WHO SANK THE BOAT ?

This is currently Master M's Fave book , we have read it every night for months and months.
If you have children, nieces or nephews, you must add this to 'the must buy list'.
It is an easy, fun read !

A Babymoon (Of Sorts)

While i had these grand plans of a babymoon to Melbourne, unfortunately my health and baby trying to arrive a little to early has ruined those plans.
And my crazy husband is working lots and lots at the moment, so this weekend i am off to the beach with my beautiful little boy and my parents, we are tacking it onto a long weekend and a hospital visit.



Hope you all have a wonderful weekend !



Picture from here

Day at the Park

The best part of being a kid is days at the park .....

M's Room Needs A Make Over

Master M's room needs a Make Over, since moving into the new house, i haven't had the time or energy to do anything in there. I seem to be forever picking up his toys and putting his clothes away.

In the old house his room looked like this-

Unfortunately, i never got the chance to tweek it, as we moved after a couple of months.

M's room currently looks like a BOMB has hit it. His book shelf is a mess....


So, this morning M and i are having a big clean up (i hate messy kids rooms) and then we are going to do a bit of decorating !

Will be back to post some pics !

Did the baby eat the cleaning lady ?

My son, M, is very concerned that our cleaning lady doesn't come to visit anymore. I explained that now we are having a baby and mummy doesn't go to work anymore, we couldn't have a cleaning lady and a baby.

About an hour later he came back and asked
"Did the baby eat the cleaning lady ? "
My reply - Ummmm.............No.
M:- "Well where is she ? "

What could i say nothing was going to fix this problem in his head. So, he has now told everyone that our Baby ate the cleaning lady !

4yo Logic....... ? ?

2 minute noodles are not a Sin !

So , i suffer from Mummy guilt like every other Mum i know. There is always something we think we can do better, shouldn't have done or should have done, when it come to raising our children.

Tonight, i am exhausted. It is stinking hot, has been raining all day and Master M has made me play a million rounds of his version of Monopoly, which involves counting dices, dancing and changing silver figures every time you roll the dice, add to this me trying to explain in a non-jaded voice about property development.

So, it rolls around to almost dinner time, and i throw open the fridge door, and yell in my sickly sweet mummy voice "What would you like for dinner ?" , the reply from a very well mannered 4yo "Noodle Box Please". I think i might pass out. When you live 350km's from a major town, Noodle Box is no longer about picking up the phone and calling your fave noodle shop. It is cutting up a million vegies, the meat, mixing together all the ingredients for his fave marinade, putting it all in the wok, with a packet of hokkien noodles and cooking. Then once completed, placing into into a ceramic noodle box dish , we bought especially for the "4yo Noodle Connoisseur"
It was so not appealing tonight, then i reached into the cabinet and pulled out a packet of 2 minute noodles, doused them in boiling water, drained and served !



Master M was ecstatic, and then Mummy guilt set in, and those voices began... I should have made the effort, he needs meat and vegies, 2 minute noodles are not a meal, what would my mother-in-law say....... And then i realised , 2 minute noodles are not a sin. Sometimes easy dinners are the most fun, he doesn't live on them, he will survive and i checked my mummy guilt away for a while.


Ps- And to add to my mummy of the year award(you can nominate me here.... ha ha ha ) ... i gave Master M, Ice Cream for desert

M by Rachel Ritcher

Beautiful & amazing pictures, by the very talented Rachel Ricther. Rachel did an amazing job of capturing our little boy.
Check out her work HERE