Meredith loves to sit really close to the heater. Although I tried to discourage her, she will always have 1001 excuses..."I am cold", "I want to warm up my body" or simply "I like it"...

The other day, she noticed something had happened to the chair she usually sits on...

"What happened to the chair Mum?" She was particularly worried about the protruding lump.

I told her that is what happen when the chair is left too close to the heater.

And then I reminded her how she always likes to put her face so close to the heater...

I told her maybe one day her face may become the same...

She thought about what I said for a while, she thought about it hard.

And I could tell from her expression, in Aunty Pauline's word, which is written "all over her face", that she is telling herself, "I will NEVER sit near the heater again....EVER!"...still looking at the very disturbing protruding lump...

Today is one of those very unusual days... we did not have to leave the apartment at all...well, cept to shift the bin, for the first time in 8 months, to the front for the bin man to empty tomorrow. I have lived in this apartment for 8 months...and never knew getting the bin out to the front is my responsibility, until everyone got a love letter from Warren...guess for the past months, my good neighbours must have done it for me.

Anyway, as I was saying, we stayed at home the whole day. Reegan was not well, and slept the whole morning, must be about a good 5 hours of sleep. He woke up in the morning and literally poured down a whole bottle of water, had his breakfast and Milo and took his shower. Meredith read to him after that while I clear up after breakfast. Then he fell asleep... his sweet little face unusually crowded with oozy and drippy green mucous from his watery eyes and nose.

I did a whole lot of things this day at home though. Cleaned up the part of the house that I've always wanted to...yucks! but..., put the labels on Meredith's belongings (before she lost them again in school and I get punished by hearing a whole lot of unbelievable excuses....yawn!yawn!), packed the house, put the clothes to wash...gosh, I washed so many clothes and hanged them everywhere, even Reegan's toys had to be a temporary clothes hanger!

Meredith was busy making a book. She has started it the night before. While I was busy around the house and then trying to get some work done on the computer, I was constantly interrupted with,

"What's wrong with the computer Mum? I need your help!"
"Where did the page go Mum? I need your help!"
"How do I make this smaller Mum? I need your help!"
"Why isn't it printing Mum? I need your help!"

...every one of it said in such urgency...but after a while, I got used to it....I felt like I was doing some kind of exercise...you sit and have to get up, then you get to sit again and then get up...

Then her book was finally very and extremely painstakingly done! I was happy... for a while...

Then she went to Charlie and Lola's website, and found something else to do...

"Mum, how do I print this out?......etc"

And then she needed sticky tape and other things from me, one at a time...

I was just constantly interrupted...

I think I might have a nightmare of this tonight...

Sweet marshmallow dreams!

It's going to be another start to a new week. This week, I will try 2 new recipes...yum!

This week will also lead to a long weekend. I am still thinking if I want to take the kids out to the Dandenongs...would be really really nice...

Meredith has had a birthday party every weekend for the past 3 weeks! Parents really do spend a lot on these parties.

Emre had a baking party...

And they baked these delicious cookies...loved the thick, sexy M&Ms lips...O, Reegan had very quickly taken a bite before Meredith could take a picture.


Then Matthew had a all-reptiles party. He had invited the lizards, the snakes, the frogs...This one I was there throughout...because its too far and too nowhere-to-go-in-between...It was at their new home...very nice...


Last weekend she had Charlotte's wood works party. I didn't have a chance to take any pictures.

Reegan is saying 'Tair tyu' whenever you hand him food...very cute. Sometimes he says tair tyu, tair tyu...several times in a row...


And this page from the latest we borrowed from the library is his current favourite. He just cracks up whenever we do this...."Where is Poppy Cat?"....BOO!! (He knows he has to flip open the blue felt cat to find Poppy!) 'BOO!!'....he will say...