Sickness:(

Tim has been sick.

This is quite unusual - he is rarely ill, but when he is, he tends to go all out!!

He started Wednesday night feeling washed out and not quite right. He went to bed at 6pm and slept through to morning!!

Thursday was a trip to the fire station with his class and he happily went off to school. However, by the time he got home at 2.30 he was washed out again and went to bed for a 2 hour nap.

Friday he was full on ill with a stomach bug and a temperature. 

It was very hard to even get liquids in him:(

So lots of sofa and TLC time.

Tae didn't like to see Tim sick and curled up under the blanket with him for cuddles while they watched TV before he went to bed.

Let hope he doesn't get sick too.

Wordless Wednesday - Nearly Spring

My explorer

On Friday night, Tim headed off on an adventure.

His scout troop had a winter weekend camp planned.

I must admit I was nervous when the first email arrived with the information regarding the weekend. 

The trip involved a 2 hour train journey Friday night. Arriving in the dark and putting up the tent.

Saturday, packing up and skiing for a couple of kilometers to a new camp.

Digging a snow hole.

Saturday night sleeping in a snow hole.

Sunday, pack up and ski back to catch train home.

Sounds simple, until you add in 'have a jacket that you can keep your water bottle in, so it does not freeze'!!  

We are talking doing all this in freezing cold conditions! I know it sounds obvious, but he is still my baby, 11 years old and I found it really hard to sound 'excited' and not my true feeling of 'nervous'.

We packed him up and sent him off.

Love how he gave his brother a high five before heading off.

So today we have just collected him from the train station.

 

He had a fabulous time. The first night in the tent was cosy, but noisy with the wind whistling outside.

He found the skiing uphill with a 10 kilo backpack on quite challenging - fair enough as he has not done too much cross country skiing either!

His favourite part was digging and creating the toilet!! Apparently it had sides and was nearly 2 meters deep!

He did get very cold during the day while digging the snow hole and felt like his fingers and toes would fall off. Tears may have been shed:( He carried on with the help of mentos. The temperature was a lot colder than they had expected for March, it was -17c. This does not even take into account the wind chill factor.

After settling into the snow hole for the night, all the boys in his group were very cold, their snow hole was not sealed enough and the wind was blowing icily in. They spoke to the leader and it was decided to walk down the mountain in the dark and sleep the rest of the night in the train station.

Apparently the most scary part of the whole weekend was waking up Sunday morning with a tiny mouse on his chest looking him straight in the face:)

He certainly had an adventure.

He had lots of fun, learnt a great deal and survived!!

 

I am very proud of him for doing all of  this - I certainly could not have.

A day with Tae

As Tim had headed off into the wilderness for the weekend and Tig was off brewing beer with his friend, Tae and I had the whole of Saturday to ourselves!

Since we had to drop Tig off in town, I decided to take Tae to the fish market and harbor to boat watch.

It was really quiet when we arrived.

We headed straight to the fish market.

Who needs to pay to visit the aquarium;)

Then off for some boat spotting.

Followed by some running around the harbor.

It does not take much to keep this boy happy:)

The beautiful views certainly help.

All less than a 10 minute drive from my house:)

It was quite cold at only 1c, so after exploring a little more we headed home to build with wooden blocks, watch Peppa Pig and have lots of cuddles on the sofa:)

Wordless Wednesday - Doctor Tae