Hurri-Kane strikes again

Kane is officially speaking in sentances. He came out with his first one the day before Auntie J's birthday. I was changing his bum and he didn't want the clean nappy on. He was pushing me hands away, stealing the clean nappy and then told me "No! Stop it!" I was so proud of him!! He won that battle, and then spent the next 1/2 hour running around with a bare bum, practising his new trick to the delight of his mother. He followed up in the next couple of days with "Juice please?" while handing me his cup.

On the other side of the "I have a bright son" coin.... is the fact that while in the shower locked out of all the areas I thought would be dangerous... he broke into a cupboard, opened up an unmarked cardboard box, got out the acrylic paint and paint brush and made me a pretty picture for when I got out of the shower - navy blue paint plus light gray carpet....One phone call to the insurance company, a visit from the professional cleaners and an insurance premium hike later....

Happy 2nd Birthday my Love

We're going to the zoo zoo zoo....

Look! A leaf!

Oooooh monkeys!!! Lemme at 'em Mummy

This is how Mummy did it...

But Mummy, you made a box - boxes are for sitting in, really they are...
mmmmmmm

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

Full on week

Well our week got off to a great start - Kane woke up at 3am screaming with a fever, shaking, soaked through with sweat then decided to have a febrile seizure - not the nicest thing to deal with on your own. So after the panicked call to Nana and Grandad, Kane got to have his first ride in an ambulance. He has been off colour with a viral cold for the last few days. Yesterday he had his last pro-biotic supplement, I was kind of sad to give it to him, it's been part of our morning routine since before he was born :S And he had his last progress check with them as well including a skin prick allergy test for common allergens which he swept through with flying colours...yay!

And to top yesterday off, he worked out how to open the *&$% ^#@^* gate! He is so proud of himself making his own cup of milk on Wed morning too - got his cup off the bench, grabbed the milk out of the fridge (mummy forgot to close the kiddy lock properly), poured himself a cup of milk, put the now empty bottle back where it is supposed to be, and sat down (like the good boy he is) on the one dry section of the kitchen floor and drank his milk....Mummy found him like that and had to clean up the rest of the previously full bottle of milk from the floor.

Raising a boy is becoming an increasingly expensive operation!

Enjoying my morning cuppa...

Kane was running around transferring the contents of the gravel pile to my deck chairs and this started getting eeriely quiet....waiting for the wail of pain...nothing...hmmm grab the camera....



Then when he realised he had been sprung..... wasn't me mummy!!

Here we go

I took the side off Kane's cot last night....He had his first night in a "big boy bed". Took a little while to settle in. He loved the fact that I can now sit beside him and read him a book. I had to go back in a few times - he was caught red-handed in the toy box, and I had to remove the trike from his bed 3 times. But we got there!

Not so easy so far for his afternoon sleep. He happily climbs into bed when I tell him to and snuggles down under the covers, but as soon as the door closes he is out again :) I am currently listening to him knocking his cars on the door and banging on his drum!

I'm leaving him for a few minutes, then going back in and quietly putting him back to bed. It will take a while but we will get there :) One more step away from my little baby :(

How do I stop giggling?

Kane and I often have little Mum and son time in the afternoons - stupid little games, usually involving him pushing me over and using me as a hill to push his trucks over (the dog doesn't stay still long enough). He knows that if he plays to rough, I'll say "ouch" in a growly voice, and play time is over.

He learnt a new trick a couple of days ago, giving me a head-butt kiss, or otherwise deliberately playing rough, then clamping a little pudgy hand over my mouth so I can't growl him.

How the hell do I stop myself dissolving in a fit of giggles?

Exhausted!

Wow what a little dynamo I have - he won't stop moving!

I now have plastic trellis attached to the front gate so a certain little monkey can't climb it any more. Well almost. I thought I had bought a 5m roll of the stuff but it was only a 3m one - I have a 1m gap that I still have to fill, but it is nice and tidy, removable if I have to, and already pissing Kane off royally!! I have planted a couple of pots of strawberry plants though, which hopefully will make up for losing his jungle-gym when they fruit!

My house is a tip - he helped me pot up the strawberries so I have potting mix all over my kitchen floor (I really must vacuum this arvo). He has also been helping me tidy the house... grabbing the newly filled toy box and tipping it out all over the floor and handing the empty box to me so mummy can play her game again - how thoughtful...

But at least he hasn't been into my lipsticks again. As I only have two unmarred ones left (one is brand new that I got to replace the dozen he destroyed), I have left them on top of the fridge - God knows where I wil hide them come summer, they will melt in the sun where they are now!

OMG! I am soooo embarrased

Bloody boys!

