A really great nanna

We've had a pretty special visitor up here recently - Ol & Eve's great grandmother - Nick's Nanna.

Nanna came up to spend a few weeks in the warm weather while Pa was visiting us (without Nanna Kaye though who was working hard in New York).

Our littles thought it was just fantastic having their great nanna around and they really enjoyed spending time with her and giving her cuddles and kisses.

One of the best bits was that Ol had to present a history talk at school on a series of questions about an older person he knows. Not wanting to give too many of Nanna's secrets away, but I'm pretty sure Ol's answers were from the oldest person in the entire class. Her answers were pretty amazing and it was such a great chance to find out some more about what has been a really interesting life.

We took the chance to get some photos with Nanna and her great grand children - not only my little terrors but their cousins Alexander and Max, along with brand spanking new baby Zoe. Ol & Eve are completely smitted with this new little lady.

In other news, I've got this big boy running.

We've got a local 5km run each Saturday morning which one of his mates has started running in. As someone who wishes they had learned to run as a kid rather than having to struggle to figure it out as an adult this makes me really happy.

The first week we ran there was not surprisingly a LOT of whinging and walking. Thankfully his little mate came back when he was finished and spurred Ol on to cross the finish line. We didn't really time him properly but we estimated it around 45 minutes. Not a bad effort for a little tacker.

Well last weekend we gave it another crack and this time we got an official time. And it was good!!! There was still plenty of whinging but a bit less walking. Mainly because I held his hand as we ran and pretty much dragged him through the course. Amazingly his (our) time for the entire 5km was 38 minutes and 53 seconds. What a little champion!

Fingers crossed this leads to a lifelong love of running. But so far his motivation is purely one of greed - I'm paying him $5 for each run!!

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