Back to Walkies

As the sun slowly made its way back into our routine, Kecil had started taking (occasional) walkies with Mama and the Dog.
Occasional, because sometimes she would prefer just playing with her 'gang', leaving Mama to take solitary walkies with the (sometimes reluctant) Doggie.
Of course, with the Gang playing just outside the house, aka in our way out for walkies, sometimes we do end up with a whole big group taking walkies.

Like that time when we ended up at the playground with hmm.... 5 kids.

Yah... thankfully, I was not the only adult, as 1 kid was accompanied by his Ate. Still.... 5 noisy, active, happy kids. Thank God I know very well that at least 3 of them are "road-trained" (read: they know the basic traffic rules such as no walking in the middle of the road), and can be quite depended on to follow my instruction, even shouted from afar.

Also, thankfully, 5 kids are more of an exception rather than the norm. Fiuh *wiping sweat off my forehead. Other times, there are solitary walks, 2 kids only, 3 kids.... the norm, you know.

Sometimes, we met other dogs on the way, much to the delight of mostly the girls, like the other day at the playground:

Sometimes, WE are the one responsible for the extra DOG, like the other few occasion:

A Golden Retriever puppy! And Kids! What was I thinking?

And I know what you all are thinking. No, the Dog did not just get a puppy. Rather, Jessica got a new neighbour who brought along this cute little Puppy, much to the kids' delight. They actually noticed the Pup, and they proceeded to knock on the stranger's new neighbour's door to play with the Puppy.

I do not think that this is something that Kecil or any of the kids would do on individual basis. But let them play together as a gang and they become triple, quadruple daring. Let's just say this Mama is vastly relieved that the kids are essentially good kids. I guess that's also why I do TRY to get them to walk with me at least once in a while, to get to know them better, and hopefully, monitor them a bit.

Back to our outdoor agenda, we've also started swimming again:

It was just a quick swim, squeezed within a bout of sunny afternoon and cut short with the arrival of thunders. Sigh...
But as I said earlier, the sun is back, and slowly we are progressing to more sunny days as compared to the rainy one. So... at least we have more hope for future walkies and outdoor activities, be them solitary, 2 kids, 3 kids, 1 dog, 2 dogs.... whatever combination that works.

Until then!