Feeling kind of bummed out today. I was all set to go to Rotorua for a Geography field trip today - grandma set to babysit, bus snacks bought, camera battery all charged - but unfortunately a severe weather warning for the Bay of Plenty put paid to that. Rainfall of 80-120mm and thunderstorms were forecast for today. As most of our work was to be done outside, we didn't fancy dealing with sixty-odd wet, cold & grumpy Year 11's, so we postponed the trip until another time.

Instead of going to Rotorua and having a go on the Luge, I got to go to the dentist. Yay! No major problems, which is good but the I'm looking at a couple of crowns in the next year or two. The dentist was really nice and explained everything very clearly. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I'm moving to Singapore soon and I'll be able to get top quality dental work done for much cheaper than here in NZ.

I'm really enjoying being at home with my girl. Tilda's so funny at times. It's really cool to be able to watch her develop. She's taken a few uncertain steps on her own and is really, really chatty. I don't understand most of what she says but it obviously means something to her. She is able to say some words like daddy, mama, dolly and is also able to make little sentences. Whenever we get her up or take her outside she points and says "wosset?" (what's that?), "lookit det" (look at that) and "whoset?" (who's that?). Note the Kiwi accent:)

The packing and sorting continues, albeit quite slowly. I took two bags of clothes and two bags of books and magazines to the Salvation Army on Monday, which was cool. We've got a bunch of boxes and we're sorting out our books. I have four boxes - books to keep and take to Singapore, books to keep at Mel's parents place (x2) and books to sell or give away. I feel gutted about giving books away! I've also put a bunch of clothes I won't need until we arrive in Singapore in a box and was quite chuffed about how empty the wardrobe looked. Then Mel said, "ooh! I can put my clothes in your wardrobe". All good though because it means she won't have to go into Tilda's room to get her clothes.

I'm sure there was something else I was going to write but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Can't have been too important. So I'll be off now.

Later:)