KiwiLathams

A lot has happened since my last update, so I am just going to be very brief on what’s been going on the last few months in our Latham Family.

Luca had his 4^th Birthday in May! How time flies! We didn’t have a grand party this year but had a weekend away in the Coromandel, where we could use the holiday home of my boss. We had a few friends joining us and had the most wonderful time there!

Our flatmate Christian (a Swiss baker – yummy) (the bread I mean, not the baker…) had never been to a hot water beach and he thoroughly enjoyed lying in the steaming hot water while we were freezing in our wind brakers. He cheated though, he didn’t actually dig his hole but waited until one became available that someone already enjoyed… It was such an amazing day though and we all had a great time!

DAVID’s HOLIDAY TO THE USA

Dave has just spent 3 weeks in the States to attend Ryan’s wedding with Ji-Hyun and then travelled to Orlando to visit his Uncle David, Aunty Doris and his cousins and their families. He had an amazing time catching up with everyone and enjoyed being able to do just “nothing” for a few days… (unlikely this is ever going to happen at home…)

When Dave came home from his trip he told us that Philip, Luca’s 2^nd cousin who is only 10 years old, has an “I-Touch”! Luca wasn’t half as impressed as Dave was and said: “I also have an “I-Patch” – from my pirate party!! (eye patch). We are still laughing now when we remember this…

SASCHA IS 10 MONTHS OLD

And our youngest addition is already 10 months now! I am not sure where the time has gone, but he’s hardly a baby anymore (shame…) but a little toddler now. He just started crawling this week and is now into everything! He figured out though that if he lies flat on the floor and just pushing his legs along like a worm, he is even quicker than crawling! I’ve had really shiny floors this week – I must somehow try to attach a Hoover onto him at the same time…! That would be handy!

HEAT  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big news for us too: We bought a heat pump!!! OH MY GOD what a luxury!!! Winter in New Zealand has just become somewhat more pleasant! It is amazing! We are having the coldest winter Auckland ever had – freezing temperatures twice in June! A couple of weeks ago we had 7 degrees (yes, 7 !!!!!!) downstairs in the morning when we got up – inside the house that is … try to beat that!!!

Anyway, I am just off on our  Girls-Weekend-away (pay back time Dave!) and can’t wait to do NOTHING for the whole weekend (apart from drinking some wine, playing silly games and eat junk food of course…).

I’ll try to keep you updated a bit more regularly in the future so that I don’t have to bore you with a huge essay again, I’m sorry.

Hope you are all well and enjoying whatever you’re up to! Would love to hear from you!

Lots of Love from us all,

TANJA DAVE LUCA SASCHA & SCHNURRLI – and Christian - the best flatmate ever! (He even learnt how to make popcorn in the microwave)!

This is him    No, no, this is NOT Dave, this is actually Christian and No, Christian and Dave are NOT brothers…