Another week, another blog post. This week saw some additional family time courtesy of Father’s day, and a day off on Thursday to make up for Dad working on the previous Saturday.
Dad took Puff to his Kindermusik class (where he was the only Dad), and then to the local library, where he had his first library card, and borrowed his first couple of books (Hand, Hand, Fingers Thumb, and Spot’s Snow Day).
This meant that we were able to make a trip to a bakery – Puff sat very helpfully and ate about 2/3rds of an entire croissant. Not sure if this counts as good parenting or not!
On Saturday, after a trip to a social media gathering known as “Operation Bacon” where Puff acquitted himself beautifully by exploring our online friends’ house without damaging anything, and behaving himself through breakfast and beyond, we made a trip to the Powerhouse museum. He had a great time exploring everything he could that was suited to him.
Here he is trying out a giant Rubik’s cube.
And here he is walking around with a tail on: granted, this is more for the parents than the children, who don’t necessarily see how they look wearing a tail.
A highlight was this interactive pond: it was data-projected onto the floor, and then splashed when someone walked in the water. He had a lot of fun dry splashing around in it.
We’ve probably given him more access to watching videos on small mobile devices this week than in previous weeks, but he has responded with some substantially better behaviour than last week (it could be the extra sleep he’s been getting).
A visit to Grandma and Doc on Father’s day included a long session sitting in Grandma’s lap watching her play “Angry Birds”.
And this week’s other new behaviour has been “play sleeping”. He takes his toy blanket, and lies down. Sometimes with a book, sometimes with toys, sometimes with both.
One noteworthy change in behaviour was brought about by the book “the Dragon Machine” – after going to bed before 8pm, Puff stayed awake for a couple of hours talking about the book. We think he was trying to memorise it, but it was strange behaviour indeed. As we have done with new books in the past, we limited his access to the book for a couple of days, and everything seemed to return to normal.