Walking

Zali is walking. As of today. In the past week she started to do a few steps between Grandma and I, as we called to her. It was all a bit of a game, she would dive when she was close to us to be caught and cuddled. In the past few days she started pushing 'things' around the house; her Dora car, the activity station or her little trike.

Today when we had the gorgeous Mel and Brent visiting we were showing them her new 'skill'. She did more and more walking, getting braver and braver. By the end of the night she was standing and walking and clapping (herself) all the time. She is loving it and is mighty proud. So are we. She still likes to take a dive at me/her lounge/carpet, just for fun.

I knew it was coming, but it happened quick. On Thursday talking to my sweet friend Kerry, she said 'in a week she'll be walking!' I said 'yeah', but actually thought, man she has been walking for so long hanging on to things, I don't think she will ever let go permanently and do little walkies. Kerry was right!

The first wobbly jerky steps are. just. so. cute! I am unable to download my camera at the moment, but I did get a couple of (bad) shots today. Sadly I didn't get any from during the week cause I couldn't hold the camera and catch her! Hopefully tomorrow I will take her outside and see if she will work for the camera.

She also had an easy day without Caleb. She got some time and space to move and trip and walk without being shadowed. It is so exciting, can't wait for tomorrow!

Talking about Caleb, he is currently in Toowoomba staying at Nan & Pop's place. Zali and I drove him up on Friday. Dad is going to get him tomorrow afternoon.

We were very happy to meet with Sheree, Campbell and Finn at McDonald's on Ruthven Street. The kids were excited to see each other, and had a lovely play at the McDonald's playground. Caleb asked 'where's Daysid?' I replied 'Uncle David is at work today'. When I hear him say 'Daysid' I think of a Daisy. We had lunch, made a mess with ice cream cones, and finished off with another little adventure at the playground. I did ask for kid size cones, but the lad filled them up pretty high. Poor Sheree had to hoover down some ice cream from each of the cones so they were manageable for the kids. She did an honourable job, I don't think she got brain freeze but I am sure her eyes watered a little from so much cold so quickly!

We said goodbye and headed out to Telfer's shed. Caleb got comfortable pretty quickly and Zali was tired. After half an hour or so, (then having to grovel to get a goodbye cuddle and kiss from Caleb) Zali and I headed back to Brisbane. It was a long day. I was falling asleep on the way home, but cause Zali was having a sleep and not wanting to wake her, I kept driving. Sheesh.

The kids did go to kindy on Thursday. Thankfully Zali woke up well, her eyes looking good, so both were piled in the car and off they went. It was really nice to have a few hours to myself. I picked them up early afternoon, where Zali's carer said 'She's a real mummy's girl, isn't she!' A-huh, story of my life!

Kerry and I had decided to pick the kids up early and head across the road to McDonald's for an ice cream (hmm, this is starting to sound like a habit, this ice cream business). Caleb, Zali, Kerry and Riley enjoyed their cone. I had a decaf coffee (erk! Not again, they are yuck!). The kids had a play at the playground, running around like crazies. Happy Anniversary on this day for Kerry and Damien. They were lucky enough to have Riley looked after so they could enjoy a dinner out. Hopefully we helped tire him out so he was a quiet and tired little boy in the evening.

To finish I need to send my best wishes and love to Liz! It was her birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday Lizee! The lucky duck spent her day at the paper crafts festival at Exhibition Grounds, doing a class and buying lots of nice goodies. That is a pretty cool birthday!

Time for some play for me now. Just a little, still tired and up early as usual for the markets in the morning. Least with Caleb being with NannyPop (that is what he calls them), he won't be coming in at 4.50am asking to come to the marskets. Have a sleep in, Caleb!

Love to all.

P.S. I just viewed this post to have a check before I hit publish, and it is too long to check right now. If I have made any mistakes, please forgive me. Oh, and sorry it is long, hope I don't bore you. Actually, if you have gotten down here, good on you! Full of stamina, you are! I'm off to play.

Them

Cripes what a week (note to self: it ain't over yet!). We haven't left the house due to Zali's conjunctivitis. It is much better tonight and my fingers are crossed she wakes up all better. Tomorrow is kindy. Thank the lord. Thank. The. Lord.

Caleb has been a bit stir crazy. And annoying. I do feel sorry for him, wanting some action and excitement and we can't do much with a sick sister. He is loving his swing and outside play, and DVD's.

