Poor Charli had a Mary Poppins moment this morning – with a very bumpy landing! Lets just say windy Wellington + a child + umbrella = DISASTER! She got lifted up in a gust of wind and flew the length of a car before landing with a big bump. Her teachers were fantastic in comforting her and making her see the funny side of her painful Mary Poppins moment!
Links:
Dominion Post – Wild weather sweeps country
Sophie and I retreated from the wind to the sanctuary of the rec centre in Kilbirnie, where we both enjoyed a two hour roller blading session – phew – quite an exhilarating work-out!
We’re now tucked up at home where we’ve discovered the most awesome learning to read resource on-line – anyone with preschoolers, or children learning to read, should check out – ABC Reading Eggs – for a free trial. Sophie absolutely loves it!
I hear a call for paints… so I’m off to dish out the colours now…
UPDATE: Charli was so happy when I picked her up from school – all her classmates wanted to have a go with her umbrella at morning tea time – but were unsuccessful in their flying attempts – well, she is a serious light weight – all 15kg of her!
And this arrived via e-mail this morning…. [19 May]:
This is Grandma and Granddad here. We have had the most extraordinary day!
This morning the sky went cloudy, a huge snow storm came, then a high wind and – you would not believe it – you will just have to look for yourself.
How far did you say Charli went with her umbrella?
Love to you all from,
Grandma and Granddad
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Wow what a fun packed day – and Charli taking off into the air to boot!!! – Wow am sure she’ll be a Mary Poppins fan if not already – The roller rink sounds just great – a good workout for the thighs – something that I need as living here and all the good food and yummy coffees does take it’s toll!
Wonderful post as ever will check out the preschool link to – thanks Rx
Oh yes, good ‘ole Mary Poppins – she watched it ages ago – favourite part was the laughing scene – where they floated to the ceiling because they couldn’t stop laughing! We’ve tried it…. but it didn’t work 🙁
Oh Charli Darling….what a thing to happen…our Mary Poppins in the making!! So glad to hear you aren’t too bruised and thank you to your wonderful teachers for looking after you so well.
It is a bit windy and wet here today so Grandma better be very careful if she uses her umbrella. We have read all about the strong winds in the paper link mummy sent on and certainly a very windy day!!!
Tee hee, I just read this out to Charli and she said, ‘Grandma, don’t put your umbrella up on windy days – unless you want to go flying!’