Daddy Holiday

I decided this year I would try to take a few solid weeks off work around Christmas, and that started last Monday. I had two kid-free days, and then (with Nat working full-time this week) spent the remaining three days running around after Katy & Ella. Wednesday was mostly occupied by going swimming at CISAC, while today I had some Xmas food to buy. But crunch-time came on Thursday when we had to go buy presents for Mummy.

Ella & Katy had the option of riding down to the Mall, or catching the bus to town with the added bonus of a promised ride on the famous old Canberra merry-go-round. The vote was unanimous for town, with only abstention, and so we piled into the bus and soon found ourselves wandering around the Canberra Centre. The trip was mostly successful, and the merry-go-round was saved until the end.

Now, the last expedition to the merry-go-round (with Granddad while I was away) ended with Katy refusing to go on and Ella enjoying herself; this time around Katy was full of bravado all morning, but when the time came she would only get on her little horse if I sat there with her. Even then, there was trepidation in the air when we started up, and it was only in the last part of the ride that she began to warm up. After we stopped at last (I was feeling a little dizzy, to be honest, by this stage) I thought I would try to get a picture of the happy monkeys -- but as soon as I let go of Katy the floodgates open. So, readers, you will have to accept my assertion that Katy now enjoys the merry-go-round, although the photographic evidence doesn't really back me up...