It’s the school holidays, and to some extent the first holidays that Huff has really been aware of: she’s in a pattern of expecting to go to preschool, and she doesn’t have to go, and her brother is around. Puff is enjoying it. He’s big enough to have some opportunities in terms of activities – here he is at a holiday baking class.
We had a morning where Dad was able to be around, so we went to the park after a frantic trip to the Physio. Despite the cold weather, the kids have been consistently desperate to remove layers of clothing and run around like it’s summertime.
Huff is getting more and more into drawing: her current obsession is smiley butterflies of different colours.
On Thursday night we had dinner with our friends from bible study. The kids had a great time playing whatever games they could get their hands on. Here they are trying to play battleship together.
Saturday Dad needed to go to the physio, and then after that we went down to the Science centre and Planetarium in Wollongong. The kids had a great time with science experiments, and then we whisked them home again to get some rest.
Sunday we went to our old church in the morning and caught up with some people, then went to the zoo. Huff’s favourite thing about the zoo was the slide near the lemur enclosure.
We stopped near the elephants for a family photo, which the kids were not too interested in.
Puff was really keen to see the fishing cat – this is an animal he’s passionate enough about to want to sponsor it.
It took a while, but we found the cat eventually, and watched it run around for a while. No fishing, though.
We also came back to the penguin statue area, to find that Puff is now taller than the emperor penguin and that Huff is bigger than the king penguin.
It’s a bit of a milestone for both of them!
The next day was a day off work for Dad, to have some family time after a busy period at work. After a quiet morning, we went for a walk to the library. Walking with the kids is one of Dad’s favourite things.
Monday night, while Puff went to bingo with Mum, Huff stayed home to make pasta with Dad. It was a great time – she was keen to try all aspects of working with the pasta dough, hanging it up, and then it was time to eat, and watch videos about making pasta.
See you next week!