we had soooo much fun this past weekend that we are completely worn out from all of it. we started off really slow this morning and decided to meet up with our friends in late morning. victoria park and the train park/indoor play area were on the table. the train park won out, and boy am i glad it did. less than five minutes before it was time to get downstairs to flag a taxi, the skies opened up and the rain fell in sheets. surprisingly, we were able to catch a cab quickly, though the driver took a scenic route, and it took almost as long to get to the sports centre as it does when we walk. i think that as a shiny new expat, i have a sign on my forehead that says "bilk me for a couple extra dollars."
we finally got to the sports centre and headed in to the indoor play area. it was nearly empty, which was nice after last week's run-in with the hour-long wait for another sports centre play area close by. we had a ball playing with our friends, and after an hour or so, the rain stopped and we headed outside to have a picnic lunch and play on the outdoor playground. it was a great time...nice and low key, but still very fun.
this afternoon, we kept it pretty quiet except that we headed out to get some stinky fish treats for waffle falafel la fu. yes, the poor cat is going to have an identity crisis if his name does not stop morphing. this little kitty is HOOKED on these incredibly stinky dried fish treats, and i'm a sucker for a cute face, so he has more.
we went to our favorite pet store that is also a boarding facility. there were two poms and one yorkie on site today. we know the yorkie well and know to leave her alone. she was abused by children and as such is very scared of them. if i can get the kids occupied on something else, i can love on her, but she gets skittish and snappy as soon as the kids pay any attention to her. the two poms that were there were having a mild pom throw down over olivia, yapping and growling at one another in competition for more pets from her. it was funny, yet alarming...i had to keep asking her to move away from them. my favorite thing about these poms, besides burying my hands in their fur to scratch them, is that one was caramel colored and the other was dark red. i have never really noticed that pom colors can vary so widely!
we finally got to the sports centre and headed in to the indoor play area. it was nearly empty, which was nice after last week's run-in with the hour-long wait for another sports centre play area close by. we had a ball playing with our friends, and after an hour or so, the rain stopped and we headed outside to have a picnic lunch and play on the outdoor playground. it was a great time...nice and low key, but still very fun.
this afternoon, we kept it pretty quiet except that we headed out to get some stinky fish treats for waffle falafel la fu. yes, the poor cat is going to have an identity crisis if his name does not stop morphing. this little kitty is HOOKED on these incredibly stinky dried fish treats, and i'm a sucker for a cute face, so he has more.
we went to our favorite pet store that is also a boarding facility. there were two poms and one yorkie on site today. we know the yorkie well and know to leave her alone. she was abused by children and as such is very scared of them. if i can get the kids occupied on something else, i can love on her, but she gets skittish and snappy as soon as the kids pay any attention to her. the two poms that were there were having a mild pom throw down over olivia, yapping and growling at one another in competition for more pets from her. it was funny, yet alarming...i had to keep asking her to move away from them. my favorite thing about these poms, besides burying my hands in their fur to scratch them, is that one was caramel colored and the other was dark red. i have never really noticed that pom colors can vary so widely!
practicing head stand form together after watching miss m do a perfect tripod and head stand in the middle of the floor!
bug doing a head stand with a little help from her friend, the wall.
waffle helping olivia make a mii. i swear that about half the time livie spends playing the wii is spent creating new miis. she has a collection of about 20 of them now.
olivia is getting really good at her reading skills. here, she's reading to q before bedtime. we are reading in the hall. why, you ask? because josh had to disable q's light to keep him from turning it on all night long. q is in a "monster" phase right now. we put a night light in his room to give him some comfort, but we had to disable his main light b/c he'd have it blazing at 3 in the morning. anyhoo, i digress.
the other day, we were in a grocery store checking out, and i was distracted with paying and keeping q from his typical mommy-is-not-100-percent-focused-on-me-mutiny when all of a sudden, i heard her say something to the effect of "that says..."...she was reading a sign on the wall to me. she got all of the words except one on her own. ironically, the only word she was stuck on was the word "shopping." despite many hours spent with duck and sahark on word world, the "sh" sound still gives livie some trouble. if you've not seen countless hours of word world, this statement will make NO sense to you ;-p
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