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It was a scorcher again today, and Elaine (my sister) came over for a swim…. sorry guys, no pics of her today… instead… photos of Connor doing exercises on his towel (he was being tutored by Elaine).

It didn’t take long before he found something that looked a lot more interesting…

Bradley got this Radio Controlled car for Christmas from his godfather 2 years ago, and he’s never really been interested in it, so it’s been gathering dust at the top of a bookcase (to keep it away from Connor).  I took the boys to the shops this morning, and as I was getting batteries from the shelf, he asked me if I could get new batteries for the car (well, one of them anyway, he has 3 gathering dust).

And that’s exactly what we did… we got home and checked the sizes it needed and thankfully I had them on hand and he spent the rest of the afternoon playing with it. In fact, this was the only one that worked in the end; one of them needs rechargeable batteries and we couldn’t find the controls for the last one.

It’s so lovely spending time at home with the boys and being able to let them rediscover all their toys.

I’m telling you, there’s nothing better than celebrating Christmas in the southern hemisphere where you can enjoy the hot weather with friends and family and spend your days in the pool (or at the beach but we’re never that lucky at Christmas time). Jealous yet? Here are the last photos of our Christmas… I promise

Licking pool water
It’s the closest she gets to the pool, she’s very scared of the water.

Shark in the water
I have no idea where Bradley learnt this, but it’s the cutest thing.

Cutie Connor

Swimming with Granny

Jackie getting a hug

Mastering his new scooter

Fun stocking filler

My beautiful child

Playing with Bradley’s gormitis

Old Flame
These flame lilies in my mom’s garden only flower at Christmas time. My mom brought them back from Zimbabwe in the early 1980′s and they’ve been flowering in her garden ever since. They’re very difficult to grow, and this year only one plant is flowering.

Sunflower

That’s it folks I know, I’ve got a bit overboard this week, hope you’ve got this far
This is what Christmas does to toddlers…

Sarah is in South Africa at the moment, and thankfully we managed to see her and the kids today before they jet back to Uganda.  The original plans were to meet up at Lemon Rose Farm, but we thought that it would be closed this weekend; so I invited everyone to our house for a breakfast/brunch thingy.   Everyone brought a few things to eat and drink and we ended up with enough food to feed everyone for the breakfast and a small lunch for the 7 of us and our kids (and my sister and her friend that arrived for lunch as well)!

It was such a wonderful day, with the kids spending most of the time in the pool and on the jungle gym.

The kids having fun in the pool

Sonja protecting her Christmas present

Jason and Connor discussing their toys

Not sure what Ethan was doing here

The water bazooka in action

This is serious stuff…

And last but not least… Connor getting out of the pool.  He stayed in this position for ages moving closer and closer to the edge of the pool.  I was praying that he wouldn’t fall backwards.  This child of mine is going to give me heart failure one day… I actually wrote about some of his antics on my other blog yesterday!

It’s such a pity she’s going home on Tuesday already, we were all really looking forward to a girls night out with her too!

PS.  If you’re wondering about the colours on the photos, I’ve used the Pioneer Woman Seventies action on them.  I’m loving these actions at the moment!