Firstly, last Friday was Alfie's school Athletics Day. He laughed and smiled and chatted and ran his way through the whole day. He came second in the running race, and he won the 3-legged race (twice!) - thanks to some careful team tactics discussions held at the start (see photo below).
Our Alfie is an EXTREMELY competitive little man. This sometimes approaches unhealthy levels, but is usually a good thing. He puts in an enormous amount of effort, which thankfully frequently pays off - and when it doesn't he learns some good life lessons and sometimes takes these lessons well!
Meanwhile, the summer soccer season is almost at an end - there are just two more games to go - and Alfie continues to LOVE playing with the Black Ninjas. They play officially every Friday afternoon, although generally every single lunchtime I believe the Ninjas get together at school for a game as well.
They're a characterful bunch of boys...!
And they certainly play well together!
Molly has continued with her horse riding lessons this month, and is loving every second of it!
And today she took part in the Weetbix Try-athlon (pretty much 50% of her school took part in fact!), a nationwide series of kids triathlons. Molly decided to form a team with her friend Lucy, which meant Molly was the biker, Lucy was the swimmer, and they both ran together. Here's the "before" picture...
And the "after" picture...!
Strangely enough, it's Jake who's been lacking in sports activities this month due to a lack of time - he's currently working 1.5 jobs (he's still at the Department of Conservation but is starting a new job next month and they've already got him attending meetings and preparing things in the evenings).
And me, I'm just enjoying lots of walking up the mountains and around the coast this month.
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