Thursday, March 14, 2013

Peanut butter


How beautiful is my pantry?  Love it!  So much more space than in my old one. I am particularly proud at how neat it is at the moment.  But let me draw your attention to the peanut butter in the middle shelf of the pantry.  A strange thing happened this morning.  

We were in our normal Thursday morning routine.  I'd come back from my brisk walk with a friend.  We have kept up our 7am commitment to walk together on Thursdays, not only is it good exercise but it's therapeutic as well, as we share what our households have been up to and brainstorm work issues!  

Anyway, I digress, everyone was eating breakfast before we headed out the door for work and kinder.  That's when Jack asked for toast with peanut butter, but not just peanut butter he wanted jam as well.  Not that strange? Well the strange bit is that he wanted them together!  You know, like Americans have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!  Who taught him that?  What does he think he is, American?  Weird! All I can put it down to is that he is taking after his Grandpa who used to have bread, jam and cheese together!  Yuck!!!

Hat


We went for a walk yesterday - yes this post is a day late, I got distracted reading a book last night - anyway we walked to the post box which is a good distance from home.  Well actually I just looked up whereis.com.au and it's only 800 meters from our house and should take 9 minutes by foot, but maybe it wasn't accounting for the hills, which are steep!  And I'm sure it wouldn't be considering the resistance you get when pushing a 10kg child in a pram.  So lets just agree that it wasn't a big cardio work out but I'm sure it helped with strength and toning!  

So we got to the post box, posted my letters and then realised that Lachlan had pulled off his hat at some point. Lachlan doesn't like wearing his hat so this wasn't really a surprise but still annoying.  Jack on the other hand loves hats.  So back we tracked on the look out for the missing hat.   Found it not too far from the turn off to the park and with Jack saying "Please Mummy can we go to the park? Please? Please? Please?!"  How could I resist?  

At the park we met another little boy, similar age to Jack.  This little boy had one of those soft padded helmets on because six months ago he bumped heads with his cousin and was knocked out and had concussion!  If that's all it takes I'm surprised my boys haven't had a concussion yet!  

So after a good play in the park with this little boy and his very protective grandpa we went home.  Of course, once we got home Lachlan didn't want to take his hat off!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Up late


Just home from a kinder committee meeting.  Oh my!  I can hardly think of where to begin!  

Well for now I'll hope my Panadol and cup of tea soothe my mind.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Slip 'n' Slide


The neighbours came over for afternoon drinks and our homemade slip 'n' slide today. Two of the men folk had a slide with the 6 kids. After they left Jack and even Lachlan kept sliding away!  

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Sleepy heads


By the looks of this photo you'd think they'd had a big day, but all they did was play with their cousins.  I mean if they'd gotten up at the crack of dawn to try on bridesmaid dresses, check out a mother of the bride outfit, drink champagne, encourage their siblings to spend money, help in-laws move house, assemble ikea furniture, hang washing, change sheets, cook dinner, feed and bath children... then maybe you'd say 'yes, no wonder they fell asleep in the car'.  

Friday, March 8, 2013

Puppy love


Aunty Fiona and Uncle Biff have a new dog.  Lachlan wanted to give her a hug.