Phase right now.....Master one has developed a thing about hurling toys and other things like the remote :(

Help, i don't like it!  He really throws them as well, like really, really hard....honestly sometimes we have to duck!   He climbs on everything, we were always having to make sure the dining chairs were tucked in ( a constant battle with two forgetful boys) but now he can pull them out, and just climbs right on up.  Yay, :(   So it doesn't matter if the chairs are in or out he is up on top of the table anyway.

There just seems to be nothing out of his reach...lol.....you probably think i must have forgotten what it was like to have a climbing toddler but i'm sure my other two weren't that bad.  Well, actually Zane was but Tahnae wasn't....lol......and  yes, i probably have forgotten but :(

What to do - any suggestions....apart from telling him No and taking objects off him that he is about to throw, what else to do.  Never had a 'thrower' before so any ideas are welcome....please!

We are going to NZ in about 6 weeks time so, i hope Nanna has battoned down the hatches and put everything up high!!  We are staying at a motel, as her place is a bit squishy for 5 extra bodies and i'm glad we have decided to do that because i think my kids would rip her house apart...haahaa.  Nah, they are not really that bad but we don't see them very often and the other grandkids are nearly grown.  I worry a bit about the priceless heirlooms and all that!

The Monster that is terrorising us!!! .........

lets hope i survive....lol......so far so good though.  We don't have too much planned for these holidays just usual parks, play dates and pictures!

Finally got some paper work i was wanting on Friday, just at the last minute, as school was breaking up i had to race up there with some papers for the teacher.  My eldest is having some problems with concentration and focusing in class, and to cut a long story short i have decided to have him assessed through a Qld health unit. 

It's all rather slow though, with the questionnaires taking more than a week to arrive and then they want them back with in a fortnight...that's great but school holidays go for two weeks so that is why i was racing up to the school on last day of term!  Anyway the teacher and deputy principal filled them out while i waited, even though it was rushed, it is all good.

Today we hung around at an inner city park which is near the water, great park and the kids had loads of fun, right now i'm trying to psych myself up to go to the supermarket with this lot!

Our weekend was rather quiet, we just ate way to much take out asian food and had a brekkie on Sunday morning to.   Bit naughty.

Well, better go and get up to the shops before i run out of 'essentials'!!....

Foto Friday....our day at Seaworld 

Daddy and Tahnae at the entrance

Watching the seal show

 Zane at Shark Bay (check out the Fin)

Around they go again!

The amazing dolphins, they were truly awesome!

LOL.....

Today i had the doctors with Kaelan to check his weight again and finally he is normal!  He has gained two kilos in two months and now weighs 10 kg.  I can see he is starting to fill out size one so i knew we were on the right track, everything has grown...his head and height as well.  It's a huge reielf that we don't have to have tests done, although he still like to surprise us with number two's three or four times a day!  Charming!

Had a massive weekend which was awesome, my friends birthday, got really drunk and fully excepted a hangover the next day.......not something i do very often but it was worth it.  I had such a brilliant time, and it was really good 'cos she started out early 5pm and i was home before midnight....just!

Sunday we had a work (David's) BBQ and also caught up with friends at New Farm Park.  I was so tired last night, couldn't even stay up to watch Outgraous Fortune, about the only thing i watch every week...still all good!

I'm an Auntie again!  This morning my brother and his wife had a girl, Isobella, 7lb 4oz

Cool!!

Emmie pointed out that i haven't blogged in a while and now i realise it has nearly been a month....oops, well here it is!

Last week , as some know, i met Arna when she came to Brisvegas for her scan.  I couldn't let a Minti Mum rattle around Brisbane for hours by herself so I picked her up from the station and we went to Spotlight so we could get some 'supplies'.  That worked out good  because i was able to get some fabric to re-cover the highchair.  It's not that old but not long after i got it it ripped, yeah i should have taken it back but i didn't.....i thought something from Toys R Us would have been better quality.  Anyhoo....after that we had some lunch at the park and then i dropped her off at the hospital for her appointment.  She is really nice and it was really lovely to meet her and get to know her a bit better.

