Playmates

One of the good things about living where they are in Taipei is that Craig and Graham are surrounded by family. There are relatives with children not much older than the boys living directly upstairs and downstairs. On rare occasions, some of the kids will come around to play. The big fella smiling at the camera is You-ding. He's about one month older than Craig and the two of them are in same class at kindergarten.

Playing with other kids is very good for Craig. They had been pretty noisy so it was good, from an adult point of view, that four of them sat down to play relatively quietly.

Graham got away from all the noise and headed for the back room to "read" one of his books.

The kids did so much running around that everyone needed a drink.

Giving sugar-filled soft drinks to  other peoples' children not long before bedtime should probably be a guilty secret. But, not this time.

Graham has been spending some of his afternoons at the local swimming pool at Yucheng Park. The weather has been very hot for a few weeks in a row. In the picture below you can see the curly blue slide that Craig loves.


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Graham seems to be happier when there's only him and Craig at home and things are much quieter.

He recently decided to put on a Taiwanese aboriginal headdress that was bought for Craig last year. There was no real reason for it. He just took a fancy to it, there and then.