Sports Day

Today was sports day at the kids school. Last year they didn't get to do sports day because it rained, so they moved the day and it rained again, so they moved it and it rained again and then school finished for the year. Because of this the kids were extra excited for sports day this year. The weather was forecast for showers, but not until later in the day. As it turned out the day was great and it didn't rain until about 2:30pm when they were all finished! It was Caitlyn's first time participating in sports day and she was very excited. The kids were all in the same team named Coombes (Green).

To start the day the kids all got in their teams and did their team chants. They were very creative and got everyone excited. They then went with their teachers around to all the different events.  Because I had three kids there I moved around the whole day trying to get pictures of all of them doing all different things. Unfortunately I didn't get to see them do all the events. It was lots of fun though and Haylie was a great little cheerleader!

Here they are doing the Long Jump! I love all of their faces. Such concentration!

Here is Caitlyn doing some kicking

To kick the ball you have to stick out your tongue! It just works!

Amie did a great job in here race. She looks like she is having a great time. It's funny because in all of the pictures the girl in the right of the photo is looking towards the other girls and not where she is going!

Next Caitlyn's class head to the obstacle course. It was so funny watch the little five year olds trying to remember and then do all the tasks along the obstacle course. Their attention span isn't very long so while they were waiting for their turn they would get very distracted!

Lachlan having a turn a kicking the ball!

Amie doing the hurdles!

Caitlyn doing the sprint. . . . . . . slowly!

Lachlan sprinting. He tried really hard, but I don't think we are great runners in our family!

But he had fun!

It was a great day and I'm so proud of my kids for putting in 100% and giving everything a go.

I had to leave before it finished but the kids told me after school that their team didn't win but the got the award for the most sportsmanship behaviour!

Smurfs

Right now the kids are a bit . . . well . . . .  obsessed with the Smurfs.

The new movie came out yesterday and they are all dying to see it.

It all started about a year ago when we got a game on the iPad. In the game the surfs grow crops and do other things that Papa smurf tells them to do. This was their first introduction into the world of the smurfs.
It's a fun game that all the kids like to play.

While looking in the toy aisle on various trips to the shops we have seen some smurf lego and some smurf figurines.

Then about three weeks ago Buzz discovered that the old surfs cartoons were playing on tv every morning so we started to record them.

They absolutely love them and are always asking if they can watch the recorded episodes.

So they are all very excited to go and see the new movie.

We made a deal with them though . . . . they have to earn the treat of going to the movies to see the surfs.

The deal is that they have to keep their bedrooms clean for a whole week! Tough I know! They also have to try really hard to be much nicer to each other. There are lots of little fights that go on and I'm getting a bit tired of being told that, "Amie touched me," or "Lachlan hurt me," etc.

Anyway, today their rooms were cleaned and the challenge begins! I don't care if they get their toys out and play in their rooms as long as by the time they go to bed it is all cleaned up again.

I think that there will be a lot of reminding going on all weeks, but hopefully next week they will have finished the challenge and we can enjoy some fun family time together!