August

This is probably going to end up a rambling meandering sort of post - but aren't they all?

We've had some success at house bidding, we have two house viewings for next week. We are second on one house (reasonable size house, HUGE garden: 50+m) and another one but we don't know what position we are (Large house, ok sized garden: 15m). I'm happy to be viewing them but trying not to get carried away. If we are second on both then we may not get either. So we shall see.

Kayne and Lani had a sleep over at grandma's house last night. It's very wierd to be able to go out alone and not have to worry about time and what they are doing. I really blitz the rooms. Threw away 2 bin bags of esentually junk; puzzles with bits missing, paper, broken bits of toys, junk that the kids want to keep. We removed the rug from the living room; we just started to put things in order so it's easier when we move. My next job is to box up our ornaments becuase there are tons of them and we need to get rid of the display cupboard.

I think its funny how i'm alot calmer and productive when things are cleaner. I often look at particular places in the flat and think "where do i start?!" and then don't bother - which is wrong but.

Sadly Chocolate Milk died, in his sleep on Monday night. He was 3 1/2 which is a good age for a rat. Kayne was a bit upset. Lani said "oh no, Comet (never called him Chocolate) missing!" after we took the cage down.

We have had some fun days with friends and Grandma. Zoo, tramplining, park ...lots of pretend play and mostly nice playing between them. Lani has been teething so has not been particually forgiving, and ends up like a bear with a sore head sometimes; which is understandable.

I have read masses of books in the past couple of months. Reading is an expensive habit.

June already!

Today life stands like this:

Kayne is 5
Lani is 2 1/2

We have a nephew Alexander who is 2 months.

Everything is going ok, Kayne is finishing his Reception year and Lani is getting louder and more opinionated; she is somewhat potty trained - she gets too distrated sometimes and wee's anywhere.

We just put in a bid for a house in Hungerford, but with 33 other bids I don't think we are likely to get it. I can't wait for a garden to play in, to grow things in and for the kids to explore. For a house that will be organised and for our things to have a real place and not just somewhere to store it. This flat feels like a holding place to me, i can't wait for a real home.

I've read a huge number of books, both for me and to Kayne. Its interesting, i didn't think he would take much of the story in but sometimes he relays the story back to me and i realise he is actually taking it in.

What colour walls should we have?

After having kids I have learnt one thing that is very important (well many, but this one is relevent) ; Do not leave writing implements laying around.
Upon coming home yesterday Kayne informs me that M had got a 'team point' at school. Cue me spending a good 30 mins making team point sheets. Kayne gave people team points - me for washing, daddy for shopping, Lani for 'good talking'. They are now stuck to the living room wall. We put away the pens and things, they start playing with dinosaurs.
After sticking them up I went to sort out some washing. 10 minutes later i hear arguing, as i go into the living they are both stood on the sofa and i see they are fighting over a pencil. Kayne says 'Mummy! I was trying to help Lani put eyes on her faces but she won't let me!!' *sigh* Now she has forced our hand at decorating the living room. There is a meter of pencil wall art above our sofa! We also have the wonderful challenge of trying to pick a colour, i'm not going to attemp wallpaper becausei don't trust any of the walls to be straight or reasonable to hang paper on.
So i go and put some dinner on and then i open the kiddie gate and a few moments later Lani comes wandering to find me. She holds her hand out to me and says 'Oh no, look, blue!' sure enough she hand is completely blue, so are her arms and face, then she says 'oh memma (mummy) look, bear-bear blue'. So obviously one pen didn't go back and i have a teddy to wash again.

School Day 4

We are on day 4 of school and everything so far is going great. Kayne had a little wig out on Friday because daddy did his shoe straps up too tight. We got his feet measures on Saturday and he's now a 8F, so a half size in 6 months? and we got a choice of 1 shoe...
On the way home on saturday Kayne started to count in 2s up to 30, then tried 5s but got a bit confused with it. On Sunday after going to Grandad's 60th party, he tried 3s and got to 21. He told me Mrs. J told him how to do it.
Everyone got reading books on Monday i felt a bit emotional at the fact the he wasn't the only one to have a book, is that wierd? I looked the book up (as you do) and discovered it was for a reading age of 7.5 - 8!! I think they may have tested his reading age again. The last test we did said that he was about that so it feels nice to have it kind of confirmed. Today's 'book' was actually a play, which he didn't find that interesting. I spent more time explaining everything than listening to him read. I'm sure some of it went over his head. He got stuck on words that were not phonetical - 'concentration'.
He also got a 'sound book'. I had to laugh as he not only knows all the basic phonic sounds but he knows what order they come in in the Jolly Phonics scheme.

