Rain!

It was quite an event!
Yesterday was cloudy and threating to rain almost all day, quite a change from the clear blue skys and fluffy white clouds of the past week.
On several other days there have been rain clouds and even some rain to the south but this time it actually rained ON US! and rained at lunch time then later on in the evening. Liam had wanted to BBQ for tea and we actually couldn't.
It's brought the temperatures back down too its supposed to get up to 31 celsius today but we were up to 35 on monday.
The houses have these funny gutter type things that stick out - we almost went for a drive to see the water coming off them - but we resisted.

I've been looking into preschools and schools for Liam here. School doesn't go back till late August but some places have some summer sessions which I think he'd quite enjoy, he wants to play with "American Kids".
We visited a preschool which I really liked its set up is very similar to playcentre, its a parent co-op and the parents form the board and run the school but they have teachers who manage the classroom side of it. Parents do participation days about every six or seven weeks. One of the differences between this one and another parent coop I looked into is that they are happy to /encourage youger children to come on participation days rather than suggesting its a special time for the older child to have the parent to themselves.
Yesterday when we went there was the teacher and a parent there with children doing cleaning. Liam and Madeline both had a wonderful time playing with them, we ended up being there for three hours I think, so I got to have a good talk to the teacher and parent.
My only trouble is that Liam although he said he like it "too much" also said that its not school and he wants to go to school. humm.