I have a small hole in the front of my computer. Kane has had a go at it a couple of times but it is too small, well we both THOUGHT it was. While on the phone to the FireFighters Credit union, I had to get off in a hurry and call the fire service....

Kane decided to have a more determined go at the hole - pushed ans pushed and pushed until his finger went into the hole.... and wouldn't come out.....

Had to call the calvalry - luckily the truck from Johnsonville turned up, rather than the local boys or I would never have lived it down!!

No doubt I will get a lot of ribbing anyway, but as none of them were actually there it won't be too bad

New tricks...

Look Mum!!! a truck:


I wanna go see:


Dammit that's as high as I can get


And he is a demandingly cute little sod. This morning at playcentre Hillary and I watched him from across the hall. Usually every now and again, he runs up to me, demands a hug then runs off to continue playing. This morning I was too far away. He spotted me, saw another woman was much closer (a complete stranger) and tugged on her skirt "UP UP UP!!!!!" until she picked him up, gave her a big hug and a quick kiss and then ran away to play again, leaving her looking very bewildered! Hilary and I just about wet ourselves laughing :)

I have a bone to pick with you Nana!!!

You know how a few weeks ago when you were going out for the evening, you very carefully showed Kane how you put on your makeup?

Kane threw a snit with me for daring to shut him out of the bathroom to have a shower in peace. I got out of the shower to find that he had opened my bedroom door and had several of my best lipsticks out in the lounge....He had very carefully bitten the tips off them all, put his lipstick on (he had very artfully painted a multi-coloured clown smile on), and was in the process of trying to get the dog to stay still long enough to put lipstick on her too!!!

Ta Mum, much appreciated!!!

Big Day for the little man

First day with his new daycare lady. My first weekday morning off. He was a perfect ittle angel. Helped tania bake cookies and change her 2month old's nappy - Kane knows nappies go in the bin.....took off with conrad's and tried to find the bin in the strange house and told her off when he couldn't find it!

Little sweetie

The new game is to shut himself out the front door (between the two doors) then knocking on the door to get let back in. Everytime i open the door I get greeted with squeals of laughter. If I take too long, I get a really pitiful little face looking through the cat door. He thought this morning was priceless. I didn't realise a courier had turned up, and Kane had mummy tapping back to him on one side and a courier waving to him on the other side! The courier said it made his morning :) He is standing behind me at the moment pulling out his baby wipes one by one, blowing his nose on them then trying to shove them back in. I guess it is better than drinking the dog's water - he knows now that he doesn't drink out of the dog bowl, he drinks out of a cup, so he dips his cup in the bowl.... eeewwww!

Learning new tricks every day

Bubba helped make his lunch today - he happily spread the marmite on his sandwich himself. He has been having some shocking mood swings though when he doesn't get his way.

He was such a boy yesterday. Chirping away at the big truck that backed up our street and waving at the driver. Refused to come away from the window until the taillights vanished from sight. Balanced things out nicely today, learning the fine art of cleanse, tone moisturise....

Oh No!

Kane's new word: Oh no!

Kane don't drop your yogurt on the floor you will make a mess....Oh No!
Dirty nappies go in the rubbish bin don't they?....Oh no!
Who turned the tv off, I was watching that....Oh no!

It goes with the vigourous nodding of the head while saying NO!

He is also inordinately fond of cuddle kiss attacks. He will randomly run up to me and demand to be cuddled, which gives him the ability to grab me by the ears and give me lots of gooey baby kisses. I suppose it's payback for all the tickle attacks I give him :)

Am hanging out to get my laptop back so I can post some more photos! Have to show everyone the outfit his Great-Gran sent down for him.

I'm back online!

Laptop has been in the shop, so I have been offline for a while (the keyboard key that Kane has chewed needed replacing among other things). The always gorgeous J has kindly knocked together a pc for me to use until my other right arm is back :)

Kane is such a little machine, I don't know weather to be impressed or scared s$$tless... In one day I caught him using the handle of the floor mop to reach the lightswitches that are out of his reach, and using a couple of cans to erect a step to reach the fruit bowl.

This morning while helping me bake, he grabbed an apple and a mandarin from the bowl, took a lage bite out of each then put them back in the bowl! I asked him what he was doing and he gave me a big flour-nosed grin, waved bye-bye and took off....mutter grumble cheeky sod...

how to make chores fun

Let me see now, one mucky baby from lunch, one kitchen floor that really could do with a wash. Finger paint made from flour and water..... and a whisk to help flick it up the cupboards!! There we go, lotsa a mess hehehehe.

The lovely little boy had more fun helping mum clean up with the hot soapy water and flannels. quick dry off with a towel, change baby out of his now mucky and wet clothes and mum's got a tidy house again! Easy way to kill an hour.

