The elusive present...

If you look closely at the image above, you will see a large red present near the back. So large in fact two types of paper have been used to wrap it. What can it be? Hints have been dropped, but which hints are "honest", and which are "decoys"? We're pretty sure it's not a pet, as there's no "air-holes"...even if Daddy keeps saying he can hear meowing...!?! Turtle thinks he "knows what it is" (this said in a high-pitched sing-songy voice). Confoundingly there's another smaller, but still pretty big, present on the other side of the tree. This "kinda destroys" Turtle's theory. We shall just have to wait and see "what can possibly be in that box". And as we are unable to take the "elusive present" to New Zealand for Christmas, we are having a "pre-Christmas Christmas" this Saturday morning. Which means only "two sleeps" to go! 

Christmas is coming...

...and the boys and counting down the days. We have "festooned" the apartment with the meagre decorations we have on hand (the rest being in storage in NZ). Mu took it upon himself to create decorations for each room, right down to and including the toothbrush holder in his bathroom. And this afternoon Turtle announced that he's so excited he's having trouble concentrating at school!?! Crikey and there's still 19 sleeps to go...