This picture
Jem posted this one to Facebook and everyone said it was their favourite…it’s one of my favourites too. The look on Tom’s face is just too munchkin for words.
Little family
Our little family. Such a happy, heartwarming picture, I kind of love it.
The cutest thing on two wheels
I’m not sure about this Daddy..wassit? Why you sounding sooo serious?
Really, same same like my bouncy chair but different? Kewl!
Boy you talk a lot Dad. Let’s go already!
mmm, my dashboard?” Crashplate?? Gear stick??? I give up, was this thingi?
Bouncy chair definitely has more suspension.
Can we stop going round and round in circles now huh?….This is so 3 years and under Dad. Like, I mean, let’s see them drop offs!
Oh no no no no not another cirlce! Noooooo! Mommy heeeelp!
Why you shouldn’t get your husband to dress your kid. Ever.
“Hunni please can you get Tom dressed in some new clothes”
The result: Pippy longstockings cross Farmer Joe cross Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat cross cutest baby ever. 
Top 11 boo-boos when putting a baby to sleep
Putting the Tominator to sleep is usually (touch wood) quite easy. Bath, bottle, dummy, cuddle, drowsy, sleep. Sometimes though it just doesn’t work like that. He gets to the drowsy bit and one of the following happens:
1. A flock of Egyptian geese take flight over the Tominator’s room at this exact moment. Ffffff…..
2. The apple juice I had 30 minutes ago migrates from stomach to duodenum, making a gurgling sound in the Tominator’s right eardrum. No amount of stomach tensing will minimise this so-not-cool sound, just gotta roll with this one.
3. Jem decides to blow that booger out his left nostril in the bathroom next door. Beayatiful! And it’s not like I can scream and tell him to pipe down either.
4. My cell phone rings..sob sob
WAIT, it gets worse…
5. The Tominator farts and wakes himself up.
6. The scratch in my throat leads to an uncontrollable, gasping, throat-grabbing, explosive cough which sees me shot putting the Tominator over to Dad.
7. I trip over the carpet….
8. or over the Monkey and activate its dancing, singing, flashing AND gyrating functions. You have no idea how often this happens.
9. We have a localised thunder storm, like right outside Tom’s window. Like seriously.
10. The enemy cat enters the kitchen and tries to mess with Frank and George. Frank and George won’t have any of it and a massive bust up ensues.
11. Instead of turing on the sleep music….Dad turns on “The Wheels on the Bus go round and round” song at full (baby waking) volume. Accidentally of course.
This is for all mothers who try and get their baba to sleep at night…in peace!! What wakes your baby up, I’m interested to know?
My boys
We’ve been busy over the holidays…with outings to the beach, the berg, parks and markets. I got the chance to take some pics of the two special boys in my life…
The first pic is my best, the light is so warm and they both look so content and….it just makes my heart mushy okay. Hunni looks kinda sexy here too.
Toms first visit to the beach! He wasn’t quite sure of it though. Naked and covered in beach sand, he crashed into a deep sleep about 10 minutes after this pic. I think being a mother is all about these little moments…wrapping your sleeping baba up in a beach towel and cuddling him close….aaaah!
Bergville in the late afternoon, too beautiful for words.