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April days: Playdates

Play date or playdate is an expression primarily used in the US for an arranged appointment for children to get together for a few hours to play.[1] - Wikipedia

 Despite Cycle Tour silly season being over, I still find myself quite busy from nine-to-five, and the family has to be on standby for any last minute babysitting requests.

 While we are thankful to all the Moms, Dads, Aunts and Sisters, this arrangement has worked out especially well for little Zac! We're able to use it as a trade exchange!!

 We thoroughly enjoyed having him over last weekend while his folks went off to the rugby. I would only replace the word 'play' in the definition above with: eat, sleep, splash, dig, climb, screech, dive, roll, clap, swing, submerge and ...to give us all a better understanding of what really happens on our type of play date -  

The fuelling

The fun:



The family portrait:

The fading
 

Forget it - I'm finished! 


What a treat to have them altogether so often. Turns out, there is some truth in the saying that if you've braved two, you don't break a sweat for three...as long as they go back to their own homes of course!

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  1. michelleApril 14, 2014 at 8:01 PM

    looks like so much fun! two terrors!

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  2. Robyn Hendricks KlaasenApril 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM

    My favourite boys! We're so grateful we can exchange play-dates for some much needed parent time x

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