Looking for an audience

I will have to address this properly at a later date as I'm in bed with my phone, but as bfs said tonight I have to blog about my eldests antics today. On Thursday he participated in an Easter service at the local church singing a very animated song about a chicken...he obviously enjoyed it as today he repeatedly sung it whilst we were out the back whilst instructing me on the actions required to go with( lots of flapping of elbows!!!) his renditions were getting louder and louder and he was getting really into it when I popped inside for something. I heard a couple of thuds, a kinda crash, then howling sobs? I went outside to investigate and discovered a plastic sandpit with a buckled lid! When I asked bb how the sandpit had broken he wailed that it was his stage!!! My little exhibitionist had taken his performance a step further - now all he needs is an audience!

Oh and.....

I found LL on top of the tv cabinet turning on the telly this afternoon. He'd succeeded too the little.............

He wasn't too impressed at the dressing down he received. Dunno if he'll be doing that again in a hurry!

Getting all techno

I'm just trying out a freebie app that let's me blog from my iPhone. It is seriously amazing what you can do with a mobile phone nowadays! I remember when I was dubious about even getting a mobile, flipping eck I remember having to go to thx library and scan through microfisches if I wanted to find something archived. I didn't think I would be of a 'when I were a lad' generation but there's no doubt our boys won't believe how we managed to get through a day without information at our fingertips. I suppose it's a sad sign of the times when our local library closes at the end of the month!
Anyways if this works it means hopefully I can pop my thoughts down more frequently. No pics yet though, l'll have to head to the pc for that!
Today has been pretty productive, I started off organised enough to take one of BB's little friends to nursery, then LL and I had some QT and I managed to decorate a couple of tees for their friends birthday tomorrow, I hung a picture- more on that later, a bigger job than it sounds! And even managed two hours of cutting in painting before sitting down with a cuppa tonight. BB had another 'accident' which is soooooooo frustrating. He's not even phased by the lack of bedtime stories. What can I try?

Ah well, after all this typing I hope this works!!!

Nothing in particular.

I've been thinking about something specific to blog about tonight - but nothing pops to the forefront of my mind...

It is somewhat a rather long time since I've sat in front of the pc and dedicated some time to the blog - but to be honest everything else just seems to have gotten in the way - and yet I can't think of anything that's been achieved over the past few weeks!

Many classic lines from BB have been missed, as will have many antics from LL. BB has been having one too many 'accidents' in the toilet department - the most frustrating thing about it is that he usually has them stood in front of the loo! Our toilet floors have never been so clean (or the washing machine been on so frequently!)

The playroom is still in disarray so the nice sparkly new pc has been living on the diningroom floor. I think this may be another reason for the lack of updates and pics. My editing software is now only on our personal pc (I had to wipe everything off of the work laptop after a virus took hold) so all pictures are still on the memory cards and haven't seen the lightroom of photoshop yet (excuse the play on words - photo geeks out there will get that one!)

We had a pretty productive trip to a very famous swedish shop at the weekend. I spent my evenings last week trying to design a kind of built in storage system for the playroom so that we can get some kind of order back in the house - with respect to finally finding somewhere to put all of our cd's, dvd's and photos etc which have been living in boxes since we moved in (over two years ago!) and somewhere for the boys to tidy their toys away to so we don't run such a high risk of breaking a leg as we carry on about our daily tasks!

LL has changed his babbling from plain coo's to something which actually resemble words. No actual words as of yet - but definitely a change in his formation of sounds! Oh and he presented us with a couple of impressive projectile vomits mid week, but he was back to his old self again within 24 hours.

BFS heads back to work tomorrow - boohoo.

Let's see if I can start some blog action and keep him up to date with our days.....

...but my willy's empty mummy!

I asked BB to go to the loo before bed for a wee wee. He informed me that he'd gone whilst I was bathing LL. I asked him to go again and try and have a teeny tiny wee and that was his response!

Don't you just love how simplistic children can be! I spend most of my days answering the (literally) never ending why? question - but even curious minds which could tell you all about photosynthesis can simplify the act of going to the toilet in an amazing manner!

I've been very busy over the past few weeks with work and other things. I however now have a new pc with a mountain of photo software and a monitor calibrator to play with. Once I get my head around them I'll hopefully start posting some pics again.

He's Learning...

Check out these amazing pics of my boys - and you know what's the most amazing thing about them? They weren't taken by me!



My BFS has started on this photographic learning journey with me. Indeed he probably knows more of the technical stuff as it was he that put in the hours of research before choosing which pieces of kit to buy me - so if anything he's the better student. I've just been able to help him open up his creative side. Got him to think outside the box when it comes to what he's looking at through the viewfinder and look at the results. Ignore the post processing (that was me) but just look at the picture composition.

It speaks for itself. He sure is learning fast - don't you think?

That'll be iPoop then!

This one liner from my brother was the one thing which brought a glimmer of a smile midst disaster.

Whilst BFS was away fighting fires (training course - he hasn't done a career swap!) I thought I'd fulfil some wifely duties and get some cleaning done. Score some brownie points perhaps and maybe finally get that backrub that's been promised since BFS landed on solid land (hint hint!) however thanks to my youngest I think that backrub may be somewhat of a pipedream now...

We all gathered upstairs and as a family unit first finished building our new bathroom cabinet - BB read the 'structions' whilst LL amused himself with anything he could get his mitts on. That job done, and bathroom tidied I embarked on the hoovering. After I'd scooted through all the rooms BB wanted his turn. Perfect - there was my opportunity to clean the loos in peace. I lifted the lid on the loo and thought that the u-bend looked weirdly black. My heart stopped - on closer inspection my first instinct was right. There was BFS's prized possession - his shiny 32gb ipod touch drowned. Sunk into the depths of the pot thanks to LL!

Bollocks

I pulled it out and tried to power it up (probably the worst thing I could have done - even if it was okay it would probably be short circuited now!) Obviously there was no response, and no obvious way of taking it apart (I have salvaged a mobile phone before with thanks to opticians screwdrivers!!!) I therefore did all that I could - I blew out as much water as I could, then had another go with a sucking motion! Bets that would have been an interesting picture.....The ipod in question is now buried deep in a bowl of rice in the vain hope that in a weeks time when I attempt to turn it on - it will miraculously be as if the whole incident had never happened.....fingers crossed.

BFS has been very calm about the whole thing. LL is a true menace, indeed he doesn't just believe in damaging other peoples property - he did a trial run with his own shoe the day before!

The above was the response that my brother gave when I told him about the incident. How apt.