Benny's Birthday Cake

Benny had a great birthday. He was lucky it fell on a Thursday as that is the only day i have him by himself for 2 and a half hours. So we got to hang out (and have Macca's for morning tea!) The the afternoon was spent making cakes. First of all it was the promised silver icing, silver sprinkled cakes as promised to Uncle Brenty then it was onto the Ben the Builder hard hat cake for Benny. We shared his cake with the neighbours and cousin Karen.

But the cake that Benny was really waiting for was the cake his girlfriend Margie was making for him at playgroup! Ben LOVES Margie! (Margie is a playgroup mum) and she made him a very special Giraffe cake. However Ben was slightly disappointed as apparently Margie didn't get the memo that Ben was turning three. Ben told everyone he was three. He even had an argument with Grumpy who dare try to tell him he was only two! He actually argued with anyone who told him he was three it was just a bit heated with Grumpy!

Meanwhile I am pulling my hair out as my baby tells me constantly he is NOT my baby and he has skipped a year and is three already! I think next year he will be telling me he is off to school!

P.S. He really gave me a belly laugh as i was putting the clothes on the line and he was sitting in his blue peddle car singing happy birthday to himself! The whole neighbourhood could hear him.

Welcome Home Uncle Brenty

We went out to the airport to pick Brenty up last Tuesday and this was in the paper the following day.

And before you make comments yes, that is the glare from Nathan's bald head (the neighbours pointed it out!) However, he would have you think it is his halo all a glow! And I wasn't cut out of this one I was organising the models! If you would like to read the article that accompanied the photo click here.

Happy Birthday Big Boy Ben!

Benny is 2 today!!! I have been in tears about it for the last week. My baby is a big boy now! Boo! Hoo! He however has no such issues. Apparently he is three. He had no need for two and Ryan is three so why shouldn't he be three too. He will not let you tell him he is two. He gives you this look from under his eyebrows that says "Don't mess with me, I'm three and I will NOT argue with you!" He is currently playing with his new toys. A fire truck, a garbage truck, a grader, a tip truck and a huge Mac and Lightning McQueen set. His biggest problem today is keeping The other boys away from them! He does however have NO problems defending himself and so far the score card for today reads Ryan 2. Matthew 3, Ben 0!

The scarf, beanie and mittens Nanna Bev made him for his birthday. He loves them and wants the mittens on all the time. He is currently trying to eat brekky in them!

Miles Franklins' Uncle Brenty

The Miles Franklin Pre School and Primary School have adopted Uncle Brenton. He visited them before the Olympics and today he made his return visit. With Bling in tow! He was greeted at the pre school with gifts! There were beautiful drawings that children had laboured over and given with love. Debbie (Matt's teacher) had printed and framed photos of the class watching him swim. In one shot Matthew has his arm around his best friend. In the other the class is sitting in front of the TV and every mouth is agape. The big school had prepares a photo montage set to a Shannon Noll song. They had gotten photos of Brenty from everywhere. It was very obvious to me that Brenton Rickard is the number one source of inspiration for every single student at Miles Franklin Primary School.

Hanging off every word

The toy mascots uncle brenty brought back for the boys. They haven't been put down by them yet!

Stack!

We all have new bikes. I have a trailer on mine that i can put Ben and Ryan in and Matthew has his own (so does Ryan but he doesn't like to ride too far). Anyway, yesterday we decided to go for a ride. Ryan hopped in the trailer, does everyone still remember the lake incident?!!. We rode to the school then stopped and let Ryan have a ride on his bike on the basketball court. He was following Nathan weaving when disaster struck and he stacked it. He went over the handle bars and landed, thank goodness, on his stack hat but then unfortunately came to rest on his face! He had gravel up his nose! And he put his teeth through his lip! Blood every where! So the poor kid is obviously never going to be a cyclist!!!

Heart Attack

Is what I had first thing this morning! The boys got up at 6.30 this morning (actually they awoke at 10 to 6, I let them get out of bed at 6.30!) I was laying in bed snuggling down for a little while when I heard Ben crying from the kitchen. Ben had decided to make his own breakfast. He had taken his little chair in there and got down one of the sharp knives from the magnetic rail then dragged his chair over to the bench (and the knife!) and proceed to cut his own tomato! (He believes that he can do anything his mummy or brothers or daddy for that matter can do!) Unfortunately for him he had the knife upside down and cut his hand twice!!!!!!! Thank goodness they weren't deep and a wiggles bandaid fixed the crying (although it obviously still hurts as he is still whingy). But OH! MY GOODNESS BEN! You gave me a heart attack. And i didn't react very well. I was terrified of the damage that he may have done so I was screaming to Nathan to come and have a look. All the while planning how we were all going to get ready to rush to the hospital. What I should have been doing was stopping the bleeding, but i must admit I panicked!
I wonder if i will get better at responding to crisis as my children grow and no doubt have more of them?!

Put to good use

This week is Book Week, which means dress up like a book character at pre school. So Matthew decided he could be Bottomly Potts from Hairy Maclary. Which was great as we just happen to have a spotted dog costume (2 sizes too small for him but that's another story!) So this morning he got all dressed up and i painted his face with black and white spots and whiskers then I realised his Bottomly Potts costume was tailless! So I sacrificed my wedding stocking (complete with lace tops!) to become Bottomly Pott's tail! And i couldn't think of better use for them!