Dad spent almost the rest of this week on holidays, though it was a stay-at-home kind of holiday. Lots of different scenes from around Sydney.
We went to an Apple store this week, in search of a phone cover for Mum. Puff was happily staying with us until he spied a child-height table with child-height seats, an iPad at each seat. He ran straight over to them and started playing with the iPads, then thought for a moment and ran back and said “Mum, can I go and play with the iPads?”.
We had some friends (and their kids) over for lunch, so there was some time playing in the backyard, with the bubble machine.
Sunday saw us pick a park for a family picnic after church.
Saturday afternoon was a visit to a friend’s wedding: the kids were fairly well behaved at the wedding, if not a little tired. That night, it was Dad’s turn to put the kids to bed – unusually, it took about an hour and a half before both were sleeping.
Dad found out during a trip to the physio that Huff is now strong enough to try and stand up: it’s just a battle of wills to get her to try it. As you can see from this photo, she can pull herself up when seated in the stroller – in fact, at one point over the weekend she was trying to climb out of the stroller in frustration – another first.
We’d only taken one stroller seat out with us, and Huff thought it would be fun to sit with her brother – it worked surprisingly well.
On Dad’s second day of holidays, sitting at breakfast, Puff broke out the bingo cards, and started calling out numbers – he’s become more fair in his selection, but was still ahead 6 games to one, and seemed genuinely surprised when – after he’d called all the numbers – it was a tie.
We had a trip to an indoor play centre where Huff worked hard at crawling up and down some ramps, but her favourite thing by far was the bouncing castle – they both played on it together.
During story time tonight, Huff chose a story for the first time. Dad picked one, and read it twice and then Huff was gesturing at the books – I asked her if she wanted me to read “where is the green sheep?” and she nodded her head, and sat quietly while it was read to her.