Long weekend!

What did I do what did I do….well, pretty much the usual haha. Loads of kids activities so it started off with a Bang at the movies where Ezra only watched it for a good 5 mins before he got bored. So off I went gallivanting with him up and down the cinema (where he accidently bang his head against a window) and then to the toy shop down the road (where he greedily played with many fire engines). We had lunch (good ole pizza) at Garrisons and caught up with people. And then on was another birthday invite and spontaneous event the next day, bbq at a friend’s place. Will talk about that later in the second paragraph. After that we then took our time to head to my parent’s place where Ezra is getting more confident at running the outskirts of the trampoline. I took the opportunity to take more of his favourite things for speech therapy on Thursday. Dinner was at Mamarich and Ezra too spent time making wonderful mess exploring the food he had.

Sunday started off later in the afternoon, where we head off to a friend’s place who pretty much have everything a little kid can wish for. Really cool toys, a backyard, bbq, 2-storey house with a warm sundeck. Comfy modern living room but little E was a little overwhelmed with the environment. We tried to get the both boys to play with each other but it isn’t happening. And I think little E was a little anxious and feeling the need of being led by me. I had to rush off back for class and came back again which of course took 3 hours since this event was organised spontaneously. Coming back I knew something was gona happen and it was true, Ezra missed me and felt lost even when dC was there. Sigh. And he’s not used to the kids rowdiness since he hasn’t been exposed to playing with them. The only place that he opened up was the bathtub. So he felt much better in the bath with the kids playing side-on with foam.



I’ve never asked for this and I do wish sometimes he appreciates his dad more often. Oh well.

There were more plans on Monday but the weather clouded it on its entirety. So the plans for the beach was scraped and I was sulking because it was my extra day off. So I pushed to go indoors eventhough it’s a short time at Kelly Tarltons. Ezra was grumpy, and I had no idea what he was moaning about all morning (sore stomach I’m guessing) so it was on my nerves. He felt much better when I took him for an hour an abit at Kelly T. He was mesmerised not by penguins (since they stood still on land and floated above water) but the conveyer that took him around the aquarium. He took time to look above (after 2 rounds of running round) before we were told to move onwards. And it took time for him to notice the wet area at the Playland. I pretty much went into the playland with him and he was happily following my lead. Down the slide, up the stair, through the bips and bops and then he was attracted with the numbers and letters on the wall. He admired the fishes in the aquarium (specially those clown and blue fish from Finding Nemo) but of course was attracted to dipping his hand into any aquarium. Gotta come here again :=).


Off to Silo park we went, where we had fish and chips (lousy, remind me not to come into town for that meal) and playing with water and sand. We trained him to walk on different terrains so it was up and down the foothpath hill where he slows down and speeds up. I think it works his reflexes too as he had to co-ordinate and can’t really measure the height of the cement ground. Off home and it was timely for his shower since he pooped lol. We have the usual nursery rhymes in bed, but the lights needs to be off for an hour before he gives into his sleep at 10.30pm.

Yep, no surprises that he woke up at 4.45am this morning hungry but sleepy and pushed me out of bed.

Random day at the zoo...

That was what the weekend was all about just coz it was the only day the sun came out! My whole whanau was back too so it was a few trip runs to their place to just get Ezra out and about with fresh air and new environment =). Plus more mother and son bonding. I do am hoping he will have a sibling just so they both can get on the same level (doubt it these days, oh well). So it’s mainly on play dates (yay).

Saturday started off with me heading over to Mom’s with ezra while he is awake as we slowly thought of plans to do. It was initially lunch, but the weather was really good so a friend of ours whom I wanted to have Ezra tagging along with suggested the zoo. I did want to bring my sis along so off we went (as soon as dC wakes up). 3 hours was enough to enjoy the whole event. Li’l E was also engaged by Li’l B and we are amazed on his progress of observing other kids around him and he really wants to follow what they do. We are really hoping that things progress as the day goes and that it was just a mere milestone he had left behind maybe because we really attended to his cries which was a need back then.