clearly ate so well that they required 'condiments' 🙂
the sophisticated bovine of yesteryear
inner monologue
yeah, we all have one don't we? We noticed with Poppy hers is often on the outside, so to speak. Recently she was intrigued by something we had dug out to take on holiday with us, it was a large deck chair in a bag but she obviously didnt know so thought she would find out. She shouted me and i called back to her that I was upstairs and then it went quiet. Next thing i heard was dragging noises and this…
'ooh..this is heavy…..but dont know….find mummy…few more steps….heavy…could be?….almost there..'
and she pulled the huge deckchair bag and another bag with a tent in it all the way upstairs and then rounded the corner of the room and lifted them both as high as her arms would allow her and said…
'whats this?'
I love that she talks herself through things…better on the outside than on the inside i say, although not in the scary 'mumbling in the street, talking to people who are not there' kind of way…but how she was egging herself on. Very cool….very cute…very very much Poppy 🙂
game face…
sunny days mean water…this started as a little squirty water pistol fight but then got serious :)
love this game face from Ben…
didnt do him much good tho, 'cos he got soaked..heh heh 🙂
my kids…
i don't need to tell y'all how much i love my kids, you know that. There are days when i could tear my hair out mind you but some days they just ROCK..let me tell ya…
Packing day for holiday is always a challenge right? We usually divide and conquer, in that Ben will take the kids off somewhere and then I will pack. Well i decided not to do that this year and we told the kids that in order for us to go away on our jollies both Mummy and Daddy needed to work hard and get all our packing done. So they needed to entertain themselves and get along whilst we did this so we didnt need to be up till 2am packing once they had gone to bed….
I was a bit doubtful but they were amazing. They played all morning, tinkering with different things and then decided between them to make an enormous train track that ran through a couple of rooms. Minimal squabbles, much teamwork going on, it was cool to just listen to them working together. I was so proud of them…just kept saying to them how amazing they were doing….i mean as a kid you can never tire of hearing that right?
at lunchtime we decided to go for lunch at a little cafe that we walk past every day on the way to school and Isaac always asks to go to…its a bit flash..but we went, well me and the 'bigs.' Ben stayed to look after little babba who was catching up on some Z's….
Kids and eating out isnt always a pleasurable experience but today they just 'got' it. All three of them were awesome…
and yes that is a humungoid piece of cake Isaac has, we 'helped' him finish it 😉
have no idea what she was doing, she was like 'take a picture mummy!'
OJ in coffee take outs..heh heh…love it…
and a final scooter home to finish it off….back to the packing…
football school
Isaac took part in a football summer school a few weeks ago and he did pretty good. I find his interest in football interesting really, im never sure if it is a peer pressure thing or that he actually really 'digs' it. He is a pretty good defender and midfield player but not so much of a striker..he doesn't quite have the agression or the confidence yet…but we saw a massive change in him during the week in the way he played…
im a bit gutted that the camera focused on the kids behind Isaac 'cos he is doing great footie skills here no?
and he was on the winning team….which is always a good thing for Isaac and a great thing for those of us who are related to him…
