Kisses from Samuel

Samuel is getting smoochy ... his kisses somehow remind me of a goldfish! LOL (Not that I have ever kissed a goldfish! But it's the way he opens his mouth hehee).

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I love the way he chats and grins away at me now. He's quite social with other people too ... likes to impress the older ladies with his smiles!! ;-)

Love him :-) (love my other "babies" too of course, but Samuel is extra special right now because he doesn't give me any back chat! LOL) :-)

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Conversations with Little People

They are really quite entertaining :-)

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Yesterday Aaron had a little friend (Jessica) from his class come and play after school. She has an older sister & brother, not sure how old her sister is (she's in England I got told!) and her brother turns 10 soon. Was just interesting for me to see the difference between girls and boys conversations, particularly when they are surrounded by older people. It was also obvious to me that Maddison is definitely a tom-boy! hehee

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Jessica was very interested in Samuel until he did a little bottie cough. "Oh that's disgusting, I think I might vomit"!! (You can picture me giggling to myself!) She still kept looking at him though. A while later I was feeding Samuel and we had a little conversation like this:

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Jessica "What are you doing?"

Me "I'm feeding Samuel some milk"

Jessica "With your boobs?"

Me "Yes"

Jessica "Do they have holes in them?"

Me "Yes they do, and when Samuel sucks he gets the milk" (having trouble holding the laughing in at this stage ... you had to see her face!)

Jessica "Oh that's disgusting, I think I might vomit!"

Me "Well if you really think you have to be sick, please go to the bathroom"

Jessica "Oh I'm good at vomiting in the toilet"

Me "Oh ... well that's nice to know!" (Really what does one say to that comment!! hehee)

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Anyway after a bit she said she needed to go to the toilet and came back and said she'd done her vomit in the toilet! Really truly she had! (You should have seen my face!! LOL Mind you I was very very pleased she had done it in the toilet, otherwise she would have been really disgusted if she'd seen me dry retching if I'd had to clean it up!)

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I was changing Samuel's nappy and she came up, so I just asked her to go and play somewhere else because she was sure to think it was disgusting and I didn't want her to be sick again! ;-)

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Was a most entertaining afternoon for me :-) hehehee

This morning Aaron & I had a little conversation ...

Aaron "Hey Mum, I'd like a baby like Samuel"

Me "Really - where are you going to get a baby from?"

Aaron "Yeah, I'm going to have a baby"

Me "What are you going to call your baby?"

Aaron "Ummmm ... (big long pause while he looks at the ceiling!) Haymo, that's it's name"

Me "Haymo ... that's an interesting name, is Haymo a boy or a girl?"

Aaron "Ummmm ... it's a girl because the Doctors checked it and they said it's a girl and Aaron's going to get big in 5 hours and have a baby Haymo"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me - I was speechless!

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So when I pick him up from school at 1pm I will see if he's growing big hehehee

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Haymo! Where on earth did that name come from?

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Samuel's conversations consist of gurgling, grinning, burping & bottie coughing :-)

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Maddison saw me taking photos of Samuel and said "Mummy, get me with my toast" :-)

We are looking forward to Daddy coming home early this afternoon (he's been in Australia this week), a potluck dinner with lots of friends this evening, a relaxing Saturday and a "Special" Sunday.

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And now I am off to check the pavlova that's in the oven. I am taking that and about 5 batches of meringues for the potluck :-) (why so many ... there's about 50 people!)

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Laundry Tales

I'm going to air some clean laundry here! ;-)

I have to record this because it's made me laugh and besides it's part of life here. One day I will get round to doing a scrapbook page about it, and when I do I'll need the journalling!

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Because we live in an apartment, I have a very small laundry area. Lyndon put up a washing line for me above the bench - there's 5 lines about 1.5 metres in length each. With careful planning I can hang two full loads of washing up there!

The clothes line is in a plastic casing and the original string has been replaced by some thick plastic covered stuff which so far is holding up to the strain of our laundry :-)

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For obvious weight reasons I don't hang heavy stuff up there, like Lyndon's jeans, sheets and towels, I use the driers in the Condo's Laundry Room.

I have a love/hate relationship with these driers. They are fantastic in that I can wash two loads of towels and put both of them in one drier load and an hour and 10 minutes later they are nice and dry. But I hate that they are coin operated. You see I am not the only person in this 200+ apartment condo that use the driers, and when the coin box is full they stop working. The problem is that the key to empty the coin boxes is with the supplier of the machines - not the maintenance or admin people at our condo. So when the drier stops the supplier has to be phoned. This last episode has taken a week (A WEEK if you can imagine!) to come and empty the coins and reset the machines. I have complained about 4 times in the last week, because the load of unwashed damp towels at our place was becoming unmanageable! Late yesterday afternoon the concierge phoned me to say the driers were working again. YAY - I immediately put on a load of towels to wash.

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Later in the evening when I went down with a couple of loads of towels to put through the drier I laughed and laughed ... you see I have repeatedly asked the admin people to request that the supplier of the driers come on a more regular basis to empty the coins! The reason I laughed ... instead of coming more frequently they have doubled the capacity of the coin boxes hehehee

They are huge now! And what's the bet we'll still have the same problem though - because they've increased the capacity of coins, they will increase the length of time on their roster to come and empty the coins ... so we'll still be in the same boat! hahaa

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Anyway I am happy today because I have got all my towels washed, dried and put away :-)

"Samwell"

That's how some people in this part of the world pronounce Samuel's name :-) heheee (makes me grin every time I hear it).

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Here's a couple of pics of the wee man wearing a little outfit Nana sent him. He's 8 and a half weeks old, 5.5 kgs and has a habit of messing at least one outfit a day!!

And a little smile!
Only caught the end of his smile though ... wasn't quick enough!

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He's not sitting up by himself yet, but that spot in the couch (between the cushions) is the perfect place to plonk him down and he can sit there for a bit without sliding off to one side hehee

Scrap-it-Lah July Challenge

Scrap-it-Lah's challenge for July is to alter something ... anything :-) You can check out the details here and see what the design team have come up with.

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I decided to alter this coffee tin that's been hanging around for a while :-)

No idea what I am going to do with it, but I like it so it might just sit on my shelf for a bit. I am sure I will find some lovely treasures to store in it :-)

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I've used my most favourite Anna Griffin paper from way way way back (hehehee 2001 to be exact!), some lace, Prima flowers & felt leafy branch, bling brads, 2 Martha Stewart butterfly punches and Distress Stickles.



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