After the rellies went back to their corner of the globe we went away, over a long weekend, to the Gold Coast.  I must admit we had a shit time, and things have been a bit tense since then.  The kids are driving me nuts and i'm sick of routine....you know we all have it, no matter how many times you pick up or do dishes, laundry etc there is another pile waiting for you the next day.

Kaelan is a real handful right now, climbing on EVERYTHING and getting into EVERYTHING.  I'm forever running trying to get him down from a table or chair, or to stop him heading off down the stairs or going into the bathroom - he chucks things (my hairdryer) down the toilet!  Tahnae decided to 'help' him down the stairs yesterday, of course i'm telling him not too and he let him go.  Yes, he fell to the bottom, 8 stairs - he was OK and didn't cry for long, so very lucky! 

 Tahnae is also a handful, terrible threes or something.  I don't know but i'm over it!

Kaelan is still rather small and when we were away was pooing about six times a day, and i got worried about it but now it has gone back to two to three times per day.  He seems to be starting to fit into his size one clothes (he's nearly 15 months) so i think he is growing , albeit slowly but it is happening!  We'll see what the Dr says at the end of the month about his weight.

Zane is still not enjoying his teacher and she seems like she just does what she wants.  I talk to her about an issue and she's all agreeable but from what Zane relays back to me it sounds like a different story.  Anyway she's gone for three months at the end of this week - hallelujah! - for an operation....maybe she wont come back.  Every one says her teaching abilities are great but i feel it takes a bit more as well, she just seems so rude to the kids!  Last week Zane told me she said to him the new teacher is 'on to him' - wtf?  I was over it, so i went to the Deputy Principal and on Monday i got to meet the new teacher, who is LOVELY!  She is a retired teacher and Principal and just fills in now and then.  I'm so hoping that Zane starts to do a bit better at school with her encouragement and support.

It is so upseting when Z comes home and says he's always last for things in class or doesn't get stickers......i know better than anyone that he's not the most academic kid but aren't the ones who struggle suppose to be the ones who need the most encouragement?  Even for the little things, it just doesn't happen.

Well, that was such a cheery wee blog, now you know why i haven't for a while...lol.....

Seems we can upload pics now so here are a few of the boys when they went with their cousins to the Koala sanctuary....

The last week has been a blur really, the weeks seem to go particularly fast but I'm sure you all feel like that, right? 

Zane had a music camp this week, he is learning the Cello, so we rock up to a school which is about 20 min drive from us on Wednesday and find out it has been changed to a one day camp from a two day camp.  Oh, but someone forgot to tell me that a note was sent home and was left in a pocket and is probably very clean but unreadable right now, let alone AWOL!!  To top it off i accidentally shut poor Tahnae's fingers in the car door and had him screaming and crying.  It was rather horrid but no damage done, just a scrap knuckle...Phew!

So he arrived 1/2 hour late to school and missed out on Free Dress Day, and god knows what else because we only prepared for the music camp....lol....i had very little sympathy for him that day!  The camp was on today and it seems it was a success and he enjoyed it - thank goodness for small mercies!!

School holidays next week and it should be a busy one as i have family coming from all corners of the globe.  My sister and her crew from Japan and my Dad and Niece from NZ.  Excitement plus!  Families seem to have too many personalities in them but i'm hoping the boys get to hang out with their cousins.

Some of you know David jacked his job in a couple of weeks ago - well he has started a new one this week.  Doing the same thing but has some training in a different software so he seems pleased with that.

We have started to tidy up underneath our house putting up a retaining wall and garden. I've been getting into ebay to try and clear out some junk and get ready to sell our house.  The auction for the house i mentioned last time is on Saturday so i'm hoping to get along to it.  We wont be bidding but i'm keen to see what it reaches to see if what i want in a home is pie in the sky or not..... and as they say tha's all Folks.....