Sad day

I suffered a personal tragedy today.

This is how it all went down.

6.30am - I hear Vili moving around.  A little early for him, but hey, he's cute, what can I do?

6.40am - I hear Vili climbing down from his bed and his little footsteps down the hall (running, always running, I dont know if I've ever seen him walk), and I get ready for my daily morning snuggles.

6.41am - I see Vili run PAST my room

6.42am - I hear "Hi ba-ya (brother)", giggles, laughs, hugs etc.

6.43am - My heart proceeds to break

Every morning for the last 20months I've been the first thing Vili wants. 

Every morning.

Without fail.

Until today.

I have officially lost the spot as #1 in Vili's life.

Malachi takes the lead.

Ouch.

I shouldn't be surprised.  Malachi is a REALLY good brother.

But still...

:(

Chinese Lantern Festival

As part of the Chinese new year celebrations in Hamilton, they had a lantern festival.  Chinese music, dancers, singers, food, so good.  Malachi was really into it; he has a couple of little buddies at his preschool who are Chinese, and his favourite teacher at school is Chinese, so he gets books from the library all the time about China.  He told me he wants to be Chinese. Lol.   The boys loved the music so much, dancing their little hearts out.  Everyone got given little lanterns to hold, and at dusk they lit up the giant hanging lanterns.  Such a fun night.  Sad Tui had to work and couldn't be there, but hey, someone has to work to fund our activities. :)

Munching away.

Getting their chinese groove on.

Vili got confused, thought it was  Japanese Festival, and busted out his sumo moves.
(Notice the lady behind him laughing?  She was one of many.)

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Belly

One of us is 6 1/2 months pregnant.

Can you guess who?

:)

Devil balls and hairy dogs

I'm not usually a food poster, but these two things are important.

First.

Devil Balls.

I used to call them Heaven balls, then I realised I was being decieved by the devil because they're actually super evil.

But every woman needs to
a-know these exist,
and b-know how to make them.

Take one pack of oreos.  Crush em. Add some cream cheese. Cover them in melted chocolate.

That's it.

Super quick and easy, are perfect if you need to take something somewhere and don't want to spend more then 5 minutes making it.

And my word are they deliciously evil.

The second is for Mums. 

Hairy dogs.

I saw this on facebook and tried it yesterday.  By far the coolest thing I've ever made for dinner.  My boys loved it more then making their own mini pizzas.

And again, super duper easy.

Take some sausages, shove some spaghetti pasta through them, boil them, and you're done.

And the proof is always in the pudding....or in this case, the hairy dog.

Hope that makes life a little sweeter and more interesting for you. :)

Birthday Wishes

Today is my birthday.

And look what I got.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty much the luckiest birthday girl around.
I couldn't have wished for anything more.

oxo

Almost 30

Tui's so old.

Lol.

He was working the day of his actual birthday so we surprised him the day before.  I love that he's so easy to surprise.  He never suspects anything.  Malachi made him a "rainbow cake".  I cooked shrimp and crab and all sorts of other nasty things that I know he loves.  He bought him a "man drill" and some clothes.  It was fun.  He almost spoiled the whole thing though by coming home from work 2 hours early.  I had to send him off on a wild goose chase to get something that doesn't actually exist just to cover myself.  And we finished it off with the birthday boy giving me a foot massage - the way everyone's birthdays should end!!

My little kitchen helper, cutting up the crabmeat.

The rainbow cake.

Vili helping.........himself to the lollies.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD MAN!!!!

3 Amigos

Malachi has these two besties at preschool, Isabella and Zaria.  The three of them are inseperable.  They play with other kids, but always come back to each other.  Malachi tells me he's going to marry Isabella (he also thinks he's going to marry his cousins Hannah and Chloe, but I'd say the non-relative is a safer option).  Last week Malachi got invited to Isabella's birthday party.  He was over the moon.  They're such cute friends.  It makes me think about his little friends in Hawaii, the ones who were such a huge part of his everyday life, that now he can't even remember.  I'm glad for him to have little people to play with.  Even if they are all girls. :)

Isabella's on the left.  Zaria on the right is also half Tongan.  If my baby girl comes out looking like her, I'll take 4 of them!!!