My poor little boy took a tumble yesterday and in now sporting a split lip. It happened out the front of the emergency room of the hospital as luck would have it.. We got in straight away...   I guess it helps to have a child screaming his  face full of blood and a mother in tears panicked out of her mind... Oh and the dog....

I was able to ring my sister in-law to come and pick up the dog and take him home while we were there and then the hubby as he was at a mates place. I did not want to call him  because he was riding his motorbike and I knew he would speed home..  But of course I called him anyway and he did speed home. Thankfully he made it all in one piece.  But I feel bad because well I was in shock when I saw Francis's split lip and just ran straight to the emergency room. But you know had I not of panicked I could have just cleaned it up at home (but we were still 10 minute walk from there.  Doc came in and said he'd be a bit sore for a couple of days but he is fine.  

I guess one good thing has come out of this, he does not want his bottle.. He has not worked out if he puts the nib of the bottle to the side of his mouth it won't hurt, as the split is right in the middle. I thought I'd have trouble getting him to eat but he is doing fine.    The doc said just don't give him anything salty. Which of course I won't do.
We got in straight away but it was about an hour and a bit before the actual doc came to see us. We saw the nurse lady and she tried to clean Francis up but Francis just screamed hit, kicked and punched. He hates doctors with a passion.   But when my sister in-law came back (after she took the dog home) to wait with us until hubby arrived she gave Francis two photos from her wallet of her boys, and Francis held onto them and was much happier talking about his cousins.     Then his papa arrived and he talked non stop and I mean non stop we could not get a word in edge wise. It made me feel like an over protective mother because he was acting like nothing had happened. Of course until the doctor came in then he started screaming again. I am lucky this all happened after he had his dinner because he would have had trouble eating last night, he did not fall asleep until midnight. That was probably partly my fault because I kept checking on him seeing if he was ok, so I took him out for another walk to hope that he would relax some. And it helped. 

Anyway he is feeling fine today. His lip does irritate him a little but I don't think it is pain, I think it is more because he has lips the size of melons.. Poor bugger....

OH yeah and the hubby's bike it goes really really fast...... 

Oh no. I am worried my hubby will never be able to smile again. Poor guy he went to the dentist two days ago and his face seems to a bit paralized on one side.. He can only have half a smile.. He is not happy to say the least. Not to mention that the dentists are closed this weekend for the long weekend and won't be back until Tuesday.

My bike is fixed went for a ride.  THen later gave Francis a bath and took him and the dog for a walk.. But instead of having a lovely walk we stopped off at SIL Number 2 who lives the next street over and had a chat then came home again.. LOL Hubby thinks I went for a really long walk... :)

Other then that life is pretty slow today...

Hope you are all having a blast.

This is Francis and I feeding a duck at the in-laws lake house....

Well you really learn to appreciate your parents when you have to go to a school concert....

My step daughter is in grade five and it was her end of year concert today.  Which of course she only told us about the day before.   And because she is always so good with timing we are usually running around trying to figure out how the hell we are going to get there.... Her father had no way of making it, her mother does not always show up to these things.   And as luck would have it where I worked today there was enough children for me to be able to leave and go see the concert....

Now don't get me wrong it is very important to go and see these things, but had I have known what my parents had to go though when my sister and I were kids, I would have told them not to worry... :)  I am still very happy that I went because the look on her face when she saw Francis and I there ready and waiting for her to do her thing was priceless. She was soooo happy.   As I told her I did not know if I could make it so it was a surprise for her to see us there.

The hubby went to a thing not long ago at her school where all the kids from every grade (and it is not a small school) do some form of reading. The classes wrote stories and then read them to the crowd.  He said it was very hard as you know not a lot of kids that age read really fast and when they are just learning well it is hard to listen to all of the kids in the school say their bit.    But he did it.    I of course did not go because I was with Francis. I don't think he could have waited that long. :)

At least today there was music and some singing for Francis to bop along to and enjoy.  It was painful to say the least but we made one little girl very happy that part of her family was able to make it.   So in saying that although I don't think my parents pop in here I'd still like to say a big thank you to my folks for the hours of school concerts they had to sit through for us... I mean really it is hard to sit through three hours of off key singing, and out of beat dancing (as amusing as it can be) to see your own children for three minutes... :)

All in all I am still very happy that I went, it is great to see the kids put in the effort, also the lady in charge man did she work hard today.   But she looked like she was having a lot of fun with the kids....    And my step daughter was so happy to show off her little brother as well....  So she is happy I am happy... Now we just need to work on her timing and try telling us at least a week in advance that she has these concerts instead of a day..... :)

Just had dinner with my mother in-law and my hubby. It was a fantastic night.  Loved it.. Blah blah blah.  Feeling really good...

