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Max’s first day at school today!

It all went surprisingly well too with Max showing no signs of trepidation this morning and showing nothing but positive signs this afternoon.

We turned up a little bit early so that he could just sit and watch what was going on in the playground - he had voiced some concerns over “what the big kids might do” when we put him to bed last night. A couple of his mates from kindy are in the same class so within about five minutes they were all tearing around the playground without a care in the world. We had dropped his books off in his classroom earlier and as soon as the bell went he went flying past us, into his classroom and sat of the floor facing the teacher without a word to us! The only reason that we got a goodbye is because I stood in the doorway and yelled out to him!

After school (which finishes at 2pm for the new entrants in their first week) he was a typical kid (already)

What did you do today at school

Stuff

What kind of stuff

I don’t remember…

Typical!

All in all it went really well and here’s hoping it lasts.

Max and his mate Freddy outside school

Max hanging up his bag

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OK - so no update for a while but a lot of milestones and happenings in the boy’s lives

• We are now in week two of potty training for Elliot (second time around) and he’s doing really well. We are looking at about an accident every two days but it’s usually when he’s really busy and just forgets. The interesting thing is that he’s been dry at nights as well.
• In relation to this we had a lovely thing happen. Max and Elliot had got up one morning last week and wandered downstairs to play and watch some telly. Vic and I stayed in bed and about 15 minutes later Max came up and I asked him what he was doing. “Getting underpants for Elliot” was his reply and my first thought was “Oh God, what’s happened?” What had happened though is Elliot had said that he wanted to go to the toilet and Max had gone off and found the potty, taken Elliot’s PJ trousers and nappy off, made sure he was sitting properly and when Elliot had finished had come upstairs to get him some clothes Bless him
• Max has almost lost his second baby tooth - it’s so wiggly that I think it’ll come out in the next day or two. The amazing thing is his adult tooth that came through way behind his first lost baby tooth has now moved almost all the way into place!
• Max can now ride his bike with no training wheels! I took him down to the park yesterday morning and after a few times holding on to the seat he was off on his own and doing really well. After about 30 minutes at the park he was starting off OK, riding for at least 100 yards in a big circle back to me, braking with front and back brakes and turning pretty sharp corners! Later that day I took him down to a different field and he was going over rough ground that earthmovers had been using. By the end of the day he was doing circuits of the back yard and going up some pretty big bumps when moving from grass to paving. I’m so proud of him

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Max lost his first tooth today!  The tooth behind it (and the one next to it) came through a while back but today he wiggled it while at the supermarket and out it came!  The tooth fairy will no doubt visit

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Where does the time go? Max turned five today and I have no idea where the time has gone (I think I say that every year! Four and three :))

He was, naturally, spoiled by everyone! For his party we went to Junglerama at lunchtime with his friends and then had fish and chips at home with the family for dinner. It was all very tiring as Vic and I only got home from a wedding anniversary, 4 day trip to Melbourne to watch Phoenix FC play at 02:00 and were up at 05:45!

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This seems to be a big day for Max!

The first thing is he’s having his first night sans pullups. He’s been dry at night for a couple of weeks now and I think it’s time for that next step.  I know he’ll have accidents (and be distraught) but it’s a move he needs to make.

The second thing (and a bit stranger) is that he has his first adult tooth!  The boys stayed at my Mum’s last night while Vic and I watched the Phoenix play and we went to pick them up at lunchtime.  When we got there Mum warned me that Max had hurt his tooth while eating a plum.  I asked Max if I could have a look and whilst checking it out saw a whole new tooth popping through!  This isn’t suppposed to start until he’s at least six and he’s not even five yet!  He now has two wiggly teeth (bottom middle ones) so we’ll see how that goes

It’s true - look

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Max drew his first self portrait yesterday.  As you can see he has freckles, short hair and sticky-out ears He also seems to have acquired the neck of a giraffe!

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No news really. Christmas is getting closer and the boys are starting to get excited about it Here’s a couple of shots from this morning…..

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Hello from the lounge at LAX

Sorry there hasn’t been an update while I’ve been here (I got here 14 hours late) but my week has been mucho filled with training sessions, meetings and copious amounts of drinking….

I was looking through the photos on my camera and came across this one. Max had a party a couple of weeks ago that had a pirate theme. Naturally Elliot wanted to join in

Update to follow (probably)

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