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How cute are they? We finished March with a landslide of birthday parties, I took this pic before the guys left for Josh’s 4th Birthday party. Being Ethan’s social coordinator, driver, gift shopper and gift wrapper does not leave time for normal more mundane things, like……laundry or vacuuming. Oh well!
Today was one of those days where you want to get your washing on the line as early as possible because you just know it’s going to dry so fast (at least you do if you live in New Zealand!), it was a stunning sunny, hot autumn day – NO humidity. After Ethan and I walked home from kindy we packed a picnic, a bug catcher, soccer ball and our towels and headed down to the beach.
We ate lunch and kicked the ball around in the park for a couple of hours and then went for a swim when we were good and hot. The water was so warm still, there was fun little waves for Ethan, who taught himself how to bodysurf. He has been such a good boy this week. We bought him a new wall chart in the weekend with numbers to 100 and he can read them and and cycle though perfectly. I am so proud of him. He had a sweet swimming lesson yesterday, his freestyle stroke is looking so strong, his shoulders are actually rolling out of the water now and he is fast. It is amazing watching him learn all of these different things and excel at each of them. No Louie today, he has gone to the farm to burn off some fat with Mollie and Marley, he should be suitably tired tomorrow when I pick him up!
Because I am selfish and miss my boy (and he was very tired!) he stayed home from kindy today and we had a nice relaxing morning. We walked Lou on the beach and it was gorgeous and warm, no wind for a change. We did notice quite a lot of dead sea birds though. After discussing this for a while and postulating about their demise (Perhaps they were old? Perhaps they were sick?) Ethan decided that what happened was a simple case of the birds dive-bombing for fish with their eyes closed and missing the ocean. Ouch.
We headed out for lunch as Farmers was having their weekly HUGE sale and I needed new underwear. I had told Ethan he could have anything for lunch he wanted, he chose Sushi (I love him a little bit more every day).
We headed onwards to the Farmers Department store and made our way to the underwear department. He was squirreling around and running under racks of bras as usual, but after a couple of minutes he called (very loudly) “Mama, I have found your favourite undies, they have an orange sticker on them and they are $10. A bargain!!!” He had indeed found a whole rack of bargains, recognized the brand I like, even the style. The other female shoppers were very impressed that my four year old doubled as a personal shopper!
Ethan has been racing up a storm at Athletics this year and I think it is fair to say from the pictures that he enjoys it a wee bit????
