Maeva's got new words for me tonight

We are in Marseille.
We have been here for six weeks now and it has been a blast.
The trip started with the long flight (overnight in Seoul) to Paris, overnighting there then flight to the south of france for the majority of the time here.

Tuifiti has been an awesome travel buddy, Maeva had been even better...because she has been great help with baby too.....child looking after a child. Love it.

We spent the first 2 weeks around here, going to Cuers to the vineyards, catching up with family and friends, taking MM to the church we got married in, weaning the Tuif off my breasts and relaxing.

Then the girls arrived for our Samoan weekened....which my bestie from uni was able to attend, Kav.

That's another essay, so refer to facbook for the evidence. hoh.

For 10 days, we were in the French Alpes (Serre Chevalier) with the familia....mainly with Mayoune, Fred, the boys, Nani and Eric. Spent each day going to nearby areas for picnics...fun times and great food in the evenings compliments of Mayoune...loved it!

Then we drove to Austria (stopping in Milan) to catch up with Mex, Tauilagi and Desiree...fantastic time of lazing in the pool, which wasn't there last time, having a nosey in the wee village, drinking wine of course, visiting Salzburg and checking out Mozart's hometown, eating speacilty foods of the region and then back to the fun times on the veranda overlooking the lake.....of course, we had to referee the fights between the kids every now and then.
Then Moonlight Fest in town....caipirinha maracujas were flowin' of course (:

Now back to Marseille, catching up wih everyone and then off to Paris for 2 nights on Wednesday.

The holiday is coming to an end and there are many highlights....but all in my head (:

manuia le po....

tonight's lesson by my 4 year old at the white board:
Ambagator: A sheep that is brown, with fluffy beards.
Latricator: A sheep that has milk in its head.
Lachagategrillar: A person with many arms.

Conversations in my house

Maeva was in the lounge talking and singing to Sebastien Tufiti (ST from here on :)
 "This little piggie went to market,...this little piggie went shopping! this little piggie went wheee wheee wheee all the way home".
After about 3 minutes, ST stops smiling and starts whining, then whimpering, then crying agrily.
Maeva shrugs and screams at him "arrggghhh, stop crying brada!"
No stopping, just more cries.
Maeva gets up, hands on her hips and marches to the kitchen to her dad
"Dad, come look after your son!"

This week just went tits up for our household.,
It started wonderfully, with the Hilbrons from Oman and Wellington.
Maeva having a fabulous time with her cousin, Tauilagi.
Tauilagi who was named by our mother and whom is my sister's pride and joy.
She chose that name with much thought, love, hope and everything a mother wants in a child.
Not a name that is loosely plaigiarised so to speak.
Anyhow, the two children had a great time togther, playing, then fighting, then tackling - rugby style, then more fun and games.
However, as we get closer to the start of the week, Tauilagi got sick.
Then Maeva follwed suit,
Now, Tuifiti is joining in the queu.
Its now Wednesday.
We jet off toSamoa on Saturday for a special occasion, so i have 2 more days to drug up my children, rest them, care for them and nurse them to full health.
To top it off, Tuifiti had his 3 month jabs today.
So he has also developed a temperature - but nothing too backbreaking.

to be continued....ua fia susu le pepe, onosai mai i le laina.

Ruby's 4th Birthday.

Spent last Saturay afternoon at Ruby's house for her birthday.
Fantastic day for the kids, hghlight being the pony rides on Mini.
Ruby is Maeva's BFF from kindy. They are inseparable and act like silly billies when they are together,
Its such a joy seeing them together....like two peas in a pod,,,except, on pea is parang and the other, a fob (:

 Marshmallows and chippies for lunch (:

 Ruby, MM, Hannah, Chelsea, Lily

Meet the star of the day, Mini

 Gumboots, some mud, pony poo and more mud....bliss!

 Ella's got her under her wing

 Waikato girls thru and thru!

 She's loving it...a whole afternoon around ponies, farm, dogs, sheeps etc...what a child's dream!

 BFFs waiting their turn on the pony

 Decorate your own cupcake...it was initially a loveheart that morphed into a butterfly...so naturally, its a loveheart butterfly.

 Happy 4th Birthday Ruby!



Teine Samoa

Gui went to rugby this morning. We were in the middle of spring cleaning the house...well, I got as far as taking the washing out when Maeva stumbled acros her ofu siva and tuiga, both items have been "in the making" for over a month now, but i have been so busy,  I kept delaying it for "next weekend".

So instead of cleaning, we got out the fulumoa, shells and the rest of the craft boxes and proceeded to complete her dance outfit.

When it was all done, I played Falealili Uma, and off she went.

She watched me teach Soana how to dance, ...what I didn't realise was that she was absorbing all the moves.

She went to kindy and taught her friends and teachers how to se'e and get down on the floor,

whoohoo...that's my girl!

Pardon the mess haha

Slacking off, are we? momma of the year?

I've been having a nosey at my old blog entries, particularly ones i wrote when Maeva was a wee baby.

I was smitten with her.

I was a blabberring mama with her. I photographed her every move, her every turn, her every moment ...just about.

Now, I am absolutely guilty now.

My second child has hardly been written about, or photographed extensively.
Heck, I am more determined to raise him within a set routine and less worried about marvelloing at his 'firsts'.

I am being such a callous nonchalant parent.

For this reason, let me retrace my steps and drool over him developments, (so i can feel better about meself hah).

My beautiful baby boy is now 15 weeks old, to be absolutely exact.(3 months, 3 weeks:)

He is so much fun tochat with because he lights up with glee, he smiles so graciously, and even turns his head when the joke is funnier than usual.

He continues to grow longer (taller), making Gui wonder if this is his child because he is tops the charts in height.

Sebastien Tuifiti is a happy chappy and loves being entertained.

He hates tummy time but i still do it daily as it is great for his coordination and eve better for clearing the boogers from his nose. double deal, yay!...oh, and it wears him out, so he sleeps faster and sounder.

Yesterday, I did an epic cleanup of Maeva's room, i cleaned, vacuumed, moved furniture and wiped the walls. I even wiped the back of the cupboards and dismantled the cot, reassembled it in the guest room, and then assembled the bed we bought for Maeva from Ali's neighbour. $50 - what a steal.

Then I proceeded to decorate her room, biff the toys she doesn't play with, sorted out the books.

Needless to say, by 4pm, I WAS KNACKERED.

But her room is finally a stunnin haven for a wannabe princessa who loves to read, play with barbies and amuse her pretend friends. If i shoudl say so myself, she is bloody lucky to have me as a mom.
...a Bob the builder kind of mom.
..Maeva, you better be the Prime Minister in future or be a highly paid top model....maes my back breaking effort well worth it! haha...no pressure!

k, back to the fecking dissertation.

Ua 4 tausaga o Maeva Moelagi