Temper Tantrums and A Gecko Called Fred!
As per usual it's been a weird and wonderful week over here in LaLa the Land of Insanity! The younger two children have had school swimming for the last two weeks. So every day during that two weeks they go off to school in their swimming gear, and come home in the school clothes. They have to take a towel and their change of clothes, and while it sounds great....it's kind of like homework for little kids. In that it's really more of a pain for the parents than anything. Although I guess it's a necessary evil, over here at least. We live so close to the ocean and every second person has a pool in their backyard, so it's so very very important that they at least know how to swim. In our case the last two weeks have gone something like this: Miss Emily - "I forgot to put sunscreen on, I got sunburnt, but I got moved up to level 6!" She can swim really well, I think from memory level 6 means they can swim freestyle a minimum of 50 meters. Which is grea...