An Outing With Playcentre and A Quick Trip to Te Awamutu and Rotorua

So Tobi is staying with us for a few days again which is great.  Lilli just loves having him around and he's a great help.  I do wonder if he's wondering why I'm a bit moody at the moment.  :)  I guess Max will tell him while he's here.

Here's Lilli getting into Tommy the kitten's sleep box.

A slicked back hairdo care of Daddy after having her hair washed.  :)  She's looking at her jade bracelet that Oma and Uri got her in Rotorua.

Putting it into her little jewellery box and playing with the music box dancer.

On Monday 14th we went to the Franklin Zoo with Playcentre. Lilli threw a couple of mild tanty's when I wouldn't let her go into the elephant enclosure with the elephant and also when I wouldn't let her climb the fence into the zebra enclosure so that she could go and ride the zebra! Hahaha. Other than than we had a great time. She really loved the elephant and zebra (funny that!) and also the monkeys. We had a picnic lunch with all the kids and then played on the playground for a while before heading home.


As you can see I had to put her harness and 'leash' on for a while due to the issues we had with not entering enclosures and running off.  :)
 

Later that afternoon when she saw Pops she said to him 'I love to see you Poppa'.  Ohhh so sweet.

Other new phrases are:
Scuse me Tobi
Scuse me please
I love you Tommy

What a little sweetheart aye!  She has such lovely manners.

Here she is making a cup of tea for Pops.

And here are a couple of videos that Lilli took when I was busy and she was playing with my camera.  She loves to take  photos so I just assumed that that's what she was doing.

So we have been continuing on with her swimming lessons as well.  They are every Tuesday and she really seems to enjoy them.  Well she enjoys the games and playing part but not the 'doing laps' so much.  Haha. 

On Friday 25 we went down to Te Awamutu to see Nana who is in hospital there.  Poor Nana is having a bit of a rough time of it lately and has had another fall due to bladder infections.  While we were visiting her Lilli put her hands on the window sill and looked out at Nana's view and with a big sigh said 'Oh poor Nana Dot'.  We have no idea where that came from or how she really knew that it wasn't a nice place for Nana to be because the view certainly wasn't awful, but she did.  She then spent a couple of hours entertaining all the oldies down in the tv room and cheered them up no end before we headed out to Helen and Brians for the night.

She and Brian went out to see if the chooks had laid any eggs and Lilli came into the kitchen proudly carrying 2 eggs.  One in each hand.  Next thing she got excited and banged them together and smash - one broke.  Hahaha.  Fortunately she wasn't too concerned about it.

On Saturday we shot over to Rotorua to stay with Toot and Annie.  When we got there Annie had baked some shortbread and she offered us some.  Lilli took the whole container and went to sit on the floor in the lounge and eat her stash!  Haha she is mad for shortbread.  We had to take out a couple of bickies and give her her own container so we could get the main one back.

On Sunday Lilli told Jack 'Roost (his nickname) you're so funny'.  I guess this will be her new saying for a wee while.  ;)

Today I took Lilli to the Wednesday session at Playcentre because she's missed out on Monday and she played with Sarsha.  They seem to be becoming good little mates and actually call out to each other to come and play from opposite sides of the playground.  Or else they go and paint together.  It's very cute.  Plus today Lilli went down the slide head first on her tummy! 

Of course she did her usual favourites as well...

Here are Lilli and Sarsha playing on the 'truck' together.