Cinnamon Rolls

Well since cousin Emma was visiting last week, we tried to do some fun and exciting things. Fun and exciting for Rosie meant baking, she made these awesome cinnamon rolls (above) as well as a lemon pie and some baked potatoes, she is becoming quite the baker.

Another 'fun' thing we did was go to the memorial gardens and try to take pictures of us all jumping in the air on self timer...we could have done more interesting things its true but we couldn't really be bothered. For instance Dean spent the day out at Raglan on a 45km bike track with his South African work mate, mostly up hill, he only made 30kms but I was still impressed.

We also went out to a new vegetarian restaurant in town, and I had the most delicious spinach dish, Emma had something with lentils that was very nice and Joe had these really yummy dumpling things, and it was all really cheap...at first I wanted to go to this bento place that Dean and I discovered, but I'm glad Joe convinced us to go Indian because now I know two really good restaurants.

Anzac, Easter, and our Own Special Little Easter Bunny

 

Well Easter and Anzac have now pretty much come and gone and here we are. They are an interesting pair of holidays with both striking similarities and paradoxical contrasts; while both are hallowed memorials to fallen heroes, one underlies peace and the other war. Below is a photo of Deans Grandad who served during WWII in Africa. He spent most of the war in a prison camp. He is 89 now and is mostly blind, hard of hearing and can no longer walk, however, he is the most loved person in the RSA rest home where he receives multiple visits daily from his wife, son (Deans dad) and grand children (deans brother and sisters). And so, as the sun sets on one generation, it rises on another.

Little Asher continues to grow and is now sitting up. He is very playful and enjoys peekaboo, tickles, smiles, and just being with people. The other day little Asher was trying out some new solids - a rice cracker; he was enjoying sucking on it but at one stage the cracker became sufficiently soggy that it developed an adhesive quality and became bound to the tip of his tongue. For some time Asher tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his tongue into his mouth to capture the elusive cracker but every time to no avail resulting in this sticky tip of the tongue cracker that recoiled to and fro from his mouth.

 

Well a month or two ago, its true that Dean and I were not planning on building our home at all, but we were overcome by the 'building fever', with all of Joe's home plans and then with Pitas enthusiasm. It still would not be happening if it were not for Mum and Dad's generosity with the section. Its quite funny, when I had Asher I discovered that I could speak for hours with anyone, about babies and birth and other such things that I had previously found very boring. And now I find that I can spend hours speaking to anyone (who will listen) about roofing products, exterior cladding's and flooring. It really is very exciting, although we are a little jealuous that we are unable to build a house of Joe's proportions (just to give you an idea his plan is 3 times the size of ours). Well we were waiting until the building had actually started before we told everyone, but we couldn't keep the news to ourselves.

In other news little Asher has had his first illness, he has a temperature and a sore throat, the poor little man. He tries to be happy, but its a struggle for him. I took him to the doctors today, and got him some medicine, so hopefully he will be happier soon.

House Plans

These are the plans we got back from the builder today. We can still make adjustments to them so if anyone has any ideas we are all ears. We are hoping to start in a month or two when the titles come through.