A day full of impromptu off-the-cuff activities...

Now that Beth and I have recovered from gastro, we got out of the house today. This morning we went exploring and found this really cool park with a HUGE bus/car and a pretend coffee shop and petrol pump... it was a really groovy park. While we were there, I got a frantic call from Sharon who was at our friend Gina's place. Gina is making a mad dash rush trip back to Columbia to visit her sick father tomorrow morning... she has 2 boys (one who is 3 years old and the other is only 4 months) and was going to be travelling *BY HERSELF* with the two kids on the 17 hour trip (with several overseas transfers) to see her father. Anyway, the point of this is that Gina had bought an ipod video to put some DVDs on so that she could entertain her 3 year old boy for part of the trip. However, she and Sharon couldn't figure out how to compress the videos and transfer them onto the ipod. I was really feeling for Gina (the whole thought of travelling with 2 kids by yourself is just *daunting*), so even though Beth was due for a nap, I drove up to Gina's place (which is about 30-35 mins away) and did some troubleshooting. Beth fell asleep in the car on the drive there... but woke up when we got there. We sorted out the problem and got a couple of movies on the ipod so that was a relief... I was glad I could help out in that small way.

After that, Beth and I came home... she stayed awake on the drive home and I gave her some lunch when we got home. She was an eating machine today... making up for not eating much last week I think... For breakfast she had a weetbix and a WHOLE orange. Morning tea was a yoghurt. Then lunch was rice with pork mince omelette.. and then she pinched some of my lunch (chicken wings with rice)... and was still hungry, so had a kiwi fruit... and then insisted on having some yoghurt afterwards! Dinner was a two part stew with rice... and the stew with mashed potato... followed up with watermelon.

Anyway... I digress. After lunch, we chilled out a bit at home while I made dinner... and then at 3:30pm we headed over to Sharon and Em's place and went for a walk to a duck pond near their place and fed the ducks. Beth was more interested in trying to dive into the water so she could swim with the ducks... She didn't catch on very fast to the concept of feeding bread to the ducks either... she was more interested in eating it herself! I eventually did manage to get her to throw some bread into the water and she did love looking at the ducks... so it was a good new experience for Beth.

After the ducks, we went to the park near Sharon's place and the girls played on the playground for a bit and then we headed home. I was expecting Beth to fall asleep in the car on the way home, but nope. She didn't... so I gave her dinner and we picked up Phan from work... She was in an amazingly good mood... especially since she had only had 30 minutes sleep all day!

I'm having an early night ... way too much activity for this Mummy to handle.