Another week with the Grandragon staying with us. Lots of adventures – Puff seems to have mastered the multi-storey cubby at Blaxland Riverside Park. If you’re thinking of visiting there, make sure you go on a weekday away from the school holidays – it’s much quieter. (Puff also had a go at the flying fox, but this was harder to photograph.)
Huff and Puff are big fans of Peppa Pig (in fact, Huff gave Dad a Peppa Pig stationery set for his birthday) – here they are sharing some screen time together while Bandit sits patiently waiting.
Huff and Puff were back at swimming lessons this week. Huff wasn’t happy at the prospect – she even told Mum “I no swimming. I cry”, as part of her attempts to get out of it. Once she was wearing a pair of loaned swimming goggles, though, her mood changed, and she was enjoying it a lot more.
Saturday saw us head to a friend’s fifth birthday party. Puff was keen to have his face painted again, as a green cat. He explained to the face painting clown how to mix blue and yellow to make the correct shade of green.
Meanwhile Huff, who had fallen asleep on the drive over, and refused to leave her Dad’s side for quite a while at the party, eventually consented to playing at the play-doh table.
Puff was pretty happy with his face painting. Here he is helping out with one of the parachute games.
It took Huff a long while, but she decided that having her face painted might be fun too, and asked not for a butterfly or a flower (as the face-painter suggested) nor a Peppa Pig, but a dinosaur. Dad looked it up, and showed up a Google images version of the image to her, and here was the result.
Huff managed to last the rest of the day quite well, though she was getting tired by the end of the day.
She was much happier the next day.
At breakfast on Sunday, Huff wanted to hold Dad’s hand. It was very cute.
Puff, not to be outdone, was a interested in the same thing soon enough.
After breakfast, Huff had a great time dancing around on the grass.
Here’s a photo of Puff heading home from preschool with Grandragon and Bandit.
Other highlights:
- Huff bringing Dad his birthday present, and then running out of the room to collect her present.
- Puff making an art gallery out of his paintings from preschool, and giving Dad a tour of the art gallery.
- Puff can float unassisted in the pool now.