This week we celebrated a family birthday. The kids have spent the past couple of weeks trying to work out what to do to celebrate the birthday, and Mum gave some hints. How about we have a picnic (it ended up being takeaway food, but that was okay), and some family time.
Dad continues to struggle with how easy the kids find it to navigate play equipment that they once had great troubles with. Puff is now struggling to find something that’s an adequate challenge, but at least he still enjoys climbing.
Huff needed a bit of coaxing to climb up this far, but once she was there she was pretty happy about it.
The next challenge was baking and decorating this octopus cake – Dad and the kids collaborated on the cake together, and then Dad tried to shepherd the kids through the decorating process without taking over. Pro-tip: the green tentacles were Dad, using that pastry brush, but the kids did the rest.
Dad has been out for work and other things a fair bit in the past few weeks, so it’s been good to have some time at home with the kids. There never seems to be a clear-cut answer to the question of “how best to spend time”, but it’s a blessing to have to choose between multiple “good things”.
