One of the challenges with Huff is helping her understand that any differences between her and her (two and a half year older) brother are due to the age gap, and nothing to do with whether she’s a girl. As with lots of second children, she will pick something that’s not already of interest to the first child, and concentrate on that. As a result, she tends to under-estimate how much she can do in terms of letters and numbers. To try and counter that a little, she now has a watch, and is learning how to tell the time.
Dad went up to Katoomba for the newly relaunched Men’s Convention event called Basecamp, and Mum and the kids came to pick him up afterward. Mum was feeling a bit unwell, and so stayed in the car while Huff and Puff checked out the lookouts – it was not far from here that Dad proposed to Mum, many years ago!
On the way home we stopped at a pizza place that had pizza plates; the kids waited fairly patiently despite the lateness of the hour.
Tuesday was another busy day of running different errands: somehow Dad managed to have dinner with the kids in amongst everything. For years the kids have been having this one dish at a range of Vietnamese restaurants. We would make these rice paper rolls at the table, and they would eat them. This dinner was the first time that Huff and Puff insisted they make their own rolls.
They did a really great job.
We’re now working out the balance between homework and the other things Puff wants to do; there’s no perfect solution. But that’s a topic for another week.