Walking

So Wednesday had been so successful that I decided to walk to the City Cat stop again. Today I encouraged Ellis to take his Leapster. No more "how comes?" but I felt a bit bad as he didn't even notice our surroundings anymore.

Our city cat stop has a little man with a xxxx hat on (XXXX is a type of beer made here - everyone jokes it's called XXXX cause Queenslanders can't spell). Anyway - our stop is called Regatta after a pub across the street that we have yet to go to. It's a cool old building - about 4 stories I think. The other note about it is that during one of the big floods, the water reached the top balcony. Today I walked the right way to the stop and it only took 23 minutes. Not bad. In fact we got to our swim lesson by 10:30 - 30 min. early so we went to find Cyp at his office.

Fortunately, I had Ellis to remind me what floor Cyp's office is on, as I couldn't remember. Ellis immediately ran into Cyp's office and started to erase everything on the white board so he had room to draw. He loves that white board.

Swim lesson went great - Rowan had napped on our commute to the Uni, so he was in fine form. In fact, he laughed and seemed to actually enjoy the lesson today. Our instructor is fantastic - she's going to be on Australia's got Talent. Hope she does well, but not too well....

Afterwards as we were waiting for the citycat home, a gale started - was very worried about the walk home, but thankfully it had stopped by the time we got to Regatta.

I walked us all to Toowong Village as Rowan was getting his one year old jabs at 2:30 (that's shots in Aussie) but we were early so went to the library.

Ellis took a liking to a little Japanese girl - actually to her mom - although, maybe it was the book she was reading - a popup Mr. Men. He went over and started snuggling with her - it was kinda funny.

Ellis had to pee, so we had to go - we were early but headed to the Doctor's office. Again, the children were saints and waited about 45 min.

The doctor was a different one and she seemed a bit ineffectual, although maybe she was having an off day. Actually I remember when Ellis got his 1 year shots - I though Dr. McLachlan was a tad brutal, but I think that's the way you have to deal with one year olds. Kinda like I have to sit on Rowan when changing his poopy diaper, I had to essentially strangle him to get him to sit still for his jabs. Now that I think about it, Dr. McLachlan's brutal but efficient way of doing the shots meant they were over quickly. This doctor did not really know what she was doing - although we were holding Rowan in the prescribed method. I think I should import the Cdn prescribed method of handling a squirming one year old. I wonder if I could make money off of it. Actually, I could import the little round bandaids as it appears they don't have them here as she used the long ones which were completely useless. By the time she got them on, they were all twisted and she hadn't even managed to cover the jab hole.

Ellis meanwhile had been slowly creeping out the door when Rowan started screaming after his first shot.

"don't worry - you're not getting jabs today - you'll get them when you're 4."

"HOW COME?"

Just prior to that he was asking when he was going to be 4 - can bet he won't want it to come too quickly now. Rowan was screaming like we were killing him. Stoic he is not. Ellis was more so.

Walked home - Rowan passed out again. Left him in the garage to sleep it off. Ellis meanwhile commandeered my computer to do Reading Eggs. He can now spell am, Sam, pram, cat, bat, fat, nap, tap, cap and is working on r words now. I think he spent about 3 hours on it yesterday.

I then put Toy Story on (got it from the library) and the kids ate their dinner in front of the TV. Cyp and I were going out.

When the sitters got here, Rowan took one look and started crawling madly in the other direction. He grabbed Cyp and would not let go. He's good at screaming now. Ellis meanwhile was a mad man (too much TV and computer). We ran out the door as quick as we could.

We went to the 100 Acre Bar - which is part of the St. Lucia golf course. It was really good. I had duck pancakes (yummy). It was pretty reasonable considering the location and the food. We went with Cyp's boss and wife and discussed our impressions of Oz and Aussies.

We will have to take mom and dad there.