Apologise for what?

Last night I was greeted at the front door on my arrival home by Clyde…

Clyde: Say sorry for being rude to me!
Me: I wasn’t rude to you.
Clyde: Yes you were.
Me: When?
Clyde: This morning when I wouldn’t put my cars away after you’d asked 3 times!

Bonnie's First Tooth

Today, after many many days of wiggling... Bonnie lost her first tooth

Photo coming soon

I missed her moment

Today was Bonnie’s sports day at school for kindergarten to Year 2 scheduled for 9.30am to 1.30pm. Bonnie, being my daughter, I assumed she’d have as much athletic ability as a three toed sloth after half a case of beer. With this in mind, housework beckoning and the fact it was like 50°C outside I decided not to go. When I collected her from school, she was so excited and she was talking 18 to the dozen and finally spat out that she won her race. She must be Napoleon’s daughter!!! And I missed her moment!

Me: Do you know how far you ran?
Bonnie: Yes
Me: How far?
Bonnie: Past the judges!

Sorry sweetie, now I know you can run… I’ll come to the next one.

7 Year Itch?

This time 7 years ago I was walking down the aisle and preparing to say “I do”. Does the “7 year itch” start now?

Happy Anniversary Napoleon!

Teachers have first names?

Bonnie’s class recently found out that their teacher has a first name. When this amazing fact came to light, Mrs Cooper addressed the class and told them that Mr Cooper doesn’t call her Mrs Cooper at home and yes, her name is Karen. She then reinforced that she is their teacher and they are to call her Mrs Cooper and under NO circumstances are they to call her Karen.

With that out of the way, work needed to be done so Mrs Cooper starts handing out papers to all the students. She puts one on Bonnie’s desk, Bonnie looks Mrs Cooper in the face, winks at her and says “thanks Karen”.

How much is the tooth fairy paying these days?

Bonnie has her first loose tooth and the other night she stood in front of the mirror for two hours wiggling the bloody thing.

I offered to put some string around it and tie it to the door handle, but she was unimpressed with that thought. She was also unimpressed when I offered to punch her in the mouth (some kids are just never happy). So I guess I’ll just have to let nature take it course!

What is love?

This morning the kids were watching Hi-5 and Bonnie pointed out Charlie was wearing a belt buckle that said “LOVE”. Bonnie then asked me, “Do you know what love is made out of?”… “No honey, I don’t. What is love made out of?” Her answer… "molten rocks!"

Well, I laughed so hard I nearly hurt myself…. “Darling, love sometimes feels like that… but I think you’re talking about LAVA.”

2006 School Photos

I now have both Bonnie and Clyde's school photos for this year...

Bonnie

Clyde

My version of tidy?

I remember as a kid my mum would tell me to tidy my room and when I told her it was already done, she’d ask… “your tidy, or my tidy?” I used to think… tidy is tidy! Yesterday, I finally understood the varying degrees of tidy.

I asked Bonnie to go and tidy up her room. “It’s tidy” she said. I looked up the hallway and could only see her doorway and could already tell the room was a mess, “it’s a pigsty, I can see it from here” I informed her. Her response…. “But I cleared a path to the bed!”

Mum… Stop laughing at me!