Story “hour” at Surry Hills Library – I’d heard from a couple of people that this was good. Every Thursday at 11am. We get there at literally ten minutes past the hour, and the lady was just closing the book. Um, okay, that was fast! Glad we trucked in from CBD for that.
They were breaking out the art project as we got there, which was coloring Xeroxed handouts, cutting and glue sticking. Not the most creative craft ever, but the kids actually did have fun, and as luck would have it, Julia happened to sit next to another 5 year old girl who was here on holiday from Brisbane. It was cute listening to them chat and compliment each other’s coloring work. Graham seemed to have fun too coloring and running around with the other kids.
Lunch in the so-called trendy part of town – Italian, downtown feel. So lovely to have a semi-civilized lunch with them. They’re getting old enough where I’m not spending the entirety wiping, cutting, mopping up spills, feeding, breaking up fights, wiping, mopping up spills etc, it’s only part of the time now. And they even ate “grown-up” food – margherita thin-crust pizza sans basil (“Mommy, this is really tasty!” exclaimed Julia.)
Nearby playground – They both found friends (Graham, someone to run around with sticks with, Julia, a cocker spaniel). Why is the common stick so maddeningly appealing to little boys? Every day Graham searches the grounds for a perfect stick, walks around with one for a while, poking and whacking and shooting, runs with it until Mommy notices and yells at him to stop, and then begs me to take it home with him (no, again). And if he drops it, he will search a playground for that stick. What about this one? No. How about this one, it looks very similar! No, no that’s not the one Mommy!
Bus home – Bus driver lets us on free as I struggle with the stroller -- Can you imagine a New York City bus driver doing that?! Ha ha!
No word from lady on 66th floor with the two boys. L Was asking for the following day too needy?? :\
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