Ciara's indulging in one of her favourite pasttimes - reading cookbooks and saying 'WOW' at every colour picture :)

Goodness me, my last post was March and now it's August!!! Eeeek!

As you can probably guess things are hectic as usual! Brendan is doing his first year of Masters (his papers year) and he's flat out. I'm studying Maori language again this year, and it's a bit of a step-up from last year, so I'm having to work quite hard at it.

The wee girl is full of mischief and now walking and running all over the place. Her vocabulary is coming along in leaps and bounds and we estimate (it's a bit hard to count because she keeps surprising us) that she now knows and uses about 60 - 70 words. Her favourite colour word is 'purple' (everything is purple at the moment) and when she's hungry she's not shy about demanding 'dinner'! Ciara has started at Playcentre and she loves it. She is also really enjoying swimming at the moment and is proving to be fearless like her big cousin Ella.

As well as parenting and studying we're both also working part-time, fitting it in around our other commitments.

Anyway I must away and do some study while the wee girl is in bed having her afternoon 'sleep' (actually at the moment she's warbling away to her toys, but she'll probably fall asleep eventually).