Our friends’ kids have been getting live audio books from an aunt via jitsi. She’s been reading something (Harry Potter?) to a whole group of them.
I’ve been playing some Animal Crossing with my nephew who lives over 1000km away and visits aren’t easy atm. He doesn’t like talking on the phone much but he’s quite the (8 yo) gamer and while the voice service of the Nintendo app isn’t high quality it is enough to make it feel to him like I’m there. I brought my dad here to watch as well so he gets to “see” and hear his grandson.
Both were things the kids in question were looking forward to very much
Had our first zoom class today. Oldest loved it.
Youngest, well you know the trope where a kid comes home from school saying they are never coming back? Well after a 30 min group zoom he ran to me and threw himself on my lap in such a “uggg never doing that again” way.
Oh little guy, next sessions at 3pm.
Our therapy center is closed due to hazardous air, but we will have home therapy. The therapists are awesome at facilitating distance learning.
Speaking of youngest he made me breakfast the other day. Creme de nectarine.
My bad I looked away. Plus side he touched a piece of fruit so win!
Thank you S, for the lovely card from Germany! S was intrigued, and asked if the person with a very similar name was someone I knew from playing “the game with the aliens” on the computer (I have no idea what that might be, I haven’t played any computer games for a while). The stickers were a nice touch, and appreciated.
To answer the question on the card, her favourite game right now is Light Speed (not to be confused with LightSpeed), a real-time spaceship brawl with lasers, and I’m sure we’ll get a chance to play it on the long weekend.
My daughter has learned that most rules are made up now thanks to the pandemic, so we decorated a Christmas tree today. Because she was tired of waiting. The cat appreciated it:
We did a one day Christmas in August for the kids. Figured a small celebration and some toys would distract them from the craziness for a bit. Had to take the tree down that night as the younger kid kept messing with it and ended up knocking it down. We expect such things from our kids though, which is why there are only lights and garland on it. Though a bulb in the top section went out, killing half the string. That’ll be fun to try to find and replace for the real deal Christmas.
We have a red mesh bag that holds bath toys, with two transparent plastic suction cups to stick it to the bathroom wall.
During a bath, M (still 1, coming up on 2 years old) decided to stick those suction cups to her nipples, so the red mesh hung over her belly. She was so happy with the result that she did a little wiggly dance.
That brings memories. After the first lock down here in NZ, we got together with a few other Europeans friends and we had a Christmas themed party in July, when it was proper wintery.
I love having BBQ on Christmas day (summer here, and proper hot), but it was great to have a little reminder with jumpers and the tree in proper winter. Even the little ones got a little present.
Hey!
I created new life that came to be this past August, making me a parent of three (3!) girls. Wow, that’s a lot of work. I’ve been a bit lied to when people said to me the third one raises herself, because she needs actually way more attention than the first two, or at least it feels like it.
But what really threw me for a loop was the, very much unexpected and unplanned, new pregnancy of my wife. The pill (no pun intended) was a bit hard to swallow, but I’m starting to get used to the fact that I will, if everything goes smoothly, be a father of four (4!) before I turn 30.
Yesterday my wife had her first appointment, and I’m at least relieved to see that, for now, everything is looking great. And I just made the call for getting snipped, which also would make this, finally, our last pregnancy. So we can enjoy it differently knowing that.
Even though most of me is worried of what the next few years will look like, part of me is happy that all my kids will be close together, at least regarding age (With the biggest gap being less than 5 year between the oldest and the not there yet).
My mum claims that one of the major benefits of having children earlier is that you get to enjoy all the “you don’t look old enough to have adult children” compliments in 20 years time
I’m very envious! I was 35 when our first was born. I feel as though keeping up with toddlers would be exponentially easier in your 20s than it is in your 30s, though perhaps not that much easier?
We are trying for our 3rd this time… and hoping for a boy after 2 girls.
I hope eveyrthing works out for you! We are also hoping this last one is a boy. We scared ourselves at the beginning when the dreadfull thought “What if it’s twins?” came across our mind. Thankfully, there is only one growing
We’ve seriously been terrified of having twins. We know so many people with twins. At my last job, on a team of approximately 12 people, 4 of them had twins and my partner has many, many friends who have twins… we were suspicious there was something in the water.
