I'm home again! As you know I went down to Brisbane on the bus on Tuesday. I booked to come back to Toowoomba on the bus on Friday but on Thursday, after Auntie Emma and I came back from picking up the boys from school, I got a big surprise as I was climbing the stairs from the garage.
There at the top of the stairs was Molly! "Molly!" I shouted. And then Papa popped his head around the corner! "David!" I shouted again. Papa had decided to come down and surprise us all. We were all so pleased to see him, especially Fergus. "Papa!" he said and Papa gave him a big hug.
It was lovely visiting Auntie Emma. We didn't do anything terribly special, just the day to day stuff, taking the boys to school, taking Fergus to his new Kindy, shopping, cooking and all the other jobs that need to be done each day.
Fergus has started at a new Kindy. It is the one I sent photographs of the rainforest at the bottom of the garden and the bridge.
Fergus has been finding it a bit difficult settling in as everything there is new - new teachers, new friends and a huge new garden to play in. To help him settle in, Auntie Emma and I had along chats about ways we could help him. We thought up lots and lots of ideas such as taking him a bit later in the morning and bringing home a bit earlier. This means that in the morning Auntie Emma takes the boys to school and then comes home again with Fergus and has a nice quiet hour or two with him before he heads to Kindy for a couple of hours. He is nice and fresh and enjoys his time with his Mumma.
When it's time for Kindy, Auntie Emma packs him a yummy morning tea and off they set for Kindy. Once there Auntie Emma stays with Fergus for most of the time, helping him and other children who are new to the Kindy. After the indoor play, Fergus usually goes outside to play in the sand-pit and that is when Auntie Emma leaves him, but not for long, only an hour.
When it's time for lunch and an afternoon rest, Auntie Emma picks Fergus up and brings him home where he has a lovely bath to wash all the sand off. Then he lies under a wee blanket with his lunch and watches Play School. Once Play School is finished, Auntie Emma takes him upstairs for a wee rest. He calls his time on the couch his 'relax time' and his sleep upstairs his 'rest time'.
Auntie Emma and Fergus have a rest for about an hour when it's time to pick up the big boys. This seems to be working very well and no doubt this new routine will change as he gets a bit bigger.
This week Auntie Emma bought a vitamiser thingy so the boys could make themselves smoothies. Each morning and when they come home from school, out comes all the ingredients for their smoothies. They use milk, yoghurt, and fruit - if I liked milk and yoghurt I would make some too!
The painters were working at Auntie Emma's. She was having some walls painted and the back fence. The walls were painted in a cream colour and the back fence a lovely bluey grey.
Andrew, the man who helps Auntie Emma with her garden popped in during the week for a chat about planting. Auntie Emma has just about finished the main work in her garden and is ready to finish off with plants now. It looks as though she and Andrew have picked some gorgeous tropical plants for the garden which, once they are planted and established will create a lush landscape for sitting in.
On Friday, after dropping the boys off at school, Auntie Emma, Fergus and I popped into Bunnings to see if we could find a swing for Fergus. A visit to Bunnings is probably Fergus's favourite outing.
When we arrived, he grabbed his wee trolly and skooted up and down the aisles. He was most disappointed that he couldn't buy the sign which said AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ONLY which he had been pushing around while Auntie Emma and I were looking at swings and screws.
There was a bit of a three year old tantrum when we were leaving, when he threw himself on the ground and cried but Auntie Emma and I just wandered off and looked at something and he decided he wasn't achieving much so lifted himself up and came to see what we were looking at.
Once home, Papa got busy and hung the swing from Auntie Emma's new pergola. Fergus just loves it and because it has a baby seat, he can give his teddies a swing too without them falling off.
Here's a photograph of Fergus washing his bike.
You can see his new swing hanging from the pergola.
Friday night Uncle Michael's office had a big party to celebrate the renovations to their offices. Michael's company decided to extend their office space to the floor below and have created a beautiful staircase connecting the two floors. As you can imagine, this involved a huge renovation and the party was to celebrate the official opening of the new offices. Over four hundred people attended including judges too!
Auntie Emma was supposed to meet Uncle Michael at the office in all her party clothes but because she had a terrible cold she decided to stay home. She had been taking cold and flu tablets but was still feeling pretty sick. It's a good job she didn't go because Uncle Michael didn't get home until nearly midnight.
For dinner that night, Auntie Emma ordered some fish and chips and Papa went to collect them. We set up a wee table and chairs in the garden and had a fish and chips picnic! Fergus is getting to the age where he loves to be asked to do things. "Fergus!" we would say. "Would you mind getting me some tomato sauce?" He would down his plate, climb off his chair and run to get the tomato sauce and with great care squeeze some on to each of our plates.
In the evening we all cosied up to watch a movie in the front room with wee Fergus between Auntie Emma and me. The boys kept us all in the cinema atmosphere with a steady supply of Smarties and Maltesers from the fridge. Because Fergus had had a wee 'rest' in the afternoon he was quite OK to sit through the movie.
The movie we watched was THE COMMITMENTS which is just hilarious. It is about a band in Dublin around 1990. There's quite a lot of bad language but it fits in with the story, and Auntie Emma felt the boys would handle the language OK - and they did. They were laughing and laughing through the film.
While we were watching the movie, we recognized one of the band members who is in one of Auntie Emma's favourite films which is called ONCE.
If you click here you can hear Glen Hansard singing one of his songs from ONCE.
The doggie picture is nothing to do with the film ONCE. I can't remember where I saw the painting, but I thought it was just gorgeous and that you would like it too.
Will away.
Love Nanxxxxx
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