10 days in February

Where have they gone?

Valentines’ Day has come and gone for another year. Incidently, the 40th anniversary of the introduction of decimal currency shared the day this year. I still remember “Dollar Bill” gracing the few and far between TV screens, singing away to the tune of “Click Go the Shears”.

In come the dollars and in come the cents
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence
Be prepared for change when the coins begin to mix
On the fourteenth of February 1966.

Chorus:
Clink go the coins, clink, clink, clink
Change over day is closer than you think
Learn the value of the coins and the way that they appear
And things will be much smoother when the decimal point is here.

In come the dollars and in come the cents
To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence
Be prepared folks when the coins begin to mix
On the fourteenth of February 1966.

J, my baby turned 4 yesterday. It seems hard to believe. All of a sudden, I've felt there’s a big jump from being 3 to being 4.

His birthday celebrations started on Friday at preschool. The frog invasion began with 28 cakes for children and teachers (and one for H) Evidently they were a hit.


I arrived early for pick up and the kids were in the playground. Several were playing “What’s the Time Mr Wolf”. Most of the kids were trying to get caught! Ahhh, 3 and 4 year olds really are such fun to watch.

Anyway, the amphibian invasion continued yesterday with J’s birthday cake.


I still have the remnants of green and blue food colouring around my fingernails.

We invited a girlfriend and her 2 daughters (one is in J’s class) over for a non-party. DH cooked a bbq lunch, the kids had time in the pool and played mostly in the backyard. It was 24.5C, lovely to be outside, so that's where we sat (and ate) all afternoon, in the shade of the brolly. Time flew by and we ended up ordering pizza for dinner.

My blue tongued boys were total wrecks by the end of the day and went off to sleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows.

The monthly measure up of the boys was done today. J is 115cm and H 143.5cm. Surprisingly, J is 6cm shorter than H was at the same age, but still taller than all the kids in his class and any other kid his age I know. I must remember to “throw them on the scales” too.

H has taken a keen interest in 10 pin bowling. He’s been to a couple of bowling birthday parties and we went down a couple of weeks ago for him and DH to have a game of bumper bowls. Well, he still liked it so we put him in for a “come and try” session. The interest was still high so we signed him up as a regular. It’s funny to see him playing with other kids his age as he’s so much taller. People just don’t understand why a “10 year old” would be playing with 6-7 year olds – poor kid. He still wants to have his 7th birthday party there. Only a month to go, we’ll see.