Fiddling Around

Music was relocated to today this week because Teena (sic) the Teacher had "'flu" on Monday.

Well she seemed fine today and in the relocated class there were only three of them. Eloise was very well behaved, quiet and attentive, until I made the mistake of congratulating her on it... then it all went a bit pear shaped as she pursued her own ideas and strategies of how these games should be played!

After that we took a bike road down the brook with promises of milk and Tim Tams afterwards, and an hour later we got home and she remembered, first words after getting off the bike being "Milk. Tams. Peas."

Quite polite I thought, considering that generally on bike rides down the brook, which is flanked by houses and streets on one side on which Matilda has a penchant for exploration, a lot of shouting and human barking goes on, a la "Matilda! COME DOWN! NOW!! GRRRR!!!!" along with foot stamping - because that works.

The unfortunate side effect of this is that Eloise on occasion adopts the same methodology with people... e.g. "Hey! Dad! C'm'ere!! Now!!"

She went down for a nap today for two hours, which was nice. Then we went shopping for veggies, then to Brisbane Forest Park HQ to see what it's like. We made it there for 4.30 to discover that it closes at 5. So we had a quick look around the HQ, which was closed, then came back along Settlement Road and Samford Road, and may have discovered a new Bushland area to walk the dogs.... maybe.