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Mar 13 - Mar 19

072

Extreme Matchbox Racing

073

There's a frog on my bonnet... he's clinging on like crazy!

074

So cute.

He wanted to go to sleep with headphones on because he knows that daddy does that sometimes.

075

Will you believe me if I tell you there is a photo of snow up there?

In North Queensland... In summer...

Yeah, probably not.

076

Photobomb

Lion wanted a photo of himself with his daddy.

Dragon wanted to be in the photo with his hot cross bun.

077

Another photo of snow?

Yeah, that's it... another photo of snow.

078

Distress

Monkey helped me to make potato salad for a BBQ lunch.  He REALLY loved it and was rather upset when I put it in the fridge.  I did get some out for his morning tea but I think that if I had let him he would have finished off the entire bowl we made!

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Mar 6- Mar 12

065

Oops, no photos.

066

Late Night Pancake Stack

This was the day before Shrove Tuesday

The fantastic mother I am, I PROMISED my sweet Lion that I would send him to school with pancakes for Pancake Day.  I then promptly forgot about my promise until 10pm the night before.  They weren't the most fantastic pancakes, I don't do my most fantastic baking when I would rather be sleeping... but I kept my promise without having to duck to woolies to buy ready made ones on the day and he took pancakes for Pancake Day.

067

ahem, please ignore the lack of photos... we'll call it a technical error in my brain

068

Interior Designer?

We were about to head out and I called Monkey to come out to the car.

He decided he couldn't come until he had grabbed his Home Beautiful magazine and then promptly sat in the doorway to read it.

069

Hipster.

Like all the best hipsters, Monkey likes to sit and read in a cafe while enjoying a medley of cheerios and plump sultanas, sipping on the finest babycino money can buy with his pop top of water to refresh the pallet when needed... or something like that.

070

Mmmmm, Jaffles for dinner.

Unfortunately Mummy has to clean the jaffle iron once it's all over.

071

Homemade Ham and Cheese Scrolls

So very tasty and so good to chuck in lunch boxes.

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feb 27- mar 5

058

Bacon, heart shaped eggs, fried tomato and cheeeeeeesy toast.

Yum.

059

Frustratingly this is the only photo I took this day.  I don't want to lie and say I didn't take any, I'll just tell you why I took this hideous shot.  I woke up feeling a bit icky that morning, like something wasn't right.  I looked in the mirror and I just didn't look right.  I never do first thing in the morning so I wasn't too concerned but my face kept up it's funny feeling and I didn't start to look any better (I wasn't expecting some supermodel, just to look a bit more like me).  One side of my face was a bit droopy, only slightly, and I could feel it constantly.  You know how when everything is working as it should, you really aren't aware of the 'feel' of your body.  But when something isn't working right you can feel that part of your body.  I could feel my cheek, I could feel my tongue, I could feel my EYEBROW... it was weird.

060

We had a rough day this day... I think that makes me want to take a photo of their peaceful sleeping even more.

061

We were trying on rings... but I'm not showing you this one... because it's too similar to the one that I fell in love with.  The one that I am pretending I don't know about.  The one that I have to wait until our 10th anniversary in July to see again :-(

Now I'm pondering that my hands aren't all that attractive, I could never be a hand model.  I was never intending this image to see the light of day, it was just so when I went back and looked at the other ring I could remember what this one looked like and how it sat against my other rings.  But I didn't take any other photos on this day and rules are rules.

062

Lion asked me to take this.  It was his idea, he wanted a photo that looked like he was really big and leaning on a really little bench... I'm not sure where he's seen this idea before but I was really impressed when he lined himself up by checking where I was with the camera and where the seat was and positioning himself and asking me if it looked right.  So cute.

063

Because no trip to the museum is complete without pretending you are locked up somewhere deep inside the HMS Pandora.

[insert image of something fun and exciting here]

064

Clearly we must have had so much fun on this day that I just didn't have time to take a photo... or something like that.

