Prepping for Christmas

I have an unbelievably unwell child today, so I'm taking the opportunity of not being able to go too far from him (vomiting bug) to get myself organised for Christmas. 

For the last few years I have done an advent calendar for the boys.  I refuse to buy those chocolate filled ones, but rather make my own and include fun things to do.  So that is the list I have made today........

1. Put up Christmas tree
2. Make a Christmas craft
3. Make and decorate cookies
4. Movie night
5. Choose a special treat (usually a trip to $2 store)
6. Out for dinner (guarantee it will be McD's!)
7. Fish & Chips at the beach
8. Make a gift for the teachers
9. Make a snowglobe
10. Write Christmas cards
11. Decorate a gingerbread house (wondering if I attempt to bake the house?!?!?!)
12. Camp out
13. Make presents for neighbours
14. Visit the Christmas light
15. Wrap Christmas gifts
16. Lolly scramble
17. Treasure hunt
18. Choose and plant a new plant
19. Colourful bubble bath
20. Picnic dinner
21. New toy
22. Christmas carol jam session (Christmas carols are cranked up high and we drum away on Tupperware containers or play air guitars)

At the moment I can only think of 22 so the other 2 might just be lollies in a bag.  Then on Christmas day their activity is to jump into bed with us to read the Christmas story with milky milos.

Some of the things are pretty basic, but they are all things our kids love doing.  They are always excited to open their envelopes.

Crumbs now I am super excited.

Super

School holiday magic

For the first time in my kids kindy/school lives I nearly cried when I dropped them off on their first day back this term.  It was hideous!

O.k. so I think I was in the throws of a mid-mid-thirties crisis at the time, but we had also just enjoyed 2 weeks holiday - no routine, movie days, new activities and Mr W took pretty much the whole second week off work!

I struggle big time, to understand parents who moan about the holidays, or break out in a cold sweat.  If I'm organised I love them.  To be organised I plan a list of things to do.

Here's what we did this time round;

Catch up with Crazy 1's kindy friends
Family fun at Nan and Pops farm with the cuzzies
Library books (including Crazy 1's first chapter book - he was pretty stoked!)
Movie day
Mum in bed for 2 days with Laryngitis - O.k. for me this wasn't fun, but the boys thought it was great as I couldn't yell at them!!
Stone throwing at the beach
Playgrounds
Picnic lunches
Changing rooms
Visiting more cuzzies and getting 'WAY COOL' soccer shirts
Fishing off the wharf
Two nights at Nan and Pops

So stoked

Great Grandad passing on his fishing wisdom

Being towed around the farm

Figuring out better ways to sleep

Sometimes I wonder

why I bother tucking this one in at night.............

SERIOUSLY

Family Photo Shoot

We had our family photos done this year through a school fundraiser.  Here are some of the outtakes of the boys together - IDIOTS!

The photographer kept making farting noises which they of course LOVED!

Then finally there was a good one!

Crazy 1:

While driving in the car a few weeks ago Crazy 1 piped up and said to me "hey Mum you have to do what Crazy 2 and I say don't you"!  I obviously answered "how on earth do you work that out?"  C1 "well there's Dad, and me and Crazy 2 but only you, so that's 3 boys against 1 girls so boys win!!!!" 

This little charmer also told me today 'hey Mum, you really shouldn't sing to this song!'

5 year olds, gotta love them!!!

Crazy 2

Last week we discovered we have a thief in the house!!!!!  Yip Crazy 2 pinched a little girls yoghurt at kindy!!!!!!  I was mortified.  He apparently was eating it so fast that some of ended up down his front and on the floor.  The teacher in charge asked him if it was his, which he said it was (she knew it wasn't), however when another teacher told him to rinse out his pottle he pipes up with 'no, it's not mine!' 

The two boys have been really enjoying watching the Olympics.  We had to chuckle on Sunday when we came into the lounge to find him dipping his hands into an imaginary bucket and then clapping them (as if clapping off excess powder).  He then climbed onto our step stool, raised both hands above his heads and jumped off.  Once on his feet again he raised his hands again.  When I asked what he was doing, he gave me a 'man you're silly Mum' look and said 'GYMNASTICS'

Trip down memory lane

* Cheating and copying this from a mag, but its brilliant

Sometimes I want to be a kid again.  I want to go back to the time when:

• decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-mo'
• money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly
• being old referred to anyone over 20
• the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties
• Dad could perform magic by 'removing' his thumb or taking my nose off my face
• having a weapon in school meant being caught with a shanghai (sling-shot)
• nobody was prettier than Mum.
• Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures
• spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles
• water balloons were the ultimate weapon
• cards in the spokes transformed a pushbike into a motorcycle
• mistakes were corrected by simply saying, 'Do it again!'
• older siblings were your worst tormentors but also your fiercest protectors
• scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better 

School holiday fun

These holidays we have discovered the beauty of jumbo sized popsicle sticks.  They are awesome.

I found this catapult on Pinterest...........

So guess what we have been doing this afternoon!!!!  3 poor lego men have been taking flying lessons!!!!

Then we made two into a cross with rubber bands and discovered they fly just like boomerangs. 

Who knew something so simple could provide so much fun!