What do you do as a Family?

We do lots of outdoorsy things and have done most of these since before he was a year old... go look at the windmills here, go for a walk, go to the park, the beach is great fun. We like going to wellys and going to petone beach to have lunch there, play in the sand. We just try and get out and about sometimes then I make sure DH does something with Daniel by himself every weekend since they don't really see each other during the week

eta: if you have a good pet shop nearby go there, most kids love it!

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we walk the dog but we try to make it into a bit family outing (esp now the girls are older) so along Oriental Pde or Botanic gardens (and stop at the duck pond and playground) and if closer to home, via the park or a cafe for a fluffy.

We also go to the pool - with two fearless water-babies it is not something I do on my own!

mostly we hang out at home. the boys love it when they get to help dad in the garden or play games with him.. we have soccer in the weekend and we all go to that - but at the moment both boys play on different teams so hubby goes with toby and eden and i go to gabriels game - i am the manager of his team so dont have a choice. sometimes we go shopping together, browse bunnings or the warehouse...

Nothing?
Sometimes we go to the airport to watch the planes, but I usually do that with Thomas as DH spends all his free time on the computer.

lol nothing really! Mostly just hang out at home, sometimes we go for a drive and get lunch somewhere.
I do want to make more of an effort now that Bella is almost a toddler now too!

Our Saturday usually consists of doing mall shopping and we take Jackson to see the dogs at the pet shop (he loves them) and other chores we havent done during the week. On Sundays we try to go to the park, or go for a walk or the beach etc. It doesnt always happen due to housework and other commitments but we try when we are free.

Some weekends just lazing around. Others we go out like to the circus and taking them out to the little mermaid show this week.

Sometimes shopping or just to the park and beach or involve them in the stuff that needs done. Like for instance right now we are building raised garden beds to McKayla is helping and even Andrew was hitting nails with a hammer.

Or he helps me dig bulbs out of the garden.

Baking. Yip we did baking from about 6 months. Kiddies love digging their hands in and I give the bowl to them and Daddy on the kitchen floor to lick while the goods are baking.

Will come back later to this. Andrew is climbing up for nap and milk.

We dont do much during the week, by the time DH gets home form work its dinner/bath/bed time! During summer we go to the beach for a swim when he gets home from work a couple of times a week.
Sat am's we all go to the Farmers Market together then for a wonder around town. Isla has swimming at 11am, so we all go to that then home for lunch. Then we go and watch some local sport, somethimes just DH and Isla depending on if Aiden is awake or not etc. We usually go visit the inlaws sometime during the weekend, and see my parents too. DH and Isla do the food shopping Sun ams.

Someone on here said they have part of the weekend eg Saturday morning as family day and do something together every weekend then, that's what I really want to do too. At the moment the main thing we do together is go to the shops. DS loves sitting up in the sling while we browse the shops or sometimes I let DH hold him. Apart from that we mainly play at home and often one of our parents pop over, or we might go see them. Often I go to my Mum's with my sister and her boys but DH usually uses that time to do his own thing.   

In the summer we did that plant a tree for babies thing (might just be a Waitakere City thing) and so we go back to that park sometimes.

Actually, I think I do less on the weekends than I do during the week since DH is here to amuse us a lot of the time.

I'm planning on going to the zoo, the park and the beach lots once the weather improves. Museum is a good idea. What about MOTAT? What's that like these days? I know it's free for different areas on different months of the year.

I've taken Cooper to the pet shop quite a few times, but so far he hasn't seemed interested in the animals, loves staring at other people mainly and loves our cats too.

I can't wait to do the whole garden thing like you're doing SMoody! I had the romantic idea that I was going to do one this past summer since I thought Cooper would spend loads of time sleeping and I'd take the monitor outside... joke was on me