Mikko and the angry birds

My project

Mikko starts school in February.
He has been granted 19 hours a week teacher aide time but needs more than 31 hours to manage in class and stay safe in the playground.
I have set up this page
https://www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/mikko

to help the school to help Mikko. Also I am going to become a teacher aide in classrooms other than Mikko's to help offset some of the cost. Unfortunately I can only do this when Kasper is at Kindy.

A few photos....

Finn being invested (or investigated as he said) into Keas at Stanmore Bay.

He starts at Birkenhead Keas tonight :)

First lost tooth

The view from our living room

Mikko and Finn aged 4.5 and 6.5

Finn and Kasper aged 6.5 and 2.5

Wowee! I'm back!

That was a loooooooong break! After Kasper killed the laptop back in May I only had our ipad to use and I have no idea how to load photos onto it so I took a break from blogging.
Soooooo much has happened since then. First of all the boy's 'Papa Scottish' (Colin's Dad) came to stay. We had such a good time with him. Mikko and Kasper had never met him before (other than skype dates) and Finn just once at 8 months of age so it was a wonderful time for us all.
Other exciting moments in the Gibson household were Finn losing his first tooth (and then his 2nd) and Finn starting Kea Scouts.
Then in August we sold our house in Red Beach. Since Mikko was diagnosed back in 2010 we had been thinking about moving. We fully support inclusive education and felt that for Mikko to have the best shot at it we would like him to attend a smaller school (our local school in Red Beach had almost 700 kids). So our house sold quite quickly and we didn't manage to find a new home in time and so we spent two months renting up in Warkworth. My laptop was fixed by now but we never got an internet connection at the rental house so alas still no blog updates!
But last week we moved into our unperfectly perfect new home. We love it. It's huge which was a must for us. We wanted to have space for everyone as Mikko especially is likely to live with us indefinately. We are close to a great little school (which I will blog about soon, Finn starts there next week) and we are MUCH closer to Colin's work.
It needs a lot of work done, chippy, sparky and plumber friends come help please! but we adore it :)

I will add some photos soon but the laptop is playing up, can you believe it!?!?!?!

Temporarily offline

... Thanks to kasper! The master of disaster killed my laptop last week so I only have mikko's iPad to use and I am not great at it! We are all well though and busy with mid year school activities and the like. Be right back!

Gold Coastin'

We just had a wonderful week on the Gold Coast of Australia. The boys loved it, especially swimming in the pool and visiting the theme parks.

Finn, Uncle Steen and Grandma on the plane

ipad is a life saver on flights!

The Harry Potter store at Movie World

riding the 'super duck' amphibious bus

3x submariners

Easter Hunting 2012

We had a beautiful Easter Sunday today with our annual hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's farm.

Happy 6th Birthday Finn!!!!!

Our big boy is 6 today!

Here he is at almost midnight on the 12th of March 2006

And on his 1st birthday

and another year older...

and the big 3.0

And on his 4th birthday...

The big 5 year old!

And this morning as a brand new 6 year old...

 Catch ya later!