We started the week with a home day, with the kids playing on their iPads and then all of us heading to the skate park for a play. Alex designed a race for us and we spent time at the playground, not forgetting to collect leaves for Sticky – the other 3 stick insects died last week 🙁 Daniel didn’t want to ride home, which happens often, but this time instead of getting shitty I told him I was hungry and getting grumpy and didn’t want to carry him all the way home as it was hard with his bike too. I carried him a shirt way though and he asked to get down and said “are you grumpy anymore?” He then rode the rest of the way home – that was probably the best I could have hoped for as normally we just all end up upset, but I’m glad I took the time and kept my patience instead of trying to talk him around and getting nowhere! I showed the kids where I had found the nest and they remembered where they’d found the egg. At home we pulled weeds, fed chickens, cleaned out Sticky’s enclosure. Daniel wanted to play duplo in the tent so we built a tower to the roof! The kids also did lots of painting and I played the Harry potter lego game with Alex. In the afternoon they asked for the slip and slide! They had lots of fun running through the water in their undies. Alex and I watched some walking with dinosaurs.
We had a book week event with some friends, the kids dressed up too. Each family had arranged a little activity, it was okay. Not really my thing though. Afterwards we headed to a friends house and Alex shared minecraft worlds whilst Daniel played with his friend too. I went tutoring that night, and came home with a white canary for Alex!
Alex has been asking for a game called ‘desert zoo’, but we couldn’t find it so got another zoo game instead. He was reluctant to leave the house and head to our park day at Brimbank, but at the same time he really loves Brimbank – this happened so often for him, being torn between two desires. There were some new faces at the park once we got there, and Alex hit it off with one kid in particular. The kids scooted, visited Bunjil’s nest, I pushed the little ones (mostly) in the basket swing, and we headed over to the sand pit. The big kids were burying themselves deeply, Daniel was playing cooking. He wasn’t sharing space with another child and the mother got annoyed with him and called him a rude boy and so I had a confrontation with her! Alex hurt his toe on the rocks and so we didn’t go swimming that night. Instead Alex played his zoo game some more and watched minecraft videos. After his bath Alex asked me to leave the bath crayons in the soap dish as he wanted to have an experiment and see what happened – he thought the water would change to the colour of the crayon. The following day he checked on it and he was excited to see that what he had predicted had come true!