Today I loved my bed. My turn to be sick. I felt awful in the stomach, weak, head was spacey (different to normal spacey I mean!) and very dizzy. Constant dizziness actually. Moving my head was difficult. Adrian stayed home from work and looked after the kids. I spent most of the day in bed, I had a sleep for 2.5 hours. Nice. Feeling a little like I been hit by a truck with no obvious bruising.

Oh, did you hear about that poor little child being bashed by his father. This totally makes me sick. That the child had just been returned to the family from foster care is more heartbreaking. He only had a short life but it was obviously a rough one. I honestly cannot fathom how anyone could do this to another person, let alone a toddler. What a tragedy. Disgusting, pathetic tragedy.

Other than being sick, Zali is turning into a little girl. Very much losing all baby-ness and is becoming a little person. It is really nice. She is taking a few steps on her own, loves to walk holding my hand and prefers to walk up the stairs with help also. She is chatty and cheeky, she is playful and cuddly, she adores her 'piggie' and enjoys playing with her brother, especially chasey. She is a lovely girl and it will be fun to watch her grow and develop in the coming year.

You know, hearing horrific and unimaginable stories like the toddler bashed to death by his father, really makes you want to hold your children and never let go. I love them *so* much.

To close, I want to give *you* a big big big hug.

Point Form

• the cat must have been extremely excited (not) about seeing the vet cause she did some nasty in the cat carrier. nice. there and back. nice.
• her health is good, the vet said she had the best teeth she has seen for a while. cool.
• her grooming. hmm. it seems very rough, and they left her tail on. grrr. that was supposed to be trimmed. long fur hanging around the 'danger' end is not desirable.
• last day of little school for two weeks. he had a nice day. he is already asking if he can go on the bus again and see 'lachy and zac', his friends at little school. u-huh.
• had two hours of intense scrapbooking with an online crop (cybercrop). it was so fast and made a huge mess of my stuff with a scavenger hunt of scrapbooking items. sheesh.
• groceries, sleep, eat, play, read.
• caleb wakes up at 4.50am, walks into grandma and says 'i come to marskets?' she normally gets up at 5am to wake me up. off to the 'markets' we go, basically all caleb wants is the warm hot choccie and raison toast at the end.
• grandma, caleb, zali and i went for a drive to bunnings (etc). caleb went to sleep so i had to stay in the car and read junkmail. zali went to sleep in the pram soon after. they both had tiny sleeps then we went for a drive out to redland bay. do you know how far that is with mr-million-questions-who-won't-shut-up? oh my. actually, have something funny to share. we checked out the endeavour prize home, which has a pool with clear glass fence. caleb saw the water and went running out saying 'big water, big water' and walked smack into the fence. grandma and i couldn't help but laugh. he even had a little red spot on his forehead. in his defence, the glass was clean and had no markings to indicate to little excited people that it was there. but it was funny.
• i mowed the front and back lawns. i haven't mowed in ages. it felt good and it feels even better seeing freshly cut *green* lawn. i also dropped in shed's padlock key in the grass (yeah, don't ask me how!). the only way i found it was when it went *thonk* in the mower's blades. instead of being straight it is more 90 degrees. oops.
• today, caleb drove me crazy. c r a z y. he constantly wants you with him to do e v e r y t h i n g. zali will crawl off and explore or play. he either follows her to take over whatever she wanted to do/is touching, or whinges and whines about wanting food/play/wiggles/hi-5/food/bikes/swings/blah. he is cuddling/tackling/following zali constantly. i think he is bored, jealous and three. if we can survive the week, it will be a true miracle. at this stage, i don't have much hope for next week.
• and joy of joys, zali's conjunctivitis has returned. insert expletive here! it was only a month ago she had her first dose. which means we won't be able to leave the house tomorrow to go to playgroup, crap oh crap. the three of us are locked in solitude. uh-oh.

A-huh

Grrrrrr. Zali didn't go to kindy today as she was unwell. Her nose needed to be wiped all the time and she was not happy. A-huh. That makes two of us. She was miserable and cranky and whingeing and crying all day. I am so over today. I don't know what the problem is exactly, other than a slight cold. I am slapping the Bonjella on her gums, she has had Panadol. She didn't eat normally, so there is an obvious sign that she isn't well. She took ages to go to bed, just cried in misery. She would have been overtired as well, so things couldn't have been much worse for her. I am so wound up, I think I need my cup of tea and a scrap page to play with to help me wind down. Cause that I what I had planned for today.

