This week we all recovered from our various illnesses, and all the kids have is a lingering cough!! It is so good to be well again, and have healthy kids. Carmie is loving school again, and is full of energy and interested in learning. She is reading like a champ and getting lots of outside time running around and being active. Her voracious appetite has simmered down and she is eating normally again, but her tastes have completely changed and she likes different food, with a newfound love of tomatoes. Arley is still seriously grumpy, but I have been giving him lots of talks about being happy and smiling and being nice to people (especially his dad), and I think there might be a little improvement. They have told me at school that he is really cranky and they haven't seen him smile in weeks, but today he was a little better. Over the weekend, he decided for three days that he didn't want to wear a nappy any more, he insisted on wearing underpants. So, we started potty training. He only had one accident on the first two days, but that is because he spent hours on end sitting on the toilet with the iPad (I couldn't get him to sit on it any other way, and then he started fibbing about how he needed to do a poo so he could watch the iPad). On the third day, I wizened up, but he had three accidents. What made me cross was the fact that he didn't tell me about them, he just sat there in his wet pants and continued on with his day. One time he was right next to me while I read books to him for half an hour and he peed himself and I didn't know. :( So, he was back in nappies for the week, but I think we are going to start potty training tomorrow and put in a good effort over the Easter break.
We had a great weekend. Jeff was working on Saturday, so it was just me and the kids. We started out with a trip to our neighbourhood park, lots of running around and climbing, before heading home for morning tea. The kids actually played all day outside on Saturday, keeping themselves occupied while I got some gardening done. This is the first time they have ever done this, and it was for hours. When I asked Carmie to come inside when I had to make dinner, she even chose to stay outside by herself to play some more. This is how I know that she is better, and just how sick she actually was, because it was impossible to get her to play outside before.
We took the kids out to dinner with their Lolo and Dida on Wednesday night. It was our first family dinner out, and a remarkable success. We decided to do it because we had been taking the kids to the Golf Club and they had seen all of the massive Easter baskets on display, ready for the Easter raffle. Carmie would beg to go so she could see the baskets. So, we took them to dinner at the Golfy for the raffle, and we all bought tickets. There were 29000 tickets sold, and we had about 100 between us, and there were 78 baskets to be won. Believe it or not, Lolo had a winning ticket! Carmie and Arley got to go up and choose an Easter basket, and they were SO excited. They chose a wagon full of eggs with some megablocks and a bunny, and then proceeded to parade the wagon around the restaurant for all to see. It was very cute, and now I have to break the news to them that prizes don't come with every family dinner out at a restaurant!
Carmie and Arley have been having a lot of fun with their karaoke machine, and have also been having 'discos' in Carmie's room (thanks for the disco ball, Oma and Opa!). They are so funny, very cute, and will hate me one day for the following video:
Fun at the park.
Before school this morning.
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