Mother’s day was a busy day…busy getting ready for a show house. We did get to spoil Donné a bit though, Grace made her two cards, Eli and I made her another, and I got her a digital food thermometer which she has been wanting since she started watching Masterchef.

We met Keren at the Waterfront while the house was on show, and Grace’s face tells a story of how well things were going. Grace was doing just about everything wrong and losing privileges left, right and centre.

Some take away sushi at the end of a busy day

When we went to get some lights this morning, Grace climbs into the trolley and says, “Take a photo for mommy, happy mother’s day!”

We’ve bought (well kind of) a house in Somerset West! We have an accepted offer to purchase, and just need to get approval from the bank at this stage. It also means that our house is on the market, and on show tomorrow. We originally wanted to keep our current home and rent it out, but it doesn’t look like the bank will go along with that in terms of total bond repayments. So after a little bit of coming to terms with giving up our home, it is now on the market.

Here is the agent’s listing, and here are photos we took back in 2006, when out kitchen was only half done.

57 Cornwell Street, back in 2006

The three of us were playing with Grace’s green material tunnel. I was a monster eating them up with the tunnel, and they were just having loads of fun rolling around and being silly together inside the monster.

Sitting on the counter copying mom, who later said, “Do as I say, not as I do.”

My cute babies

Grace and Eli shraring a yogisip at the dog show on Sunday

Eli has never been much of a fruit lover, whereas Grace has always loved different fruits. One fruit that Grace loves is guavas which when she discovered she devoured a whole lot of guava from a friend’s plate.

Guava season is upon us and it turns out that Eli also loves guavas (well, what is there not to love about guavas)….enough to eat two of them in a day.

Noshing guavas is great!

Grace has been going to speech therapy to work on her articulation (which is an effect of the dysphraxia). For the last two months or so she has been working on the “f” sound and she has now mastered it entirely, which the speech therapist is delighted about. So today they went through all the difficult sounds and the only one that needs work is the “th” sound. The speech therapist says that if she can master that, then she will be done with speech therapy. We’ll see how it goes, because apparently the “th” sound is typically only mastered later, but it would be exciting if she managed to get this mastered before we move to Somerset West.

Eli has been getting lots of joy out of turning the light switches on and off (and on and off, and on and off, and on and off…). At sleep time his ritual is to get dressed, run off as quickly as possible as soon as that is done, into Grace’s room, turn off the light and give the most beautiful I-got-super-loads-of-joy-out-of-that laugh. It is even better when just the bedside light is on, and the whole room goes dark.

Smiles and laughs while playing with the light

Zooting down the toboggan hill at Cool Runnings

We had a fun and relaxing last day with Gogo and Gramps today. While Eli slept Grace, Gramps, Gogo and I went to Cool Runnings to try out the toboggan’s. Grace loved it and squealed, “Weeeee!” with delight as we went down the track. The second time we went down as fast as we could go, and she was just loving it. She really had a good time.

After lunch we all went to a dog show and watched some obedience and protection dogs while Grace made a friend while playing on the jungle gym. We finished it off with Chinese and sushi (for Grace) for dinner. It was a lovely end to a good week with Gogo and Gramps.

I think Eli is going to miss Gramps, and Grace is going to miss Gogo.