I picked up a cat cage from our vet this afternoon. Molly is going in tomorrow morning for her annual needle and checkup, then going downstairs to the 'parlour' for grooming. She AIN'T going to like her adventure. Last time we took her in, she walked around in the car. And did some 'nasty' in the car because she was scared. 'Nasty' is hard to clean up and, basically, not nice.

I will leave it there. Need my cup of tea. Desperately.
Chow.

Elvis is Alive!

We left Toowoomba Sunday and headed to Crows Nest to visit Sheree, David, Campbell and Finn. What I didn't know was that Elvis had moved to their house!

Okey, so David just needed a haircut. But he had the whole full front hair thing going. The family was getting all their hairs cut on Monday, so, Elvis has left the building.

Caleb was busting to get out to the trampoline, he was asking for it not long after we arrived. We all wandered down the back yard and the boys had a great time on the jumpy-jump. David laid across the tramp and was obviously begging for a stacks-on moment, thankfully the two boys came to his aid.

The boys giggled and jumped and jumped. And jumped.

Zali crawled around and investigated. Maybe she should have investigated the whereabouts of where those humongous mozzies were hiding. Sheree just *had* to smack a mozzie on me, yeah, she *said* there was a mozzie. There was one the size of an elephant sucking the good stuff out of Finn, but that was the last bit of pleasure the mozzie had before I got him a good one.

Finn thought it was a good time to do the mowing. If only he could whipper-snip also!

Oh look, Zali found something to play with, um, I mean, eat!

The photo is actually in focus. David was bouncing the boys and they were leaping all over the map with limbs flying everywhere. The loved it.

Sheree and David made a yummy dinner for us. David made a great Diane sauce for the steak, Sheree made a great, thick, cheese sauce for the veggies, plus we got some hot chippies to dip in the yummy Diane sauce. We were full. Oops, and here comes the trifle for dessert! Sure, we all had a serve of the delicious concoction and yep, through on that cream. Mmmm. Ohhh, I can't walk . . .
Thanks to both our hosts over the weekend, we had a great time.

Today Sharon visited. She is *very* pregnant. She looks great. She is tiny, with a *huge* belly, it is very much all baby. She has less than three weeks to go. Can't wait to meet him/her. Another baby to have cuddles with. We were talking so much I didn't even think to take a photo, doh! Good luck for the last few weeks.

Zali has a bit of a cold. Runney nose and bit miserable. She really must be sick, she slept for two hours this morning - holy! Caleb had a lovely day at Little School. Friday is the last day before the school holidays. I don't think he is going to like school holidays because he really enjoys going. Hopefully we can catch up with his bestie, Riley.

Had my cup of tea already, think I will read my Woman's Day. Had to get a few salad items at the shop today and splashed out on the current issue. Mainly cause it came with a goodie bag. Plus, it has Sarah O'Hare/Murdoch's baby heartache. And Ricki-Lee's wedding exclusive. All very interesting reading that I must attend. Take care.

Mixed Bag

Alright. I have lots of photos to share. Been busy over last few days so I will just start at the beginning.

Friday morning Zali and I visited Janene and Amy (and Angus and Kadey the spoodles). I didn't get fantastic shots, here I was holding Amy with one hand and balancing the camera with the other. My shakey hands need two hands for stability - oops. She is still so little, I keep expecting to see her bigger. I have no idea why, but it is fine that she stays little. It is so lovely to hold and cuddle her!



We went to Caleb's Little School for lunch. They had a Cultural Day and families were invited. They had decorations and entertainment and kids. It was enclosed and vibrated off the walls! They had heaps of food from other countries. Sushi, lasagne, hot dogs, a greek spinach pie thing, meat pies, croissants, asian food, curries, and things I wouldn't know the name of. It was great! And don't forget sweeties . . . pavlova, an assortment of sweets from other countries that, again, I wouldn't know the name of, and a totally to-die-for greek vanilla slice thing. Oh my gawd! I could have dived into a vat of that dish and died happy. It was made my Caleb's teacher's mother. Will have to include her on the Christmas card list!

