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Smiles and push ups
This little guy is just full of smiles. Maybe that is one of the (many) reasons Eli says, “When can we get another baby? I want another Adam.”
He is pushing up nicely to take a look around.
12 week cutie pie
Our little man is 12 weeks old and full of smiles.
He went for his vaccinations on Tuesday and when they weighed him he was 7.8kg (with a nappy and clothes). Eli was 7.8kg at 5 months. Let’s just say he is growing well.
Pom-poms and karate kicks
Adam is working so hard at figuring out his hands and feet. He did manage to successfully karate kick some of the hanging toys.
Grace and Eli got some pom-pom art at the Wimpy on the way to Jeffreys Bay, which they both enjoyed making. Unfortunately the pom-pom’s did not stick very well, so the pictures came apart. When we were packing Donné decided to just throw Grace’s one away, as Grace hadn’t give it any attention. A few days after we got back, “Where’s my pom-pom art?” Oh bother. Mosaic art to the rescue…
Feeling fatty
Those hands, Adam is discovering them and loving spending time just staring at them.
Eli takes off his towel, rubs his hands on himself and says, “I feeling fatty. I need a swim.” Huh? Donné asks him, “Do you mean sweaty my boy?” “NO, not sweaty, fatty.” Donné says “If you are feeling hot then it means you can be sweaty.” He grumps back (with a sour look on his face), “I sweaty.”
First day of junior school
Today was Grace’s first day of junior primary school. She is continuing at Newberry Montessori, and will most likely be there for the rest of her school career.
She came home happy and smiling, having loved it entirely, and excited to go back for more tomorrow.
Apparently this is the gregarious phase.
Eli returned to his class too, and this year will be his first full year in the pre-primary class. In true preschool fashion he let us know what he got up to today, “I did nothing today.” We did manage to figure out that he played with little Grace, and he seemed to be happy and have had a good day.
We were both very happy that Grace had such a good day. She was nervous this morning, we could tell by how she kept running through all the possible things that might happen during the day.
It was a very successful start to the new school year, and I’m looking forward to hearing all the stories that will come home this year.
Diving down
Donné helped Eli to figure out how to dive down to the bottom to fetch his “treasure” and then he kept doing it over and over again for about an hour…
The ejector machine
Some days it’s throwing, other’s it is flying, today it was called, “The ejector machine.”
How to approach garden tasks
Donné and Grace went to the mall to get a few things for school, Adam slept, and Eli and I had gardening tasks to do. Our window of opportunity to get through as much as possible was very small, as Adam could wake at any time, bringing gardening to a stand still.
As soon as Adam was asleep I quickly gathered the gardening implements and decided we should start by raking up the leaves on the lawn.
I start raking, and Eli rakes for a very short while. “We need to make a list dad.” “My boy, I’ve got a list in my head. We need to rake, sort out the compost, mow the lawn and if there is time empty the jacuzzi.” “Need to make a list.” I’m thinking, how can I avoid having to go and get paper and a pen, “Can I make a list on my phone?” He was fine with that, so we made a quick list.
Rake, rake.
“Need my own list daddy.” Off he goes, and comes back with one of the phones from his tool box, “Look, I make my own list!”
In the mean time, I’m trying to get things moving and have been raking while he went to make his list. Eli evaluates the situation, “You’ve been raking up my leaves! You have to rake your leaves!” He then swooshes all the leaves in the one pile around so that he can rake up his leaves. Okay, not going to fight this, but we need to keep moving.
Rake, rake, with Eli singing, “Rake, ho, rake, rake ho!”
“You’re a Farmer Daddy! And I Eli Farmer.” From this point in the gardening tasks I am now known as “Farmer Daddy.” No problem, let’s keep moving before the baby wakes up.
Once he had settled in, things went a bit faster. He was quite disappointed when he tried to mow the lawn with his toy mower and nothing happened, so we worked together with the mower, and he even had a chance to do some mowing on his own – fortunately push mowers are relatively child friendly.
End result: leaves raked, compost sorted, lawn partially (very partially) mowed, and we both had some fun together (fortunately there wasn’t much of an agenda).
Meet the reds
It wasn’t even Christmas, but everyone chose red that day…
