Where did february go?

It's been a while since I've had enough time to collect my thoughts here on the blog. I'm just trying to figure out where all this time has gone. The grandparents came to visit in mid-january and Matotea had A LOT of fun, training them up to do her bidding. Her english has really come on apace, it's just amazing how she just soaks up information at the moment, it's often hard to figure out exactly what she wants, but she is just getting better and better at expressing herself.

With the grandparents here, came a whole new set of learning-experiences...

CHEERS!

.....she learned to appreciate classical music (particularly when she was allowed to borrow grandma's MP3 player),
She ate lots of cake and ice-cream, as well as finding a taste for grandma's tonic water and grandma's special cereal!

She spent some serious time on the beach......

With the grandparents came a stream of presents, including a large collection of old childrens programs, that were enjoyed as much if not more by the GPs than by Mato, though she is pretty partial to the Clangers.

But as the saying goes all good things must come to an end, and so eventually we had to wave goodbye, even if we did get to go on an aeroplane all the way to Tahiti together first!

What else is new? Well, in this past few months Matotea has graduated seamlessly from nappies to grown up undies, just like that, without so much as a bed-wetting phase, in between. She really is getting to be a big girl now........which is good because we're expecting another one - that will appear, I am reliably told by my rather dour obstetrician, on the 1st of August, though I personally have a feeling he/she will make her debut a little earlier than that.....

We've also started to produce and sell our own jams, we're still taking baby steps, but at the 'Salon de Tourisme' in Tahiti this year, Viriamu sold 46 jars of the stuff, so I'm feeling buoyed up by that! The business also seems to be going well, it looks like it will be a good year for us, despite the global economic woes, and the more immediate tourism 'crash' in Tahiti. There are some advantages to living on a small island isolated in the central Pacific!