Update for Week 9

Sorry for the minimal updates. We had to find a place for a week before we moved into our long term rental (in Tahunanui). We found a pretty nice place at the Brook Valley end of Nelson, the only drawback being internet connectivity is not great. The owners (Jeff and Rangi) are not in town this week, so they have allowed us to use the main house during the day. This helps a lot since we can get a fair amount of work done from there.

The wireless situation is quite wierd, it works sometimes for hours at a stretch, at other times, especially at nite, it flakes every few minutes. I do not understand this very well, and am kinda lost in how to potentially fix it. No big deal, since we just have two more nights here. The area however is quite scenic and very different from the other places we've stayed at. Its further away from town and more in the mountains / valleys.

In other news, I managed to reinjure my knee and was in pretty bad shape for a few days. Things are looking much better and the knee seems to be recovering quite quickly. Have hurt it quite a few times in Nelson, since the pavement a bit uneven compounded with me being a clumsy walker results in a bad knee :(

The kids are having a blast with their current schedule. They get up, have breakfast, goto school and do some fun activity (themes of this week: pirate day, dinosaur day, cook day, swimming day). Mari picks them up at 1:00 and takes them to a playground for some time before driving them back home. PJ typically takes a nap for an hour or so. At 3:30 or so, we head to the beach or the pool and play for a couple of hours before we come home, cook, eat, play and goto sleep. Joys of being a kid :)

They are pretty exhausted by 7:30 pm or so. PJ more so than Maya. However trying to put them to sleep at the same time results in a few challenges since they talk to each other and refuse to sleep. We've been tweaking the process and trying to figure out a more optimal sleeping pattern and rhythm. They love to share the room, read books together, wake up together whispering to each other etc. Kinda nice to see them sharing a room, since Maya was quite reluctant to share her room in SF.