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And so another year passes and Luka turns two

I once again do not know just how this happened, but Luka turned two today.

In typical second child fashion, her party consisted of her and her brother, two friends, one cake, hello kitty cups and plates and some sweets and the lesson learnt, for a child of two, a party of this nature is just as much fun as a party costing thousands of rands with twenty or more friends.

We are at Zebula for the weekend and Liam had an unfortunate situation yesterday where his friend hit him with a golfball, he lost a tooth and after a visit to the emergency room has four stitches and looks like he lost the fight.  The poor child, at least the tooth fairy visited Liam first, out of all of his friends.  He is of course milking the situation, and keeps reminding all of us about his ordeal.

Otherwise life goes on, its almost winter now and as we start to get the red wine and boots ready (the two only redeeming things about winter if you ask me) I am amazed at how easy we are settling into life back in South Arica again, a year later and we just bought a house again, our dog is naughty but cute, we are content and happy, busy and healthy, what more can we ask for really.

In beauty queen fashion, I suppose we could always hope for world peace ;)

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