Another week gone! Back to the normal pace of life, with the return of work and all the usual commitments. At the end of the year, we have a lot more little events to go to. In an attempt to slow down, we stayed home on Saturday, and Dad showed the kids Despicable Me 2. As it turned out, it was still a bit too scary for them, so we might give that a while longer.
Puff had his end of preschool concert this week: the kids were very cute, all sitting together singing a range of preschooler songs. Given how many kids there are at preschool, this didn’t seem like a good thing to upload to the internet, so instead, here is a picture of Huff playing with trucks at the preschool.
It was a bit encouraging to see that Huff doesn’t always pick the gender-specific toys, though she was using female pronouns for all the drivers. It still surprises me (growing up with mostly brothers) that Huff’s default gender for a toy is female. She even referred to her hungry caterpillar pillow pet as “she” – I’d never been conscious of the caterpillar having a gender, but I’d assumed that the caterpillar was male.
After the concert, the kids were given bags that they had decorated, and inside the bags were new picture books they hadn’t seen before. Puff was the only one who sat and read his book, even after the kids were allowed to get up and have afternoon tea.
After preschool we went out for gelato. Here’s Dad trying to photobomb Puff. We were just excited that he chose pineapple flavour instead of his traditional mango.
One of Puff’s preschool friends had a birthday, and so they had someone do face painting at the preschool – Puff wanted to be (predictably) a penguin.
Huff was a bit tired today. She’s been a bit grumpy and overtired for a couple of days, and she’s catching up on sleep.
We decorated the tree together. Huff was very excited that we have a tree – she doesn’t remember having one the previous year, so it’s all new and exciting. They did very well working together on the tree decoration.
The other recurring theme this week has been a viral video – what does the fox say – has been on high rotation. The kids have been a little obsessed with it, wanting to listen to it again and again, and Puff has been trying to learn the words, even the crazy onomatopaeic ones.
We’re trying to find the balance between too much screen time and keeping the kids distracted at opportune times, and wanting to share with them something of the world of media that we’ve enjoyed.