After enjoying his daily routine of swimming in the dam, Ryno was definitely way overdue for a bath. I rounded up Orion and Schotia to assist. I really do not get it. Ryno LOVES water, he plops into every puddle he can find and give you the most pathetic look if you go to the dam without him, but he HATES bath time. He stands nicely for it, but give him the chance to escape and he is outta there. He also gives the saddest look of abuse throughout the whole process. Until you get to drying off time, then he is in heaven again and loves being towelled off followed by the zoomies. Anyone else’s dog like this or just my werido?
Orion got lessons in how to operate the lawn mower. After two sweeps of a section of garden he was well over it. Welp, there goes our hopes of child garden labour help…
On Tuesday, Ellery’s dad and stepmom came up from KZN for a visit to see the kids. It was really nice having them around and the kids absolutely loved it. Schotia talked Karen’s ears off and learned how to win staring contests. We went fishing at the dam, the kids went for walks with their grandparents, and we all shared some delicious meals and conversations.
We planted our first trees at the new place – a brown ivory tree and a long overdue gift of my baobab! Now it is home. I cannot wait to watch these two grow into huge sentinels of our land.
The kids’ final night was celebrated with good ole classic banana splits. Can you believe they have never had a proper banana split before? We didn’t have chocolate sauce so we substituted with Nutella, and I must say they were yummy!
Cole is starting his first year of high school when he goes back – where does time go? He will be attending Merensky Landbou Akademie and staying at hostel during the weeks, and home to his mom’s on weekends (and with us for the school holidays). It looks like a really cool agriculture school with cows and horses on the school grounds! I reckon I would have loved to go there for high school. The school, thankfully, is really good at communications and has active social media and Telegram Groups so I am looking forward to following along with his new adventures. We are both very proud of him and the young man that he is turning into! Though he can stop growing now, he’s nearly a head taller than me already. Ellery did give him some advice on how to shave as that is something else he is going to have to deal with for boarding school – all boys must have clean shaved faces. Seriously, how are we already at this stage? The twins have a few more years before its time for them to go to high school. Schotia wants to go to Merensky as right now she wants to study equine sciences and Orion is working his butt off to earn his rugby colours so that he can go to Nelpsruit for high school.
Zoe and the girls are kidnapping me Sunday for a night somewhere. My only hints are there are horses and to pack my swimming costume and fishing rod……
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