Big week. Late nights, travel, friends, lots of good things, but tired kids.
A few highlights. Huff and Puff coming to visit Dad at work. Huff was so excited she could barely keep still on the waiting chairs.
Puff, on the other hand, had the chance to try out a kid-sized recliner – it looks like he’s not going to be kid size much longer!
After his Christmas-present-related eye mishap, we took Puff back for a follow-up visit with the optometrist. All clear. He wasn’t even particularly worried about the effects of additional light coming into his eyes. A trooper.
In what seems to be a family trend, Huff had some problems with her sunglasses. It didn’t seem to bother her, though. She was still grinning away.
Friday night Dad cooked dinner for the kids (their choice of menu) so Mum could go out for a while.
Saturday night we went to the Hunter Valley Gardens to see the lights again.
Grandragon met us there too. The kids enjoyed having an additional adult around. In fact, her appearance may have been their favourite part of the surprise trip.
Huff was very cute in the sculpture garden. The child sculptures are almost exactly her size, so she was trying to dance with them and cuddle them as best she could. Puff was copying her, getting in on her act.
The child-size sculptures weren’t the only ones present. Puff had to climb up a wall to get this picture sitting next to Humpty.
Puff was very excited to see penguin light sculptures.
Huff was excited too, but mostly to be allowed to stay up as late as she did
Back at home again and the week has started up: the kids are still getting some screen time in the holidays. They’re currently both obsessing over the Toca Labs game: a mix of animated characters and the periodic table.
One of Huff’s latest tendencies is to go to sleep on Mum’s lap: hopefully we can find a way to migrate that into a longer night sleep, or longer afternoon sleep.
See you next eek: the countdown to school grows ever shorter.