Good evening everyone!

The start of school holidays is upon us, so I am contemplating what to do with my kidlets for the next 2 weeks.  I have a few ideas.  Will probably get together with another kindy mum and do some day trips and visits.

I spent ALL NIGHT last night trying to upload my crazy advice.  (The long article that turned into 3 articles).  After all those weeks writing them (I have no life!) it took me nearly 4 hours to upload them.  Minti has been VERY SLOW for me lately, my links didn't want to link and then at the end of it all THE DAMN THINGS WERE DISABLED DUE TO OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE!!!!! :-)  I believe the problem word was killing/kill so hopefully soon they will be up and running.  More trouble than its worth?

I have a headache now- so i think I will have an early night.  imogen hasn't been sleeping well lately.  I think she is breaking through several teeth at once.  I have discovered 2 new molars a few days ago.  I had her in the emergency dept on Tues.  I thought she had broken her finger.  one of those incidents that makes you want to cry as a mother.  Imogen was sitting next to a cupboard in the lounge.  The other kids were playing nearby.  I was serving dinner but could still see them.  I heard a cry and realised that Imogen had her hand on the hinge side of the cupboard door and Charlotte had closed the door jamming her finger inside.  her finger was flat, purple, bent.......ooohhh it looked awful.  After a bit of first aid I realised it probably wasn't as bad as I first thought- the swelling had de-flattened her finger......but got it checked out to be on the safe side.  Funnily enough, this all is relevant to my latest advice, yet to go live.........hmmm, should I be admitting my faults as a mother at this time?????

AND my roof leak started leaking again when it bucketed down yesterday.  The man came to fix it again, hopefully for good this time.  Just when I had started using my light switch again.....now I have to wait for it to dry out once more! (Don't really want to be electrocuted!).

Thats all for now.  just waiting anxiously for my articles to appear (I take it all a little too seriously,LOL).

Josie

BIG DAY OUT

We went to see Disney Princesses on Ice today.  It was brilliant!  Makes me wish I could skate like that.

I now officially have the hots for Prince Eric!!!!  Fit firm buttocks in tight tights: mmmmmm.   So yes, there was something for everyone.  I will never watch the Little Mermaid the same way again.

Lachlan loved tinkerbell- everytime she went away he asked when she was coming back.  Charlotte was waiting for Ariel and Aurora (although she had the easiest gig- most of her role was to lay very still: asleep, being sleeping beauty!).  Imogen stayed home with Gran.

The kids have crashed in bed.

3 stories tonight

1- The funny: Charlotte and Lachlan were working together to get into trouble tonight when I was trying to serve up dinner.  I knew they were playing with an egg and I had told them to put it away before they broke it.  I was on the other side of the kitchen bench strapping Imogen into her high chair when I heard "IT IS an iguanadon!".  well, I knew straight away what had happened.  they had revealed the contents of the egg onto the kitchen floor and proclaimed the species found within! (with Lachlan being the dinosaur nut- it would have to be some palaeontological specimen)........Meanwhile I was trying not to laugh....you know, discipline and all that!

2- The painful: Its lucky I am relatively fit.  I went to pick up the kids from kindy today, lachlan ran outside with his friends and promptly stacked it in his excitement.  Well, being emotionally fragile at the moment, he wasn't the bravest, and usually I would say its not so bad, you'll be alright...(ie get over it) but he didn't want to walk- so then I had to push him in Imogens pusher, carry her with a pram full of backpacks and shopping, as well as Charlotte hanging onto the side of the pram.  that was hard bloody work.  An Imogen doesn't hip carry well (she doesn't hang on, she just hangs) and Lachlan weighs a ton.  I was stuffed when I got home. I wish I had the baby carrier in the pram.

3- The not funny at all:  Do you ever get the feeling that you were some place, at a certain time, for a very specific reason? i worked on the oncology ward on the weekend and saw my 2nd cousin there.  I realised that it was HER son in room 1 with the possible kidney tumor yet to be diagnosed.  By the end of the weekend I had seen several family members that I hadn't seen for about 3 years.  If only it was under better circumstances.  he was having a CT scan today to see the extent and plan treatment.  but they are thinking its a wilms cancer, and my 2nd aunt told me that they had been told it was about 1kg, wrapped around his entire kidney and they think he has had it for a long time, but no Drs would listen to their concerns!!!!!.....he is only 11 months old.  I am going to check in on them tomorrow in my lunch break if i am working on another ward.  hopefully the scans weren't all bad news.

This is so cute, and good for a laugh.

The kids were having one of their psycho moments tonight after their bath.  Charlotte strecthed up and I said to her- it looks like you are doing yoga.  she said what?, you know, yoga.  would you like to do some yoga?  YEP!

So Charlotte and Lachlan did about 30 minutes of a yoga. video.  I haven't seen them concentrate for so long or follow instructions so well.

I tried to do yoga with them before Imogen was born and it lasted all of 5 minutes before they got bored.  charlotte wants to do it again tomorrow.

I tried to upload some pics, but the camera doesn't seem to be commecting to the computer tonight.  shame, they were funny.  will try again tomorrow.

try again, aha- worked. took forever though.