Elizabeth is completely toilet-trained. No nappies anymore, ever. Not even to bed. Daniel on the other hand wears the biggest, most-expensive night-time nappy which still fails to hold everything and he often wets his bed. How long will this go on for?
It’s always depressing coming back to Auckland after a trip away because it’s such a foul city. It’s soulless. A mish-mash of cars and motorways with no real heart.
I feel cold here despite the warmer climate and I think there are two reasons for this. Firstly, our house is cold. We have heating and we can afford to turn it on (unlike many other New Zealanders who live in substandard conditions) but it’s inadequate when the temperature outside gets really cold. It felt warmer in Christchurch because our house was warmer. There’s also something nice about being out and about when the temperature outside is zero. When the air is freezing, it doesn’t hold moisture anymore so it becomes dry and more pleasant to breathe. It never gets that cold here and so consequently always feels heavy and damp.
We took the children to the beach at Brown’s Bay yesterday afternoon and they had a lovely time with Elizabeth eating sand and Daniel writing his name in it. Got some good photos too.
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