They're all Growing Up!

Yesterday afternoon, Aonghas and my mum saw the kitten in the neighbours' (the bad neighbours) garden, which mainly consisted of overgrown weeds. After a few hours, they managed to pick it up and took it inside. Later last night Szelin, the younger neighbour, came over to visit us...well...really it was the kitten she wanted to play with. Now it's official - Szelin Yap is the first visitor to the Anderson house for 2005! Anyway, not too long after she came over to visit, her mum rang us to ask if we wanted to watch a movie at their house. We went over to watch 'James Bond - Die Another Day', with Ester and Julia and their mum as well. The movie was pretty good, especially the gadgets James Bond gets to use! He had a car that could become camouflaged with the surroundings, as well as being equipped with weapons and everything!

 

Today we went over to St Johns to visit our relatives on my mum's side of the family. Joshua, my three year old nephew...or great-nephew...or something...anyway he is shooting up fast! The last time I saw him was in late November. Now he can run, laugh, jump and shout! He's been a bit ill lately so not too long after we arrived, he had to go off to see the doctor.

 

After that we paid a little visit to Nancy, Marcus and his little sister. Marcus used to go to Henderson Primary School with us and is one year younger than Aonghas. I think the last time I visited him was almost two years ago! Marcus looks a lot more maturer, but the biggest surprise of all was his little sister! I remember his sister being a crazy little girl with glasses, running all over the place tackling us! Now she's all grown up, mature, with no glasses! Whoowee...things change a lot over time...

 

We went into Auckland City to browse the Central City Library and it is massive! It's like 5 times the size of our local library and has a whole section dedicated to sheet music and scores. It costs people who live outside of the area $120 a year for membership, a bit too much for me!

 

Aonghas realised today that one of my dad's car doors wouldn't unlock, and when my dad inspected it, he realised that it had been broken into. Someone got into the car, but fortunately nothing was stolen, and neither was the car. It probably isn't worth anything anyway! I've just been wondering if there is a world record for the most times a vehicle has been repaired, because my dad's car must surely be up there somewhere!

 

The kitten is doing well at the moment. So far it has learnt to lick water from a dish. However, last night when it was all by itself, it was pretty calm and still. When we let in Tess, the father, they both got really excited, with Tess rubbing against everything it could in the house, before settling down to sleep. The kitten kept jumping everywhere, licking our coffee table legs, and started playing with Tess's tail. That's when it started...Tess started grabbing the kitten by the neck with his mouth and looked as though it was attacking the kitten. The kitten was howling as well! Aonghas got pretty spooked out. We decided to let Tess go out for the night while the kitten slept in the box overnight.