Does green playdoh count as "greens"?

Okay, Bad Mummy here, signing on for a quick bloggy session while ABC2 is babysitting the kids for me (you know you do it too!). I am on a Tupperware Kiosk at one of the local shopping centres this afternoon and I have a few minutes up my sleeve before I have to get ready (if I get ready too soon it means I have more time to get grotty before I go). I just wanted to share a wonderful book I bought this morning...

Jasper McFlea Will Not Eat His Tea

Author: Lee Fox

Illustrator: Mitch Vane

Publisher Lothian (Hachette)

ISBN: 9780734410993

It's a rhyming book about a boy that wont eat anything but pasta. Sound familiar? If not then stop reading now so you retain the disillusionment that I'm a wonderful mummy. I think I had the lady at the bookshop ready to call DOCS on me when she asked if was anything like my kids and I said that I had started counting the coloured "vegetable" pasta as veggies. She gave me a disgusted look as if to say "oh, what a bad mummy, my kids ALWAYS ate EVERYTHING on their plates" and I gave her a look that I was hoping said "you just try saying ANYTHING to me" or "I am so wrecked today that if you dis my parenting I'll let my kids loose on all your precious books" but I think it actually said "eh? they're still alive aren't they?"

So back to the book... It's a new title so it's still full price and I haven't located it at Big W or Kmart or anywhere for cheaper but when I read that the Doctor they take him to was Dr McTavish I had to get it.

Then we had morning tea with a friend I hadn't seen since before Christmas. Our kids are so close in age (big kids a week apart, little kids a month apart, she thinks I'm nuts going for number 3) and we just spent the morning marvelling at how much they have all grown up. The two little ones were keeping up with the conversation just as well as the big ones and the big ones were filling each other in on their respective kindy activities. I think B found out more about Lion's kindy in a few minutes than I have in the 15 months he's been there.

Bad Mummy signing off ;)

Little Sports Stars

Friends have started up "little sports stars" here. Last Thursday they wanted a group of kids to experiment on and make sure everything was going to run somewhat smoothly for their first day, they had two of their boys, a friends little girl, another friends little boy and Lion fitted the age group so along we went along to see what it was like and to help them out. I thought it might be helpful to have a child there who has no sporting genes from either parent. Lion has lots of energy but lacks the co-ordination or focus to do anything other than run around wild, I thought this might be good for him too. Dragon got dressed up for the occasion just for fun, I assumed it would be hard to stop him running around like the others.

Don't they look the part???

It seemed successful to me. They had fun with some skills from a few of the things they will cover over the first few weeks. The kids loved it, Lion loved the attention of 3 adults between 5 kids and even though he hardly caught or hit a ball and was generally as clumsy as his mother he got lots of praise and I was told he was very well behaved which made me very proud.

Lion has a go at hitting a tennis ball.

Dragon had two friends there to play with. They had a great time, the wife of the couple starting Little Sports Stars had brought heaps of food so Dragon had plenty to eat and tried out some of the equipment with his playmates.

LM, Dragon and Bibby having a game of Soccer.