Sit me, Sit me, Sit me...

I hear this constantly from my 2 year old son. Whenever he wants to play on the floor, build a lego tower, read a book, watch TV, colour in, eat breakfast or any other activity that requires sitting down, he just wants his Mummy to sit with him.

As all Mummys would know, it is not always possible to just stop and sit down at every request. We have clothing to wash, houses to clean, dishes to do, meals to cook and in my case, work to do for our business and assignments to do for Uni. Stopping to sit seems like a luxury I can not afford to do as often as I want.

Then today, on a parenting forum I tend to frequent a lot, I saw a poster start a thread that was asking how on earth they could get their 2 year old to start sleeping in their own bed rather than with Mummy and Daddy and one of the replies will stay with me forever.

It was one sentence and simply stated "I just wish I had my 17 YO big boy that age again for just one day to snuggle with as a toddler".

It made me realise that in a very few short years my cuddly boy who just wants Mummy to "sit me, sit me, sit me Mummy" is not going to want me sitting right next to him, he is not going to want to run across the room and hurl himself into my arms, he is not going to want to snuggle, cuddle and bunny kiss my nose and I am going to be the one begging for him to just sit for 5 minutes and talk to his dear old Mum.

So today I decided stuff the work, stuff the washing and stuff the assignment. When my beautiful boy asks me to "sit me Mummy" I am going to and I am going to enjoy it and savour it as much as I can.

Because nothing is more important to me than that. I don't want to look back in 10 years time and wish I had of just sat with him some more.

The day my 4 year old said...

I love my little girl. Not only is she the most loveable, caring, adventurous and kind little soul but she is certainly the funniest too.

She came out with a corker today. I couldn't not write it down!

At kindy the kids are being taught rhyming. At 4 years old they tend to pick one letter and all rhyming words will start with that letter, even if the rhyming word isn't a real word, it just has to start with the letter of the day. On the first day she learnt rhyming it was P.

So all afternoon that day she would walk around and say Hot rhymes with Pot, Bat rhymes with Pat, Orange rhymes with Porange (she understood the rhyming part but created her own words as long as they started with the particular letter she was concentrating on).

Todays letter was F. So she is sitting in the lounge room spouting off all her rhyming words.

Meet rhymes with Feet, Bye rhymed with Fly, Short rhymes with Fort, Duck rhymes with...

Yep you guessed right. Today is the day my 4 year old princess said Fuck.

Kids, they crack me up.

So we have had two absolute corkers from our daughter this past few days and I thought they were funny enough to share.

The first happened 3 days ago and while my beautiful girl was in a stinky mood and got a talking to about her attitude, as soon as I had a moment to myself I had to laugh.

So we went to spotlight together as I needed a wig for a fancy dress party in a week. Alex managed to find a mermaid tail and desperately want it. This is how the conversation went:

A: I want the ariel mermaid tail.
M: No sweetie, we are not here to buy that today.
A: Buuuuttttt IIIII waaaaannnnttt itttttt.
M: No hunny, but we can put it on your birthday list and see what happens if you like.
A: No. I.want.it.now.
M: Alexis, I said no, that is final.
A: muuuuuummmmmmyyyyyyyy.
M: Please stop whinging Alexis.
A: (Said in very rude voice) Does it really matter to YOU if I whinge?
M: Yes it does, it is awful to listen to, please stop.
A: Fine, Daddy will buy it for me.
This kid just makes it hard not to burst out laughing when she comes out with stuff like this.

The second one happened last night. I was tucking her in about 11.30pm as I was heading to bed. As I put her blankets over here she opened her eyes up wide and wasn't blinking and she said  "I.don't.want.too." quite angrily. I realised at that point she was still fast asleep just with her eyes open.

So I said "It's ok baby, just tucking you in" and she got even angrier and sat up a little to say in an even sterner voice "I.don't want.too.", I just said "ok baby, go back to sleep" so then she sat right up, put her face right up in front of mine, held two little fingers up and said "I said I DON'T WANT TWO!", so I said ok you can have one and she laid back down and went to sleep.

Kids, a constant source of entertainment and amusement.

Your expectations are too high!

This is so not a serious post by any means.

On tuesdays my daughter is in school and my son goes to daycare. At the moment I am on Uni break so I usually do my husbands business paperwork but today I decided to go and see a movie. Transformers 3 to be exact.

Now up til now all I have heard about this movie was how shite it was. How Michael Bay needs to stop making Transformer movies and how ridiculous the storyline was. It didn't matter, I have liked many movies that not many people have seemed too impressed by and I wanted to see this.

Now my expectations from this movie were the same as I have for any action movie. Great action scenes, awesome special effects, the hot military guy (of course for men there should be the hot chick), a love story, some comedy and a storyline that is enough to be good but not too much to require a lot of thought.

