Misunderstood

Sigggghhhhh. What is the world coming to when even emoticons are misconstrued. You try to help someone out with a gentle reminder punctuated by smiley faced emoticons to try and help indicate the tone and intent of your message and the person jumps down your throat. The world is hardwired for failure.

GAKKARI

The computer died last night.

Lost all my most recent pix that I hadn't moved to my pictures - a bunch from a recent photo shoot, Wombat goofing off in his new knitted hat, pix of us at the most recent Playhouse theatre production, Monk showing off his brophy aerial skills to me in the holidays - all gone. All already deleted from my camera too.

Absolutely GUTTING :(

Selfie haircut

Before

Some unfortunate circumstances last week meant that a self haircut was necessitated.

After

 With Glasses

Without Glasses

Mr 10 looked at my freshly cut hair and didn't say a word just gave me a hug. That's encouraging!

Positive Body Image BACKFIRE

So I've just recently discovered that Wombat appears to mistakenly believe that Skinny jeans make you skinny - I came to this realisation just last week when he wasn't able to wear either of his two pairs of jeans and he became rather distraught about wearing track pants, even exclaiming to me - "Mummy! I don't want to wear track pants - they will make me look fat!"

(when I recounted this to my friend Amee she replied - "OH MY GOSH! He's a 16 yr old GIRL!!!")

Then,....on Friday night after soccer practise myself and all three boys were at the Supermarket and Wombat who was wearing his uniform short shorts was sitting in the shopping trolley. Looking down he saw that his thighs were consequently squished/spread and he cried out with much angst -
Wombat: Mummy!!! Look how fat my legs are!!
(Hmmmmm, positive body image enforcing I thought - here goes!)
Me: Your legs are NOT Fat Wombat! Your legs are MUSCULAR.
Wombat: Mummy - what does muscular mean?
Me: Your legs are full of muscles! Big and STRONG! Your legs are NOT Fat - they are MUSCULAR!
Wombat paused and thought for a second and then exclaimed with some excitement - Oh Mummy! Your legs are VERY muscular because they are HUGE!!!!
Me: Yep.

Out of the mouths of babes.

Classic Wombat

Scene: Grandma's Family Birthday Dinner, with the fam at Grandma and Grandad's.

Bear: Did you know that only ducks quack?
Adult (possibly Grandma): Ducks?
Bear: Yes, only Ducks (the females) quack and (Mallards) don't.
Wombat: And mushrooms do nothing!

Everyone (except for Wee Grandma aka Great Grandma who doesn't get it) instantly devolves into uncontrollable hysterics.

There weren't even any mushrooms in the dinner either - in case you were wondering.

Soft Brown Sugar - smelly?

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but for sometime now Soft Brown Sugar in stores has been different - it reeks of Molasses and Soft Brown Sugar just doesn't usually smell like that I'm sorry! One packet I bought was even a disconcerting bright orange colour! I had even stopped buying it because of this change which is a pretty big deal for me as I like to be stocked up on my baking supplies and I regularly bake goodies for the boys' lunches! I am still noticing the difference even now - the Brown Sugar stinks out the whole baking aisle! Anyway, I decided I would bite the bullet so to speak and buy some of this stinky new Soft Brown Sugar and test it out to see if the smell affected the flavour in anyway - if it did it would mean no more choc chip cookies, pumpkin muffins and a bunch of other treats!
SO, made some Choc Chip Cookies up the night before last annnnnnnnd - all good! Guess we just have to put up with the smell!

Sleepy Head

A pictorial post of Wombat's various and random sleeping "spots" ie. places where he has randomly fallen asleep around the house - oft times literally "fallen" asleep : )

Just about to colour in his new colouring book zzzzz

Unposed - honestly just fell asleep on the floor like this zzzzzz

Nodded off whilst watching Phantom zzzzzz

Discovered just like this zzzzzzz

(just kidding!)

Collapsed on floor zzzzzzz

Dozed off on Mum zzzzzzz

About to draw at table zzzzzz

Fell asleep in little chair zzzzzzz

Fell asleep watching Sesame Street zzzzzzz