Kids

Aaron has been whistling to Samuel again ;-) (while shoving his dummy back in hehee). Would be a very nice photo if Maddison didn't have a big dribble on her chin ... I didn't notice when I took the photo otherwise I would have wiped it off!

Here's a few things the kids have said the last couple of days ...

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Aaron came running to me this morning and said "Mum Samuel has done BIG poos, I know because I put his dummy in and I heard him"! :-)

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Maddison said to me after finishing her breakfast this morning, "I have ice cream now"! (not likely!)

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And this one is especially for my sister :-)

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Yesterday morning Aaron was in a pathetic mood so I was helping him get dressed and I pulled his shorts up and pulled his tee-shirt on over his head and was trying to get him to put his arms through the sleeves, but he was too busy with his shorts and said to me "Mummy I not an old man"!! Obviously I had pulled his shorts up a bit too high for him (they weren't up to his armpits though!). I can tell Grandma has been here because she pulls up her grandson's shorts or trousers up to their armpits and says "are you an old man" heheee

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Right that's it for today. Samuel has refused to have a sleep this morning and he's been crying out every 10 minutes or so! So much for me having a snooze! I think he just wants to be cuddled! (what a hardship!) :-)

Excuses ...

I AM SICK OF THEM!

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I shall vent my frustrations here since Samuel is sleeping and I can't yell! ;-) I don't mind excuses ... I use them myself on occasions. But right now I've had enough.

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Yesterday afternoon was "supposed" to be busy around here!

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The plumber/tiler man was supposed to come at 1.30pm to fix the tiles. He turned up at 3.15pm ... "So sorry Ma'am I had a car accident and my car is on the side of the highway with all my tools inside. I can not fix your tiles today. I come tomorrow. What time convenient?"

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Okay ... I can handle that. Accidents do happen!! So we agreed upon 10am this morning.

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Between 5.30 and 6pm the Maintenance Manager was going to come with a contractor to replace the water cylinder element in our bathroom. I phoned him at 6pm to ask how far away he was. "Oh we not coming, been a delay, you in a queue!"

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Oh really ... I didn't notice!

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So I politely (yes I was polite!) asked him when it would be fixed. "Oh next Tuesday"!! "WHAT - that's a whole week!" Okay, I can handle that too, so I asked him what time on Tuesday. "Next week on Tuesday Ma'am". "Yes next Tuesday, that's the 22nd, that's fine, but what time?". "Next Tuesday Ma'am". By this point I am getting a bit cross ... "Yes I get that ... but I want a TIME". (yeah my voice did rise a bit) "Oh in the afternoon Ma'am". At that point I gave up and just agreed that the afternoon was fine! 10 days without hot water in our main bathroom!

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It's a jolly nuisance to be honest - not so much for me, but the kids can't have a bath (although thankfully the shower in "Grandmas bathroom" is a novelty at the moment - long may that last), but I can't fill the baby bath with warm water from the tap in the basin, so I have to use a jug! Sigh ... it's the little things that are annoying right! Oh well I can handle that too.

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Today ...

10am came and went ... 11am came and went ... at 11.20am I phoned the plumber/tiler and asked if he was still coming this morning! "Oh we coming up to your place already Ma'am"! "Right - see you shortly then"!!

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40 minutes later they arrived. Their excuse for not being here at 10am. "So sorry Ma'am, but this man's relative passed away and he's just travelled all the way here!" I just looked at him and said "Why didn't you phone me to tell me then?". "I lost your number". "You have C's (the Maintenance Man) number don't you? Why didn't you call him and ask him to tell me?" I got a blank look at that question!

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The interesting thing is that they are working on the building next door and they actually park in the visitors car park of our building ... it doesn't take 40 minutes to walk here I can assure you of that!!! Let's hope they have white grouting today!

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So now the apartment is filled with banging & hammering noises. Samuel is trying to sleep in his bouncer as the cot is on the other side of the wall that they are hammering! We are hiding out in the computer room till they are finished. Hopefully before it's time to get the kids from school. (I'm not holding my breath on that happening though!) As long as they clean up properly this time I will be happy!

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In the meantime I think I will have partake of a little chocolate :-)

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Here's to happy excuse free days ahead (till next Tuesday anyway!!) LOL

Samuel

Samuel is focusing on us now and he's given about 4 real smiles that aren't windy ones (he's being a bit stingy with them though as I haven't managed to get a photo yet!).

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Lyndon took a couple of pics of him looking at me on Saturday night :-)

And today he's had a very busy morning! hehee I bathed him and put him in the bouncer while I got my bag ready to go out and came back to find him sleeping like this! ;-) "Oh my head" heheee
I bumped the bouncer and his little arms jerked out ... "I love you this much" :-)
Maybe tomorrow I will catch that smile with the camera :-)

Things happen in 3's ...

First of all it was the broken pipe in the shower ... and now parts of our floor & wall look like this.

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The pipe has been fixed and the tiles supposedly fixed (see this post). (Actually the contractor is coming back tomorrow to fix the tiles ... hopefully the grout will be white this time instead of cheating and using concrete - which by the way has all cracked and looks terrible.) Flooring in our room is being replaced next week and I have no idea when the wall is going to be repainted ... wait and see I guess.

