This week - and Easter - lots happening.

Well, where to start? This week Paul was away again travelling, this time back to Perth. The good part was that the trip went very well from a work point of view. As Mum is still in hospital, he reorganised and extended the trip for the whole week, returning Good Friday and was able to visit her, drop off warm slippers and some photos of David. Jan is finally starting to improve, and we hope that she will be well enough to go home at the end of next week, after another session of chemotherapy.

Paul is now home and we are all happy that he is not travelling at all next week.

David has now dropped back to two days a week at daycare. After discussion with the director, she suggested it as a way of making the transition smoother - we will just go Monday and Tuesday for a couple of months, and perhaps move to three days when David is settled and happy. He finds it very hard and upsetting to see me leave in the mornings. The perfect result would be that he was at daycare and that I was there too for the whole day. He does enjoy it, and is getting more settled and happier - he didn't want to leave on Monday afternoon - and is starting to make friends. He is also sleeping well and starting to eat the food. But, he looks for me during the day and asks about me. Outside daycare, he now says (quite regularly) "David can't find mummy at daycare." and occasionally "David can't find daddy at daycare." We will see how the shorter week goes.

This week has been warm, with temperatures around 27C to 30C. On Wednesday we went to the pool, for three hours. Lots of fun, and David in the last hour wanted to swim - kicking with his hands and using his feet - not just paddle & play. We were so tired that we both went to sleep in the afternoon, and my shoulders were still stiff from all the lifting the next day. On Thursday we met Zoe, Liam and Finn and went to the Washhouse to play all morning. On Friday the weather changed to cool, raining and miserable for the long Easter weekend. We visited friends in the afternoon before Daddy came home.

Today, Easter Sunday, we have been to church and visited the cousins, Matthew and Evan. David and Matthew really enjoy playing together. Both David and Matthew were very excited and looking forward to the visit. David managed to have small easter eggs at church and chips for lunch. How exciting!

Other things about this week. I have been giving David his water in a grown up cup at dinner more often lately. This week he decided to again start dunking his food in the water - he has done this before. He was dunking his bread and avocado and then eating it and saying "Delicious." Very funny.

Yesterday we had a fairly quiet day at home. I got out the hand drill to put a door stop on David's bedroom door and a hook on the back of his bathroom door. David loves tools, and loves screwdrivers. He also loves the handdrill so this was all fairly exciting and he was a big help. Since I used the hand drill about a week and a half ago, he is very excited by it. He knows about drill bits and how to turn the wheel, and the first time I got it out he practiced with drilling holes in a spare piece of pine in the garage. It made a big impression because he spoke to Katrina at daycare about it. She told me on Monday that David asked her if she had a hand drill. She wasn't sure what he was talking about, but when she said she didn't have a hand drill, he told her that everyone has a hand drill! That's it until next time.