She is such a wonderful person. And you know what.  She made me very happy tonight by telling me that she sees me and hubby have gotten stronger together over the years... For anyone that knows the story of me and the hubby will know that we got married after 8 months of knowing each other.. So we have had seven years of growing together. And I must say I am very happy with my life.  Sure it has it's moments but I don't think I would change anything.. Maybe that one time, oh no maybe that other time... Hmmm naaaa. I'll keep all moments as learning experiences...

Now the who's with me.. I have been thinking about what to write.   I would just like to say.. Yummymummyof3.. You probably know more about me then people really should know about me.. LOL and I want to say thanks.. :)
And with out you I think my nights would be boring. :)   Anyway once again.. Thank you for not bailing out on minti...
Glad to have you still with us. Blah blah blah you know the rest.

Anyway once again had a fantastic night.. Kind of missing my own mum at the moment which usually happens after a night out with hubby's step mum because she is so much like my mum aside from the fact that she does not speak English.   She is a wonderful lady and every one should be lucky to know someone like her too. :)

Anyway that is enough rambles from this person tonight as I am not altogether with it. Need sleep have not had any in days because of asthma attacks at night.

My son slept with us last night which was slightly amusing. I found him in the morning wrapped around his daddy's feet cuddled up like the dog would have been had we allowed him to sleep with us as well.  

Ok night all hope my rambles make some kind of sense.. I think I am going to go and call my mum now she should be awake..

Night all xxxxx

Francis went on his first boat ride, and drove every one crazy pointing out all the boats and the ducks... It was as if the only thing he knew to say was DUCK  and BOAT.... But he loved it, it took us a bit of time getting his life jacket on as he really did not want to do it but once he saw he was going on the boat while he was distracted I managed to get him in it and he was soooo happy.. He even got to have a little sit on his grandfathers knee until he tried to get his grandfather off the chair so he could drive for himself.. LOL

Anyway then he was able to feed the ducks when they came to the veranda for some bread. Oh how he loved that..
All in all that was a lovely day...

I have to say I really suck when it comes to giving gifts to the hubby.  So today being fathers day I was all out of cash so was unable to get a prezze for him.. So we cooked up bacon and eggs.. And I was feeling crappy because one I am ill and two my fathers day was ruined because I had the money to get him a present but of course something else needed the cash. And I refused to ask him for money to buy him a gift for him....

So today I bit the bullet and dipped into his bank account went out and got presents.... So we brought a game for the wii.. OH and guess what... He already played it on the PC... Oh well hopefully he will like the other gift he will get when Francis wakes up, two little cars, and some photos taken from a photo box at the mall with the kids.. THEY ARE SOOO CUTE.. The little cars will hold the photos...

Better run and help continue celebrating...

Oh boy.. Ok so I am sick and yet I still offered to help my hubby clean a house... My hubby is a general contractor and tomorrow he is handing over a house to a client...  Which is normally fantastic.. But his cleaning crew decided not to show up. No notice no nothing...  So when I found out that he was going to be extremely late home because he had to clean this house before giving it to the clients I offered to help.. I sent Francis to his Aunts for a while and I went and cleaned.. Boy did I clean....

Anyway we cleaned up all the rubbish left behind from the builders and it was a mess. But between the two of us we did a good job... Now this clean up crew of his just lost their contract.. thankfully he has another one starting in a couple of days so he won't have to clean up the others.. WOW it is hard work... But at least for an hour or so I was feeling good because i was sweating out what ever the problem was.. But the minute I stopped it started all up again and I am feeling yet again crappy....

But I have my meds so I should be able to sleep soundly tonight.. Well at least a little bit better then last night...

Well I had to go into work today, not my usual day but Nat needed an extra hand while she had an appointment. So I went in with Francis.. Last night I had an asthma and still a little bit today, but last night was shocking. Did not sleep at all, and of course where were my pumps... All outa date and not working so after I finished at work today I left Francis there to go to the clinic... Now I have my nice new fresh pumps, along with some allergy spray up the nose stuff and some tablets to starve off an infection the doctor said it sounds like I am getting.. Normally I would not take the tablets to starve off an infection just because the doc says it sounds like I am getting one... I don't like medications for just in case.. But this is a routine thing for me at least once a year I get a really bad case of Bronchial Asthma... So I am taking the meds to starve it off because I hate it, painful, sleepless blah blah blah.. feeling better now I have my pumps... Just hope it does not get any worse because I'll be knocked out for a week maybe too and I hate that..