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2nd thing ... on Saturday night the power went out in our entire apartment. (It happened on Friday night, but it was the entire condo - no idea what that was about.) Anyway Lyndon checked the fuses and did some investigating and found that it was the hot water cylinder in our bathroom that was causing the power to go. So we switched that off and had to wait till today to get in touch with the maintenance man. He came this morning and when I told him what happened he said ... "oh common problem, heating element needs to be replaced!" I just looked at him and then said "so it's wired to shut off power to the entire apartment when the element goes rather than just the cylinder?" He just grinned at me! Hopefully that will be fixed tomorrow night! In the meantime we are using "Grandma's bathroom" heheee (that's what the kids call it) :-)

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3rd thing ... this afternoon I was hanging up a shirt in our wardrobe and the entire bar fell down! All Lyndon's & my clothes in a crumpled heap ... what a mess! Good job I could fix that myself with a pair of pliers! hehee (I just wished that someone was there to take a photo of Maddison watching me fix it ... she was hanging onto my leg and peering up into the wardrobe saying "What you doing Mummy"? :-) I think she thought I was naughty getting the pliers out of Lyndon's toolbox! heheee)

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I just keep thinking about the electrical wiring job and end up shaking my head! Last year when the kids and I were in NZ for 3 months and Lyndon was travelling a lot, he came back to the apartment to a terrible smell. One of the air con units had a fuse melt down and that tripped the power to the entire apartment ... I'll leave it to your imagination as to what the fridge/freezer contents were like. I can't remember exactly what time Lyndon arrived home, but it was late in the evening (around midnight I think) and he was flying out the next day again for another trip. So instead of repacking his bags and getting some rest he spent hours cleaning up the mess in and around and under the fridge/freezer. Disgusting.

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It doesn't seem right to me to wire things up that if something goes wrong the power trips to the entire apartment! Oh well ... all part of life's little experiences I guess. LOL (I am just very glad we were at home when it happened so we didn't have another mess to clean up!)

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Fingers crossed that we don't need to call the maintenance man again in the next while!

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Bed Time Reading!

Last night Lyndon put the kids to bed and came out of their room straight away. Usually one of us stays in the room till at least one of them is asleep, but the last week we've been seeing what happens when left on their own!!! It's been interesting - one night Aaron was under his bed with some books trying to read by the night light!! Most of the time we've had to go back into the room several times and do some stern talking and in some cases a bit of discipline, but a couple of times they have surprised us and gone to sleep relatively quickly and actually stayed in their own beds! Anyway last night Lyndon came out and shut their bedroom door. I was feeding Samuel on the couch in the lounge and didn't hear any noise (if they are up to tricks you can hear them!), so I assumed that they were exhausted (which they were) and had gone to sleep.

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A while later (probably about an hour an a half) after Samuel was in bed and asleep I went to check on them and found their bedroom door locked! WHAT! Checked with Lyndon and no he hadn't done it, so got the key, unlocked the door and this is what I found ...

Two little darlings completely zonked out with books all over the place and the curtains pulled! Obviously they had been doing a bit of reading before they went to sleep and locked the door so they wouldn't be disturbed! heheee I can't believe I didn't hear them ... usually I hear Aaron's bed creaking when he gets out!

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I asked Aaron this morning why he had locked the door last night and he just gave me a guilty sort of grin and said "I don't know"!! hahaa

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Tonight I put them to bed and left the door open a notch while I feed Samuel :-) (sneaky of me ... but it worked!) They didn't get out of bed and they went off to sleep within 20 minutes :-) YAY for me.

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It's especially a yay for me because Lyndon has flown off to Australia this afternoon for work and is away all week, so I have the job of putting 3 little cherubs to bed at night! (I have been spoilt because the last 4 weeks I have only been putting Samuel to bed.) So fingers crossed that it's not just a one off and they will be little darlings every night this week going to sleep for me!

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Overheard ...

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A sort of one sided conversation I overhead early this afternoon before Lyndon left (this is very typical of Aaron).

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Aaron - "Dad, hey Dad"

Dad - "Yes Aaron"
Aaron - "Dad, hey Dad. Hey Dad I asking you. Dad. Hey Dad I asking you!!"

Dad - "Yes Aaron I'm listening" (you can't really not listen as Aaron is yelling all that out in one breath!)

Aaron - "Dad I really need to go on the laptop, 'cause Aaron's not feeling well" ;-) hahaaa

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Ahh dear ... we get all sorts of reasons why Mr nearly 5 has to go on the computer, but that one and "because his leg hurts", or "I can't walk" are the most frequent ones!

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Miss nearly 3 copies EVERYTHING her brother does & says! Tonight we were coming home in the car and Samuel started crying. So Aaron was chanting "It's alright Baby Samuel, we're nearly home, it's okay baby Samuel, we're nearly home". Next minute Maddison starts up so both of them are chanting it (very loudly ... almost shouting really) and Samuel's cries faded into insignificance! I was VERY glad we were only 5 minutes from home! LOL

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Okay I am off to bed. Thanks for visiting. :-)

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