Lani is ok, she misses Kayne when he is at school. I tried to go to a toddler group but it's not on for another couple of weeks.

Last Thursday we went school uniform shopping with Grandma. I found 2 pairs of P.Js for Kayne for £5 in M&S, i was impressed. His current ones are becoming too small, meaning he is finially out growing his 2-3yr sized ones! I managed to buy all his uniform in age 4 which is a first. the trousers will need to be taken up though.

At the weekend we went to Nannies house. Lani refused to eat anything other than scotch eggs. She is a complete meat-eater at the moment. I'm not too worried about nutrients as she still has formula. But it's infuriating sometimes and embarrasing when she finds something she doesn't want on her plate and preceeds to *throw it* somewhere away from her.

Sunday we bought a new bookcase and put all of our books on it. Surprisingly there was a free shelf and so we put all the board books on it for Lani.

On Monday mum came over and we went to town. I bought some new books to read to Kayne at bed time. I haven't bought any bedtime books for a long time. Mum bought us some too. We bought a few for Lani - ones with out tabs or flaps that she can rip out.

Bank holiday

The end of the bank holiday weekend...
We didn't do alot this weekend. Saturday we went to Grandma's, Kayne practised on his bike, he is getting better at peddling it - but he is a long way off having his stablisers off. He comments on every child on a 2 wheel bike he sees.They both had fun at the park.
Sunday we went to Reading. We went to Hobby Craft. I bought some colouring books for myself. I love colouring in, i find it relaxing. I like when you've finished something and it looks good. We bought Kayne some Hama beads. We got some glow in the dark ones for when we decorate thier room. Kayne chose a UFO mobile. He had a good go at it but he struggled with the size of the beads. I've noticed more and more this holiday that he seems to have trouble with fine-motor. We also found some great adult puzzles so we bought 2 for us. We bought Kayne a 300 piece Horrible Histories' castle puzzle, Kayne and I have been doing it together. After we went into Toys'R'Us, Kayne, Mark and I oogled the Lego. we let Lani pick something and she wanted some 'Littlest Petshop' frogs (surprise surprise!). We noted that Schleich do knights and things - we are mentally doing some xmas shopping.
Today we nipped to town because i wanted to get some colouring pencils and water colour pencils. The kids played in the park on the way back. Lani insisting on going really high and fast in the swing. Kayne managed to traverse the cargo net bridge without falling in.
This evening Mark has gone to Ninjutsu/Taijutsu again. I hope he isn't as battered when he comes back as he was last week. But if he likes it then thats ok with me.
I think we have decided to go to the Saturday of the NAGC weekend - i just need to find our check book. We have also been putting together some ideas about how to organise the flat.

Our week...

Last Tuesday we had a nice but wet day at Cotswold Wildlife park. Kayne enjoyed looking at all the Reptiles finding out what they eat etc. Lani liked the penguins - she tried climbing over the wall. She also enjoyed the puddles.

The rest of the week we didn't do too much; got Lani some milk, went to the park. Kayne played 'knights' most of the week. We all read lots of board books. We watched some Olympics, Kayne has been trying to watch the boxing, and i won't let him which makes him want to watch it more.

The weekend whizzed by again, we went to Mum's and Sunday we had a lazy day.

On Monday Kayne, Lani and I sorted out all the toys and tidied up. We switched toys around they played trains most of the day. Kayne and I drew and read some stories.
On Tuesday we met Hannah and Sophie at the library, Kayne spoke so much! I was shocked. He had lots of fun and on the way home announced that 'Max, Ruby and Sophie are my best friends'. I enjoyed thier yogurt pot 'play'. He has spent the past few days pretending to call Hannah and arranging to meet them again.
On Wednesday we went to Tesco's, and Next. Tesco's for arty things and Next for some clothes for Lani, she grows so much we had to buy some clothes in 2-3 yr size! At grandmas we did some drawing, Kayne made a felt puppet, and the painted. Although in general more paint went on them than the paper. Kayne made him self a gorgeous shade of blue. It was interesting - i've noticed that he gets worried and then gets upset about things like glue, paint, water mud, sand but then once it's on him he abandons himself to it. The only thing it doesn't seem to work for is swimming but maybe i will take him soon and see if this new confidence will help out in this area.