Photoshop is giving me issues with saving soooo, um, it's really not an excuse for many photos, it just means that when I have one that needs something blurred out (like on Lion's uniform) I have to use another program... I'm not any good with other programs.  I have tried to do this post about a dozen times and something goes wrong each time.  I think this is it, here goes...

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Feb 20-26 2011

[insert awesome image here]

051

[insert moaning about being sick so I didn't take photos here]

052

I've got to admit, he's taken his time, but there is a definite love of reading developing in this one.

We often go in late at night and find that he didn't go to sleep when he was supposed to and instead decided to read for a while and fell asleep in the middle of a good Thomas book.  We've cramped his style by getting a new nightlight (finally) so they don't have to have their mega bright lamp going.

053

No, Baby Spidey, you must use your powers for good, not evil.

Although, revenge is a totally different story.

(photo for Aunty Chimera)

054

Horsefloat.

055

This little lady hitched a ride to the shops with us.

She wasn't so little actually.  She was big and fat.  She ran up from the front of the car, onto the bonnet and did a bit of car surfing for the last couple of kilometres.  I was pretty impressed with her skills.

They were far superior to those of the frog that tried car surfing the other day... he flew up over the roof after a few hundred metres.

Going to the shops was a mistake... turns out I wasn't feeling as better as I thought.

[insert picture of me collapsed in a heap because I did too much the day before]

056

Bleh, sick of being sick.

057

Green Iceblocks.

This has to be the weirdest photo of all the ones that were taken with the iceblocks.

I love all their expressions.

Wolf took this photo.

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Feb 13-19 2011

Still catching up... we are waaaaay behind but I am pretty much better now so once I catch up we should be all systems go.   But I'd love to know if you would rather see these done in a weekly format like this or day by day?  I know you'll all say "it's your blog, you do it however you like"... but really, I want to know!

044

He knows mummy is sick.

If mummy is out of bed he is wrapped around her leg.

Black & White because no one really needs to see my bright white thighs in all their blinding glory.

045

Extra eager for cuddles and a feed before bed.

He can get up on "our" chair fast as lightning!

046

Our first night of homework.

Ever.

He loves it!

[Insert fantastic artistic image here]

047

Here we find our first no photo day :-(

I'm forgiving myself because it's my project and I was so incredibly sick.

048

I assured Wolf that I would be fine at home by myself with just Monkey.  He was only working a short day, how hard would it be? Lion has school, Dragon has kindy, I didn't have to do any of the drop-offs so I would be fine.

This is me, laying on the couch with Monkey climbing on my back and playing with the (unused) chuck bucket.  I didn't do so fine.  I was so glad to see Grannysaurus when she picked up my boys and brought them home that afternoon.

[Insert another fantastic artistic shot here]

049

Sick

I know, "excuses, excuses" :-)

[yep, chuck in another imaginary photo here]

050

There's a few days missing around this point... they are missing from my memory too.

I'm pretty sure life went on without me, no one has reported to me that the world stopped spinning just because I couldn't come out to play so I'm assuming stuff happened.

I just didn't take photos.

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Playing a bit more catch-up...

037

After leeching of others for electricity and a cool place to sleep we finally had a place all to ourselves... although, still technically leeching since it wasn't our house, we could watch Bones and Castle on Sunday night without worrying who else might want the TV.

038

Not sure what killed her.

Not sure that I want to know.

This 'little' fella was dead on our driveway when we ducked home to our hot, electricity-less house to grab some stuff.

039

School is back on and our regular walk to school is somewhat changed.

There's a few new obstacles to navigate around.

040

CUE PANIC

This is the point where, going through my photos, I thought I had found the first day of no photos.

Then I remembered taking this one of the boys chilling (way too close to the TV), that I took with Wolf's phone.

The no photo day will come, one day, just not today.

We moved back home this night.

041

Even the empire that is the Golden Arches is not immune to the destruction of a massive tropical cyclone.

The sign-writers around town are laughing though.

042

Sadly, this is the only photo I took this day.

Trying to take a photo for a friend of how many foils the hairdresser put in.

