Colouring with Zeke
20 September 11
One factor in our visit to friends on the Sunshine Coast has been to reunite our girls with their friends. It has been nice to see that the memory of their friendships is enduring despite time and distance, and we seek to encourage long-term relationships between our children and their pals.

We last visited the Rattenburys in December last year. However, during our interim travels, the girls have talked about Kalei, Zeke and Asher constantly. They’ve drawn pictures for their friends, composed letters and wrapped up little presents.


The Rattenburys always have a marvellous collection of gadgets and toys to play with. We love to be introduced to cool technology, and Nigel’s the man who susses it all out.
Our girls enjoy seeing and playing with remote-control toys too after we first bought one in New Zealand. Today Zeke showed Aisha how to control her car, and she soon picked up the techniques.


This afternoon, we took everyone down to a local park to get some exercise. We had a special encounter with the woman whose house we parked outside. Her daughter lives in New Zealand and works for Greenpeace, so she thought perhaps we had come to visit her! It was a reminder that there are friendly people everywhere.




Back at the house, the kids soon resumed their colouring-in marathon. Zeke started colouring in several weeks ago when he stayed at home with chicken pox. We love seeing how Zeke uses the computer to source the pictures from certain websites — soon our girls will be doing the same thing!


Delaney, as usual, has been charming everyone who meets her. She’s in the special phase between babyhood and toddlerhood and loves to join with her sisters in their play.

1 · Manou · 22 September 2011, 15:06
Delaney looks like someone but I do not know who! Am glad that the others are keen on bikes.Love to all,M