Category: 👦🏼
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World Book Day 2019
It’s that time again, and I couldn’tbe bothered to look out the previous posts but we’ve had Chase from Paw Patrol and Hungry Caterpillar. It took some time to make Fantastic Mr Fox realise that he didn’t have to eat everybody.
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Switching the kids rooms
Today was spent swapping the kids rooms. The Kid had the bigger room with built in wardrobes across one wall and a small desk alcove. Bamm-Bamm had a slightly smaller room but no built in storage. We flipped them. We’d been thinking about swapping for a bit, the games cupboard was getting a mess and…
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Haircut 🧒🏼
Much like his dad, Bamm-Bamm has hair that grows at a silly rate and ends up with a slight curl. We decided to get it cut after nursery since his sister was getting her hair cut in town. We went to Magic Scissors in Lochee, been here a few times now and the lads are…
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LEGO Police station
Here, didn’t post this amazing police station that Benj & I made on Monday! We built it ground up. He is almost accepting my explanation of brick placement to ensure walls are secure. “Dad, the colours don’t match!” Also, the backdoor at the top – “people can just walk up like this…and then…weeee fall in!”…
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The Dundee Beano statues
It is fitting that on the 65th anniversary of the Bash St Kids, I was instructed to take himself to the “dog statue”. (The HEIC version of this is funnier cos his foot is tapping) “I’m on his nose hahaha” no comment that he is hugging the one called Minx who is a trouble maker.…
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Sound of…silence?
It’s been another of “those” nights getting small person to sleep. I’m currently lying on the hallway outside the rooms because my back hurts and if I go downstairs, he’ll be up. Maybe one week it’ll be more than one night of kids asleep for 11/12h. That might sound a long time but a week…
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Aerospace Engineer
“Wow dad, you’re so good at making paper airplanes, how do you do it?!” “Well mate, when I was younger we had no Switches or iPads, computers were basic, and there were four TV channels so we played with toys and made paper airplanes”.
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Best Day Ever
“Daddy, this is the best day ever! There’s snow EVERYWHERE!” “Yea, just a wee bit though”. “There’s frost on the road, and frost on the grass, and on the road sign, and on the wall, and on the bus stop. And on our feet hahahahaha”. Some people are easily amused 😃
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