I think we had a miscommunication, I said 1/4 head of foils, she heard 3/4 head of foils... oh well.

043

When there's no electricity there's no washing machine...

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030

Two big boys took advantage of nap time and got into the fridge and pantry and did some 'cooking'.

There was trouble.

031

Week 2 of school.

Fantastic.

(he was clear of any lice, thankfully)

032

These two were super cute on their walk to collect Lion from school.

033

Bunkering down at bed time for Tropical Cyclone Yasi.

034

Yasi was here.

There were so many photos I could have used from the morning we emerged to a town that had been trashed by TC Yasi.  This one seemed to show it's impact on the kids better than the others.  The Taj Ma Cubby was structurally sound... but left too dangerous to play on.

035

Our neighbours trampoline.

I'll fill in more of the trampoline story when I post my account of TC Yasi.

036

Waiting, waiting, waiting... while the council workers clearing the roads as fast as possible.

They have done an unbelievable job.

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029

Lion getting pruney hands playing under the hose.

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028

Watching Mr W try to fly the Chinook up onto the verandah.

5/8 of the boys that were playing at the W's

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027

Yes, I am quite shallow sometimes.

Yes, this made me laugh in the middle of Big W

No way, not even off the $5 table it was on, would I buy it.

But it takes all sorts and I'm sure it floats someones boat.

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026

Meet Garage Snake*

I've finally been able to meet him able to meet him man to man Woman to Snake. Though now he has been renamed to Chased Down The Drain With A Rake Snake.

Wolf earned his lamb roast tonight... he's so brave.  We're pretty sure he is just a Spotted Python, harmless.  I'm going to email his photo to my new snake peeps just to be sure.

*I just went to link to a post about Garage Snake and it seems I have never shared about Garage Snake.  A couple of months ago I had was hearing noises in the garage and getting freaked out.  There was a funny smell too, I just put it all down to mice or something living in the gardening stuff.  Next thing I know, we are getting something out and there is a snake skin, shed right on top of a box of junk in the garage.  That was it, I couldn't use the garage for ages.  Eventually, after my dad came and checked out that particular box and we had a little look around and couldn't find anything else I got brave enough to use the garage again.  I kept hearing noises but assumed it was just mice or something... I was right... it was the 'or something'.

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025

My Spot

The new school year brings with it a new classroom, a new place to wait for Lion at the end of the day, new people to jostle with for the best seats... I like this spot.  I think I need to carve my name on the table so no one dares to take it.

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024

Picking up Lion from his first day of school

I know, you all expected me to post a first day of school photo... well, they are all coming, in a special first day of school post!  One with LOTS of words... maybe some tears... an "awwwww" or two... and plenty of photos.  But these two boys were VERY excited to be walking to pick up their big brother this afternoon... so I had to snap a photo.

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023

I ♥ My Apple Slinky Machine

Note: I am hoping that there will be some real posts up soon... what we've been up to type of stuff.  We've been up to LOTS and have had no time to blog about it.  Some post are half written, some are in my head, others will require me to look back at the photos taken to remember that we actually did anything at all.  School starts tomorrow and with it our return to routine.

Another Note: I need to either get mums camera back or charge some batteries for our not so reliable snappy cam... I'm getting very frustrated only having phone photos!

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022

Frosty Mango

"No, I'm not eating Daddy's ice-cream.  Oh, this ice-cream, um, yeah, it just looks like Daddy's ice-cream... yeah, that's it, it looks like his but really it's mine... all mine."

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020

lumiere

I love it

taken by Lion

but I still claim that it counts

and I'm the one making up the rules

so there

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019

*kisses*

MMcT: Do you love Mummy kisses?

Monkey: *shakes head*

MMcT: Do you love Daddy kisses?

Monkey: *shakes head*

MMcT: Do you love Lion kisses?

Monkey: *shakes head*

MMcT: Do you love Dragon kisses?

Monkey*big grin and nodding head*

*sigh*

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018

sweetness

i♥monkey