A quick up date

Mother's Day selfie, becoming a tradition, everyone smiling. They had the promise of sushi for lunch! yes even the smallest now likes sushi.


Tis was Tristans Mother's Day present for me, a filthy stinky face washer, you know the kind that had sat on the sink for a few days, wiped up a whole lot of messes? Dumped right into a half full cup of tea, he likes to dump things into other things, gotta make sure the toilet door is shut - I've found lego and micro chargers at the bottom of the s bend and another lego man dumped into the cake we were making today. He's quick, like lightning, one moment your creaming eggs and sugar and the next there's a lego mini figure taking a dip.


We have had a house guest for the last ten days, he has moved to live with another family now but we had a great week, the boys adored him and he was very kind to them, we took him out for breakfast at a hipster cafe, where we all felt out of place not having donned our 1980s hand knit sweaters and skinny jeans, at least Derek had heavy framed glasses on so we were given a table. We introduced him to porridge which he liked cause he said it was like rice. Tristan particularly like him and would call his name whenever we got home to see if he was here.


Here are the boys watching the monster trucks on a Saturday night





And here is Elliot collecting and proudly displaying his first ever student of the week award. It was for improved attention to the task at hand. Which says to me he wasn't as chatty and distracted as he usually is. Not the case today - he has to go spend time in the thinking time chair tomorrow - tho he thinks his teacher might forget - in fact he is sure she will so it doesn't really make it a very good punishment.
He has mixed feelings about school and I am inclined to agree with him, his teacher doesn't make it the best place to be, he misses kindy. Maybe we should pop in there sometime this week? He is very excited about home readers tho, and is trying really hard, it's really nice to sit down and work with him. Seb has been really encouraging of his effort to read, it's like he can see all the goodness in he the world that is unlocked by being able to read books and he wants that for Elliot too.


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