We weren’t sure we liked it.

And Te Po Atarau had his first swim

I have a busy January and February coming up, with lots of Koha work to do, plus Linux Conf Australia, and Baacamp to attend. Should be fun and educational. Linuxconf.au is in Wellington this year, so will be home in the evening to help Laurel out with the kids.

Kahurangi starts at Kindergarten next week, which will be interesting, hopefully he settles in nicely. It is a really nice Kindergarten, brand new with great teachers so I think he will be fine. Te Po Atarau has 2 bottom teeth with more on the way so he is being a bit of a cranky pants, but apart from that he is mostly good.

We didn’t take many photos at all over the xmas break, so we are counting on some good ones from Laurels dad and brothers.

Well that’s about it from here for now, stay tuned for some good news about Koha in this part of the world in the near future. *Sneak Preview – Another Public library system is migrating to Koha in NZ*

And by request of Laurel a couple more

Saturday Kahurangi was staying with Nan and Koro, so Laurel and Te Po Atarau went out to the hutt to pick him via craft2.0 and savemart. That gave me time to catch up a lot of Koha bits and pieces I had been meaning to do. They stayed out there for dinner and got back just in time to put the kids to bed.

Sunday started with Kahurangi and I going to the markets and then to Te Papa, which is a fairly regular thing for us. We had brunch at the markets and then a late lunch at Te Papa after looking at Kahu’s favourite exhibit the cane-os (volcanoes). That afternoon Kahu and I went to pick up Matt who had tickets to the Phoenix game and went off to the game. Little did we know it was going to be the game of the season with the Phoenix thrashing the Gold Coast 6-0. Kahurangi got a little bit freaked out when the first goal was scored, but he soon got used to it and started yelling “Penix” and clapping madly and saying “Stand up daddy”.

Today was another chilled day, the highlight of the day was when Kahu was reading me a story before bed. We got to a page with 3 penguins, 2 adult ones and a baby one (complete with all the fluffy feathers). Kahu said “Mummy, Daddy and that fat thing”.

All in all a good weekend.

Kahurangi decided to kiss some trees when we were in Christchurch

Kissing Trees

Te Po Atarau went on his first flights, and was well behaved (even though he had a cold)

Chilling on the plane

Kahurangi also came up with some good quotes. He was eating an ice cream and it started dripping. “Uh oh, I have a problem”.

Then we had noodles for lunch and sometime later in the afternoon, after having a tantrum about something and running off into the kitchen, he came back into the lounge with big tears in his eyes and his hands full of cold left over noodles. “My noonells”. It was pretty hard not to laugh and give him a speech about not taking food out of the rubbish instead.