The boy is in double figures

At last my baby is 10!

It was a busy day but he made the most of his special day when he is allowed to choose whatever we get up to!

So first he opened presents at 7am, dictated by the fact that his dad had to get to work. Amongst the favourites were Pokemon platinum for the DS, cuddle buddy from Caitlin, lots of books, a cross stitched pirate from Nanny ( and some smarties which lasted about two hours) and lots of lego ( Technics and starwars).

Then pancakes for breakfast, a trip to ten pin bowling and mini golf, lunch at McDonalds (with a quick sejourn to Starbucks for a decent coffee for Mommy), homemade meatballs and Caitlin's marble cake for dessert. Most of the rest of the day was spent putting his lego technic sand buggy together.



He says he feels much older!

It's been a busy holiday so far.

Mom and Roo have been to the Science day at Auckland Uni, where we both loved the Physics show, where we learned how to get rid of aliens. Anton took the kids ice skating.


While Ant was playing at soldiers the rest of us went ot the French Market and ate huge croissants and bought lots of cheese.On Wednesday we are going to watch Harry Potter at the IMAX cinema in town. We also have plans to go the Museum for their 'dangerous exhibition for boys and daring girls' and lots of other stuff while Daddy is away!

As if he didn't have enough work to do...

Anton has decided to join the Army. Here he is with his buddies in the Officers' Mess. They are just about to depart on a tour of duty in one of the worst hot spots in the world....West Auckland!






And with any army comes the young and glamourous hangers-on












Ooops, my mistake. Turns out he's filming something called "Spies and Lies" and earning £4 an hour for the privilege of dressing up as a soldier. He's off to Rotorua tomorrow to do the same thing for two days, before jetting out to the UK

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Oh no! Caitlin has discovered alcohol!

In term 2 C's class did an inquiry project on drugs. Then they were asked to do a mini inquiry of their own focussing on one particular drug.

Caitlin chose alcohol, though only after a number of interesting hours in the library with her mum heard to say 'This cocaine one looks good!" and "How about heroin?'

The result? Another top score of 5A