Get me outta here...

Am watching it right now and am cracking up.  This dude is too funny.  He is screaming like a girl and dry heaving. 

Funny enough his name is Dean...

I had the very best mothers day.  We were up at the crack of dawn to get to the lake for registration for the Mothers Day Classic walk.  Registration was at 7 race to start at 8.  Well, we get there and find parking right away.  Get registered, get our shirts, and then proceed to stand around until 0930 when the walkers go to go.  7k runners went at 0830 and 3.5k runners at 9.  I was a little annoyed because it didn't say that anywhere until you got there.  But that aside, we had fun running around and Harrison got to play in a jumping castle, I got a mini manicure for free, and Harrison got his face painted as a tiger.  He was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

He loved it and he ROAR'ed at anyone he could.  The first roar he let out was to a guy who was on one knee tying his shoes.  Harrison went  up to him, got on all fours and ROAR'ed as loud as he could and actually scared the guy.  It was hysterical. 

After the walk, we went to my MIL's so she could see the tiger face.  Which of course, she loved.

That afternoon, we had my MIL and her hubby, BIL his wife and 2 kids, BIL, and then of course the 5 of us.  12 of us all up.  And it was a lovely day.  We had a nice BBQ.  I didn't have to do any of the cooking or cleaning.  Neither did any of the other mother's there.  Believe it or not, the boys did the cleaning.  Cam did the cooking. 

It was just a wonderful day.  Hope you all had great days too.

Angela

In the morning, we are participating in the Mothers Day Classic Walk/Run for Breast Cancer Research.  Dean Harrison and I will be walking the 3.5kms.

In the afternoon, we are having Dean's whole family over for dinner, of course Mel and Cam will be there, MIL and hubby, BIL wife and kids, BIL.  Will have a housefull but will be a nice night.  Only hope I get out of the cooking and cleaning...

Hope you all have a wonderful day.  Take a little "me" time.  If only for a moment.  You are all amazing women and deserve a break.

Take care-Angela

Had swimming lessons today.  Missed last term cuz I was too slack with the move to Perth.  Anyway, started our first lesson today.

The lessons were great.  They focus on water awareness and safety.  A bit more focused that the ones we were in in Melbourne.  Loved the ones in Melbourne and of course harrison is a bit older so he can follow directions a bit better. 

To start with, they get the kids to do a safe entry into the pool.  Harrison thought that was to jump in!  But he caught on quickly and was following directions.  Did a few activities in the very shallow water before moving into the deep end.  Once there, we did some more activities such as walking down the steps, paddling with arms and kicking with legs, jumping off the ledge which Harrison loves, scooting across the wall while holding on with hands and encouraging them to pull themselves up and out of the water.  Harrison kept putting his feet up first silly boy!

Once we were done, we had a bit of a play in the shallow pool and he got to play with Miles, another little boy.  Who's mother took our number to have play dates...but they had a blast going down the slide and splashing in the water.  It was great. 

Good to have a bit of organization to our day.

The past couple of days Harrison has been telling me when he pees...But I think he gets it a bit confused with his poos.  Anyway, tonight, he was brushing his teeth beofre his bath and he said pee, potty.  So we ran into the living room, where the potty was, and ripped off his diaper...which had poop in in, and he sat on his potty. 

Well, he peed in his potty!  Except, that his penis was crooked and pointing up, he mostly peed on the floor. 

But he peed in his potty!  This is the first of many...Yeah!  I am so proud of my little boy.

Well, hubby and stepson were up quite early, 0430, to head to the dawn service.  Frankly, would have loved to have gone but it is just too early for Harrison.  They went to the service in Freo at Monument Hill.  Dean said it was a nice service and that it was packed.

Just wanted to draw attention to ANZAC Day.  I spent my first ANZAC Day in Deniliquin NSW.  It was 2001 when i was visiting Dean.  Dean was the guest speaker for the RSL.  It was an amazing experience for me.  We did a dinner at the RSL the night before Dean spoke at the dinner, the dawn service, breakfast, and then Dean spoke at the parade that day.  It was really cool. 

Last night was a pretty good one.  He slept until 0615 or so.  Thank god cuz I was out to the world. 

And now I am thinking of getting rid of the binky/dummy.  I sort of started tonight but he didn't take to well to it and i gave in cuz we hadn't talked about it.  I thought I owed it to him to at least discuss it.  So tonight wasn't the night for giving up the binky.

He was a tad whingy going to bed so i am hoping that was just the lack of binky that set him off.  And he only got up once to call for me (which was kinda cute)

Anyway, heres to a good night.

Earlier this month, we moved Harrison into a big boy bed.  Up unti last night, he wasn't getting out of bed.  Well, last night was the second night in a row he has woken well before morning.  And while attmepting to do a little "controlled crying" in the situation, he decided he had had enough and wasn't waiting for me to come back into his room.  I was dealing with him for 2 hours between the lovely hours of 0300-0500.  Not happy Jan

I tried letting him cry, but that was short lived cuz he kept getting out of bed.  In fact, I would take him back into his room and he was crawling out of the bed before I had even put him in it!!!  I tried holding him, that didn't work cuz it was worse when I put him down.  I tried sitting with him and rubbing his back/or not rubbing is back, that didn't work cuz he started talking to me telling me when it was raining, asking for dad, or the wiggles.

In the end, I was brought to tears out of exhaustion.  I didn't want to wake Dean cuz he was getting up in an hour and eventually I went into the spare room, promptly followed by Harrison, and climbed in bed.  He climbed in with me and we both fell asleep.

Dean is going to try to deal with it next time but he works daily.  And Harrison is stubborn as hell.  Any suggestions? 

Oh, and if that night wasn't bad enough.  Harrison woke at 0730.  He is tired even stating he is tired and yet he cried for over an hour at naptime.  Came out of his room.  Eventually, he broke me and I just got him up. 

Someone please give me the magic trick to make this toddler sleep!

So I am still waiting for the child care center to get the staff epi pen trained before I can start my job.  The hospital is happy to wait, they are that short staffed.  Went in to see them last week and it sounded as if everything was happening but I have yet to hear from the girl.  I need to call her to find out what is going on.  She told me they had identified who to be trained but they just needed to do some finalizing with the manager who was coming in on Thursday.  She told me she was going to call me that day but didn't and I didn't get around to it on Friday. 

I'm a bit annoyed that they aren't on top of things a bit better.  I mean, hello, more money!!!  I suppose I just need to be patient and not expect people to hold the same standards as me.  Because if it were me, I would have called on Thursday if only to say we are still waiting.  But that is just me.

Sorry to Thea and anyone else who may have accidentally come across photos that you may feel are not suitable for a parenting website.  Actually, that weren't suitable for public viewing.  My lame excuse is that I uploaded them before I realized what the private button was for. 

Anyway, it won't worry me if they get deleted.  Vote the way you wish.  I have since gone through all my photos and made those less desirable ones private.

Thanks to the member who gave me the heads up.  Would minti mail you your thanks but it isn't working so I am thanking you here.