Today, for the very first time ever, Becky jumped off the side of the pool into the water! Until now she’s always needed a little … encouragement… from the teacher to make the leap, but today she stood on the edge of the pool with her rocket arms up in the air, joined in the countdown and JUMPED!!
Once they’ve had a cookie or two I think my models will be more co-operative… but in the meantime here are the girls’ wings and skirts for Koby’s 30th birthday and Halloween party tomorrow night!
This time we trying out a recipe that we found in a magazine – jelly crystal cookies! Basically substituting a packet of jelly for sugar. Sarah picked raspberry flavoured… the end results were rather pink! The girls thought they were pretty tasty. Anyway… it’s process not product, hey? :)
Sarah came bounding across the park today to meet me at the end of my run. Taking my hand she said to me “Well done, Mummy. Well done. So proud of you!”. It just made my day… week and month even. Adorable!
On order to make it a little easier to keep tabs on everyone, we’ve decided at running group to dress all the mobile children in red shirts for faster identification :) Becky was finding ‘stairs’ a bit of a challenge and was all to eager to chase after a friendly, if rather scruffy, neighbourhood doggy. Today after the run we all did a walking lap with the kids – being carrier and strollerless, we borrowed Eva’s pram and Ergo while she snuggled into her hugabub the way we used to carry Sarah in pre-ergo days.
This afternoon Sarah and Becky took ‘Cole and me to see the new Tinkerbell movie! Talk about your extreme activities… ‘Cole and I were both in desperate need of a nap by the time we got home! While it’s been about 3 years since Sarah was at the movies last (she saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 with Sarah Kate) you’d never know it. She sat in her chair, clutching her popcorn and navigating the cup holders like a seasoned film professional. After the movie it was time for ice cream :)
They’ve been houses, caves, slides, ramps, cars, trains, walls, cities and towers so far – but today the boxes became tunnels and garages for the cars. Each box has one of the girls’ names written in huge letters down the side so they can tell which box belongs to whom. Becky’s getting good at recognising her name! Sarah can already read them “No, Becky. That says ‘SARAH’ That’s my box. Here’s your box!”
There was no time to stop and smile this time! Becky sat on her picnic towel with her watermelon and used two hands to scoff it all down as fast as she could. This is our first watermelon of the season… and I suspect I’ll be bringing home quite a few more from the markets before summer is over!
