Saturday 23 March 2013

Neighbour's Day

Kieran has been at school for over a month now and is loving it, especially swimming in the outside pool every Monday and Wednesday. He liked it so much that we bought a pool pass for March, which was a bargain for $20 as West Wave entry is $6.50 per adult plus the time and petrol getting there. We more than got out money's worth hanging out there after school in the afternoon sun, splashing in the pool. His reading is excellent. One girl is reading at level 6, Kieran and another girl are reading at level 5, and the rest of the class are level 3 and 4. He loves doing maths too, and has made lots of friends.
For fun we have been to the Toddler Day out - which was heaps of fun. The boys especially loved the bouncy castles and the inflatable fruit keepers, MOTAT, which is free in March at the moment and we also did the Neighbours Day Glen Eden Treasure Hunt yesterday. We did mini treasure hunts and quizzes in each location, like Waikumete cemetary, Lucinda Community Orchard, Glen Eden Picninc Park. Kieran got to sit in a model police copter, be filmed on a large map of Glen Eden, sit on a giant tooth and race around the cemetary. It was great fun, and at the end were bouncy castles and treasure!
I'm not sure if I mentioned that a woman reversed into me when I was parked outside the school in February. Well the car finally went into the panel beaters...in the only wet weather of the month!! Seriously, it was ridiculous. I cancelled activities left, right and centre. After one day of racing to catch a bus (which was late) then walking/running from Parrs Park with Cam on my back who had had no nap to the school then racing back with K to catch the next bus (which was early and so we hung out at the bus stop for 20 minutes, before climbing onto a bus and then walking home from the library. Nakita kindly offered to take K to school for the next day and Wednesday morning. And on wednesday afternoon I got the car back. It was a wonderful moment lol, I practically pranced off on the school run! Of course the rain vanished after this - typical.
Study is going well, I have completed 2 of the 14 assignments due before June, and am working on the next one, which is a pig! I have my 2 contact courses in Palmerston North in the first week of April so we'll head down to Wellington so Chris and the boys get to loll about in Days Bay while I cower in a Palmy campground, then join me the day after Chris's birthday for a night before I head up to campus accommodation and my second contact course. It's going to be a busy week, especially as the second course runs from 9am to 9:30pm each day. Wish me luck!