On Thursday we met a friend i haven't seen for a long time. It was nice to talk and catch up. I watched the rhythm gymnastics which i love. Kayne said again that he wants to do gymnastics so i'm definatly going to find him a class to try.

Cotswold Wildlife Park

We went to Costwold Wildlife Park today, in the rain. We had fun even though we got soaked. Kayne decided he liked the train ride the best. He enjoyed the Reptile house alot particually the Rhinoceros Iguana and the insects. I think that we may go to a butterfly farm as he is raving about butterflies at the moment. Lani really loved the penguins, rabbits and cockrels. She shocked me with a few new signs i didn't know she knew, rabbit, pig and chicken (eg flapping her arms), i think she has been watching Something Special with out me!

Lani also enjoyed all the puddles. She did a few things that made grandma and I shocked;
I said 'Lani, do you want to take the frog home?' and she said 'no'. Which doesn't sound like much but she hasn't ever answered a yes/no question correctly before.
She also kept looking at the shelves in the shop and saying 'spider, spider!' and we couldn't work out what she meant. In the end grandma bought her the big soft tree frog. In the car on the way home she was holding the frog, looking at it's feet, and said 'hand, spider'. I think to her the frogs feet looked like spiders.

Fairy boy

So we are all better. Lani still has the streaming nose she had before we went to the beach. My nose is sore but not streamy and i can sleep because Mark is no longer snoring. I think it is safe to say we are not the true original hardy Brit's we once were. No more rainy day trips to the beach, well maybe. Everything is getting back to some semblance of what we call normal...which isn't really.


We went to town to put Lani prescription in, Then we went to the library, some of the way he was telling me a story about a mini monkey and a mini mummy - i wish i could have recorded it. Then we saw my cousin and i chatted with him for a few minutes. Kayne worships Jamie. It's kinda cute, he was telling J about Mario Kart.


We carried on and when we got to a bit where the paths split he would stand there and start singing the song about going to work from Me too!

'...is it up or is it down? Which ones a smile which one is a frown?'

...Well, mummy?

Up

..That's right!

(mummy should remember her tone of voice more often)

Every time he did this an old lady was walling past and commented to him 'that's a nice song', 'oh your very smart'.

In the library Lani did the same thing she does every time - yell, squeal and run amok, though she did look a book for 30seconds. We got the stickers that show Kayne has completed the Team Read - he is delighted with his Mr Stretch. We found some math books, with word problems and fun stuff in, and some stories.

We went to the public toilets and as i was helping Kayne, i hear a tiny voice hum/sing Twinkle twinkle little star. Lani really has a good memory for tunes.

In Woolies i looked for a magnifying glass for them both, so they can look at/fry ants, to no avail. In that back corner of WW there are the educational toys. Kayne was looking at a shape matching-lotto type game.

Come on Kayne time to go

ok mummy, anyway this game is too easy for a boy like me...

uh -ok.

Confident or conceited?

Yesterday we were using stencils and he says 'i'll tell you what they are...Square, circle, rectangle, diamond, crescent, star and triangle'......I did not know he know the shape 'crescent'. We made cakes too.

Anyway we had lunch in Woolies and then we bought two boxes of dressing up stuff, (*sigh*) one for 'girls' and one for 'boys' - why can't boys be fairies or girls police women? Anyway - we got it home (somehow) and Kayne dressed up whilst Lani napped;

He is so pretty. He quite likes fairies, he often sees the Rainbow fairy books and asks for them. He just wouldn't understand them yet.

Child Beale 30/07/2008

On Wednesday Grandma took us to Child Beale. It was hotter than we thought it would be but it was very nice out. We rode on the train, Lani spent a while yelling 'Oh no stuck!' after we had shut the carriage door. Kayne enjoyed the ride but was a bit upset it wasn't a very long ride.
We walked past the big lake and Lani saw the Blue-pea fowl and was saying 'Duck duck' and then looked again and said 'no; Birdy'.

We sat in the park area to have lunch but niether of them were hungry, they were too busy;

Lani with the sand:

And for the first time ever Kayne managed to get 3ft off of the ground!

