A Month of Sundayssssssnapshots.

Wow, it's been a month since the last Sunday Snapshot.  Since I did a catch up post earlier this week I wont fill you in on the last month, I'll just jump right in here at this Sunday Snapshot.  Just a warning though, I am not a microblogger, you may have noticed.  This post is one of my lengthier ones...

Last Sunday we took the kids for a ride down by the river and a play in the playground there.   It was a drizzly afternoon so it was nice and cool and it also had kept a lot of people away so it was fairly quiet.

My little ducklings all in a row.  They had a great time on their bikes, I am starting to think that it's probably time to move them all up one... except we don't have anywhere to move Lion up to... so it'll just have to wait until I figure that one out.

This section of the boardwalk gives a wonderful view of the river, the boys didn't mind stopping for a minute to watch the ski boats dragging the skiers around the river.

This is taken at the bottom of the boardwalk close to where the first photo was taken.  The river is FILLED with turtles and ducks hang around and fish pip at the surface and the water lilies float gently on the ripples... it's a lovely river.  (Nope, not even going to mention the crocodiles today)

With the playground in sight the boys took off...

They love this tree house.  The whole park has been designed for wheelchair access so I can get the pram right in there so Monkey can get in and play with them.  We played and ate afternoon tea and went home worn out.

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The humor in our house never stops...

"My butt hurts..."
"What?"

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Lion's school had their ANZAC day parade on Friday.  I took Dragon and Monkey along.  Each class had made a wreath to lay at the ceremony, Lion's class is the "A" wreath, A for ANZAC.

Each year the local QCWA branch gives a gift of books to one local school.  This year they gave them to Lion's school, a very exciting addition to their new library.

Monkey has a new skill.  Well, the skill isn't so new, he has been able to wave for a while.  The new bit is that if you don't wave back within what His Royal Highness deems an acceptable amount of time... he will yell at you.  Proceedings were going along nicely, Monkey started waving at the back of one of the army men who was also attending.  Since it was his back that was being waved to, the army man didn't wave back... make sense?  Anyway, I tried waving back to him myself, I tried to get him to settle down but it wasn't working... don't forget this was a solemn parade, with a minute silence fast approaching... you guessed it.  Monkey got Jack of not being waved back to RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SILENCE.  My boy was screaming at someone in the middle of the minute silence... an army man, no less.  Classy.  I'm pretty sure that all of the few hundred primary school students that were there were managing to be silent... imagine that for a moment... all those kids who NEVER stop talking, fidgeting, making noises simply for the sake of making noises were SILENT.  MONUMENTOUS OCCASION.  Monkey, well, Monkey was an upset baby who just wanted the army man to wave back at him.

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On Friday we went to the park by the river again with some friends.  They did attend our church until recently and their second oldest was good friends with Lion.  Lion has really missed him for the few weeks since they changed churches so us mums decided a play was in order.  So, T and her 4 boys rode to the park and we ducked over there after school with my 3 boys and we had a wild time all afternoon.  I wanted to get a photo of all of the boys together but putting 7 boys ranging in age from 7 to 0 in one photo and try to get them all looking at the camera is not going to go well.  So, I didn't ask them to look at the camera...

I asked them to pull silly faces.  So, left to right, Dragon (3), his buddy S (3), Lion (5), his buddy B (5), J (7), E (1) and Monkey (7.5mos).

Thank you for coming to play with us you crazy boys!!!

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Questions Answered:

From the Catching up on the Cuteness post.

For Ginny Marie-

Here's a nice dodgy photo of Dragon with something daddy caught for him.  No, it's not the big frog from the BBQ, it's a smaller frog from the BBQ.  We clear the frogs out when it's time to use the barbie, they don't much like it but I'm sure if they realised what the other option was they would be thankful.

Boy Mom- I make my own baby food, I even made the rice cereal this time!  I have made my own for each boy because I lick my fingers when I'm feeding them and I like what I lick off to be edible.  I haven't liked what I've tried of the tinned stuff.

From the Easter Excitement post.

Boy Mom- at Kindy shoes are optional.  It's great, freedom to kick off our shoes all year round, sandals all year if we want... What's that?  You haven't been able to wear sandals for months?  Spring has been fickle and  you still don't know if you will be wearing boots or sandals when you wake up each day? oh, that is sad.

Leah- Yes, my boys are the ones that play air guitar during the kids song at church.  They are VERY comfortable being themselves at church... a little too comfortable if we recall that little moment a few weeks ago where Dragon shared all about Daddy burping at the dinner table.

From the Bin there Done that post.

Suz- YES we are getting so much more sleep.  I keep thinking I should do a post about it so I can remember just what I can survive when I next think I am up against an impossible situation.  Thanks for praying for us.  I hope you are getting more sleep too.

What A Morning!

Playgroup went to one of those indoor playgrounds today. You have to pay so you desperately hope that the kids don’t injure themselves or decide that they don’t feel like playing on all the great toys so you don’t have to go home before you have got your moneys worth. Anyway, 2 and a half hours later, only one bitten lip, a few tears over having to share 5 cars between a zillion kids and one little cranky mummy bit over a lion climbing up the slide and pushing in. Dragon thought the cars were great, at first he couldn’t get the hang of it and just sat stationary for about 15 minutes. I gave him a push around after that and he figured out what to do for himself soon enough. Lion thought the cars were great too but it was hard to convince him to let the other kids have a go and being a bit of a blowfly he wouldn’t stand and wait for a turn he kept going and coming back and hoping that there would be one free. Occasionally he would be in luck.

Dragon cruising for chicks :)

They also have a merry-go-round teapot thing, the boys thought it was brilliant. They do about 3 turns then wait about 20 minutes then go again. They went on it by themselves too! Mummy had a go but the photos of that are on a friend’s camera and we’ll post them when we get them.

Waving to mummy just before it starts...

Dragon is getting used to the idea...

Lion thinks this is just great!

The slides were terrifying for mummy, but Lion thought they were fun. Mummy took Dragon down the bouncy slide but wouldn’t face the 2 story racing slide that seemed to just drop away from underneath you. Lion had a go on that one, unfortunately mummy never managed to be there at the time to witness it, she always saw him getting off at the bottom. There was a little whine and whinge when it was time to go, even though ALL our friends were leaving at the same time. I was expecting it to Lion to make it escalate beyond all comprehension when the gate clicked closed behind us but the staff there have it all figured. You just need to make the kids want to leave by giving them a lollipop just before they go. Lion left happily sucking on his lollipop (I was really impressed that they actually ask mummy’s permission before giving the kids a lollipop, it allowed me to say no to one for Dragon so that he could go to sleep in the car on the way home) What a morning, we cant wait to go back there, they take care of you so well and it was great to see the staff caring about the kids and paying attention to EVERY detail (and also making sure mummy and daddy type folk were well looked after too).

L, L, L, what begins with L... Lion Licks a Lollipop L, L, L!