M for Molly!

Reuben went to his first Birthday party at his new school (well the party was in the church hall)- it was a disco and he was very unsure. Molly however loved her gift and I really enjoyed making it! So without further delay here is M for Molly!

One to remember…

This is a verbatim conversation from this afternoon- he really did shout ‘aha!’- too funny!

• Reuben: Daddy you will go to the shops and you will get me a red incredibles T-shirt so that I will be able to get up there (to touch something on the ceiling).
• Daddy: Well maybe we might go to the shops and look and see if we can find an increidbles T-shirt, but even if we got you one it would not give you the ability to fly.
• Reuben: Oh. Then you could get me a super spider to the rescue T-shirt (spiderman) and then I could jump up there.
• Daddy: No you still wouldn’t be able to fly.
• Reuben: Oh. We will have to think about that. Maybe there is something else that you could get me so that I could touch it? Aha (!!!!) We will get a great big ladder and then I will climb up and touch it and then jump down and then Jude will climg up and touch it and then jump down.
• Daddy: I don’t think that would be a good idea.
• Reuben: Why not?
• Daddy: because if you jump down from the top of a big ladder you will hurt yourself.
• Reuben: Oh. Touches lip where he had fallen and broken skin on sunday
• Daddy: yes you might hurt your lip again.
• Reuben: Oh. Then we have to think about that.

I have a Four year old!!??

Reuben was 4 a few days ago and how do I sum that up?

well..Why?

What?

When?

No it’s not.

No I’m Reuben.

I am 4.

I laugh in your face!

Testosterone already.. and challenging.

He is still lovely though. Happy Birthday Reuben.

3 Kids- madness?

So far I think I’ve been suprised how easily we’ve adapted to having a third. The change from have no kids to one kid is huge, as is the change from having one kid to two (friends of ours once memorable described it as ‘having one child is like having a pet, having two is like running a zoo’). Two to three doesn’t seem such a big leap so far. By and large we’re all just taking it in our stride. I’m also finding that things become far less of a big deal with successive children. When you have your first baby it seems inconceivable that you could go back to life as normal (which is true, you can’t, because ‘life as normal’ was ‘life without kids’) but we were heading out with Elias to do some shopping and eat out within a day or so of his being born. When you’re used to dealing with a stroppy toddler or two, then a baby that is sleeping most of the time and can be put in a seat or under a playgym and you know they’ll still be there when you next look is a breeze!

Mark

Half Term Activity

This was before…… and the next two are after.

I bought the masks from our local hobbycraft shop and used ribbon and felt. The kids did alot themselves although needed some help smoothing and sticking to cover the whole mask. I will hang them asap in the play room.