School Holidays

Tom has just completed Term 1 of 4 y.o. kinder or 'Preschool'.  He was attending 4 half-days a week and it made for a very busy time.  But he loved it and really blossomed over the term.  We've also being doing swimming lessons and Angus and I go to Music class one morning a week.  Angus was really lost without his big brother for the first few weeks, but he's really coming into his own also.
Summer finished, and it was kind of a disappointing one.  I don't feel like we got down to the beach as much as we're used to, but we still enjoyed plenty of barbeques and time at the park and riding our bikes.
We have entered 'birthday month' at the Callahan household.  We now have a 5 y.o. and will soon have a 3 y.o. too.  So as everyone says, time flies and before you know it, the kids are at school and then moving out.  My aim for this year is to enjoy time as much as possible before we are more restricted by school timetables.

We just had a small celebration for Tom this year as he had a big party last year.  So both lots of grandparents and Aunty Caz (my sister) and Uncle Mick (one of Jim's brothers) came for afternoon tea and Tom had, "the best day ever!"  It was a lovely afternoon with the kids just really enjoying time with the Grandmas, Pa and Grandad. Then Tom had his 3 best friends over after kinder for a play on his actual birthday.  Tom enjoyed having his 'mates' over to sing happy birthday with.Tom got a 'big' bike for his birthday and he was so happy.  He was so proud to show us all how he could manage the bigger bike.  And Angus has just got the handle in the 'balance bike' instead of his trike so he is feeling pretty proud too.  I love these days - it's all good.

Today was the first day of Auskick.  That is footy skills and playing for 4-9y.o.s, in the Aussie Rules game -  for all my OS friends.  The photo is of the boys getting ready to go all wearing their 'Cats' footy jumpers.  Tom loved it which is great.  He'll do that each week for the season which is through to about August sometime.
I went for a run with my friend Julia while the boys were doing 'boy things'.  Julia and I are doing a 15km (9mile) run next week for the main Children's Hospital in Melbourne.  We have declared that we will be taking it  'easy', not out to break any records.  But it's supposed to be a beautiful course of Melbourne, so hopefully it will be a beautiful autumn day and the sights and sounds can take our mind off the last 5km, which are more than likely going to hurt!  We'll be happy by the end and it will set us up for Easter and those chocolate eggs I'm bound to eat!

This last photo is the boys in front of a robotic T. Rex. There was an exhibition of about 6 robotic dinosaurs that roared and moved ( a bit).  The boys loved it.  I can imagine that in their eyes the dinosaurs were very realistic.  I had told them that they were just like big toys, but they were really large and you were able to get quite close, so I'm sure it was a pretty amazing experience.
Go with the flow........