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- parenting |
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- Islay |
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date: '2021-03-08 10:03:47' |
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posttype: note |
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slug: 6045f683 |
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title: note |
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# Weekend with Islay |
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Since Jon was busy with his assignment, this weekend was pretty much a Mama weekend! |
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On Saturday (March 6, 2021), we went to the Peel Park and met a Spanish mother with a baby girl and a 3 year-old boy Davin. He was staring at Islay's ball so I invited him to kick it, then he was so excited and they started playing together. Davin was responding to his mother in Spanish and to us in English and that was impressive. Later, I saw a Polish father with a girl, speaking in Polish, too. I love this diversity and I am sure I will miss this environment in Japan. |
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After the park, we went to Lidl. We wanted to buy flower bulbs and multi-purpose compost but they didn't have neither of them, so we just bought a pretzel (that Islay called big doughnut!), a small pizza, baby cucumbers and other stuff. We found a picnic area near the river and sat down and enjoyed the lunch. The weather was really pleasant -no wind, comfortably warm, not too bright. There was nobody except us in the area. We could hear birds chirping and saw a few people walking, running, or cycling occasionally on the other side of the river. Islay loved the pretzel and the cucumbers so much that she did not moan even for a second. I haven't been relaxed at a meal time like this for a while as she rejects food at every meal nowadays. So it was a really nice picnic after all. |
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On Sunday, we went to the Eliburn Park. We met a Scottish father and his little girl, Lily-Jane. Well, she wasn't 'little' for her age -I thought she was older than Islay but it turned out she wasn't (2 years and 3 months)! Islay started copying Lily-Jane at the octopus object and picking up the sand and wood chips, then they ended up doing the slide (the one that is shorter and steeper) again and again and again! Islay wasn't confident doing the slide alone at first as she knew that it would be much faster than the long slide at the other side of the park, but she saw Lily-Jane doing it and having a blast, and eventually she started enjoying it, too. It was good for me, too, that Islay played with her because then I could sit on a bench and watch, sipping a hot tea from my flask. After more than 1.5 hour hanging out with them, we headed to the reservoir (Islay calls it the duck pond) and fed the swans. Last weekend we fed them vegetables and so did we this time, and we now know that the swans definitely love carrots and ducks are not interested in vegetables. |
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Even though I was knackered after the park visits on both days, I had great times watching her running, interacting with other kids, and playing with full of smiles. |
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