Mother's Day Weekend

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Craig's Dad has been much too busy to give the blog the appropriate amount of attention that it deserves. But, finally a new update has been prepared. Last Saturday, Craig and his parents went to a really nice Chinese restaurant to celebrate Mother's Day. The guest of honor was not Craig's Mum!!! It was Craig's Grandma.

Craig's cousins Soit-Jade and Yu-chi were there as well. It's a shame the only picture of them at lunch made their eyes turn ghostly blue.

After lunch Uncle Guapo drove to the Neihu Sports Park. While the children ran around on the grass Aunty Jessie kept an eye on proceedings.

Craig was being a bit selfish about holding on to the only ball that had been brought along. It wasn't his ball but that didn't stop him from claiming it and holding on tight.

Persuasion was useless.

Craig kept holding on to the ball when he went for a walk along this path.

Craig walked up and down this path a dozen times and never really got tired of it.

He didn't do anything exciting, just walked up and down.



Craig's cousins came over to play as well. Craig immediately started to play with the water as evidenced by the wet footprints in this picture.

Craig then played a game with his Dad where Dad's job was to lift the boy up on to the platform here and tickle him. Craig would then slide down a slippery slide on the left and then run back to do it again. After 10 minutes of that Craig's Dad sat down for a break but Craig decided to try to climb up by himself, not very successfully.

Craig's Uncle Guapo then played the same game with Craig for almost half an hour! It was a truly heroic effort. Uncle Guapo then played another game where he picked up two kids and span around until everyone was dizzy. Craig's Dad thinks he was King of Kids for the day.

Walking back across the park to the car, Craig found a white rabbit!! It wasn't hard to spot on the green grass.

Craig is very timid when it comes to animals, even very small ones. First, Craig's Mum patted the rabbit gently to show Craig it wouldn't hurt but he just hid behind her.

Even pulling his hand forward to stroke the rabbit gently was too much for Craig and he wouldn't keep his hand there for long.

The drive home was a very happy occasion. There was lots of giggling from the back seat.

Dinner that night was at the local steak place. Craig likes it because the all-you-can-eat salad bar has chips! (Nobody has taught him to say fries.)

Craig's Mum had to wait until Sunday night for her Mother's Day dinner. She didn't get to choose the restaurant. They went to Craig's favourite place in the whole wide world .... when he's hungry. TGI Fridays managed to fit us in even though we didn't have a booking. Craig thought that was a really good thing but he wouldn't sit still for the camera.......