First School visit

Today was Kieran's first school visit. In NZ they have a system where children visit the school for a morning each week for 3 weeks prior to the start of school. Kieran has a birthday in January, School starts in February and therefore he has his school visits in December. The first visit was rather fraught - It was raining so we bolted up the hill andf turfed Cameron out at the church playgroup, leapt back in the car and raced off to Oratia. Getting there was quick - finding a park - not so quick :) The session went fairly well, with Kieran wanting to sit on my lap for most of the session and me hissing at him to sit on his bottom and pay attention to the teacher for the entire session. Afterwards he bubbled about how much he loved school and his teacher so that was good. This was also the week that I had the last Plunket coffee group session, the last mainly music session - and dinner. These went well, especially mainly music where Cameron donned fairy wings and graciously allowed Santa to give him a present. I then sorted the Plunket room, and made an inventory so that equipment and toys could go to various plunket branches for a small donation and the rest to be freecycled/off to dump/TradeMe. Naturally it was pouring with rain, and lo a tornado hit west auckland. I also almost had a car crash trying to merge onto west coast road - which made my day a bit more exciting. Everything else is ticking on nicely - boys loving playcentre and playgroup, kindy remains a hit with the boys and school is eagerly anticipated. We went Christmas shopping on the weekend which was exciting too. Sadly I bought the wrong size shoes and the sale has ended, so I will sort this after I get back from Oz. I also managed to find the boys swimming costumes. K has outgrown his, but Cameron now fits it so we just need to sort a rash shirt for K. The house owner also arranged for the house to be waterblasted and the gutters cleaned. The plants in the guttering had grown so tall it looked like a forest was growing on our roof.