When the weather is stinking hot but you need to get out for a change of scene, Yaya’s Island is a fun place to go with kids. Despite the exotic sounding name this is actually just in a shop building in a mall – you only pay for kids entry so it was quite a cheap outing. They have a big tank of tropical fish. Eleanor’s favourite game is to sit in the blue ring and toss out the balls for others to catch and return to her. Unfortunately today there were no balls to be found there, and none of the young things on holiday jobs were interested in locating any. She still enjoyed trailing Jim around and having a bounce on some of the larger balls, but was actually in need of some sleep. That’s been a bit the case on most days as the weekend was very action packed with christenings, birthday party and presents and cake, grandparents and aunties etc.
Time spent at home is not hard to fill. There often seems to be one grandchild or another happy for some Granny time. Eleanor loves reading books together – often the same one many times over in one sitting. She has favourite pictures and favourite sounding words. She can fill the gaps if you pause. I don’t think I have ever known a 2 year old to speak so clearly and have such an extensive vocabulary – and I don’t think that is granny bias. I was expecting to have to get parent translations but certainly no need for that.
