Australia Day

So we went to the Sport and Rec Club on Australia Day where they had a few different things going on. We missed a lot of it (including a football game, one half Aussie Rules, one half Rugby and one half Rafferty's Rules - a combination - yes I know, 3 halves, but whatever!!) because we *had* to have our Friday night dinner at the Club so that Mitchell could play with his new friend K. Apparently I need to get K's phone number from his Mum so that he can be invited to Mitchell's number 4 birthday seeing as his "old friends" from Melbourne won't be able to make it to Katherine as it's too far.

They had a bunch of races for the kids which Mitchell was very keen to be involved in. They split them up into age groups by which year they were going to be in at school this year. Initially some silly man had started with the high school kids and was working his way down until a sensible lady took over and went the other way - it's much more difficult asking the little ones to wait!! So the lady asked Mitchell what grade he was in and he had no idea what she was talking about so for some reason he said 2 :) The lady did a double take, then I told Mitchell to tell the lady he was in preschool, which obviously seemed much more like it. Just an aside too, I can't get over how much taller the transition kids were than the preschool kids. Is Mitchell going to grow that much in the next year???

So it was the kind of races that are good for this age group when they were just fun and it really wasn't all that clear who won in the end and I think when it came to the preschoolers they were all told they won :) Well they all got a free drink after each race - I thought it was a bit bizarre that the free drinks were diet pepsi, iced coffee and orange juice when all bar about 4 kids were primary school age or younger. So Mitchell ended up with 2 bottles of orange juice so that was all very exciting. He said no thankyou to the lollipop and balloon offered which was surprising - didn't even want to take one for later...

So the first race involved getting flags out of cans and putting them in a jar. It was quite hilarious as there were only 2 preschoolers in this race and neither of them knew what they were doing, they were going to grab each others flags or those in the empty lanes, but with myself and the other mother helping out they both got there in the end. The next race (when we finally had the camera ready - gave it to Michael this time!) was a leaking billy can race, where they had to fill a bucket up one end by filling a leaky billy can and running with it. Mitchell had such a wonderful time - the look on his face was just priceless -- these are the moments you live for as a parent I think.





And then today Mitchell wanted to make pizza, but seeing as we are trying to only go to the supermarket once a week and we didn't have what we needed, we had to come up with another idea. So I got out a lebanese wrap bread and Mitchell made his own lunch. He chose what to put on it, which was hommus, carrot, cucumber, cheese and mushroom, and put it all together himself. All I did was grate the carrot and slice the cucumber. As you can see he's made a face - when looking at the photo he realised it didn't have ears but that's okay.