Friday - Let's Try That Playgroup Again

Ellis has an uncanny ability to sleep in on school days. I got some blogging done and a shower before he finally woke up. As we got in the car I noted it was 9:30 - darn! I had planned to meet some moms at a playgroup in Southbank today. I was planning on the park and ride City Cat but the lot would be full. I was trying to figure out how else I could get there..... It was 10 (playgroup start time) when I finally got Rowan and myself back into the car after dropping off Ellis.

I guess I'll drive.... I zipped along Coronation Drive - I guess it was good I was late - rush hour was over. I drove along trying to remember where the Southbank Institute of Technology when I spied it - actually I spied the visitor parking. Great - I drove in - hmm -no tickets - call security button. I called security.

"Hi - umm, not sure where I can park - I'm here for playgroup."

The guard paused - "hmm - the parking lot for that is actually (and then he paused as if to say to himself - what the heck) - can you just park on the left."

Hooray! Classes are over for Uni and Tech students so I guess he thought it couldn't hurt to let me park for an hour. Plus people are just more considerate of parents with kids here - really - there was tons of parking and I would only be an hour. I'm pretty sure in Vancouver he would have sent me away. Free parking in Southbank!

Rowan clung to me the entire time - after the hour, he finally started to explore a bit, but it was time to go. I was just glad he stayed awake. I figured he would fall asleep on the way home and then wake up and that would be it for the day.

He actually stayed awake! He finally feel asleep at 1 and then slept the rest of the day. What an excellent day this is turning out to be.

When he woke up we went to get Ellis (with the requisite stop for rum first - this time I'll only drag one child into the liquor store with me).

Ellis was sitting outside reading books with Sam his teacher - the rest of his class was running around. I shall not start to obsess about this.

On the way home Ellis was talking about some new kid that comes just before him and mummy can you please figure out his name and he goes everyday and I want to go at the same time he does and be picked up at the same time.... Ellis gets a case of verbal diarrhea sometimes in the car on the way home. Finally at dinner he managed to string a coherent sentence together. There is a new kid named Islam and he and Ellis kicked a ball back and forth today. Ellis was pretty ecstatic.

After dinner we watched the video of Em doing ballet - both kids were transfixed. I had to play it over and over again. Ellis wants to do ballet.

Bath time gets more and more rambunctious and then it was finally bedtime. I managed to stay up till 9 before giving up trying to get Rowan to sleep without me. When Cyp gets home I'm sleeping downstairs.

At midnight Ellis came to our room - "mummy - is it morning time?"

"NO!"

He came into our bed - I left - I was hoping both kids would just sleep - who was I kidding. As I sat in the lounge (Oz for living room) trying to read my book to try to get sleepy again, I could hear giggling from our room. I went in and there was another wrestling match taking place. I ended up sending Ellis back to his room as he sobbed and cried and then I had to put Rowan in the crib for a while to prove that I meant business about this sleeping thing. It works - but takes some time. He plays with the fishy aquarium - somehow he got it into permanent play mode and it played the rest of the night - that plus my possessed electric toothbrush that goes on all by itself made for not a very good night sleep. Ugh. It's a long weekend.