Winter is here! The thermometer in our lounge room read 8 Degrees Celsius on Sunday morning. The days are still nice and sunny though, with a comfortable 22 degrees at lunch time. Although this probably seems like Summer for people in the Northern Hemisphere, it gets quite cold inside without central heating.
We have enjoyed the cooler weather and have spent quite a bit of time in the garden, putting in a vegetable garden. Tom planted radishes, lettuce, snow peas, cabbage, spinach, leek and lots more. He has also enjoyed "playing" with his new chickens. They are very tame and love being picked up bu my son, who twirls them around in the air while singing 'Spiderchook" (see The Simpsons-movie: Spiderpig)
A lot of words from movies are creeping in to Tom's daily vocabulary. Here are some examples: D'Oh (simpsons), "Oh Man" (dora), "sugarbumbs" (the Joker in Batman), "Pink-eyed-freak" (Flushed Away), mostly directed at his dad when wrestling together."I've still got the moves" (Spiderman), "My-brother-from-another-mother" (Sharktale), "I'm melting" (Wizard of Oz) and many more.
This does not mean that he spends all his time in front of the TV; he actually prefers playing oustside riding his bicycle, playing on the swings, hanging upside down on the trapeze or playing with his two dogs Gomez and Charlie.
Furthermore our lives have been busy as usual: Alan is swamped with schoolwork (the time of the year for it), Tom still goes to kindergarten on Wednesdays and Fridays and playgroup on Mondays. I have been doing some private tutoring in French. Looking forward to the school holidays in two weeks time when we will finally get started on our deck. No rest for the wicked...
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