Bubble Fun!

Hallo everyone, hope you are all doing very well. Here are some pictures of us having lots of fun with bubbles. We just love bubbles! Let us know how you all are! Bey for now!

Birthdays! - Rathla 15 August 2008

We thought we would never be able to show you all these pictures because Dad's computer got stolen, but the police found it again - so here are the pics of my (Rathla's) birthday last year. It was great fun. We never do the 'theme party' thing, we just have a braai and invite our friends over. Sometimes Mom bakes a cake, but they are usually flat, so we just grab one from the Spar. Mom says its not about the food its about the people, but we love cake so we make sure she doesn't forget.

This birthday was a lot of fun because we got a jumping castle for the day. Thanks Granny we used your birtday money for that. We jumped and played on it the whole day.

Birthday boy cutting his cake.

We love Mom's friend Mariek - she is a lot of fun!

Friends

Here we are with our friends Tshepang and Kathlego. Tshepang is the same age as Rathla and Kathlego is 10. Tshepang also has a little sister called Lesedi woho is the same age as Cheti. Friday nights are sleepover nights and then the kids all sleep over at our place.

It is great to have friends in the area.

We are back again!

Mom's exams are over - dankie tog! Now she can do the blog again. We don't like the way she talked 'about' Cheti in the previous article so she will have to take that out. (humblest apologies, I think exams fried my mind a bit! - S)

Here we are with Pholoso, that is Maria's baby. He is very cute and we all love him to bits!

I am at school and it is good. Some days are better than others. Mom says that is how life is. I hope she is wrong. We are only 13 children in my class. My friends so far are Kevin and Mogae. We all have to do athletics and I am not very fast. Mom says my Oupa Tex, who played very good rugby, said that guys are either strong or fast and that it is rare to be both. So I feel better now because I would rather be strong than fast. - Rathla

Ek is nou die oudste wanneer Rathla by die skool is. Ek hou baie van lees en skryf. Wanneer Mamma studeer dan werk ek by haar met my boeke en goed. Mamma se ek gaan deur skool vlieg. Whatever. Ek kleur baie graag in en ek en Mamma werk ook op die rekenaar. Ek het 'n rekenaarprogram wat ons doen. Ek hou ook daarvan om met Savuti te speel. Mamma vat my saam wanneer sy Masakhane toe of iewers anders heen ry. Ek mis vir Rathla en ek kan nie wag dat hy in die middae by die huis moet kom nie. - Franci

Ek is nou twee en ek praat nou al mooi en ek hardloop en speel met Cheti. Ek hou niks daarvan as enige iemand vir enige iemand anders drukkies en soentjies gee nie - net ek mag dit doen. Ek wurm my tussen Mamma en Pappa in en ek wonder wat beteken dit as hulle se: 'little passion killer'? - Savuti

Happy New Year!

To all our fans, our friends, Granny and all our family from Cape Town to the far Northern Province - Happy New Year and love you lots!

This year we plan to go to school, play a lot, go camping, sleep in our tree house (we all got sleeping bags for christmas), turn 9, 6 and 3, make new friends, go to a live play, go to the movies (we havent been for two years!), and have lots and lots of fun!

Hope you all have a fun year too1 - Rathla, Franci, Savuti

P.S. Veels geluk met die onderskeidings Karel - dis great! - S

Especially for you Granny!

Here are some pictures of a little girl - just for you Granny Beryl! Love you lots and lots. Thanks for the money - we are going camping with it as soon as mom finishes her exams!

Cheti is a wonderfull little girl. She is certainly on her own mission - most of which remains a mystery to us exept that she is extremely compassionate and always willing to help. Whenever she accidentally hurts Savuti or Rathla she cries more than they do - she feels so sorry for them. She is a real softy, I suppose we all are, although Rathla and Savuti seem to be a bit tougher.

She loves playing on her own sometimes, but she also loves playing blom-blom etc. with Rathla and wrestling with her dad. Her and Savuti play together nicely now and when Rathla goes to school next year we expect the girls to play together lots more.

Cheti started speaking English when we made friends with Carol and Lorna our neighbours. Now she speaks English very easily (after refusing point blank to for 3 and a half years!)

Franci loves fairies and fairy picture books and she also likes colouring in those black and white pictures and stuff Granny gave her once. She loves doing her schooling and once we have Rathla out of the way we will also get more time for that.

She loves wearing dresses over pants (just like her mom), and whenever we go anywhere she always tries to look like me. She doesn't like blood and gore and gets very upset when Ian has a fatality on the game farm. She doesn't mind getting very dirty, she is not very girly (impossible with parents like us and living where we live!)

Savuti unplugged...

Net 'n paar fotos. Ian se rekenaar is gesteel en ons het 'n hele klomp verloor. Van Rathla en Sav se verjaardae ens. Nou sit ek hierdie maar op dat hul darm gesien kan word.

OK, eks gereed vir die ski-hellings - wie kom saam?

You've got to stop and smell the roses...OK irises will have to do...

Ek is so vreeslik oulik en ek weet dit ook...