Colouring Comp King

The other weekend we headed down to the new Eynesbury estate. They were having a big launch day with lots of freebies. Free bbq lunch, jumping castle and showbags.

Josh entered a colouring competition. He spent ages on it. Sam had a go too. There was a pretty good chance he would win something... they had 8 prizes, and you had to be there to collect your prize.

So we waited around until the end, and heard them call out seven names. Josh was complaining that he didn't win, when we told him there was one more to come, and they called out his name! He was so excited. He got to run up the front and grab his prize... a matchbox car.

Ten o'clock

When I am home from work, Kel gets to sleep in. But when it hits 10:00am that is when we rush into the bedroom to wake him up... because it's Milo time! Every morning at 10am we sit down and Kel has his coffee and me and the boys have a Milo, or Quick. Lately when I have been at work I haven't had time to scratch myself, let alone make myself a Milo, so I really enjoy
it when I am at home... plus it never tastes as nice when I make it myself!
On Monday I was getting ready for work, and the boys woke up, so I got their breakfast ready, and then had my breakfast and then I was running late for work. Sam was still eating his cereal in the highchair, so I told Josh to go and wake Dad. At about 8:30am I got a phone call from Kel asking why I hadn't woken him up. Turns out that Sam had been sitting in the highchair for an hour and a half in front of the tv! It was only toward the end that he started yelling out, as if to say "Oi! Get me out of this chair!". Kel had assumed that I was sick and stayed home from work. When he got up he was very surprised to see just Josh and Sam in the kitchen. He asked Josh "Where's Mum?". He replied "Just at work". When Kel asked him why he didn't wake him up he replied "Coz it's not ten o'clock yet".

The Winner

Josh has a psychic ability... today (well I actually wrote this a couple of weeks ago) I had a look in the letter box and saw there was something in there. I didn't have the key, so I went inside to grab it. Josh said that it was a letter for him from his friends. Inside the letter box was a letter addressed to Josh from his friends at 'Little Coles'. (We have two Coles stores, one used to be BiLo and is smaller than the other one).

A couple of weeks earlier Josh spent the morning colouring in a picture of the (Cadbury) Easter Bunny for the local store colouring competition. He was so proud of his picture and watched them as they hung it on the wall. Each time we went to Coles he checked that it was still there.
We were all very excited while he tried to open the envelope. We got impatient in the end and opened it for him and read out that he had won! He was jumping up and down and had the biggest smile on his face. We had to go down straight away to pick up his prize.

Walking up to the Service Desk he saw Ros and Anne (his two Cole's friends) and they were very excited that 'their' Josh had won. I think nearly all of the Coles staff know Josh and Sam... especially the full timers, but even some of the weekend, younger staff now too. Josh will talk to them all, and ask them their name. They used to reply with their name and ask his name... now they reply with "I bet your name is Josh". Then he usually says "that's my brother, Sam". And depending on who is with him... "that's Mum / that's Dad".

They handed Josh an envelope with a $20 gift card in it as his prize. He wasn't too thrilled about that until we told him that he could go to Kmart and buy a Thomas train with it!

Four Year Old Kinder

Josh was very excited to be going to kinder... but somewhere along the way he got confused and thought he was going to school. His comment went along the lines of "But this is the same as little school". It is at the same place he went last year for three year old kinder - except this is twice a week for full days. He goes Tuesday and Thursday from 9:15am - 2:15pm.

There are a few key differences between three year old kinder and four year old kinder, and it has taken Josh a while to get used to it. He was used to walking in in the morning and sitting down on the mat. Now they just get straight into the activities. Lunch boxes and drink bottles go into a tub. (before they just stayed in their bags). And there are HEAPS more kids.

I think Josh is settling in more now, and is starting to make friends. The surprising thing is he actually remembers the other kids names! School photos happened on Thursday, so it will be interesting to see the class photo and see how many he remembers.

Here is one of Josh's recent pictures that he drew at kinder. It is so interesting to see how his drawing has progressed (though he is still obsessed with trains!!!) For those not so familiar with Thomas the Tank Engine, the things to note are:

1. Thomas has three wheels, while Percy has two wheels (this is how many wheels they have if you look from the side).

2. This is the first time I have noticed Josh draw eye brows! (Yes Thomas does have eyebrows!) (Looking in the mirror the other day Josh exclaimed, "I have eyebrows!").

3. He drew the smoke coming out of their smoke stacks.

And here is a scan of Josh's name. He has trouble with the S, but other than that it is pretty good!