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Bike ride with Daddy


07 Jan

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Nathan and Andrew went for a bike ride today to a nearby park. It was too far for Toby, and I needed a few things from a supermarket, so Toby and I drove to the playground. The playground is pretty new, and is fabulous. Andrew measured the distance by bike to be around 4.2 km, so that means Nathan rode about 8.5 km today!

I took a couple of photos in the playground, but I missed the heart-in-the-throat ones where Toby climbed a vertical wall where the holes and hand supports were almost too far for him to reach and he was too high for me to help him, and Nathan climbed over a rope structure also in spots where he could barely reach the next rope.

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Andrew Used a Fancy iPhone app to track the ride.

And a time-lapse movie.

Fancy Park


03 Jan

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It is more than a year since we lived close (for a few weeks, anyway) to this park on Springvale Road. One day, just after we moved to Melbourne, we were driving past when Andrew said that it looked like a fancy park, and that is what we have called it ever since. There are fancier ones around, but this one is still THE fancy park and still a favourite.

We hadn’t been for a while, so we dropped in after taking Andrew to work. Anything was better than sweltering in the hot house that barely dropped into the 20s overnight and was already over 30 degrees this morning when we left. I think it might have been too hot at the park for many, though, because the normally busy playground wasn’t very busy at all. After not being for a while, it is really interesting to see what the kids are able to do now that they were previously unable to.

A few photos….

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Waiting for Toby

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Discussing what to do next….or Nathan instructing Toby on what they are going to do

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Phoenix Park


07 Oct

Nathan and I are on a mission to find some great parks/playgrounds in our part of Melbourne.  Several people told  us that Phoenix Park was great, so we decided to check it out today.

I have to admit that it was pretty amazing.  It was like a wooden fortress, with swings, a flying fox-type-slidey thing, plastic slides and climbing spots scattered around the wooden structure that had steps and bridges galore.  As far as the practical things went, there was a fence around the entire place except at the entrance, so I guess it isn’t too hard to make sure that your child stays in the playground though it wasn’t easy to always keep an eye on what the more active child is up to.  Toilets were close and there was a cafe somewhere there as well (I saw the signs but didn’t track it down).

The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating of it.  So what did Nathan and Toby think of it?  I think they both had a ball.  Nathan ran for nearly the entire time we were there…running up and down steps, across bridges, exploring what was around the next corner.  Toby seemed to have a lot of fun crawling from where I’d place him on a platform, up a few steps, and then coming down the slide.  He must have liked it because he went straight for the slide every time I put him up on the platform.

All in all, I’d say it is a pretty good playground.  It is very different to any that we have come across before, but I’d hate to be there when it was busy as I think it would be very easy to lose your child.

Lizards


10 Jan

Nathan’s new interest is lizards,  ever since we saw someone catching blue tongue lizards at Sydney Park to show to his kids.  Now we have to go looking for them every time we are at the park, and if we don’t see any then Nathan will lie on a bridge over the rocks that the lizards are often found on and tell the lizards to wake up.  In the video below he’s saying “wake up lizards”.  😀

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18 Apr

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