Austin came home from school the other day and said that he had to decorate a stuffed toy for the Easter Parade - I thought he must have misunderstood his teacher and even asked the other mothers if it was true but sure enough all the kindergartens had to decorate a toy. What ever happened to a hat??? So much easier! He wanted to decorate his rhino but we were a bit stumped with what to do. I'm hopeless at sewing so it had to be simple, we found some stickers and ribbons, plus some rabbit ears and chickens from last year that we just tied on. It looked ok but he hadn't really done anything for it besides sticking the stickers on so I went out and bought a little craft basket for him to paint and because they weren't allowed to put chocolate eggs in we blew out some real eggs and then dyed them red.
blowing out eggs is hard work but he was really good at it
the finished Rhino
the Parade
doing the chicken dance
Happiness is . . . having the Easter bunny visit your classroom while you are on parade and fill your little paper basket with chocolate eggs . . . Remember that? I do? Took me straight back to Primary School
When he was walking past I couldn't help but think back to South Africa when my little 18month old had his first Easter Hat Parade, awww look at him . . .
Sunday was another gorgeous day, we decided to do a bit of exploring and spent the afternoon at Balmoral Beach which is somewhere I haven't been in years and Steve had never been. What a great spot for the kids, it reminded me so much of Bundeena actually.
Austin had his first real game of Football today. And by Football I mean the round ball (apparently we aren't allowed to call it soccer anymore). He did Little Kickers last year but that was mainly drills and ball skills, not proper games, so he's been super excited to start playing in a 'real' team.
He joined Narrabeen Football Club and for the last few weeks he's been training hard every Friday afternoon, but today was the BIG day. He woke up at 6am and wanted to leave straight away, pity his game didn't start till 10.45, lets just say it was a long morning trying to keep him occupied . . .
It was a beautiful Autumn day, a perfect day to be outdoors and such fun to watch the little boys running around, with no real plan other than them all trying desperately to get the ball. In the end his team did really well though and ended up winning 8-2, with Austin scoring 3 of the goals. He played so well, but most importantly he had an absolute ball.
before the game and super excited - how's that gap???
The Meteors
tongue out and concentrating
so happy after scoring his 1st goal
Arguing with his mate Scott about who was in the wrong after the other team scored. There was hand waving, pointing and yelling for about a minute, it was so funny.
Oranges at half time - nothing tastes sweeter
gutted because the couch told him he wasn't starting the 2nd half and had to be 1st sub
Austin had his school Athletics Carnival the other day on possibly the hottest March day ever, not that the kids cared, they were having too much fun. He is in the Blue House, or 'Amaroo' - an
Aboriginal word for 'place by the sea'.
All the Kindy - Grade 2's, waiting to start their races
His class - KJP - he's the one in blue waving
Waving away at us again, he looks so little next to some of the biggest kids in his class
egg & spoon race
dominating the sack race (he's in blue)
He came 2nd in his sprint race and kept saying "mum it was soooo close, Jacob only beat me by this much" - (with 2 little fingers squeezed together)
So proud of his 2nd place sticker, and was gloating "Mum, Taj came last and he only got a sticker with a smiley face and no number"
And his favourite part of the day "I went on a bus Mummy - without you or Daddy".
Ok so Austin has already lost his first tooth but it doesn't really count as it was pulled out by the dentist. On Sunday he had his first real wobbly tooth. He was super excited and was so careful with it all day, not biting down on anything hard - he wanted it to stay in so he could show his friends at school the next day.
Still there - just . . .
It stayed in all day Monday, then on Tuesday morning when he woke up and complained that it was sore. He went into Grandpa and asked him take it out, he obviously didn't trust me!!! It was basically hanging by one thread and popped out so easily. Then followed the excitement of waiting a whole day and night for the tooth fairy to come.
It's gone
Lily feeling left out - showing me her teeth
The Tooth Fairy left him $2 and naturally he wanted to spend it straight away but had to wait until he got home from school. Steve took him out to buy his absolute favourite chocolate - a kinder surprise.
