Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
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Friday, April 13, 2012

holidays: week one

the past week...

 
ollie's new best friend, lightning mcqueen
 easter chocolate haul.  this is being rationed out VERY carefully!


 ollie's awesome spirograph!
we went to an awesome meccano and lego exhibition on easter sunday.  there were some amazing machines that had been built, areas where you could make your own meccano creations, and some gadgets that you could use yourself..  ollie managed to win himself a chocolate bar by operating an arcade-type claw grabbing machine (i'm sure there's a proper name for it!), and he made a pretty cool spirograph-type picture as well.  but by far, ollie's favourite was the trains.  they were pretty sweet!

ollie has been complaining lately about what i cook for dinner,so i decided to have a night off, and let ollie cook.  he drew the ingredients we needed, went to the store, and ollie made tea.
pineapple and marshmallow kebabs.  plural as in a total of two were made - one for me, one for him.  and to top it off, as he was making it,i heard from the kitchen "now mum, if you have anything to complain about, you can just go hungry." at least i can be safe in the knowledge that when ollie eventually goes to live on his own he will be able to make one meal!

have a lovely day
amy xx

Thursday, March 22, 2012

a rainy sort of day


it's a rainy kind of day here today. which I don't normally mind, especially when I have the house to myself to just potter around in.

but Ollie woke up very early this morning crying and complaining of a sore ear, and with his history of ear infections, I thought a day at home away from kindy was in order.





the patient


So my plans for today are: tidy the house, vacuum said house, cleaning ollie's room, baking, dvd's and jigsaw's with ollie, and dealing with some pesky aphids that are all around my computer...


not a very good picture, but he's there, in my hand


so if I get rid of the aphids, would you like a small tour of some of the corners of my home? (again, sorry about the pictures, it is raining after all...)

in the jar are the most amazing rock candies from my friends wedding a few weekends ago




and a really terrible photo of me,but I wanted to show you my new dress I thrifted last week! Im still figuring out the best area for taking full length photos in my house, so please pretend the dress sits just below my knee. do you like it?