Get your skates on

 

Our local council hosted a winter festival these school holidays with the main attraction being an outdoor ice skating rink. It was something I thought Isaac would enjoy so we all got rugged up and went for a look.

With one of us having to stay with Noah, Darren kindly volunteered me to get onto the ice with Isaac. Isaac had never been ice skating before and I hadn't been since about 1995 - even then I don't think I was confident enough to let go of the side.

I had warned him that it was going to be slippery but I forgot myself just how slippery it was. As we entered the rink hilarity ensued. Isaac lost his balance and then began moving his legs wildly while hanging onto the wall. My uncontrollable laughter and fear of letting go of the wall meant that I was providing little help. Luckily Isaac saw the funny side too. After a few repeats of this we finally got our balance and with the aide of a penguin ventured out into the middle of the ice.

Despite my obvious lack of talent or finesse, I had a lot of fun and I think Isaac did too.

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Retail fail

 

This was the state of a dressing room I went into today in Myer and this was only half of it. Every corner of the cubicle had clothes strewn on the floor and every hook was piled with garments people had tried on but decided not to buy. A quick look in some of the other cubicles revealed similar scenes.

I managed to try on some clothes despite the mess and then wandered to one of the other departments. Here I had to wait for two shop assistants to finish a D&M about one of the girl's boyfriends before I was offered the help I needed.

With experiences like this, is it any wonder more people are choosing to shop online?

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Tit for tat

 

Darren and I are pretty good at sharing responsibilities around the house and our night time routine is a pretty good example of that. Firstly for dinner, whoever doesn't cook has to do the dishes then, one person does the bath/shower and the other reads a bedtime story. It's something that has worked well for us so far and ensures that we're both equally exhausted when we finally get to sit down :)

How do other parents manage the whole dinner/bath/bed routine?

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Check up

Noah was a very obedient patient today for Dr Isaac. Thankfully everything seemed to be in order and he got the all clear.

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Flying high

Being school holidays there have been lots of exciting things to do and see at the shopping centre after swimming. Today there were trampolines set up in the food court.

Isaac is a creature of habit so he is usually very shy or standoffish when confronted with new things. Once he does get involved though you usually can't stop him. Today was no exception. He said he didn't want to go on the trampolines but I knew if he tried it he would love it. So I convinced him to give it a go but to tell the lady that he only wanted to do small jumps. It took about two bounces before he yelled with excitement, 'I want to go higher!'

Great outdoors

Yet another great day to get outside. Yeah we have a few cold, wet days but we really can't complain about Winter in Sydney - not with blue sky like today.

One of the other great things about Sydney (and probably most Australian cities) is the amount of green space we have. In fact it was recently ranked the fifth most liveable city in the world with green space a major factor. It makes getting out into the fresh air a breeze (hehehe).

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You want more?

Noah has an insatiable appetite. He would happily eat all day if given the opportunity. Lately he loves playing with his bowl and spoon after each meal. It keeps him occupied for a few minutes and also gets him familiar with handling them so he can hopefully start to feed himself soon.

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