Anyway with any luck it will all be avoided... :)

After I visited the clinic I went and picked up Francis as it was not his day to be at day care and they were just doing me a favor..  Which I am most grateful for as I did not have the energy to be trying to keep him still while I waited for my turn to see the doc.. He is sleeping now and I think I might just go and do the same.

I have been thinking about this for a few days now.. I figure I will put it in here as this is by no means of want to start an argument of any kind what so ever....   Just a few of my thoughts...

I am a firm believer that Genetics is what determines if your baby is going to grow up strong and healthy, smart or slow learner..  I was lucky I had the chance to breast feed and bottle feed so there is no way my son can be any part of any experiments to see which was best... Either way I think his dad is a smart cookie so I hope he takes after him... Francis already has my Aussie side (Blond and blue eyes) so he can have his dads brains. :)

Put all tests aside, surveys, what ever facts any one has ever read or said or done to find out the values of each and ask yourselves this...

What was best for you and your baby?  If you could not in any way breast feed your baby then of course bottle fed was the best way for you.   If you could breast feed and you chose not to then you have your reasons and that was best for you!
If you could breast feed then that was best for you...

For me it was both...  For the first month I had no choice but to bottle feed so for the first month bottle fed was best for me, but then I was able to breast feed. Not sure exactly what was going on but  nipples were the size of oranges and my son could not get his lips around them then there was a bit of a milk shortage... And in turn I was starving him...  Eventually we worked together and I was able to breast feed.  Which was great, but I lost a lot of weight (although i must admit not complaining about that), but some mothers, mine included lost so much weight while she was breast feeding my sister that she had to stop or my mother would have gotten sick herself.. She was run down and had no energy.... 

I discovered also when I stopped breast feeding and was back onto the bottle I had energy like you would not believe...  I was able to get though my day with out feeling as tired as I was before. I still enjoyed my afternoon naps with my son but they were not entirely needed. I did it because I liked them. :)   I hated pumping milk with a passion and it hurt my nipples more then my sons bite.. So when he could not get enough milk I'd top him up with formula, instead of pumping..  It was for me pumping was physically painful to the point of tears.. So for me turning to the bottle was best....

I have pro's and con's for both, as I am sure every one does...

So I believe that our genetics determine if our kids are going to be smart or healthy. And as for the age old question which is best bottle or the boob. I say what ever makes you happy, happy mum happy baby... As long as baby is fed and content then so be it... :)

All I remember is MOSCOW MOSCOW.. da da dadda da.. LOL

I found this while reading the news on the internet.. I don't need it yet but I'll remember it for the day I do...

BEAT THE BUZZER
I believe if you can get your kids into it you might just be able to arrive anywhere on time...
Good luck if you try it.. Let me know how it goes...

I can't believe it.. After two days of finally getting the right bike seat for my son, and actually being able to get him to wear his hat with minimal fuss. ( I had not brought myself a bike helmet, as is not the law here to wear one if you are over the age of twelve which I think is wrong) anyway I found the hubby's old one he had in the garage and when my boy saw me put one on he was only to happy to put his on too.. Yipppeeee..> So off we go... We get to Mc Donalds, then finish our special night out (Ha ha) and back on the bike we go.... OH NO the tire was as flat as road kill....

So hubby had to ride back to the house and get the car so he could come and get the bike....  I am upset I would have loved to of continue riding because Francis loved it and could not understand why I would not let him back on the bike.. Poor kid.. Anyway I am going to try and get it fixed tomorrow... Very unhappy about this but we will live...
After all it is just a bike tire...

Yesterday we brought a child bike seat. When we got it home we discovered that the guy that sold it to us pulled it apart completely to put it in the box as it was the store model... Now the problem was not only was it just supposed to fold down in half to put in the box, when he pulled it apart completely he had left a part out of it...

I took it back to the store and said "Please yadda yadda yadda the guy pulled it apart, bit missing yadda yadda please can you put it back together again?" An hour later I said to the lady I can't wait any longer...
A guy comes back and says 6 minutes just have to go and get another bit something missing... I said fine...
Then I go up the back of the store where they were putting the chair together.... I hear grinding so I take a look.. They were grinding down a bit of metal to put somewhere on the chair....

This is when I said... "Thank you but please can I just have my money back (by this stage 6 minutes turned into 20)?" And she gave my money back...

