Today was the first commute from the new house. And it’s not bad! It’s about 8 miles and it took 16 minutes in the morning and 2o minutes home this afternoon – so not too shabby. I took the freeway and it wasn’t at all bad, so I’ll try it again tomorrow.
Harry spent the morning teaching Toby magic ready to give me a magic show when I got home. In the afternoon, they visited Vasa Beach Park, which unlike other parks round here you have to pay to access – which I suppose keeps the riff-raff out. The park received good reviews from Tracy though so I think a visit may be on the cards one evening this week. It has a nice beach and the slide into the lake which both boys seem convinced they will slide down into the lake. We shall see!
When I got home Toby and Harry tried their magic tricks. The first was guessing the number on the face of a dice after I had given it a shake and put it in a pot. Toby had clearly forgotten all his training and adopted the approach of just guessing what the number was. Although he had a 1 in 6 chance it didn’t work. He looked very disappointed with this turn of events so Harry took him aside for a refresher in magic. It worked as Toby turned into a super magician. Harry then demonstrated the skills of being able to push pins through a pot that had a solid coin inside it. The sleight of hand needs a little more work but it wasn’t bad!
The final trick was pulling your thumb off your hand and making it appear again. It has to be seen to be believed! Maybe the next video clip will be a magic show!
After eating some yummy pasta in the garden – it was a lovely sunny evening – I took the boys down to the local basketball court to shoot some hoops. It was the Stickells’ family against the Invisible Team and after some nail biting basketball Toby managed to shoot the winning hoop. It was his first of the game and pretty impressive considering the hoop is about 9ft high but it’s amazing what you can do when you’re 4 (and being lifted high into the air). Harry celebrated victory over the Invisible Team by throwing the ball in the air, which then came straight back down and landed on his head. Toby had hysterics and continued to laugh all the way home.
So day 1 of trying to behave passed without incident – they can be good when they try! Amazing! … Spoke too soon. 9:20pm and we’ve just been up to see them – apparently Goofy’s hand moved – any excuse not to go to sleep. Honestly children!
The black building to the right of the picture above is the Expedia building. My office is the floor below the bottom (third) balcony to the right with a faint white splodge in (that’s a pillar in my office)