We had a nice time looking in the aviaries and every time she saw an animal or bird she started yelling and squealing. She saw a goat and started saying 'baa-baa' which impressed me as i don't think she has seen a goat before. We went into the small animal shed and she was ooohing and aaahing over the baby Guinea pigs, i said 'they are Guinea pigs' and she repeated 'ginny pig'. We went to see the little monkeys (i think they were spider monkeys) i hoisted Lani up and said 'what is that, Lani', 'ohoh ahah' was her reply. I put her down she wondered off; found a branch that was 1 1/2 times her height and ran off across a green with it.

We walked some more, and came across the Roe Deer at the pinic area:

We walked under a walk way and Lani started saying 'oh no ...' 'oh no ...' and i couldn't work the last word out. We looked at the Owls and then came back under the walkway, Lani was saying the word again. Grandma heard it and said 'sky'. She had noticed that you can't see the sky under the walk way!!

We got round to the play ground and they played happily in the sand, in the cars and houses. Grandma watched Lani whilst i sat down. Lani saw a puddle: and RAN!! 'PUDDLE!!' yelled Lani and jumped in before Grandma could catch her....;

And one of Kayne;

A bit of R&R

It was so hot today!! The car thermometer rested on 28c but i'm not sure thats true.

We walked to Waitrose for milk, and Kayne gave a running math quizz the whole way there and back. He was doing addition and subtraction, with 100s, 1000s, and going into negatives. Interestingly he didn't do any in the shop. We let him chose which charity to give our coin to. He choose the Keevil Unit again.

After lunch we went to The Chase for a shady forest walk. It was really nice, Lani picked up every stick and pine cone on the way round. She led in the grass.

Kayne was ok for 2 minutes then started quizzing me on things; 'its green, shaped like a leaf and is on one of those trees, what is it?' OR; 'it's a leaf, that is green, it's like a feather, is it on the first tree, the second tree or the third tree?'

Everytime lani wandered off of the path Kayne started freaking out about it, and asking 'why is she going in the forest?' and yelling at her (and daddy) to come back).

Kayne managed to trip over again, so when the giant scratch from grandmas has almost healed we gain a grazed elbow and knee, and 30minutes of hysterics and cries of 'i want to go home and get a long sleeved top!!'

I paddled in the lake for a bit and then we continued. Showed Kayne the crickets/grasshoppers in the meadow they were so loud. I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday. I noticed on the way back that it was the canal boat festival, but i think it was way to hot to walk round there.

Lani and the outside

Lani isn't a baby anymore... Suddenly she is saying 2-word sentences and learning things from her secret stash of baby notes(!). I will have to try working out how many words she has but it has dramatically increased since the last count of 56 on the 20/07/08. She said things like 'mumma mole' (grandma's mole), 'ball blue', 'ayne no!' (Kayne no). She was also counting objects 'uno, dos tres' she doesn't count in english, i'm not sure if she is 1:1 counting or just repeating - more likely the latter, i doubt that if i asked for 3 objects she would bring me 3, or even bring me any!!
Her personality is so strong. She does what she wants, not that they aren't /disciplined/ but she is so sure of her self that she makes me question why i'm telling her no. Her physically skills are shocking, i'm not sure if hers are advanced or if Kaynes were/are behind. Actually i think Kaynes are a bit behind; which is something i'm worrying a little about.
They have spent to whole day playing in thier sand pit at Grandma's and in water, with cups and jugs and generally having a whale of a time in the nude!! Lani also enjoyed the compost again and the dirt and the pebbles and chased a butterfly around the garden. At the park she had no qualms about running of into the bushes and being roared at, she heard a dog barking and decided she was going to look for it. She did inform us - put her hand to her ear (signing heard/listen) and yelled dog! then said bye! and ran in to the bush.
My gorgeous girl just seems full of love for life :)

Climbing

It's day 2 of the holidays. We have been to the park both yesterday and today. I'm going to try and keep this up. I think (hope) the more we go the more he will gain confidence. I've managed to get him to swing on the swing on his belly - Massive!! he HATES the swing. He is starting to climb the big rope frame thingy too I took a picture today and hope that he will get better so i can get a series of 'highest place' so he can see that he is progressing. I noticed that he seems to lack co-ordination, he can't seem to move himself to get to where he wants to, he doesn't seem to know which arm or leg to move - this is similar to him on a trike he doesn't seem to get the alternating pumping of his legs. Is it lack of practice? I don't know.
I took video of Lani going up a 'ladder' on the play frame but i've managed to take it sideways again!! For now a few pictures:

A few video's of Lani

Gosh i have bad cameraman skills!! But anyhoo...
Lani and twinkle twinkle little star...

