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3AM Dad’s Mt Washmore
4 Days of washing for a family of 6. I didn’t incude the 4th day, as you couldn’t see my daughter (for perspective, my daughter is 22 years old and 6ft 2in). Please note, no children were harmed in the creating of this photo.
Yve has been a late bloomer when it comes to walking. It was the week before she turned 16 months, when she started putting more than a couple of steps together. Part of the issue was her loving brothers doing everything for her. So really, she didn’t have to walk, because one of her many servants would likely get her what she wanted if she called out loud and long enough.
When the boys realised that she was walking, of course they wanted to help her out, which resulted in multiple tumbles to the floor, heads bumped on lounges, tables, carpet and tiles… numerous tears and numerous times Dad and Mum telling them… “it’s OK, let her walk in her own time” :).
Last week Mel came home from work and Yve walked up and greeted her at the back door. Even though she was tired, she was very proud of herself for putting the dozen or so steps together to get to her Mum. Jaec and Mel moved away from each other and tried to get Yve to walk to Mel again. She had a big smile on her face and waddled off towards Mummy. 4 steps in, she fell to her knees. We all supported her and said “good try baby, up you get and try again”. Before we got this out, her tiredness kicked in and she fell forward, banging her head on the floor… then the tears flowed. Mel picked her up for a cuddle and Jaec (7) exclaimed.
“Now we have all bumped Yve’s head, even Mum.” He then looked over to me and said “Well except you Dad, all you did was break her leg.”
Thanks Jaec, it’s still fresh.
I had a very cute conversation with my oldest son yesterday, that reminded me of a play date he had recently.
One of Jaec’s best friends is a young lady called Taylah. Tay, has a great little personality and is a great friend to Jaec. About 2 months ago or so, Jaec wanted to have Tay over for a play date. He said “We can go shopping, I think Taylah would like to go shopping”. We invited Taylah shopping.
Rewind 2 months
One of my favorite things I like doing is listening to the kids conversations and when you through another child into the conversation (and a female at that), it makes it even more interesting. I was driving the kids to the local shopping centre (mall) and a conversation started on hair colour. Taylah noticed that all our kids had different coloured hair.
“Yve has Blonde hair, you have Dark hair Jaec and Kaine’s is in between”. Tay remarked.
“Yeah, and Mum has all the colours” Jaec responded. Mel has a bit of a multi tone thing happening. :D
During the play date, Tay went into every second shop, and took her time. I had to explain to Jaec, that ladies like to take their time shopping and like to look at lots of things. Jaec wasn’t too happy about that.
We dropped Tay home and I discussed it further… he understood, but wasn’t too happy about it. “Next time I think we will do something else”.
Fast forward back to present day
Jaec pulled me aside “I’d like to have another play date with Tay. I am OK if she wants to go shopping, I know that she will look at more stuff and will buy more stuff than me.” he said.
I’m pretty sure he just wants to buy the latest Ninjago Lego, but he is willing to endure the torture of a days shopping with a lady to get it ;)
Time to say thank you.
Recently, I stumbled across Mummys Monsters, an awesome Sydney based business, run by two “Mummy” sisters that sell Punk, Alternative, Vintage, Rockabilly, Pop Culture etc. clothing and homewares. Both for Kids and Mums/Dads! I picked up this awesome watch for $10 and postage was more than reasonable.
I have lost count how many compliments I have received for it, whether it is old fogies like me saying “I haven’t seen a TV Test Signal for years!” or the youngun’s saying “Cool, I like that… where did you get it from?”. Well now you know. Check out Mummys Monsters and tell them 3AM Dad sent you!
My youngest son couldn’t wait to start wearing Bat Sweater when it came in the mail. I don’t usually put up pics of the kids on the internet, but I couldn’t help it when I saw him in this.
It’s still quite warm up here, but I can hardly get it off him!
So when you have a chance, please visit their Facebook page and check out their website. They have some awesome Adults, kids and babies clothing on sale at the moment starting from $10!
Recently, we had an incident where Yve (15 months) was choking on something (nothing came out in her poo, so chances are it was food). She couldn’t breath, so I sprung up and put my fingers down her throat. She gagged and cleared her throat. Whatever it was, it dislodged and she must have swallowed it. She began breathing again and all was well.
I went and washed my hands and sat down to lunch. The rest of the day went well, when we returned home. For some reason, I kept on smelling vomit. I smelt the lounge, pulled it apart and couldn’t find anything. I then smelled my hands… Aaah I smell vomit because I stuck my fingers down your throat a couple of hours ago.
This is my life as a father of 4. 3 son's ages 4, 6 and 7 and a daughter born in January 2011. I am performing a Primary Carer role (aka Mr Mum, aka Trophy Husband) from January 2011 until August 2012.
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