Considering that the weather forecast for the rest of the week is for pretty much unadulterated gloom and chill, punctuated with rain, it’s probably just as well we got the things which require nice weather, like trips to the park and Federation Square, out of the way so early this week. Tomorrow will probably involve supermarket shopping, and then a library visit in the afternoon.

This afternoon, K swam for over an hour again despite the lack of nap, and somehow failed to go to sleep in the car or lying down propped on a pillow in front of the TV after we got home, although she looked very dopey for an hour or so. But she recovered, and after she got bored with the TV we had a nice time playing at having a party, which apparently required me to wear a red clown’s wig. We played pass the parcel and drank lots of fizzy water, and then played with the toy animals for a while. It seems that lions and triceratopses bite your face off, but elephants kiss it better again. Who knew?

She played by herself fairly happily with her rice basket and then a bowl of suds while I did a humungous load of washing up. She even scooped almost all of the rice back into the bowl and piled the cups and funnels etc away neatly when she had finished playing. Are we sure she is related to B?! She got a bit cross when I wouldn’t let her do any glueing without me, but was happy enough sitting at the table with pencils and paper instead. Eventually Rollercoaster finished recording and she could watch a Play School episode, which finished just as Daddy came home. She got to play with him a bit, but since he was busy she ended up watching another Play School show while I cooked dinner, then after we’d eaten she played with me again while E desperately wrestled his website into submission. We played mostly with Duplo and the magnetic fishing game. After that she was happy to play by herself again until E came back from the shops and took over. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long for her to go clunk when he took her up to bed!