Current Faves

E's current faves: Corn on the cob, fried chicken and most of all, feeding myself. Imitating Kor kor as much as I can, even holding onto a car as I fall asleep, just as Kor kor does.


She cried and cried when I tried to feed her dinner yesterday, and it took me forever to figure out that she wanted to feed herself. Once she's set her mind on something, there's no changing it. So this is the glass half full - she's learning to feed herself a lot earlier than J ever did. And making more of a mess of the floor than J did too.

She wants everything he has, so I always have to have two of everything. Two cups of apple juice, two cups of milk, two bowls of fruit.

J's current faves: Herbie Fully Loaded. Climbing trees.

We just rented the movie this evening and he was rapt! He loved watching the racing cars. And I think he was actually rooting for all the cars apart from Herbie because they looked like real racing cars, and Herbie didn't. After watching, he was so inspired, he insisted on having a car race with his toy racing cars.

The weather over the past couple of days has been great, much cooler than it was last week. Unfortunately, it looks to be only a brief respite, it'll get hotter by the weekend. Anyway, we took advantage of the nice weather to bring the kids out to Memorial Park nearby around 7-plus this evening, where we caught a children's concert.

But as you can see, J was more interested in climbing trees. Proof that he's a city boy: he calls out "help me, help me" the WHOLE time.

I've been trying really hard to think of ways to keep J occupied - school doesn't start until early September, so we have a couple of months to go! We just managed to sign him up for summer camp at the Claremont Club nearby - it'll be a half-day programme for a week in July and a week in August. Still more than a week to go before the July camp starts though. At least he'll have Herbie to occupy him over the next couple of days.