"I sit?"

Back up against the drawers, up on tippy toes and eyes locked on mine, he implores, "I sit? I sit?" I can't resist. Same with getting some help baking - so here we have the combo - perched on the safest bench (no knives and power turned off) as he wields the wooden spoon to help create.

Mt Cootha and hiking season opens!

The weather has cooled so we're out walking again. Starting local and tuckered out already, here's Dan with a sleeping Nicholas as we traversed Mt Coot-tha last weekend. Nicholas may be getting heavier but here's me, loaded down with water, doing my bit for...well...fitness, I guess: