What grandparents are good for.....

Matotea was overjoyed to see grandmere and grandpere on skype this morning, finally back home after their visit.....but she was a little cross that they wouldn't be able to come and chase her on the beach today! The poor little thing has been missing the oldies, who were pretty much at her beck and call over the last month or so. Over the weekend I was clearing out their room, ready for the guests arriving today.....but Matotea has been insisting that it's still grandmere and grandpere's room...she even disappeared in there to have her afternoon sleep on saturday, discovered crashed out on the unmade bed! So it's fair to say that we're missing grandmere and grandpere, they were quite good for........

....going to the beach

Babysitting Heimana....

(often multi-tasking)

.......going for a quiet stroll

(Matotea, above, sporting her Fairy outfit, a Christmas present, is being taken for a 'fly' around the garden)

Bedtime stories and a game or two of 'row,row the boat'