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And then Lani pretending to be a frog and then signing/being a bird...

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It's raining July

Wow, blogging has got all serious of late.
I was just looking again at the pictures of Kaynes sports days (see below), that middle picture? WOW what is going on with his hair?! Actually both Kayne and Lani's hair is getting so long, i'm glad thier hair is a bit curly or you would be able to see that it it comes to between thier shoulder blades.
I bought a new pc game - Settlers ~ Rise of an empire. It is so much fun. I love this series of games...it lets me get out my obsessive planning side with out driving anyone crazy! I've also been working on these Griddler puzzles. Well on the triddlers anyway. They are good fun, you have to use logic like Sudoku. Good brain stretching, and strangely i've been sleeping better since i've been doing them.
Lani and I went to see Stacy and kiddies this morning. Gosh they are so cute! It was good to just chat and drink tea. Lani had good fun playing with Joshua, and i kept any broodiness away by holding Tristen. Oddly i had no desire for another baby which is unusual for me.
Kayne had a taster day today for reception so was there from 9-3:15. It was very wierd, not sure what i'm going to do with myself when he's gone all day in September. I'm trying not to think about it and think more about the things that i'm going to do with Lani, like swimming and music/dance class things that i know she will like that Kayne never did.
Kayne is gaining confidence with reading, he keeps telling me he is very good at words, or that he is a great reader. He read 'passengers' today with no hesitation. He is improving rapidly and i think i'm getting a little left behind!
Lani is still obsessed with frogs! She can spot one a mile away!! I think i'm going to get her some toy frog things...just have to find some first! I'm so tempted to set my BiUbe up again and get some aquatic frogs...though i'm not sure where we could put it.
Hopefully it isn't raining tomorrow so i can go to the library and get some new books. I ordered a set of ten Corgi Pups from 'The book people' so that should be here in the next few days.

Sports Day

Today was sports day. The rain managed to hold off just long enough for them to do all the races. i was impressed with Mr B, he know all the Y1&2 childrens names. Kayne ran 3 races and did really well - even in one when he fell over he got up and kept going with a big smile on his face.

Some pictures;

Not many great ones sadly...i have decided i want a Digital SLR like dads which takes fantastic pictures. Also Lani was not happy about having to sit in the pushchair and was also getting very upset about the noise.... particulaly the guy who was yelling as loud as he could right behind us. I had to put my hands over her ears to calm her down as i couldn't get the pushchair out of the throngs of people...

She is growing up...

Lani has 2 or 3 new teeth.. i think it's 3 the way shes been with it. She is suddenly talking in 2 word sentances, she is making up signs because we aren't keeping up. She has something like 60 words, rough estimate. She is pretending to be a frog?!? She can't jump yet but she bends her knees, springs up whilst yelling ribbit! ribbit! She makes the little people kiss with sound effects mmmmwah! Is just growing at an astonising rate!!

All sorted now!

Lani is fine after her op. We got there and had to inform them of contact with said chicken pox, but as neither have had spots yet they said that they would do it.
She had Elma put on her hands for the sleepy stuff, which we've used before for the blood draws after the injections, though we warned them that they are unlikely to find veins on the back of her hands.
She was really good with not messing with her mini boxer gloves. She played happily with the crayons and a little boy about her age.
She was called down around 10:15. They decided to use gas and although she didn't like being held (she wanted to play with their bubbles) she fell asleep without any struggle or crying. I didn't cry either as i knew what was going to happen and that she was in good hands - i mean these people do about 20 ops a day so the chance of anything bad happening is slim.
We went and got something to eat and drink and got back to the ward at 10:45 and theatre had just called and said that she was out.
We went to get her and she was sitting on a nurses lap. The other nurse said that they didn't get chance to do observations on her as she was moving as soon as she was awake. She had gone straight to the nurse with glasses and then when we got there transferred herself to me. We went back to the ward and after a bottle, she was running around the ward about 15 minutes after she had woken up!!
It was funny she was like the poster girl for the NHS; a gown on, a cannula in her foot, running around with a big grin on her face as if nothing had happened.
Two days on and her eyes are lovely and clear, no gunk, no tears unless she is crying. Although we have noticed how little her nose had run until this point. She is sneezing a bit which i think is because her nose is not used to it but it'll get better. So now we can have pictures without gunky eyes and sticky eyelashes.
She weighed 11.6kg or 25.5lbs

