The kids were all enjoying the lovely day yesterday & they were following daddy around the yard while he cleaned up.

It had been quiet for awhile & Peter had been mowing the lawns – which haven’t been done in about 3 months, yet they were only about an inch or so high – so I wandered out to the front yard to see what was happening. P was just turning off the lawnmower when I saw Ashton’s face take on a look of surprise, he stood dead still & started crying. The poor tyke copped a stray stone off the mower   He wouldn’t even move, I ran & grabbed him ’cause I suspected right away what had happened & as I approached, saw his chin/lip bleeding, so ran him inside to clean it up.

I was a pretty deep cut so we decided to take him to the A&E - One Stitch & no Local later, we were home. The poor boy had to be wrapped & held down to have a single stitch placed just below the lip in the indent on the chin (if that makes any sense). The lovely Dr tried steri-strips to start, but they weren’t holding, so he mentioned a stitch with a local, then it turned into no local the Dr decided that it would be quicker & better off without it, but he took it so well! There was some crying of course, but it can’t have been any worse than the nasty stone that clipped him, though I think someone learned his lesson about placing the mower on or near the stones in our parking bay (silly man!) but I didn’t give him too much flack over it, probably felt bad enough!

Now I just have to keep an eye on Ashtons lip as its looking like a puss filled blister where an edge of the stone must have hit, so I’ll put some Foban on for today & see how it looks in the morning, or it could be another trip to the Drs   I don’t really want to give ABs, but he might just need some.

I didn’t take any pics of his big fat lip, but I’ll have to at least take a pic of him stitched up with his lone stitch for the Photo album

Carwash time Uh, no, BATH TIME!

A little boy wandered out the door & down the drive to help daddy wash the car, but interest was quickly lost when he spotted a bucket full of water!

This wasn’t any old bucket, it was a bucket filled with warm soapy water – ahhh, the temptation was just too much for a boy who loves the bath, so the scantilly clad child climbed in the bucket   ;)

Looked like lots of fun, but at 5 in the evening, it got chilly pretty quick, so off for the real thing to wash away that nasty carwash stuff.

Looks like the Tubtrug on this weeks shopping list for my washing will come into good use for outdoor baths this summer

We’ll I’ve been super-slack & haven’t updated this in ages.

The kids are just growing too fast, Ashton turned 1 in July, we just had family around for a birthday dinner & he enjoyed his cake - Devils Food Cake in the form of a duck!

He’s been walking since he was about 10mths, 2wks & now is a climber who also loves light switches & power sockets – arggghhh!!! – so I now have to invest in more of those socket thingies because our old ones from Paijes days have perished away. He also now has 6 teeth, a 7th has just cut through & looks like no.8 won’t bee too far behind, but I am soooo over teething! I think its time to invest in a teething necklace & see if it works

(Corn freak No.2 – both kids will eat corn or peas till it comes out their ears!)

Paije is a funny little thing – more like a teenager than an almost 4yr old though  She has become very affectionate lately & always kissing us & telling us she loves us, also still gets along very well with her brother, apart from when she pushes him away from her or locks him out of her bedroom. She will be 4 at the end of September – I’ve already had to send off her enrolement forms for school ! we want to try to get her into Opaheke School & being out of zone I had to apply now for them to put her enrolement to Ballot for an early Sept Ballot, I just pray she gets in, so fingers crossed!

Anyway, her current “things” are High School Musical & Ben10 – so I’ve been slowly getting an education on how many/what aliens Ben10 turns into & also hearing her wandering around the house singing to HSM – and to the PussyCat Dolls – here’s the 4yrs old who walks around singing “when I grow up I wanna have Boobies” & shaking her booty & stripping off in time to the music, can you guess that Daddy turns on MTV & leaves it to go when Mummy is not home from work?  You can probably also tell Daddy sings with her because its really  ” I wanna have groupies”   

Ashton is also getting very good at shaking his booty too he has much better Rhythm than Paije, just the tiniest amount of music needs to come on & he starts shaking it & the shoulders & head bob away, its so cute!

Its all just going too fast now!!

DH & I were talking about PT the other day, her speech has taken off & gosh she has some attitude (along with being a little smartbum!) and then we clicked – she goes to school next year, I had just been thinking, “yeah, 18 months or so” but when DH put it that way   it made me want to get out the tissues  (sniff sniff) just realising that yes she will be 5 next year & starting school!

AJ is now 7 months! He’s a big little boy & cheeky. He’s now sitting & full-on crawling & even standing & trying to climb things. He’s had several teeth annoying him for awhile now, but still nothing, just some bumps, grrr! As you can see, he loves his solids so much, he tried feeding everything!