Happy Birthday Hubby

It's my gorgeous hubby's birthday today - it's a bit of hectic month for us, in that we celebrate our wedding anniversary a few days before and then its my birthday a few days after his, so its allsort of mixed into one big celebration for us. But I wish him the very best of everything on his birthday and that I love him very much. Happy Birthday hun!

Boys and their Toys

My son has an extremely embarrassing amount of toys, for a (nearly) four year old boy he has accumulated a vast amount that really its too much, for one he doesn't play with every toy, he goes through phases on which he chooses as his favourites. The big stars at the moment is anything Power Rangers, Transformers, Ben 10: Alien Force and that is enough to keep up with, (there was Cars; Lightning McQueen etc, and that was a huge amount of cars to collect, believe me) between all those said three toys, they must border on at least 50+ characters between them...honestly these toy manufacturers know how to plug those merchandise - these kids just rake it all in and then bother us parents to buy the lot, including getting the t-shirt. My kid is also into Lazytown, ok its quite a good learning programme, and my kid can now do press-ups (even one handed!) and sit-ups, and does the dance sequence at the end - he has the moves down-pat. I seriously wonder though what next...he actually thinks Thomas is for babies now, so that has literally gone off the rails ('scuse the pun) I think Spiderman, Hulk and Iron Man is slightly edging its way - he's already a big fan of the films, he has them all on DVD - I wish though that we had a never-ending bottomless money pit, but we don't and this I spell is just the beginning...

(A posting of an old photo - he has hair!)

In remembrance

For my grandmother Rose, [1914-2007] I miss you more each day, not being able to talk to you and seeing you still feels very strange. I still think that I can just pick up the phone to dial your number, or take a ride in the car to see you and at forgetful times I always think this is still possible, but I have to remind myself that is not the case. I don't feel sad as much as I used to, as life does go on, and I know that you are in a better place, and hopefully looking down at me, probably worrying as you always did, and wondering why on earth I cut my long hair, and loving the fact that you did get to see me get married and have my first child, and more so the fact that your other wish of knowing that my father and I are now talking, all those things coupled together is what I know is so typical you and I'm proud to know you that well! Oh and yes, I will let everyone know you send your love...

Growing up

I swear my son has grown another two inches overnight, I put some trousers on him this morning and they are like ankle swingers, I am positively certain that they fitted him perfectly a couple of days ago. Well I guess its to be expected, kids do grow up at some stage, sometimes I do think too quickly (and that is generically speaking), my kid will be starting school for the first time this year, and its quite impossible to believe that time has come for him to experience the start of many things when he does start, I remember my very first day at school and it wasn't a pleasant experience, I did not want to leave my mother was all I could think about, no ideas why really that I can recall, I was being asked to do was just leave her and follow the teacher, and it frightened me that I was being left somewhere that was completely alien to me and I wouldn't see her again, things you remember I guess...it didn't help that I was an extremely shy child, (being an only child, my only company was my mother up until I started first school), my own kid on the other hand is the complete opposite in every way, which is a good thing. His imagination is just amazing and he takes everything in, always going at a hundred miles an hour and never, ever stops questioning, talking, and just generally being a typical child, and I get to learn something new about him every day.

The sun is shining...

...and doesn't it just lift your mood no end! Well it did for my little boy, even to the point that he actually asked me to take his photograph (I actually asked him to repeat that) as I didn't think I'd heard correctly, as he never EVER asks me to take his photograph, so I didn't need asking twice! It has been absolutely gorgeous though on the weather front so far this week and I just hope it continues!

Completely off topic - of late I just feel out of sync with myself, everyone around me, in everything that I do, I don't know why, maybe the planets are out of alignment (?) sorry, couldn't resist saying that one...;P anyhoo, just things that happen that I just don't understand why or how, and then feel overdramatic about things and go all 'why me', well maybe not that extreme...just silly little things, like for instance today at work, I had to go and set up some equipment for a meeting being held later on in the afternoon, I was carrying some heavy-loaded equipment on my own and struggled to get up the stairs with it, so piled into a small lift to take me to the first floor, and then the doors opened and I was faced with a room full of people quietly listening to someone talk...I just had one of those 'oh great' moments, and the thing was people knew I was struggling but didn't feel like MOVING OUT OF THE DAMN WAY! I actually had to (in a quiet voice as I could muster as to not completely disturb the whole room) ask people to 'excuse me' so I could go out the door as fast as I could, I just so wanted to get out of there! Now this might not seem 'major' in the grand scheme of things, but still these thing's 'happened' and it always seem to involve me in it...ok I'm rambling now, but you get the gist of the kind of thing I'm just niggled with day in day out! I just have to laugh things off but I just have to shake my head sometimes...!

The long and the VERY short of it

My kid was long overdue a haircut, we wanted to grow it, in that 'cool-kid-with-long-hair' kind of way, but it was in that inbetween stage which just made it look messy, so...we decided to shave it all off, and boy did we go to town on it, we lopped the lot off and I can't get over how short it is! I'm surprised he let us do it to be honest (although a bribe of having a toy might have had something to do with it ;P)

I actually think it looks very cool, practical and make him look so much older, where has my baby gone! We did an impromptu photosession today, to show off the new 'do' - he actually only just been to the docs for his pre-school booster and he was such a brave little lad just sitting on my lap looking bewildered wondering what the woman with the funny thing in her hand was doing. We tentively told him about it beforehand and so he knew what was to be expected, but I was so anxious to get it over and done with for him, but he was really good bless him, and he was given a choice of different chocolates and a sticker from the nurse - hmmm I never got this special treatment when I was a little girl...my how times have changed eh!

Anyway, these were the photographs from our little mini-session, doesn't he look so gorgeous and all grown-up?