Map your World Scavenger Hunt

When we heard that Scitech was hosting a city-wide scavenger hunt, we signed up quick fast. Team Thomas was so excited that we couldn't wait until we got to the city and worked on a couple of challenges the day before. Then on the day of the big event spent all day running all over the CBD completing challenges and snapping photos. We didn't win any prizes, but we were pretty chuffed to finish 13th out of a couple of hundred families. We also discovered a couple of cool new spots and some amazing street art. Go us!

Perth Street Art

Dad's camp out

A few years ago, the kids' school started a Dad's club to try and get dads more involved with the school, their kids, and each other. There's been a couple of fun hikes and outings, but I think the boys will attest that this camp out has been the most fun so far. On all accounts, the dads let the kids run amok a bit more than would have happened had the mums been there, and there wasn't a vegetable to be seen all weekend, but our boys weren't complaining. Too bad Ollie got one of his migraines on the morning of the second day and they had to come home early.

We mums had our fun too. I hosted a karaoke night and the ladies sung show tunes and belted out ballads until the early morn!

Little Athletics

We've been warned by friends with older children to never let your kids do Little Athletics. And with training sessions two nights a week and comps every Saturday morning from 7.30 to 12.30 for three months, I can really appreciate why our friends gave us this sage advice.

But we've got a boy who loves to run, so we bit the bullet and hoped it would be worth all the time invested for a happy healthy kid. We also forced Elliot to do it and were really surprised that he ended up loving it as much if not more than his little brother.