Fun with nephews
So the kid is very cute, but he's only 7 months old, and not conversational yet (though he did a good effort of leaning over the back of a couch towards people at the dinner table, as if joining in; and he can crawl up to the couch, pull himself to standing and then attempt a few sidesteps, so proud!).
So I still rely on my nephews to provide the cute interaction. Today we all visited a playground together and I showed my mother a photo of Ashie's self portrait, done at kindy, accompanied by interview answers. Gus wanted to recreate the interview and was disappointed Ash wasn't providing the same responses.
"Pretend you're being interviewed by your kindy teachers! So, I'm Di-what's your name and where do you live?" I know have a voice recording of Ash providing the answer to these questions for the 4th or 5th time, obediently, correctly but without joy.
Later on I watched them on a piece of playground equipment, as they included 2 small preschool age siblings, whose Dad said admiring to me, when he found out we were together, "They're great kids, so conscientious", because of their appropriate behaviour on the flying fox. We returned there and my nephews experienced a problem when the flying fox queue went to a standstill. A little girl couldn't get on the seat and only wanted her Dad to help her. He was a far off speck, so I persuaded her to bring her Dad back before joining the queue. Then I had an even smaller boy come to the front of the queue.
"Do you need your Mum or Dad to lift you up?" I asked.
"No! I don't need anyone's help!" he yelled, and then the sprite jumped into the air, zipped along the flying fox thread and returned faster than anyone else had managed. He was great!
The older boys love their Granny's Ipad and used it to look for daft punk film clips and to view maps of their neighbourhood (Granny's house is 29 minutes from our house! Our house is 15 minutes from my soccer ground! The oval next to our school is SO MUCH bigger than our school oval!) as well as Swaziland. I think Ned spent at least 2 minutes explaning to me how much of Swaziland is protected park area.
So, as always, adorable. Had the most fun playing canasta and being reassured that I, at least, was one canasta strategy step ahead of my 4 year old nephew.
So I still rely on my nephews to provide the cute interaction. Today we all visited a playground together and I showed my mother a photo of Ashie's self portrait, done at kindy, accompanied by interview answers. Gus wanted to recreate the interview and was disappointed Ash wasn't providing the same responses.
"Pretend you're being interviewed by your kindy teachers! So, I'm Di-what's your name and where do you live?" I know have a voice recording of Ash providing the answer to these questions for the 4th or 5th time, obediently, correctly but without joy.
Later on I watched them on a piece of playground equipment, as they included 2 small preschool age siblings, whose Dad said admiring to me, when he found out we were together, "They're great kids, so conscientious", because of their appropriate behaviour on the flying fox. We returned there and my nephews experienced a problem when the flying fox queue went to a standstill. A little girl couldn't get on the seat and only wanted her Dad to help her. He was a far off speck, so I persuaded her to bring her Dad back before joining the queue. Then I had an even smaller boy come to the front of the queue.
"Do you need your Mum or Dad to lift you up?" I asked.
"No! I don't need anyone's help!" he yelled, and then the sprite jumped into the air, zipped along the flying fox thread and returned faster than anyone else had managed. He was great!
The older boys love their Granny's Ipad and used it to look for daft punk film clips and to view maps of their neighbourhood (Granny's house is 29 minutes from our house! Our house is 15 minutes from my soccer ground! The oval next to our school is SO MUCH bigger than our school oval!) as well as Swaziland. I think Ned spent at least 2 minutes explaning to me how much of Swaziland is protected park area.
So, as always, adorable. Had the most fun playing canasta and being reassured that I, at least, was one canasta strategy step ahead of my 4 year old nephew.
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