It's the small things

Saturday was the Big Day so i got up and dressed both kids in red from head to toe. No screts who we support in Government.

Before the polls opened there was a jumble sale on at Plunket. bax and i went along to donate the big bag of lollipops left over from the party.

I had a five dollar note so Bax and I hunted through all the toys looking for cars that had all their whells. We found four and a plane, as well as two baby toys and a pair of shorts for Izzie and a lift the flaps book with all its flaps still intact.

Bax carefully put all his treasures into a plastic bag and paid the lady. he was very proud and wouldn't let me help him carry the bag along the road to the polling booth, preffering to drag it along the ground (it was so big.)

At the school hall come voting centre, he sat quietly in a corner and carefully got all the toys out and played with them while G and I queued then voted. He looked a little nervous when we disappeard behind the screens but was very happy really. I watched him be approached by a little kid with his eyes on the toys. Bax quickly gathered all his treasures around him protectively!

When it was time to go G helped him put all the things back into the bag and he carried them to the car. Later that evening we went to Poppa and Granny Rob's (Bax says Rob-rob) and we put the toys into his little back pack - he took them to show his cousins H and J - "Treasures!" he told them.