Counting Down

We are counting down the weekends we have left before our big move to Darwin. We will try and get out and about a little each weekend (in between packing and organising), and take some photos and videos for K to reflect on in the future. This weekend, K continued to explore her new gift from Nana and Grandad. Her favourite IPad activity so far is playing a little game that involves some baby animals coming to daycare. She plays with the animals, feeds them, puts them to sleep... I'm not sure why she is so fascinated with this. I'm not sure if she relates, because of her daycare experiences, whether she is further demonstrating her love of animals, whether there is some element of empathy and care as she is rocking the babies to sleep or if it some other aspect of the app that makes it engaging.

We made some playdough. K decided to make the dough the colour "orchid" according to the instructions on the food dye packet, which turned out to be a light purple/violet colour. We took the playdough to a friends house for dinner on Saturday, along with a packet of spaghetti and cereal. We practised our fine motor skills by threading cheerios on to the spaghetti (which was stuck in the playdough). The kids had fun making Cheerio Monsters.

Although K happily munched on the Cheerios whilst playing with them, when I presented a handful in a bowel as a snack the following day, they apparently were not as appealing. On Sunday we also went to the beach. Natti had a fantastic time swimming. She is definitely a water dog.

K and Dad made a warm bath in the water using some new sand toys K got for Christmas. With hot weather predicted for the weekend ahead, I'm sure we will be back at the beach again soon.