Kane has now progressed from bashing his pushchair from one end of the house to the other. He now gives his favourite toys a ride at the same time. His current favourite is one of my knee-high stilletto boots

I think he likes his bubblebaths...

As soon as I got out of the shower this morning Kane started throwing things around the bathroom. Took me a few minutes to work out what he was doing :) He hunted out and threw his bubblebath bottle in the tub then climbed in after it. He spent several fustrated minutes trying to jam one of his bath toys in the drain. It didn't take him long to find the plug and put that there, then happily tried to turn the taps on! I managed to get dressed and grab the camera in time to catch him trying to empty my shampoo down the drain!!

Opps sprung!!

Wasn't me mummy...

Aww shucks

I can't stay annoyed at my little angel for long, just not possible

He wouldn't go back to bed after his boob and was playing with the dog until he tired out again. I had a flurry of footsteps behind me and a tug on my top "mum mum mum up up up up up!!" (his new word is up). So I picked him up and put him on my knee - expecting him to start trying to pry keys off my keyboard as usual. He stood on my knee, grabbed my ears with his chubby little hands, grinned and gave me a big sloppy kiss, then slid straight off my lap again and took off after the dog!

aawwwwww ~big pool of gooey mummy mess~

My god he is my boy!

I discovered this morning at the park that Kane believes tube slides are different to normal slides. As far as he is concerned, you don't sit down nicely and slide down a tube slide.... you wait until you can see mummy's face in the hole at the bottom, giggle, then throw yourself face first down the slide and hope mummy is quick enough to catch you at the bottom before you hit the ground... I am going grey

RIP Mrs Smith

You will be sadly missed by a lot of people. It is a shame Kane and I didn't get the chance to visit you again before you moved, but at least you got up north for a little while :)

Rest well

Stormy nights

Kane doesn't like the weather we have been having lately. Unfortunately when there is a storm, it is his side of the house that gets hit. His room is the noisiest in the house. So when it gets really bad, mum doesn't get much sleep because a little wiggly bug comes and joins her in her bed. A little squirmy worm wriggles and tugs and kicks and shoves until mummy is in the position HE is happy with to sleep in.

Last night when the hail hit it was face to face, forehead to forehead, noses touching with his thumb in his mouth and his pinkie in mum's. Poor sleep deprived mummy had to stay like that until he fell asleep or the little terror would burst my eardrums!!

Pressie from Canada

A lovely big parcel from Thunder Bay arrived on Tuesday. Lots of fabric for me to make my bridesmaid dress and a lovely canadian winter weight snowsuit for Kane. It is a bit big on him yet, but should be just about right next winter:

The overalls have reallllllllyyyy long legs though. At the moment, if I stand them up, they are the same height as Kane!

The busy little whirlwind had a big decision to make this morning... Do I finish brushing my hair, throw the ball for the dog or climb on mummy because she is lying on the floor?


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Kane has a new trick

The babysitter told me all about his new trick when I got home - apparently he has worked out how to gargle his milk! He also took great pleasure in showing me how he could unzip and rezip her purse....Was a little fustrated that her purse was too big for him to be able to sling over his shoulder like he does with my dress purse.

My boy likes handbags....:)

The perils of having....

a boy who can climb:

Aunty J was lucky

Had a visit with the eminently beautiful Aunty J. She came around and had a cuppa and a chat. Kane was tearing around the house as usual, waaaaaayyyy overdue for a nap but not slowing down. He had a little dance to an ad jingle on the tv (for dance read: turned in circles on the spot) then fell over and had a little whinge :) Easy fixed, scoop him up and put him to bed for a nap'leaving us to have a good chin wag.

He didnt sleep (not that I was expecting him too) but had some quiet time, and chatted to himself. When we grabbed him a few minutes later, he had taken off his pants and thrown them across the room. Aunty picked him up and had a cuddle and his-lordship imperiously thrust out his leg for servant mummy to put his pants back on him.

Now Aunty spent most of the next 15mins before she left with Kane on her hip (lotsa cuddles). Less than a minute after she handed him off to me so she could go, I started feeling all warm and wet.... yup, we had interrupted him in the process of taking his nappy off too, and a wee little winkie was sticking out the side of his nappy.......

I hope Aunty J got home ok, that she didn't drive up the back of somebody in another fit of giggles.....

G'day g'day

Right, new blog. Give me a few posts to get into the "feel"of this one.

A blog set up purely to share the exploits and tantrums of my little angel:



For example: a story of a bathtime.... "No mum I am having way too much fun climbing around on the couch for you to get me dressed for bed"

"Ooooh hang about, whats this then?"