March 2009
10 posts
The second time my bluff was called this week
Me: Shall we go home?
Sprog: No
Me: Shall we go in the car?
Sprog: No
Me: Do you want to go now?
Sprog: No
Me: Shall we go home and feed the Cat
Sprog: No
Me: Shall we go to the moon?
Sprog: Yes
Me: Uuuhhhmmm....
Me: Shall we go home?
Sprog: No
"But I am bigger than he is."
Justification by older child as to why it was okay to wrestle a trike from Sprog’s grasp.
“But he was playing with it first…”
So that was the end of it.
I suppose there is a limited time where small-ish children accept what other people’s mummies say, even if they doubt its veracity.
“Mummy’s bogies!”
– Please stop trying to pick my nose…
Monkey mums bow to pester power →
so do human mums… (from the beeb)
Out of context
Poor Sprog, who is having some “ishooos” with being left at nursery, saw someone who runs his nursery room while we were at Baby-Gym… Cue panic at person in strange environment and then sudden fear that he would be abandoned. The whole episode took the bounce out of his usual exuberant performance on the trampoline…
Newspaper Seed Starter Pots →
Just made a bunch of these for starting off my tomato plants… hope they work!
This evening
I found something so funny on the internet that I actually cried with laughter for about 10 mins… sadly it is so very puerile that I can’t possibly give anyone the link. Sorry.
“Medised”
– Banned for under 6’s from Sunday 1st March. Not good when you go in on Monday 2nd to get some….