Feeling hot hot hot

Day 3: Sunday aka Church Day

'So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, than an heir through God' gal 4:7

Weather report: still hot :)

Today started early again. All those hours before breakfast and then being ready to leave the house and it's still only 9am really messes with your head. Bean was first awake this morning, probably because of the lack of dinner he ate (or failed to eat) in the evening before. Still 5am is an hours improvement. I woke with him for a few hours and then daddy got up when both Pumpkin and Plum woke at 6am, I then rested a little more for a couple of hours.

So the original plan had been to take the smalls to their classes at 9am but we weren't quite dressed and ready for that so we took a walk instead and had a look at the house our friends have bought and will be moving into shortly after we leave. We only got to see the outside but might get a inside viewing later this week. We then walked back and headed straight to church.

Our smalls choose to stay with us rather than go to Sunday School with their friends (understandably) and Plum and mummy ended up in the 'cry room' (rude!) She wasn't crying but she was running around a lot so it meant I could stay in the service and listen in and Plum could run around. It also had a small kitchen area and toys in there.

The place where the smalls had there classes was in a seperate building that is bigger than our church, just to give some idea, although you also have to remember that our church building is relatively small anyway. The main meeting building was significantly bigger, you could probably fit our church building in the foyer!

We followed this with lunch back at the apartment and some down time. Mostly this involved watching tv for the smalls and sleeping in shifts for the adults. And then we went to a park to feed the Ibis and the turtles and play on the equipment. By 5pm we had overdone Bean who refused to move without being carried and stood and waited until daddy had carried Plum to the car and then returned for him. He was very tired and there was a significant amount of agressive behaviour and tears but a little food on return seemed to help just long enough for a bath, story and bed.

And for the second night in a row, Pumpkin opted to shower. Now this doesn't include getting his head under but he'll get there. We've got the bath time routine smoother now. We've gone for an industrialised model: mummy bathing one small at a time and then passing them to daddy to dress and story. Bean went straight to bed after this (about 7pm) and Pumpkin stayed awake for another half an hour and was shortly followed by Plum. All 6 smalls were in bed by 8pm, shortly followed by all 4 adults!