Couch Moving / Beth's School Visit
Whew! Was woken up at 5:30am by Beth standing in the bedroom saying "Mummy and Daddy Theo is upset and crying can you come and help him". That was nice of her. Theo was crying, his Big Bae had fallen off and he was just generally sad. He was also very upset that I hadn't come down to help him after he'd been crying out for me a lot. Poor little guy, usually I hear him straight away (or at least fairly quickly) and go down to help him, but this time neither I nor Sarah had heard him crying. Oh well, a few cuddles and a kiss on the head and he was OK, though I have no idea if either of them actually went back to sleep before it was time to get up an hour later.
Yesterday Beth went to school for an hour, to see what it's like. She was understandably scared and nervous the first 10-15, but then Haley who lives next door found her and took her under her wing, the spent the next 40 minutes playing and Beth thought it was the greatest thing ever. We saw Joseph there too, he waved and run around and jumped up over the fence to say hi to Beth. By the end when it was time to leave Beth was a bit sad and didn't want go back to Kindy!
We'll go for another school visit next Wednesday for an hour, but I think Beth's going to be fine. The size of the class was huge, but the teacher told us they're in the process of splitting the class into two.
Had a good weekend, Saturday was Theo's first day of this term's swimming. As usual he was really good, Jilly used him a few times as the example for the other children to follow. He used to be the one who had to been shown 5 times what to do, but he's really gone the other way now. He leaps off the matt and rolls over as he's supposed to, he monkeys along the side like a machine, drives under to grab toys off the bottom etc. His only flaw is still that he will leap into the water without waiting for "Theo, Ready Go!" which means you can't turn your back for a second otherwise he'll be floundering around in the water getting crabbed off.
Once swimming was over I took Beth and Theo into town to the bike park area, they rode around for a couple of hours, had a play on the playground then we all went to get an Icecream at Lick This. Beth wanted to take her Barbie scooter, soemthing she's never shown interest in before, though I think now that Theo has a scooter she really wants to join in too.
Once we'd had a scooter and all that fun it was back home, Age and Holly came over and we went out to Brave for a couple of beers and to fill up the flaggons. One of which we emptied pretty much straight away on our return!
Sunday the four of us went to the new Anderson Park Playground, which was just chocka full of children. I mean it was heaving, people parked in the disabled, on the grgrass, everywhere. Theo and Beth mostly wanted to ride their scooters again though around the scooter park. Once they'd had enough of that (and 3 different toilet trips) they played in the water feature for 30 minutes before we made them leave. No doubt other parents were quietly judging us for letting our children play in the cold water on a cold day, but they loved it. A quick trip to the supermarket and then home for a rest, neither child actually having a rest of course.
Then we decided to move the uber downstairs couch upstairs, and the two couches upstairs downstairs. That was 2 hours of moving and lifing and other stuff, but we managed to swap the couches around OK. I think the lounge looks better, though the downstairs couches do have too many cushions/pillows that are always being chucked on/off. But all good.
The week before last week I went and bought us a Ring doorbell. It connects to the Wifi and detects motion and when someone presses the doorbell. You can answer the door from your smartphone/computer which is kinda handy, and any motion it sees it records for you to view later. It's perfectly sensitive too, detecting people walking down the driveway but not leaves blowing or anything like that (at least so far). It sees the postie come and go, when Bos Mows arrives etc. So far it's working really well. It doesn't integrate into my home system very well, but that's Ok. I've also finally got the home alarm working quite well, after 1 misconfiguration where it accidentally turned the alarm on when Sarah was home and started screaming at her. Logic bug there, sorry about that, fixed now!
We got a new battery for the Dyson vacuum cleaner. It got to the point where I was asking for a new one for my birthday, but the new ones are damn expensive. We got a new battery and a new rollerbrush for $130 and it's like a new vacuum again. It just goes and goes and goes. So I'm glad we did that, once again I can clean up the mess the kids make easily without having to drag out the big corded beast.
We also got the Fibre ONT moved from behind the TV into the shoe cupboard where the rest of the router and switches etc are for the Internet. Means it's all in one nice tidy place and it's one less wire/box/flashing light that people/Sarah have to look at.
I'm sure there's other stuff to write about, but that's all I can remember so that'll have to do.
Tim