Grace has been asking lots of questions about animals and whether they bite people, questions like, “Do lions bite people?” Then you just substitute lions for octopuses, tortoises, dolphins, sharks, tigers and even giraffes. And currently she is also substituting the “bite” for “eat” and we’re having some interesting conversations about what happens to animals that eat people.

There were four in the bath and the little one said, “The plug is poking me in the bum.”

It seems that every time we have a play date with Hannah, Grace is going to want a sleepover. Today Donné came home (all the way from down the street) sans Grace, who had decided that she was going to stay for the night and that mama could go back home. With both mama’s happy with that, Grace was left behind for this night. 

The doctor says, “I would have said that Eli is perfectly healthy, except that he has thrown up three times today.” Poor Eli was up in the middle of the night vomiting and running a fever. He was vomiting again this morning, but hasn’t at all since he went to the doctor. And being Eli he is still smiling and bouncing, but definitely off colour and moaning in between. No official diagnosis, but the suspect is rotavirus – fortunately he has been vaccinated so if it is the effects should be less.

Donné was swinging Eli while talking to her mom and he passed out

"Did you write in your workbook today?"

Day 2 of camp was a rough one for Grace, at least the first part of it. She is sick, dropped a couple of hours sleep last, and was up at 5h30 this morning, so there was lots of moaning, and "I too tired to walk!" Luckily she was happy whenever she saw Hannah.

My favourite comment from the morning about Grace's tiredness was when Karen asked, "Grace, are you busy sleepwalking?"

Fortunately she chirped up in the afternoon and even went for her first supertube ride, which she enjoyed other than the splash at the end.

At one point the four girls were playing musical chairs, but each had allocated a chair to themselves. Emma's older sister was directing and she took Grace's pink chair out, but placed it close behind her. When it was time to sit each ran to their chair, with Grace hurrying to hers to the cheers of the mommy crowd. Maybe a different game for now.