Be careful what you boast about..

This afternoon Greg was boasting about how he was really good at leapfrogging. So I made him prove it. And yes... he did injure his groin during this exercise :)

The tides are turning...

This is a scene I am starting to see more and more often - Matty pinning his sister down and finally paying her back for everything she has done to him since he was born! She's still big enough to push him off... but I suspect it won't be long till he is bigger and stronger than her!

Party Day!

It's not quite Emma's birthday yet, but today we celebrated her birthday. I can't believe she's nearly 5 already!

Emmy does some reading

Dishes

Today Emmy told us that she wanted to do the dishes... we have a dishwasher, but she must have seen me washing the odd dish from time to time. At first we tried to put her off as it would probably result in a huge mess and fuss, but she was persistent so her Dad taught her how to do it properly. I was actually quite impressed with the good job she was doing. As a result, we had a family discussion about pocket money and agreed that when she starts school properly in a few weeks time she can start earning pocket money by doing chores such as the dishes. She's super keen. I hope it lasts a long time! And oh yes... Matty had to be his normal "helpful" self.

Emma's first school visit

Emma has been excited about today for quite some time now - her first school visit. At Whitney Street School they do a 1 hour school visit for the 4 weeks leading up to the start of school. Emmy got a bit over excited last night and found it hard to go to sleep... which made her sleep in this morning. I had to wake her up at 7:30am to give her enough time to get dressed and have breakfast and walk with me to the school. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to dress her in her school uniform or not, so the above photo is how we set out. When we arrived we checked in at the office and they offered to lend Emmy a school jersey so she would fit in. But luckily I can prepared with her uniform in the bag. So next weeks blog post will include a photo of her in her uniform.

One of the most exciting things for Emmy seemed to be the toilet of all things. Those readers who know Emma will know that up till a couple of weeks ago Emma had a strong resistance towards the toilet. But today the first thing she wanted to try out was the Emma-sized toilet.

When the bell rang the first activity for the day was literacy songs on the mat. Em wasn't too sure about this at first and wanted Mummy to sit with her, but it wasn't long at all before a little girl named Lacey took her under her wing for the day so Mummy could sneak to the back of the classroom.

Next was jump jam (or something of that nature!) This consists of the whole school jumping around like mad things doing exercise to loud music outside. Emmy kind of stood there for most of the time looking like a stunned mullet, but Lacey was holding her hand looking after her which was super cute. I had to do a bit of an internal laugh watching the kids dancing around to the village peoples "in the navy".

Apparently today was "Fun Friday" which means that Emma's class spends time doing craft activities which Em absolutely loves. She made a placemat on which she wrote her name unprompted (proud Mummy moment!) and drew a picture of our family. She she got to do painting, made a wand, and stuffed a whale.

And that pretty much took us to home time. She didn't really want to leave the classroom, but I persuaded her by telling her that if we left I would let her use the toilet again before we left haha. It takes exactly 8 minutes to walk to school from our house.

Overall she was I guess a bit reserved... but that is to be expected on the first visit. She was smiling and happy all through the visit and there were no emotional outbursts. So it's a win! Hard for Mummy though :) She spent this afternoon giving Matty "lessons" and keeps telling us about things that happened at school. I was impressed at the quality of the activities and it was nice that I got to see Tyler, Runa and Nick at school during Jump Jam as well.

Matty's favourite word