Out social boys

These kids today have a far more hectic social life than we do. All we do is cough up the money and drive them around.

James disappeared off this morning with Nic and we only collected him late this evening - after being invited by his 10 year old friend to come around for a drink with his folks (enabled them to have more playtime together). Nic has the cutest puppy, a Jack Russell cross miniature maltese poodle, it is so sweet, I am not a fan of Jack Russell's as they always jump up, but this one is so sweet and so calm. James the little sausage has managed to conn Nic's parents into taking him along with them next weekend to McGregor, the last time he went to play at Nic they were filling in the invitations to Uncle Willy's Christmas party and of course James conned his way into that one as well.

Apparently they spent the afternoon building boats that they raced in the pool - good clean fun, followed by some techno junkie stuff - playing wii.

Chris on the other hand just chilled at home and tonight went out to the spur for supper with some of his friends. When we picked him and Dillan up, we got told they were hungry, as their spur food was rather yukky, so the proceeded to order a pizza for delivery and ate that. The scary part of this is Chris made the call and placed the order himself, paid for it himself and of course ate it himself (with Dillan) but how independent is that, they might have to replace us with an ATM soon, we are starting to serve the same kind of function (just kidding, who would tuck them in at night?)

This week at waterpolo the boys were all given Wynberg Boys High School Waterpolo tournament t-shirts that, although from a past tournament, they are all quite chuffed with, particularly James - all they needed to add to the back was watch TV and they would have summed up our kids 100%.

James with all his hard earned pocket money (????) has bought himself a fishtank and single fish that was found floating about a day later. But Nic's mom has apparently got a couple of fish she is looking to get rid of and is going to give them to James, I mean what a few more pets to add to the chaos of our house.

Jess our beautiful tabby cat is definately / officially pregnant. I am quite excited about this as I have never experienced a pet having a litter of its own and just hope I am here when it happens. We are trying very hard to remember when she was on heat so that we can figure out a rough due date, we think its about early November she will be due. She has been incredibly loveable over the last week or so.

Rob and I spent some time today taking photo's around the neighbourhood of all the blocked gutters around our home and am planning to send a letter to council asking them why they are 'victimising' us all the time when there are plenty of council problems they have not attended to like missing drain covers, other blocked gutters etc. Rob has suggested we start a petition and get all our clients to sign it about the need for a swimming school in the area hmmm. We want to know from council if all the people with blocked gutters and illegal driveway gutter coverings have also been approached, as you can see from the pics, some people have bricks, others pure sand - so why pick on us!!!

Poor old Titch, all the attention is always on Mickey and now Jess, he just continues to be his aloof self, but tonight for some reason as I am sitting her typing, laptop on my knees, he has wormed his way onto my lap so as not be forgotten. How could he be, he is our eldest and most placid of the lot.