I go to the movies to relax. I want to kick back, drink my coke, eat my popcorn and chill out. Escape from the daily grind if you will.

Why would you go to a movie like Transformers with any other expectations??

This movie delivered on everything I wanted. I totally enjoyed it for what it was and you know what? I would watch it again. I was a mad keen Transformers fan as a kid and still get the shivers when I hear the "transforming" sound that has been used since the show first began. I hope they make another movie. I really do.

So I think all those that panned it need to remember why they watch this sort of movie. They need to remember that not every movie has to have an intricate plot and a major twist at the end. Not every movie needs a crowd that is on the edge of their seats waiting for the next 'big thing'. Just enjoy it for what it is, stop having expectations that are far too high.

Countdown is on!!

Not to something exciting as such, the countdown is on to my end of semester exam. 8 sleeps to go to be precise.

I want to say I am confident it will go ok, but I'm not. I want to say "I am definitely going to pass" because I am so sure I will, but I can't say it. I love this unit, even though it is dam hard, I am enjoying every minute of it, but the sheer volume of information to learn is incredible and how on earth can I retain that much information??

Breath. In, out, in out........crap start breathing again.

I am so incredibly lucky though to have such a brilliant husband. Today he took the kids to the park, cooked dinner and made sure I had time to study in peace. What a champ. Love him to bits, even when he does leave the kitchen tap dripping constantly :P

Ok moving on, stop thinking about the exam until tomorrow.....

Happy Mummy's Day

Happy Mummy's day to any beautiful Mummy's that pop by and see this! (Though being completely new to this whole blog thing I doubt anyone has even seen it yet!).

What a week it has been! Tests and assignments due at Uni, my son deciding to rapidly expand his vocabulary and a beautiful mothers day with my kiddies.

So my beautiful boy has been slow off the mark with talking, it frustrates the heck out of him, but he is getting there. The last few months have seen his vocab extend from 6 words to probably over a hundred. This week saw his first completely recognisable sentences! Two of them in fact. 1 - Mummy, where are you? and 2 - Are we there yet? Could potentially be ones I don't want to hear so often but right now they are the best sound in the world :)

I was woken up on this beautiful mothers day morning to 2 gorgeous kiddies giggling their way into my bedroom and then being woken up by a card jabbing me in the eye, might have hurt but it was adorable. They were so excited!

My daughter (4yrs) had her first mothers day stall gift, nail polish, the toe separator thingys and nail art stickers. We are going to paint each others nails this afternoon. My son (despite me saying gifts were not necessary) had gone with Daddy and picked out a lovely new charm for my pandora bracelet. He was a very proud boy when he gave it to me.

Onto breakfast with the in-laws, lovely morning, lovely food and brilliant company. Then later hopefully on to have dinner with my gorgeous Mummy.

And now for something I rarely ever do, I am going to go and have me a nap!

What am I......

Ok so 2 blog posts in one day, over the top? Yup, but this is going to start as my way to get in the habit of coming here and posting.

So what am I? Well, quite basically, I am me :P but for those that like labels I am many things, so here goes....

Daughter - I was born in 1980 to 2 extremely lucky people LOL!
Sister - I am number 3 in a set of 4 siblings that go girl, girl, girl, boy.
Friend - I am lucky enough to have many gorgeous friends but also the most blessed person on earth to have my other half, the friend that is everything I am not but everything like me all in one. She is heads, I am tails but we are one coin. Love her like crazy.
Wife - My husband and I were first together in 1999. No breaks, not pit stops, we are in it for the long haul.
Mother - To 2 beautiful children, hopefully we will be blessed to make that 3 one day.
Student - Like my first post said I am currently enrolled to do my BSc in Nursing at University. Exciting times!
Employee - I have 3 jobs though really I liken it to two. I work one morning a week in an admin office and I also do all the book keeping for two other businesses from home, ya know, just in my spare time!

What do I want to be?

Right now the most boring thing on earth. A home owner. My very own home. My husband and I had the travel bug when we were younger, instead of investing in a house we went to Bali, went to the formula grand prix in Melbourne, lived it up in France, drank it up in Germany, soaked up the culture in Italy and went on spending sprees in Thailand. I don't regret it but I wish our younger selves had of also purchased the house we first rented which was for sale at 135k and when we moved out then sold for over 300k! Hindsight, it is a wondrous thing of course.

Of course all things must end, like this blog post. My anatomy book is calling and reminding me that I have an in class exam in 5 days and I don't know nearly enough yet to get through it exceptionally well.

Good night and sleep tight, fingers crossed I make my way back in soon.