This week was a good one. Arley is still behaving like a regular naughty three year old rather than an insane tantrumming lunatic child. On Wednesday Arley had a play date with his friend Dusty. We took the boys to a new beach for us, the Bommie (SO beautiful!), and Arley was on his best behaviour and shared every toy and every snack, which has never happened before. Arley and Dusty got on like a house on fire, it was so nice to see.
Carmie got her hair cut this week. It was so long, down to the top of her butt, and she was starting to look like I used to. While her hair was pretty, I really could do nothing with it but put it in a braid behind her back - a pony tail would end in a dreadlock and wearing it out was impossible. So we got about six or seven inches cut off, and it is so cute now, and so easy! We should have done it at the beginning of summer!
We had a couple of days of truly lovely weather this week. One day I was stuck in the gallery, so Jeff took the kids to the duck park at Burrill. We spent another beautiful day at Dolphin Point, followed by dinner at Collers Beach (so Bella could have a run) and an exploration of the rock pools. We did lots of arts and crafts, and Carmie had her Montessori day on Wednesday. Her teacher tells me that she is doing really well, and every week she mentions Carmie's reading skills. I can't keep up with her books - we are at the library every two weeks, and we borrow at least ten books for night time reading. They are chapter books with about 175 pages in them, and she reads one every night or two. Then she borrows her 'learning books', as well as at least ten picture books to read with Arley. And little Arley can read simple words like dog, the, cat, into - anything consonant vowel consonant that is sounded phonetically. He picked up a book this week and told me what it is called - "Sad the Dog".
Today is Jeffrey's birthday, so this evening the kids are having a sleep over at their Lolo and Dida's. Yay for a night off!
Fun reading :)
