Thursday, 30 August 2012
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Fish face x
Pips favourite evening activity is getting into her Pjs and putting both legs in one leg hole and pretending to be a mermaid. Can be quite a dangerous activity. xx
Monday, 20 August 2012
Sunday, 19 August 2012
ohhh life
Well, things have been a wee bit busy around here. will get some photos in action. I have a new baby niece!!! Ahh to be an Auntie, i have a chance to return all the love that is shown to my children through their Aunties. Now that's a big benchmark! but give me a chance to spoil little people any day. It's a unique thing. you soon realise that no one loves your children and finds them as cute/fascinating/ brilliant except you AND those aunties and uncles that love them so much. And i could spend a ridiculous amount of time with these Aunties saying 'she's so clever/ beautiful/ funny' 'yes, she is', 'so healthy', 'yes', 'so happy', 'yes'. 'look at her skin', 'yes', you get the idea. bliss feeding bliss. human nature. yes we are brilliant, look at our offspring...
My little ones have just finished a 5 week stint with their nana staying with us. Grandad joined us for the last week, and all in all a great time for my girls. Eva has a soft spot for nana and after getting a little upset that she was shipped off to school each morning while Pip and Thomas could bask in the love of their nana, she had a few special afternoons alone with nana, and trips to her 'funny shop' an ex-circus supply shop that has endless bizarre things for R20. They both now have a full set of my little ponies, and enjoy endless games with them where Pip is always in her extremely high pitched voice, as she plays the voice of 'starburst' or 'apple jack' or whoever is playing in the scene. It cracks me up that she uses this voice for any toy that is 'talking'. Pip loves her games at the moment. If she gave her top 3 it would be Tartoons, sweeties followed closely by games/ riding her scooter. I love that I have so much time to play her games, and even watch tartoons together, but i draw the line when she asks for sweeties before breakfast.
Recently, Eva had one of the sweetest childhood moments of all time. For all those that look from outside in and see kids as the noisy and messy, boob drooping things they are, don't realise what they miss in the private moments between mother and child. The scenario is a wishing well outside our favourite restaurant 'the test kitchen' in woodstock. Eva and Pip throw their coins in and make a wish. As usual i tease them and ask them what they wished for, because the usual response is if you tell, it won't come true... not this time. Eva looked up at me and said quietly 'it never comes true anyway'. We sat down and I said if she did tell me, just this one time, maybe I could help, or wish for the same thing to help it come true. 'I wish for wings' she said, and i remembered that this is the same thing she asked santa for the year before. Oh my baby, we talked about how many people we know with wings, and maybe the wish is just too hard to come true. We talked about how maybe the feeling of flying has come to you, when you have felt like you have done better than you thought or felt happy about something surprising. The tangent was probably lost and I quickly began plotting as to how I could make a life like set of wings. Could it be done? I love that my children often take me into the world of dreams and magic, fairies and all things good.
On the previous day Eva had had an argument with her uncle Tommy who was stirring her over the 'toe nail' fairy who was going to come to Pip as she had lost her big toe nail after a long few weeks of a broken nail hanging on. Eva said there is no such thing. 'What about the tooth fairy?' said Tommy, Eva responded with total conviction, 'Well, they only use teeth for building things' said Eva. On that note I must mention that Eva is soooo waiting for her first loose tooth. Maybe to get a gold coin but more likely to affirm her belief in magic.
My little ones have just finished a 5 week stint with their nana staying with us. Grandad joined us for the last week, and all in all a great time for my girls. Eva has a soft spot for nana and after getting a little upset that she was shipped off to school each morning while Pip and Thomas could bask in the love of their nana, she had a few special afternoons alone with nana, and trips to her 'funny shop' an ex-circus supply shop that has endless bizarre things for R20. They both now have a full set of my little ponies, and enjoy endless games with them where Pip is always in her extremely high pitched voice, as she plays the voice of 'starburst' or 'apple jack' or whoever is playing in the scene. It cracks me up that she uses this voice for any toy that is 'talking'. Pip loves her games at the moment. If she gave her top 3 it would be Tartoons, sweeties followed closely by games/ riding her scooter. I love that I have so much time to play her games, and even watch tartoons together, but i draw the line when she asks for sweeties before breakfast.
Recently, Eva had one of the sweetest childhood moments of all time. For all those that look from outside in and see kids as the noisy and messy, boob drooping things they are, don't realise what they miss in the private moments between mother and child. The scenario is a wishing well outside our favourite restaurant 'the test kitchen' in woodstock. Eva and Pip throw their coins in and make a wish. As usual i tease them and ask them what they wished for, because the usual response is if you tell, it won't come true... not this time. Eva looked up at me and said quietly 'it never comes true anyway'. We sat down and I said if she did tell me, just this one time, maybe I could help, or wish for the same thing to help it come true. 'I wish for wings' she said, and i remembered that this is the same thing she asked santa for the year before. Oh my baby, we talked about how many people we know with wings, and maybe the wish is just too hard to come true. We talked about how maybe the feeling of flying has come to you, when you have felt like you have done better than you thought or felt happy about something surprising. The tangent was probably lost and I quickly began plotting as to how I could make a life like set of wings. Could it be done? I love that my children often take me into the world of dreams and magic, fairies and all things good.
On the previous day Eva had had an argument with her uncle Tommy who was stirring her over the 'toe nail' fairy who was going to come to Pip as she had lost her big toe nail after a long few weeks of a broken nail hanging on. Eva said there is no such thing. 'What about the tooth fairy?' said Tommy, Eva responded with total conviction, 'Well, they only use teeth for building things' said Eva. On that note I must mention that Eva is soooo waiting for her first loose tooth. Maybe to get a gold coin but more likely to affirm her belief in magic.
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
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