The Gorse Fox was up early. Urban-Cub was dropping Ellie off before 7:30 and he ,likes to be prepared! She was in a chirpy mood even though a plan for her to be picked up mid-morning to play with a friend had been thwarted by a bug in the friend's family.
The Gorse Fox had bough a new Kindle Fire Kids tablet for Ellie. This is to prevent the original one being ferried (or forgotten) back and forth between the houses. It only took a couple of minutes for her to master the new features... and she was off. During the morning, with the attention span of a goldfish with ADHD, she flitted from the tablet to hand painting, from hand painting to a sticker book, from the sticker book to a snack from the fridge, from the snack to her dolls and then to a request for a trip to the park.
We had some lunch and then headed for the park. It was 26c, and the sun was beating down. Ellie insisted on wearing heavy, sparkly tights ad, as we walked out the front door, struggled to put a cardigan on. We were the only people in the park and she played for a while on the swings. She is now getting the knack of propelling herself, though quickly gets bored and requests a push.
She moved on to the slide, hurling her dolls down in front of her. As she sat at the top, looking pensive, the Gorse Fox assumed that reality had just hit her. This was her last day of true freedom. From tomorrow she starts 12 to 14 years of schooling. Everything changes.
We had only been at the park for about ten minutes when she declared that she wanted to go home. Halfway back she finally admitted that the cardigan was too warm and stripped it off. Back home, in the cool of the front room, she and the Silver Vixen did some jigsaws and had a quiet hour before Urban-Cub returned to collect her.
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