A rainy weekend

We haven't had a lot of rain over the last couple of months. I've even had to start watering the garden every day. Luckily my little boy's recent must-have purchase - a blue elephant watering can - has helped with this issue as it means he can take part in this task with me while his sister's at rehearsals. Cute hey?

This weekend though, I was able to take a break from the hosepipe as we finally had some rain, yay! So, in between gymnastics, piano lessons and WOW rehearsals, this is what we did on our rainy weekend...

Firstly, we cuddled the cats alot....

When they'd had enough of the cuddles they escaped outside. Even in the rain they managed to find dry spots. 

Meanwhile the kids played lots and lots of games. Lego, den building, farm games, Sylvanian families.... There wasn't much floor space left by the end of the day. 

On Saturday evening we had a street party, which was nice. One of our neighbours told us about a great walking track that leads from the end of our street through the bush and down to the next suburb, which we didn't even know about! How this happened I have no idea, but we checked it out yesterday. Lots of fun. 

Jake and I managed a night out on Saturday, for dinner at a local hotel and to an awesome play/comedy at a small theatre here, about a middle-aged man who takes up biking and wearing lycra. Seriously. It was very funny. 

We had a bit of TV time too this weekend. TV is something we've not done much of lately due to a general busy-ness and other stuff. Alfie has become obsessed with soccer....(note: STILL no TV cabinet. I'm not sure we'll ever own one). 

And we read lots....we've got Harry Potter on the go at the moment but it's giving Alfie nightmares so we have to only read it during the daytime and stick to gentler things at bedtime.

Yesterday morning I went out for breakfast with the girls while the kids pottered about in the wet garden and found a couple of lizards/skinks. When I got home I discovered that one had even made it into our kitchen with only 3 legs. This whole discovery was either super exciting, super interesting, or super gross - depending on who in the family you were speaking to.

Finally, we were going to cook a lovely dinner last night, but the oven caught fire (well, it is nearly 20 years old) and we have to wait a few days until Fisher & Paykal can come out to replace a part.  (So we got pizza takeaway instead and now we have lots of wasted food, grrrrrr....)