Oh sooooo tired.......

I was browsing through my stash of photos looking for another that I could touch up to make another header -

and came across these...

This child must have been absolutely exhausted when I snapped them!

They were taken over a year ago and I have absolutely no idea what we had been up to prior to this.

 But it must have exhausted both of them!

Oh. My. Word.

It looks inebriated.

I didn't give him anything, I promise...

I hadn't discovered Cinnamon Rolls with vanilla-flavoured gin icing...

;)

Even the Jord looks like he was battling to stay conscious!

I think I'll set these photos aside for display on their 21st birthdays...



PostScript:
The Man just rang - he took these. Which is why I can't remember any of the details.
He says that The Frog wasn't well and had just woken from a nap.
I suppose I should stop laughing at them now...

My Big Boy!

Ok, so...

I've reached the stage of pregnancy where my feet can't cope with my weight anymore.

Standing has become a problem.

It's sad, but.....

...I have a Jord!

Who is being increasingly relied upon for all kinds of things.

I started about two months ago - teaching him very vital skills.

Like making tea.

And washing the cutlery.

He often had to learn this under rather strong coercion. Poor boy...

But I love this kid's heart. 

Precious boy.

He deserves to be spoilt rotten.

But he won't be, cos that's not the way I roll. Sorry kid.

Exploding the Volcano

There was much excitement last night after dinner, when I promised The Jord we would go outside and explode the volcano that he made before.


It's been a while since we paid any attention to it, purely because of the amount of time it's taken for this particular piece of artwork to dry!

Anyway, I told him to paint it yesterday and once it had dried we would put the 'potion' in and make it explode.

The kid was beside himself!


He couldn't wait. 

No particular significance to this photo -  I just posted it for those who want to know how the bump is doing.


Now you know...


I look like a buddha statue.

I don't know why we had a red mountain...


I had envisioned a green one with red lava.


He obviously had a different vision.


So I went with black lava.

Adding more vinegar...

The black lava actually had a pretty cool effect!

And it's almost over...


... and it's done.

The kids loved it!

Poor Little Froggle!

Yesterday, I decided to try and run some errands in the afternoon in order to let The Man have a quiet house to relax in and possibly get a short afternoon nap in.

'Cos I'm nice like that.

No..really! I am!

Anyway, as we were walking into the library The Frog walked into a pole. One that had ridges on it at Froggie eye level. Obviously this upset him badly and I had to bend (actually bend!) over to calm him. After reassuring him (I'm awwight Mom) we walked in and I collected the books I had on hold.

That was when I saw the blood leaking from the crease on his eyelid. After a brief 'what the...' moment I realised what must have happened and tried to take a closer look. This involved tackling him and holding him down, practically sitting on him to render him immobile so I could see what had happened to his eyelid.

And what I saw sent me straight into 'mommy panic mode.' I swear, it was a cut that looked as though it almost went straight through his eyelid!

Minutes later I was marching into our Dr's rooms begging to see his practice nurse.

Dr David and Nurse Yvonne are awesome! They actually stopped everything to take a look, reassure me that  he wasn't going to lose his eye etc etc...

 Actually no, they didn't. They did drop everything to take a look, but by that time the 'mommy panic attack' had worn off and I was feeling rather sheepish.

And apologetic. And they graciously reassured me they understood.
I love Central Family Health!

Lady Tayla Jayne

Lady Tayla Jayne visits us occasionally.

The boys absolutely adore her!

Especially The Jord. He's always wanted a sister...









Today she joined us for the morning and she will be going home shortly.

I gave her some paper and crayons earlier to see what she would do.

She didn't quite make the connection between the two items...

She tried all kinds of things.

For example:

...maybe she was meant to put them away again...

..maybe crayons are meant to be eaten...

..maybe we chuck them on the floor - there seem to be quite a few of it's brothers down there already...

We did contemplate the paper for a few seconds...

 ...then we gave up and tried to give them back. Not much actually got onto the paper!
Oh well, we'll try again next time!

Sleep Training

I'm pretty sure I've blogged about this before! Sleep training is a concept that many  many parents just have no idea about.

I pity them.

My doctor's wife is a local radio DJ and she has just asked how to get a baby to sleep on the Classic Hits Northland Facebook Page. They are pregnant with their first child.

My answer - train them!

The Jord was an awful sleeper, I ended up with him in bed with me for three years - and The Man slept elsewhere for three years. Not very conducive to a great marriage...
Getting him out was the worst - I had the most traumatic parenting moments ever during that specific time.

With The Frog I had learnt my lesson. There was no way this child was coming anywhere near my bed - he had a perfectly good one of his own! And there was no way I was giving up my husband for another three years!

From day one, he was in his own bed, in his own room. And he slept through at 5 weeks.

No issues. And it's all thanks to this book. If you would like to have any kind of control over your life after you have kids read it... Seriously.