good things
Jan. 18th, 2014 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedcherub- I saw my MIL yesterday and she seemed much much happier. She's agreed to go see a professional, so that's great news.
- The university is giving Adam 8 unit credits for prior study. That's an entire year's worth of uni he won't have to do! He probably won't try to finish in two years, but he'll be able to take less uni and do more work etc for example. But that's amazing, that's the maximum number of credits they were allowed to give.
- I met up with my friend from the UK yesterday and we had a lovely meal and went for icecream. He was so astounded to see the icecream shop had 'rainbow' flavoured ice cream. I was astonished that he'd never seen it before! It's one of our very basic flavours! He bought some and had sprinkles on it and everything :)
- I try not to compare my kids, but it's sometimes a little bit hard because they're exactly two years apart, so I'll look back at say, Christmas photos, and know that Liam was the same age in 2011 that Toby was in 2013 for example. Anyway, Toby is generally a couple of months behind Liam in all ways except ball handling skills. He's never been into building blocks, always enjoying knocking over towers instead, whereas at this age, Liam was building towers 11 blocks high. Anyway, turns out Toby *can* build with blocks. I've never seen him so much put one block on top of another, but yesterday he was building towers 6 or 7 blocks high. I was so excited :)
- Since we're heaping so much praise on Toby for his towers, Liam decided he had to get fancy and is now building all these tricky balanced towers. And I am *so* impressed by these ones! They're so hard to do!
- The Waterfront festival is on this weekend down the road - rides and amusements and live music etc etc all weekend, and there's going to be fireworks at 9:45pm and I loooooove fireworks and I haven't seen fireworks for years since I've had kids so I thought 9:45 is super reasonable but Adam said it's going to be too late, but I'm going to convince him to go. OR I'M GOING TO CRY. LIKE A CHILD.
- The university is giving Adam 8 unit credits for prior study. That's an entire year's worth of uni he won't have to do! He probably won't try to finish in two years, but he'll be able to take less uni and do more work etc for example. But that's amazing, that's the maximum number of credits they were allowed to give.
- I met up with my friend from the UK yesterday and we had a lovely meal and went for icecream. He was so astounded to see the icecream shop had 'rainbow' flavoured ice cream. I was astonished that he'd never seen it before! It's one of our very basic flavours! He bought some and had sprinkles on it and everything :)
- I try not to compare my kids, but it's sometimes a little bit hard because they're exactly two years apart, so I'll look back at say, Christmas photos, and know that Liam was the same age in 2011 that Toby was in 2013 for example. Anyway, Toby is generally a couple of months behind Liam in all ways except ball handling skills. He's never been into building blocks, always enjoying knocking over towers instead, whereas at this age, Liam was building towers 11 blocks high. Anyway, turns out Toby *can* build with blocks. I've never seen him so much put one block on top of another, but yesterday he was building towers 6 or 7 blocks high. I was so excited :)
- Since we're heaping so much praise on Toby for his towers, Liam decided he had to get fancy and is now building all these tricky balanced towers. And I am *so* impressed by these ones! They're so hard to do!
- The Waterfront festival is on this weekend down the road - rides and amusements and live music etc etc all weekend, and there's going to be fireworks at 9:45pm and I loooooove fireworks and I haven't seen fireworks for years since I've had kids so I thought 9:45 is super reasonable but Adam said it's going to be too late, but I'm going to convince him to go. OR I'M GOING TO CRY. LIKE A CHILD.