A picture of her 'new eyes' :

Sickness and operations

Well I mentioned that Kayne's friend was away - turns out he has chicken pox. So now Kayne is at risk of having it. He had a temperature on Friday and it was worse over Saturday and Sunday. Monday he was better, barely a temperature, and wanted to go to school to see if M was there. The nursery called me at 10 ish and asked if I'd collect him as he told them he was 'a bit poorly'. I walked over and he was very hot again, they suggested he was getting chicken pox as he had blotchy hands? He fell asleep at 4:30 and woke the next day at 11 am. We've been dosing him with Calpol and Neurofen (fever combat style!) but his temp was still up. Then i noticed his glands and looked in his throat - ewww!! Booked an App for this morning. He has bad tonsillitis and may still possibly get chicken pox.
As he has had it for 5 days we've had to have antibiotics, if he doesn't improve in 2 days then we have to go back....

Tomorrow is the day of Lani's eye operation. The past 2 days her eyes have been disgusting. I'm glad that we have decided to get them sorted but it doesn't make you worry any less. I can't imagine how I'm gonna feel tomorrow holding her when they send her off to sleep - i won't let Mark do it (even if she decides not to like me after). I think the worse thing is going to be that she can't eat for several hours before hand - she is going to be so cross.

A bit of everything

This is gonna be a tired ranty kind of post. I have the knotted feeling in my stomache and i have no idea why.

i think Lani is teething again. She's grumpy at best. The only taking one brand/flavour of medicene is annoying as i can't keep her pain free. She is waking early, then is overtied at nap time. Today she had 45mins instead of the normal 2-3 hours. I'm so worried she is going to drop her nap. There will be no hope for me when she does. I haven't figured her out yet. She gets so frustrated sometimes and i'm not used to it. Or aleast not like she does it. Kayne got frustrated but he had more verbal ability (at the same age) than she does, i could talk to him about it but with her she just screams, stamps her feet and cries.

It's strange that they are so different, some how i seem too think that he had better language than Lani at the same age but i'm not so sure. Maybe the difference is that she NEEDS that thing right now! she MUST look at that particular blade of grass even though we have seen a gazillion in the past 3 steps....maybe this is the intensity i read about in other children that i feel Kayne is lacking in the assigned title of 'giftedness'.
Maybe i am looking at her too closely in comparison to Kayne. So lets see what does she do that is different to Kayne, that is unqiuely Iolani....
~ Pretend play... She loves her bears! She has been feeding them, puts them in push chairs etc, since she was about 13 months. She makes tea for everyone at Grandma's with their tea-set.
~ Mimicary... she repeats words, sounds, and sentance sounds instantly. Diego: can you say larga, lani: lar -ga . Her signing is good too, she understands the concept of signs and so when i show her one she repeats it quickly (the latest one is 'again').
~ Birds... I have just this second realised that she is obsessed with birds. She gets so excited when she sees one. she stamps her feet and shakes herself, shouting birdy! and signing at the same time. Nature i suppose is her big joy.
~ Climb...She is very physically gregarious, she climbs everything, up slides, onto our bed, moves toy boxes so she can get things.

Kayne is his uniform on his first day.

I was really pleased to get kayne's reading age, i thought it would help. But it seems weird, the books at his reading level he won't touch. The school ones he gets are good so far, i've noticed that they are slowly getting more lines on a page. Hopefully then he will be more inclined to pick books that aren't 'learn your ABC's' or something similar.
We've had a wobbly school week, 'i don't like it', 'it's got too much playing' 'i don't like it when they call me a star', comments which threw me a bit until i found out that the boy he likes is away at the moment - so i'm hoping that it's all to do with that.

I think i need to reconnect with my children. It sounds weird but i think that when you get comfortable with how things swing you forget that they grow, change and become new people right infront of you and in such a small space of time. I think that i have been trying hard to look at whether i am parenting the way i want to. I have needed this time to adjust myself and my goals - now though i need to be involved and relax (not that i've been letting them run riot, just been very introspective).

Adorable

Anyway on with a new day...