There were two reasons I left with out the chair...

1. The box had said easily installed in 3 minutes (had the guy realized that he only needed to fold it down and not pull it apart to fit in the box, no bits would have been missing) And I really could not wait any longer I had to get back home...

2. When I brought the chair there was no need to be grinding any metal.. And with them trying to put the chair back, having to grind metal which I can only assume was a screw, the bike seat would not be up to the standards it should have been because they added something to it.. Making the warranty invalid and more importantly not up to the safety standards that would have been installed had it just been given to me the way it was intended...

I won't risk that on my son... And I went and brought another seat from another store.. Maybe we will get to go for a ride tomorrow... :)

Ok tonight I went out to dinner with Cam, Hubby, and four of his male friends....   The place we went is a medieval restaurant.   And they have two guys there as entertainment, they sing play instruments and talk to the crowd..  Which I would normally find amusing or not understand because they speak to fast (it's all in french)  Anyway tonight was different...

I was speaking to our friends in French, then switched to English when I was having trouble finding my French words...
One of the entertainers looked over at me and said "WOW you speaking good saxon." 
 Then proceeds to tell me that his friend (the other entertainer) has a good tongue he speaks two languages and could make me a very good French teacher..."  I said "Thanks but I have my own personal teacher and pointed to the husband... I don't think he heard me because he continued to tell me that having to tongues is very good because it is very pleasing to speak with two tongues...

Now if you can all read into the double meaning there, as my husband and all of the other restaurant goes that understood English did  you would also know that it was very inappropriate.  Now I may have found this amusing somewhere else but I was also having dinner with my daughter, and I did not think my hubby would appreciate some guy trying to flirt with his wife while he was actually there... In fact the waitress did not like it either because she came over told him I had my own private professor and just to keep singing..  Where he then said " I sing a song in English for you"...   
My husband was very quite through all of this...  My step daughter thankfully could not understand.  I have no idea what was going through the other diners minds...  But the conversation did not end after the song.. They noted my accent and asked where I was from rattled off a few countries until they hit the right one.. And one of  the entertainers said " I Like it." One of the diners actually said " You've never been there!"  And that is what shut them up... And in the end we were so grateful just to pay the bill and leave..... You could see the waitresses were getting up set with them for continuing to talk to me like that....  

And when we finally did get out side my hubby said " there is a time and a place for flirting and that was not it."  He was not saying that about me as I was for sure not flirting back with them.. But I am more grateful that my husband is not the extremely jealous type and ready to thump any man that looks my way... I know there would be a few hubby's out there that would have gotten very upset...

But I am here in my basement with Minti... LOL The party is going on next door for my mother in-law but I came home to give Francis a nap.  Then I have a friend arriving later in the afternoon. Being that it is past Francis's normal sleeping hour he might sleep a little later and today I will let him because my friend is bringing her sons and their will be noise all round as Camille is here as well.

If there are still people at the party when Francis wakes up we will go back.. I could I suppose take the baby monitor.. Hmmm wonder if it will go that far...    But I don't like leaving him in the house alone. I suppose being that I will be next door and there is no fence between the two houses it would be just like me sitting on the balcony of our place.. But I still can't bring myself to leaving him in the house alone even if I have the monitor...
Oh well Looks like I'll just miss the party.. :)

Well I think I might take this oppitunity to take a nap  myself..

Oh yes and this morning we went out on a spending spree and brought three new bikes and a baby bike seat complete with helmet... Yipppeeee can't wait until tomorrow to go for a ride... :)

Ok back early but these days girls night out means home before midnight.. LOL I tried to get every one to come back to my place for coffee, but the boyfriend of a friend came before she even called him to pick her up so every one went their separate ways..   Still it was a very good night.. My SIL (who lives next door) and her two cousins who are a laugh a minute... :)

One of the cousins has this thing for taking plates, bowls or cups from places we dine...  It is so funny because we end up making her ask for them before she takes them, and some how she always talks them around.. Tonight was a little different though because the waiter was not giving in... But he came up to us at the end of the evening and said to the cousin "if you go over there to those two guys and make beautiful eyes at them maybe they will give you the bowl you want.. " So she did.. It was brought to the table by the waiter with all nice and safely wrapped... It has become a tradition with her now.. But we have told her part of the tradition is having to ask first.. Very amusing but it works... :)

Well going out for dinner Sunday night.. Looking forward to it.. We are going to a place called Dragon Rouge... It is a great place.. Medieval and I just love their chips.. :)

They serve all their meals with out knives or forks unless of course you ask..  And their idea of a picture or a jug of beer (depending on the country you come from) is a cauldron and you drink with soup ladles.  But we have to be there by 4pm because if you don't there can be up to a 2 to 3 hour wait.. Very popular place yet very very small....

