school athletics yesterday (I arrived after work, after they had both finished competing in all their events).  Caleb was disappointed to finish just out of placeable range (ie third when first and second went to finals, or second when only first went through) in most of his events.  Aaron just had fun doing it.  I had a marvellously quiet morning in the school office, being the solitary person there for most of the morning!  Bliss. We hired Cars 2 to watch together in the evening over pizzas, coke and garlic bread, with mousse chocolate for pudding.  Friday Family Fun :)

Today Aaron had an hour-and-a-half concert practice for his ukulele concert coming up in two weeks.  His group does pretty well although they seem to constantly want to race ahead of the beat.  Yours truly has been roped into beating a bongo drum to help them keep time!  Caleb's violin concert is this coming Wednesday but as his class is only performing two songs, the practices are a lot shorter and less complicated. 

 

We've had a run of beautifully sunny days lately, although they're not particularly warm.  There's still snow on the mountains and the southerly breezes are chilly.  Nonetheless, we went out after tea to PaknSave to buy Magnum ice-creams (hokey pokey and vanilla) which we took to the docks to eat (that sounded like a very St Helena-ry thing to do just there!); Nick and stayed in the warm car and the boys braved the outdoors.  The days are so wonderfully long already and still getting longer - sunrise is now at 5.56 am and sunset is at 8.46 pm.  The boys are not too keen on going to bed while the sun is still shining, but dark blue curtains sure do help.