With people everywhere, no where handy to park the pram and two lumps (kids) perched on my lap as I sat on the concrete, it was not an ideal situation for me to take photos. Damn. Caleb enjoyed himself, Zali enjoyed herself, it was great seeing everyone and it was a lovely function. The food was great and we were all very looked after. All good. Zali and I left and Caleb came home on the bus as normal.

This is him when he got home, since I can't share anything from Cultural Day.

I enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea with Mel. Hanging and chatting is great, isn't it? She even helped me feed my little hungry monsters. Thank you Mel!

Saturday morning bright and early we were in the car and heading to Toowoomba. We visited to celebrate Teagan and Alex's birthdays. They don't *exactly* like having their photo taken, but here they are. I believe Alex described it like this . . . 'it looks like I am going to eat her'. . .

We had a nice weekend. Caleb had lots of people to play with (so he was in heaven), Zali played and got dirty, Adrian slept and I got to read some of my magazine. Debbie did a great job with dinner, Teagan helped too, and the boys cooked the meat on the BBQ. I ate spring rolls. I am sure Teagan said I only ate two. I am sure. Zali ate her first spring roll. She was quite taken.

The cake was yummy. An icecream cake from Cold Rock. White chocolate and Ferrero Rocher icecream with Tim Tam mixed through. Every bit of it was edible, except the black line around the outside, that was the dish!

To check if indeed it was all edible, Teagan touched it. Because she did, Caleb had to as well, and stuck his finger in the cake. Well . . . if you can do it!

Little Miss Fast Fingers was somehow allowed near the cake. Here is the evidence of her fast handy work.

Last one is just for fun. Pop was also taking photos of the cake proceedings, and Caleb thinks if he sticks his face right in your camera and says cheese, he is helping you to get a great photo! He had just done that, thought of himself as funny, and was moving on to his next bit of mischief. At least he makes himself laugh.


There are more photos from when we visited Sheree, David, Campbell and Finn. I will do them tomorrow, see you then!

Carrot Sticks?

Haven't been taking a great deal of photos lately, feel a little disappointed in my photography. I should pick up my act though, it is better to have the memory even if it isn't perfectly recorded. I will take the trusty camera to Little School tomorrow for Cultural Day. Hopefully I will have something of interest to show you from there.

Have I said before how much my kids love icey-creams? They do. Very much. A couple of weeks ago we bought some cones when we did the groceries, a little tub of neapolitan (you know, for some variety!) and every couple of nights I serve out an icey-cream. Their eyes nearly pop out of their heads.

Of course I don't want them to have one every night, a bad habit that would be hard to break. If Caleb asks for an icey-cream when I hadn't planned on having one, I say 'no, not tonight'.
He replies 'On Saturday, Mummy?'
'Sure' I say.
Because to Caleb, everything happens on Saturday or Wednesday. Not sure why he likes these days, but his seven day week only consists of Saturdays and Wednesdays.



Do you think Zali looks excited to eat carrot sticks? Hmm, I wonder if I should have put up photos that go from icey-creams to carrot sticks - varied meals is the spice of life, people!

Thanks very much for your suggestions for snacks. I will try some of them for sure.

Well, that has sucked out any type of brain activity I had left in me. I will leave you know, and move on to nothing. Nothing at all. How wonderful. Enjoy your Friday.

A Very Special Day

Happy 21st Birthday to my sister-in-law Teagan!

She was married in January this year, and looked mighty fine all dolled up. I really hope you enjoy your special day Teagan, our love and best wishes are sent to you.

Teagan is a kind and thoughtful person. She is a great aunty, a little timid perhaps, but mostly when the kiddies cry. And she appreciates that Super Rooster chips totally rock! I remember when she was a nine year old little girl. She would wear dresses. She giggled. It is really nice seeing her grow up and a lovely thing to have her in our lives.

I really hope you enjoy your special day, Teagan. Our love and best wishes are sent to you. Huge wet butterfly kisses from Caleb and Zali too! Looking forward to seeing you!

Snack?

I need your help. What are good nutritious snacks? Anything that is quick, travels well, isn't too messy . . . .

Since Zali is getting a lot less breastmilk now, she is eating more. This comes to a shock to me! I know, and I am responsible for children, oops. I think that I wasn't really thinking that the milk was nourishing her as much as comforting her. Obviously it was.

So I want to try different things to see how the kids like them, and I would really love some fresh ideas. Would you help me please? Did I mention minimal preparation time? You see, if they can eat it faster than I can make it, it won't last long cause Mummy will get grumpy!

Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you!

Went Well

Yesterday was kindy day. This was make or break day. I put off cancelling Zali's enrolment because I was unsure, wanting to do the right thing for all of us, and consider all the options. As Thursday approached the best option was to try another day. If it was a repeat of last week, I was cancelling straight away.

It wasn't. Hooray!

She did cry at times. She had a tiny sleep (just like at home). She ate well and drank her water. She played. I didn't get one phone call. I didn't ring either. I didn't want to her things were going bad, cause I would have gone straight in to get her. I wanted to persevere and see how they handled her, and how she handed them. We picked her up about 3pm, at which time she was ready for another tiny sleep so was a little upset. She improved after some food.

The rest of the afternoon she was quite good, but mostly importantly, she went to bed without too much drama. She slept through the night and woke up a happy little girl.

It was all good. Isn't that promising!

Me and Zali having a girl day today, Caleb at Little School. Looking forward to that book coming home to read about his day. I think I will warm up tiny zucchini muffins for their afternoon tea, something nice and warm for their belly.

When we got home yesterday Caleb slammed his thumb when he shut the car door. Uh-oh. I knew it would have to happen one day, but it isn't nice. He wouldn't let us touch it, and just wanted to sit and hug. I don't think it was a bad slam, you know on the car-door-slamming-scale, his thumb looked ok later in the night. Will have to see how much bruising there is. It scares and upsets me (probably him too!) when he does anything to his left hand, cause he doesn't really have back up and/or the option to use his other hand.

Okey, Miss Z has finished her tiny sleep already, must be off.

Party Pics Part II

Alrighty, the second instalment of birthday party photos. What a lovely bunch!

Party Pics

Here is the first instalment of photos from Zali's first birthday party. I will post the next instalment tomorrow, cause there were heaps. No particular order. Remember to click on a photo if you want to see it bigger.

Newsletter

Caleb's Little School sends home a newsletter every week. They normally have a segment about a certain class and this week it was our turn.


"The kindy kids, Caleb, Kai, Lachlan and Zac are little boys who charm us all. It is delightful to see the excitement on their faces when they arrive at school on Wednesdays and Fridays. Caleb, "our new boy", has settled in really well. He travels to and from school in the bus with his favourite toy monkey and is happy to accept the many compliments he receives about his beautiful curls. Kai is the proud owner of some squeaky shoes so he has no chance whatsoever of creeping up on us. We generally hear Kai before we see him. He is walking confidently with support. Lachlan loves to show off the contents of his lunch box on his arrival each morning. He makes a great vegemite sandwich with very little help. Lachlan has mastered all our computer programs and shares the use of the computer with Caleb and Zac. Kai prefers to play on the Braille machine. Zac's vocabulary is rapidly increasing and there are very few words he does not attempt to imitate. He is very predictable and always chooses his favourite song during our morning greeting. He loves singing and looking at himself in the mirror, one of the many activities he really enjoys. Zac's shoes have flashing lights so it is easy to spot him in a crowd.


During our ball program, Caleb and Lachlan always insist that we do at least fifty bounces on the fitballs. Kai and Zac are far more considerate and expect us to do either five or ten bounces. The kindy kids love to play "boy games" with the big boys from St Lawrence's College every Wednesday and to visit the Hilton Hen House at Buranda School after our music session on Fridays.


In term 4 our group will expand. Instead of simply the boys, it will become Sophie and the boys, Caleb, Jack, Kai, Lachlan and Zac."


Doesn't that rock? I loved it. We also have a communication book that travels with him to school. I write stuff in about his week at home and how things are going. They write what he did that day and how he went. I love it. Love it. I am so excited to read it when he gets home, and then we talk about his day. It is great.

Today he brought home a Fathers Day gift that he made. The other boys did it Friday, but cause Caleb was unwell, they saved his for today. It was a little white takeaway box that was covered in silver and black stickers. There was a little gift tag with a photo of a smiley Caleb. It was filled with black tissue paper, a sprinkle of red hearts and filled with jaffas. It was fantastic! They do really nice things there, and it was so lovely that they saved Caleb's to do today. Really nice.