My SIL is baby sitting. She offered to pay us a night out to dinner and baby sitting for looking after her kids for a week.. But she will just be baby sitting this time as we are out with friends.. :)

Anyway I am looking forward to it their fries are amazing... nice and sweet.. :)

If you have a close look at the baboon my reflection is in the glass.. When this photo was taken my step daughter had said it was dad.. So we took a photo of the kids with their baboon father.. Little did we know until we had a close look at the photo that I had been captured as well... :)

Just curious.. Has anyone heard of or know anyone who has had themselves so called "Legally unbaptized"?

Tonight I am going over to a friends house because she needs me... Not sure if I should take a bottle of wine as I know it is going to involve tears...

My friend rang me today and told me that the father of her two children who takes them one week out of two together then takes them one at a time the following two weeks...  For a long time he refused to take them both at the same time because he could not handle having both children together.. I know this because he told me so.    One day we were at his place for a birthday party for the boys because at that stage he had one son living with him and my friend had the other....   My friend said would you mind taking both of the boys for a couple of hours so we can go out for coffee.. He refused to take them.. I asked as I could not resist and I was nice about it and he did not seem offended that I asked but the answer came back in a matter of fact kind of way... My question was....

How is it that I can baby sit your two boys and have my step daughter all at the same time and you can't have both your boys at the same time???  (at that time I did not have Francis)... He matter of fact stated that I was a woman and it was my job to be able to handle that kind of situation...    

Anyway as the years passed my friend finally got custody of both her children.  And the father to this day has not paid a cent to her.  They came to a mutual arrangement last year that they would try shared custody but still leaving her leagally with full custody of both kids....

Anyway she received an e-mail today saying that he will no longer see one of the boys and if she can't handle him she will call child services...  Now my friend is distraut at the fact that a father can just dump a child so to speak and take one love over another.   I with out a doubt believe that half of this childs problems stem from wanting his father to love him. He has anger for his brother and I believe it is because of the competition that I have heard and seen coming from the dad...  Both her kids are good boys, they are great when they come here, normal fights.. But of late I believe (and will find out more tonight) that the younger one is having trouble trying to deal with the fact that daddy does not love him, and has not for a long time. And for the life of myself and my friend we can not figure out what it is that has driven daddy to this... Now his dad has major issues of his own that I won't go into, but they are of a weird nature...   Anyway I am going over to my friends tonight to lend a helping hand in damage control with her youngest boy who will be confused as to why his mother is picking him up from school and his dad has not come to get him, and why the older brother has not come home with him....  Thankfully they don't go to the same school because the school years are different...

I will find out more tonight. But I myself am so upset at what my friend has told me over the phone and I'll be finding the full story out tonight.. I would normally be asking for the other side of the story which I am sure I'll get eventually anyway, but I have seen the kids dads actions over the past few years... For example when my friend got full custody of the son that was living with daddy I helped go and pick him up...   He literelly had all his stuff waiting out in the hall way for us to come and collect it.. then when he saw that we were finished loading my car with stuff, I saw him push and I don't mean a simple nudge, I saw he push him with force out the door and slam it behind him...

But we made light of the situtation for for the children..

So with all that being said, I am drained and need a nap... 

Ok not usually one of the most confusing things, but I am trying to figure out what pictures to put in it.. Not enough space for all the photos I want, I want to make sure that I have one of each of the kids.. And possibly squeeze dad in there some where.   Now I don't want my step daughter to feel left out if I stick a photo of Francis and his dad together and one of her on her own or with someone else... Now she is not the kind of kid that will get jealous but she has had issues in the past with trying to feel like she fits in, not just with us as a family but with the other side of her family as well... And I want her to feel that she is as much of this family when she is not here as well.   I have so many great pictures but either they won't fit or she or Francis are alone.. Hmmmmm What to do.. I will figure it out I know.. I am just sitting here typing this up while I try to think... :)

This is Francis and his set up of cars on the coffee table.. LOL I moved them all to the toy box while he was at day care today.. He came home and saw they were all gone and got so upset.. But was over joyed when I showed him where he could find them... They are all back on the coffee table again.. LOL I think I will leave them there as it is the weekend.. So we might just be up early... All he seems to do is play with his cars when we are not outside.. LOL