Category: parenting
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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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Summoning…something
Came into the living room this morning to find this. I’m sure this is some form of ritual summoning wherein the powers combined of Marshall, Dino Bumblebee, and Chase will bring about the Rescue Bots superpower.
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Reflective thought…
Getting small person in bed and asleep has been a battle for some time. Recently it’s been getting a bit better. He even has “Sleepy” cream from Lush. Tonight he was all over the place, not listening, demanding “just a little snack”, walking up and down the hallway, and throwing his blankie about the shop.…
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300 nursery check-ins
I’ve missed a few but that is a solid record. Interestingly, Swarm shows only 292 check-ins, maybe it doesn’t count Foursquare check-ins? Or later additions? Hard to comprehend that B will be in primary school in August! 😲
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Little helper
Backdated I had some help taking in the bins last night, the photos are poor due to his speed but the HEIC format (Apple Live Photos), they make great gifs! We walked back coming home from nursery and I said I needed to put the bins back. I took the grey one and I hear…
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First name basis
Clearing out some photos to make space and I came across this one from a few weeks back Ben has an iPad two with a few games on it, he’s listed as a child in my iCloud “family” and I have purchase requests on. I found it odd that when i was installing YouTube Kids…
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Porridge explosion
As I was nearing the end of my 7-10 live chat, the kids came into my office. “The porridge went all over the microwave. I thought it said put in for one minute then another minute. Not one minute then sit for a minute” admits Hannah. “It’s everywhere!” says the littlest one. “Okay, I’m working…
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Take a nice photo!
We were watching TV after getting a new inhaler at the doctor, and I enjoyed the fact for once, he was calm. He then spied the picture and demanded “a nice one, I’ll give you cuddles” He can be an affectionate wee boy at times.
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