Zali and I had a nice day together. Playgroup this morning. She was tired. We left early when she fell asleep in my arms. We had lunch and watched Dr Phil and Oprah and played. Nice weather to be inside. She only had one tiny sleep today and was in bed asleep tonight at 6pm. Fingers crossed she sleeps all night.

Note to myself and Kerry: my goal is to upload some photos from Zali's birthday party tomorrow!

Enjoy your evening.

Normal

Just a normal Monday. At home. Hanging.

We play and eat and sleep and watch Hi-5 and Wiggles.

Can't think of much to say. Think I will go and scrapbook, I have done two pages in the last few days and that feels great. Catch ya.

Somewhat

This weekend has been somewhat good and somewhat bad.

Normal groceries thing Saturday morning while kiddies stay home with Daddy. Tried to have a nap in the arvo, between coughing and being woken up, that wasn't very successful.

Caleb and Zali had an early bath and we went to Adrian's work to watch Riverfire. They had organised a BBQ, hired seats and tables and took over the rooftop. The weather was marvellous. There were trains tooting past regularly, in front of the building is the bridge where they cross the river. Very, very nice for a little boy to watch. Four russian roulettes did some aerial acrobatics, helicopters flew around and a few other machines darted around in the sky. Again, very very nice for a little boy to watch. We enjoyed it too, it was fun.

We had sausages and steakettes and bacon, salad, rolls, cheese and sauce. Zali nuzzled on a snag, Caleb had his in a piece of bread with sauce. He was only eating the snag in the beginning, lifting his head to reveal a tomato sauce covered nose. My little Rudolph! Adrian and I had a lovely roll filled with tucker.

We watched the big digital clock in the city slowly tick over 7pm. Two F1-11's thundered past . . . right next to our building! It was very exciting, I didn't know they came so close. They crossed each other and then shot straight upwards leaving their fiery orange tails burning bright. Thirty minutes of fireworks spectacular followed, we didn't have the accompanying music cause no-one thought of bringing a radio. We were not close enough to the fireworks to hear the loud bangs which was probably good for the kids, but we saw all the lights. I love fireworks! They had some cool stuff going on, some of them turned into big red lovehearts! All the kids on the rooftop (and some of the adults) started getting a little over it and went back talking and/or playing.

Zali went to sleep on my lap shortly after the fireworks started. Caleb was a little unsure of the F1-11's and watched the fireworks for a while before getting a little bored. He wanted to go home now thanks. At 7.30pm the 'dump and burn' flying machines thundered past again. Again, I was stoked how close they came to us! The 'burn' bit lasted for ages the second time. Caleb was a bit scared now, he was unsure of the loudness and brightness and vibration. He was tired and wanted to go home.

A few people pitched in and packed up everything while I sat with one sleeping baby and one tired boy nestled into me. Really nice family night out, all over early and we were home just after 8pm. I was really tired too, and 8pm felt like the wee hours of the morning.

That one sleeping baby was woken on the way home. She did not like this and after changing into her jimmies, proceeded to scream for over an hour. Did I mention she did this in the middle of the day when her sleep was disturbed? Nothing we could do helped, she was in a right mood. Still hoping it is teeth, otherwise we have no explanation for her crankiness.

The fresh air of the evening freshened up everyone's cold. Zali has a slight runney nose, Caleb had a awful cough and runney nose that is hard to keep on top of, Adrian is getting the germs and I am still fighting a sore throat. Sheesh, so over the germs of this winter.

I have to sleep sitting upright, if I lay down I have huge coughing fits to the point where I nearly vomit. Sleeping upright is not comfortable and I have been getting small broken periods of sleep. Nasty. Mum woke me at 4.55am for the markets, I think I had actually been asleep then. Doh!

Happy Fathers Day! I made bacon and eggs while Zali spent most of the morning cranky. Because everyone was sick we had to cancel our attendance at a picnic lunch goodbye for Dana. She is leaving the country in a few weeks to live and work overseas for a while. She is a pretty cool chick, she will have a wonderful time. Hopefully we will get to see her before she leaves.

We all spent a quiet day at home trying to reduce and/or eliminate our germs. Thankfully Zali went to sleep both times today without the hour of screaming, insert a sigh of relief here! We had chicken kiev, salad and chips for dinner. An ice-cream cone for sweeties was the real winner!

I was very happy to have a sleep today when the kids went down. Still ready for sleep now, but will try and delay a little bit longer. Okey, this has turned out a little longer than expected. Oops.