When I grow up

Last night we read a book called "When I grow up" by Colin McNaughton.

It was a good book. It had funny things to look for in the pictures, and
a nice rhyme to it. It wasn't too wordy (always a good thing when we are very close to bed time). And it prompts some nice discussion afterwards...
I asked Josh what he would like to be when he grows up. He said that he wants to be in a band and play guitar in a rock and roll band!
He already has his first electric guitar! We might have to take it with us tomorrow night when we go to Scott's place for dinner - they can jam together!!!

When I looked up the website for this book I saw that this is the same author who wrote "We're Off to Look for Aliens" ( a very clever book within a book concept) and the hilarious "Potty Poo-Poo Wee-Wee" (a great toilet training book!).

Ten o'clock

When I am home from work, Kel gets to sleep in. But when it hits 10:00am that is when we rush into the bedroom to wake him up... because it's Milo time! Every morning at 10am we sit down and Kel has his coffee and me and the boys have a Milo, or Quick. Lately when I have been at work I haven't had time to scratch myself, let alone make myself a Milo, so I really enjoy
it when I am at home... plus it never tastes as nice when I make it myself!
On Monday I was getting ready for work, and the boys woke up, so I got their breakfast ready, and then had my breakfast and then I was running late for work. Sam was still eating his cereal in the highchair, so I told Josh to go and wake Dad. At about 8:30am I got a phone call from Kel asking why I hadn't woken him up. Turns out that Sam had been sitting in the highchair for an hour and a half in front of the tv! It was only toward the end that he started yelling out, as if to say "Oi! Get me out of this chair!". Kel had assumed that I was sick and stayed home from work. When he got up he was very surprised to see just Josh and Sam in the kitchen. He asked Josh "Where's Mum?". He replied "Just at work". When Kel asked him why he didn't wake him up he replied "Coz it's not ten o'clock yet".

The Escape Artist

[this is one of those old posts that have been sitting on my laptop for ages...)

Kel and Mark were over last night for our regular Tuesday night dinner. I put the boys to bed and we were in the lounge room deciding who was going to drive to Macca's for dessert. Then along walks Sam. "Who got him out of his cot?" It turned out that nobody had. So I put him back into his cot (which had the side up) and watched through a crack in the door. Straight
away he flipped one leg over the railing, then the other. He held on to the side and dropped gently down onto the floor! I could hardly believe it. His brother had tried to escape when he was younger... using a slightly different approach. Here is the result. Needless to say we quickly did what I had been meaning to do for ages now, and lowered the base of the cot.
Sam was having a ball jumping on the mattress and running around while we got busy with the Alan keys! He wasn't very happy when we put him back to bed... and going by the way he was lying in the bed, when we checked on him later, it looked like he kept trying to get out until he fell into an exhausted heap!

Bits and pieces

Just to keep this blog alive... here is a post about all sorts of things that are going to just pop into my head... very random!

Sam shares hit cot with a zoo full of stuffed animals... including a frog, a sheep, a leopard, a dog, a rabbit, and recently a cookie monster. He also has a glow worm, a stuffed toy lullaby clock and a wiggles music player. Some nights he likes to play the Wiggles, and the glowworm and the Tad (frog) night music all at the same time!
Each night I sing him "Rock a bye Baby" while rocking him in my arms and lowering him into the cot as the song ends. Each time he gives a little laugh at the end.

Josh's bed time routine is a little different... he hops into bed and I sit on the bed with him and he tells me a quick story. He just makes up something on the spot and lets his imagination go wild. Then it is my turn. Sometimes he has another turn after that. One time he wanted to tell one more quick story... it was the quickest story ever... "One day there was a possum. The End" Sure made me laugh!
One time I told him a story about a horse that climbed a mountain. After that he repeated the same story, pretty much word for word not leaving any little bit out - very impressive!
Another little thing I have started is to leave him messages on his Magna Doodle (magnetic drawing toy). Mainly I do this when I am going to work the next day and might not see him before I leave for work. The other day he had drawn me a picture and left it in my room for when I went to bed.

Josh is really into sharks and crocodiles lately. He has a big soft shark that sleeps at his feet under the blanket. He also has his Tad, a penguin from when we went to Phillip Island, and tonight he had a koala and a teddy as well. He's not that attached to any of them though. He also has a Thomas pillow, which is a bit like a soft toy - I think it was called a travel pillow. It doesn't seem that comfortable to me, but I can't talk him into swapping back to his normal Thomas pillow.

Sam seems to think that his name is Josh for some reason! If you point to him and ask Who is That? He says Josh. But then if you ask where is Josh, he points to Josh, and if you ask where is Sam, he points to inside his mouth!!!

Josh is enrolled at school for next year! We did visits to four different schools in our town. Each one was different and each one had its positive and negative points. In the end we decided on Exford Primary, which is a small rural school of about 100 kids. It is an 8 minute drive from our house. It has a really nice community feel to it, they are very environmentally friendly, and surprisingly they were also the most technologically advanced school as well! There are a couple of kids from the kinder going there, and one of the boys from Mothers Group. Since there is only one Prep class, they are guaranteed to be in the same class together.

Sam has a new favourite toy, which is a little rubber ducky that lights up. He takes it with him everywhere and we have to give it kisses. Today he wanted us to give some banana lollies to the duck (his first sentence!).