Huff’s fifth birthday this week – last week we celebrated with some fruit picking, this week was more about spending time with family.
While Huff was with Mum and Grandragon making a build-a-bear, Dad and Puff went to play putt-putt and a driving range.
Jazz has jumped straight to pride of place as a night-time toy, but we don’t have a photo of her and Huff where both are adequately flattered, so we’ll introduce her next week.
For lunch on Huff’s birthday, we went out for noodles. Huff wanted to try chopsticks.
Puff, not to be outdone, used chopsticks too.
We took the time for a quick family photo.
One present for Huff was a set of confetti-filled balloons – a couple of them made it into this head-piece.
Puff had his first swimming carnival this week, placing in the freestyle race, and finishing the backstroke. Mum had the chance to watch the races; so much progress through regular swimming lessons.
For once we arrived somewhere early, and Huff was sleeping, so Puff had a chance to do some pretend driving. He was enjoying it.
With school starting, we’re seeing Huff develop her self-confidence, which can be a positive and a negative. The first week of school is famously exhausting for kindy kids, and she hasn’t had much of a chance to rest, but it feels like there have been more disagreements, and we’re seeing some regression. And then, there are moments where she’s really kind and selfless, and we see her old approach to life shining through. She’ll be okay.