1 Small Masterchef and Co.: May 2011

Ok so now it's my mother-in-law that is insisting we upload another post on the blog, so here's what the Marturano family has experienced over the past couple of months......

The month of March saw us purchase (thanks to Great Grandma and Grandad) a new addition to the family, a kitten named Peaches aka Peach, Peachy and Stupid Bloody Cat. She is a beautiful peach and cream colour hence her very original name.

I don't know what it is with our family and cats, or animals for that matter of fact, but they are always a little strange or shall I say different. Peach for instance, being the spastic cat that she is, loves water!! She loves water that much that she sleeps in either the laundry sink or bathroom sink, and she even tries to sleep in the kitchen sink hence Stupid Bloody Cat!

Here's one crazy story, regarding our spastic cat....One evening, while going into the bathroom to have a shower I noticed Peach was asleep in the vanity sink (completely normal for the backwards cat). I thought she looked rather peaceful so instead of disturbing her I decided to just leave her where she was. Within seconds of turning on the shower and jumping in, she was at the shower door meowing at me. Having no idea what the crazy cat wanted I opened the door and would you believe the stupid cat jumped into the shower and sat in the corner of the shower cubicle? She just sat there with her eyes half closed so the water wouldn't hit them. Drenched with water, she just sat there for about 2 minutes before walking out and shaking her feet dry and going back to sleep in the vanity sink???

Further if you didn't think that was weird enough, her new past time activity is to chase her tail! Not just anywhere but on the second platform of our internal stairs! Round and round she runs and she only stops when she either falls down the stairs or bangs into the wall! I told you she was strange!

The month of April saw us holidaying with our friends in a beautiful four bedroom house in Rainbow Beach. Ok so it wasn't just a holiday, unfortunately it was more of a paid holiday as we had to oil the decks and posts on the beautiful four bedroom house so that we could have the pleasure of staying there! This holiday included a lot of drinking (followed by a spew from me thanks to the stomach ulcer), more drinking, swimming, some crazy dancing from Olivia, more drinking and lots of eating! Below is a reenactment thanks to Noah of Olivia's dancing.

Between the drinking we even went for a walk through the national park to the sand blow. You're probably thinking what is a sand blow well the best way to explain it is it's like a big gully on top of a hill overlooking the sea that is full of sand, ok disregard that as I've most certainly confused the crap out of you. Below and beside are a couple of pictures of the boys at the below.

Yes I know, it doesn't sound that exciting, but it is actually quite amazing and beautiful! While the girls took the tribe of boys to jump down the cliff on one side of the dunes (yes we were pushing them if that's what you're thinking and yes we were trying to cull the number of boys in the family) the big boys, who are suppose to be adults, spend the whole time drawing a 30 metre dick and balls in the sand! Another group of boys as mature as our boys, arrived within minutes and attached a man to our boys precious artwork. Little did they realise when we were walking back to the car we passed a bridal party who were heading to blow to take their wedding photos! The look on their faces, Priceless!

Easter - well what a topic this was for the boys. They spent several morning discussing the ins and outs of Easter, from where the Easter bunny lives right through to whether the Easter bunny is a boy or a girl. Below I have listed Kai and Noahs conversation which I overheard while getting ready for work one morning.

Noah: "Kai, did you know that the Easter bunny is a girl because the Easter bunny lays the chocolate eggs and poops jelly beans".
Kai: "Nah, they have a special machine in their work shop which makes the eggs."
Noah: "But they still poop jelly beans! But, how does the Easter bunny get all the eggs to everyone?'
Kai: "It's magic!! They have magic powder to put on the eggs and then they just appear everywhere."
Noah: "Nah, I think that the Easter bunny borrows Santa's sleigh. Did you know that the Easter bunny goes to Hawaii on holidays like Santa does when he's not making toys?"
Kai: "Yeh but he lives on Easter Island."

Although the boys were not exactly well behaved leading up to Easter, the Easter bunny still came and yes I had the fun job of making flour foot prints around the lounge room which the crazy Peaches laid in before hitting the small Easter eggs around the room!

After Easter I took them to see 'Hop' at the cinemas and it pretty much confirmed their previous theories, so that explains where they have got their bizarre theories from. And of course they absolutely loved it!!

Other than our normal beach shenanigans and TV/movie watching (thanks to all the rainy/lousy weather) not alot has happened over the past couple of months. Ok so that's a lie our investment home was trashed by our previous tenants, filthy pigs!
Oh and Tadd will be heading away to the army within the next couple of months, talking about Tadd I think I'll sign off by showing you Tadd's different looks which he has rocked over the last couple of years....