Skip to main content

All grown up

Last week marked the beginning of Ol's kindy journey.  

We have been looking forward to this for so long.  I remember when he was but a few months old putting his name down for kindy at thinking that 2013 sounded so terribly far away.  But here we are.  And Ol couldn't have been happier.

He had his new kindy hat, his kindy sheets and a new spiderman lunchbox and he was all ready to roll.



But just to make this transition even a little more stressful, I decided that the exact same day would be the one that Eve started at daycare.  Madness I know! But we have found a lovely family daycare mum on the street behind us who happens to look after some friend's kids (one of whom is a little girl about the same age) and she had a spot on one of Ol's days at kindy.  Perfect.  A proper work day for me and a good chance for Evie Peevey to spend some time away from me.

Thankfully it all went quite beautifully.  Ol seemed a little apprehensive when we walked in, declaring "you're not allowed to go home until I say so okay Mummy".  But once he walked in and saw all the other kids and the new toys, I was quickly forgotten.  He barely even glanced up when I told him I was leaving and I had to make him come and give me a goodbye kiss.

Eve was also very good when I dropped her off.  She wasn't the slightest bit concerned when I left and hardly even batted and eye when I went to pick her up before he nap at lunch.

Both have so much fun that they come home absolutely shattered and fall asleep as soon as their head's hit the pillows.

So far so good.  Probably the most stressful bit is packing two lunch boxes!!

But yesterday on the way home I did have a little moment of being sad when Ol was telling me that he "accidentally" knocked over another boy's building and the boy told him that he didn't want to be his friend anymore.  Ol said that the boy "hurt my heart" when he said that.  Sob.  Mind you, Ol did knock the poor kid's building over!!!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Food, friends and footy.

This week Ollie and I had a special visitor all the way from Cloncurry - our friend Jesse. Jesse came to play at Camp Ollie for a few hours while his mum had some very well deserved shopping time. Ollie and Jesse played lots of fun games like cups and Jesse was very helpful to me during the afternoon. Another exciting event this week was Nick and my third wedding anniversary. To celebrate we went to the lovely E'cco restaurant on Saturday night, thanks to Aunty Em who stayed over at our place to look after Ollie. Thankfully Ollie was on his best behaviour, as opposed to some of the other nights recently that have seen me popping into his room a number of times in the early hours of the morning. Ollie got to see his Aunty Em again the next day when we went over to the McNaughton/Dower home to celebrate Aunty Hayley's birthday and to catch up with Uncle Luke. Hayley cooked the wonderful family birthday tradition of Flat Meat (hard to describe but kind of like a thinner sc
Post a Comment
Read more

Movieworld!

I told you last week that we had been busy having lots of fun around here and another of our fun activities (this time while Nanna Freddy was here) was a trip to Movieworld. But as I'm currently heat pressing fifty odd t-shirts for this weekend's big market, I am only able to make it to the computer in 40 second stints.  It isn't that I'm worried about scorching the shirts, but the heat press has this dreadful tinky asian sounding song as the alarm on the timer and it really grates on my soul!  And as I'm sure you can agree that there isn't a whole lot I can write in the time it takes me to run between the computer and the press (this paragraph has taken me five t-shirts!), this blog is going to be mainly pictures. Ol loved the characters. But not as much as the rides.  He went on about 16.  Seriously. He wasn't a fan of the car driving ones as he just couldn't make them work properly.  His dodgem effort was basically just driving aro
Post a Comment
Read more

Eve is 11: the birthday blog

  To my beautiful eleven year old daughter. Another year has flown by and you are another year older in the blink of an eye. Let me share some of the things I will always remember about you at this age. - You got a phone. Probably one of the biggest changes this year. Like all young people, you see it as an extension of your hand and you need to be reminded to get off it quite a lot. - You fronted up for another season of netball, despite your protestations. It is so lovely to see you out on the court supporting your team mates. - You are seriously addicted to Roblox. Like seriously! You could happily spend hours playing with your friends on there, or even side by side if you’re hanging out together. - You humour is wicked and sometimes savage. Your timing is ridiculously on point sometimes. - You’re not to old or too cool to play with your dolls. Sometimes they still get dusted off and dressed up. There have even been a few haircuts for some of them. - You love listening to audio stor
Post a Comment
Read more