Super 14 Rugby Final (May 2010)

Most members of our happy family – at least we have all three grandchildren in one picture!

Like last year, we all gathered again to watch the Super 14 Rugby finals, and like last year, the Bulls won again! Go Bulls!  Here Franco is trying out Oom Hendrik’s vuvuzela.

That’s how you should hold it – now all you have to do is blow it! (Notice the blue clothes!)

Franco was much more into rugby than last year!  Click here to see the previous Super 14 posts

Two enthusiastic flag wavers.  Jan bought them each a South African flag – we all suffered from World Cup Fever already!

Janita in her sporty tracksuit and tackies. 

Dorette having a tea party with Martelize.  Both little ones are into sorting colours.   Here Martelize puts the yellow cup  onto the yellow saucer and  a yellow spoon inside the cup -not on the saucer, mind you, but in the cup. Martelize doesn’t know saucers! She knows that boiling water should go into the cup though, and brings one of her tea-set cups to be filled from the kettle, but here Ouma draws the line.  She likes to pour milk into her mom’s coffee, and if she is is not quick enough, the whole jug gets poured into her cup with messy results!

Franco and Martelize bathed together, and afterwards enjoyed riding on Oupa’s back.  (Martelize had never wanted to do this before, but she was not going to be outdone by her cousin.  Monkey see, monkey do.)

Then it was pack away time…

and a final hug… till a next time.

All afternoon and evening they had been as good as gold: no fighting over toys (except for a little squabble over the potty), na tantrums, no tears, but instead lots of laughter, calling each other by name, mimicking each other, playing happily alongside each other. 

The past weekend we attended my niece Jansie's feedback on their Highway trip from New Zealand through several countries until Pakistan.  Hendrik joined her and her friend in Bangladesh and he and Jansie travelled from Bangladesh through India to Pakistan in less than 2 weeks. Anyway, the little ones were also there, and during interval both insisted that I pick them up simultaneously!  (That should make my arms strong!).  They would not be put down, unless the other one was also put down.... lots and lots of giggles.

Thank you God, for two such darling individuals.  Thank you that they play find so much joy in each other, for all the laughs and giggles.  They are such a blessing.

P.S.  My apologies to people receiving this blog via E-mail for receiving posts twice.  There were problems with the photos when I published these photos just now, but hopefully the problems are now sorted out!  Thanks Sandra and Thea for the blogging tip!  Live writer is so much easier!!

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