Playground and presents, small as well as big ones....

There were a few days in England where the princess, little man and the daddy were well enough to venture out!! So first stop had to be the playground, right.... Happy faces, fresh air and lots of fun!!

The little man wearing a few of his Christmas presents! A cool leather pilot jacket and his cool hat which he also wore for a while on Christmas day when he got it.... His excitement on Christmas day was so lovely. Aunty 'I' gave him a big present with a little one attached on top. He chose to open the little one first and screamed (and I mean screamed really loudly) with joy: "Look daddy, batteries... Batteries, mummy!! Look...!!" Then he opened the big packet, a radio controlled Rory car! Screams again but not as loud....

He's got his priorities right, hasn't he??

Christmas holiday!

Monday the princess started her Christmas holiday a bit earlier having to stay home from school with a temperature. Tuesday the daddy followed and Wednesday the little man.... I seemed to not be following them so I got the packing done and Thursday we piled everything and everyone in the car and off we went!
We're now in England relaxing trying to beat a nasty cold that seems to have got to us all. Yes, I woke up Friday morning not feeling well.....
Luckily I didn't get too bad before we actually got here so driving through 4 countries before we got to Calais went fine, and we had a nice rest on the ferry to Dover, drove the last couple of hours before arriving at nana and papa's.

Despite feeling unwell the children were very excited and so happy to see everyone. Their little cousin had been waiting and it was lots of laughs and cuddles when they all three saw each other!

"But I don't have 4 hands, daddy"

The little man has been given a lot of Lego for his birthday. Not the duplo but the little original lego which he loves. It's cars, animals, a helicopter and lots more. His daddy and him have been building a car a day the last few days or actually it's just the little man building. Like here where the zoo animals are being made....

Anyway, back to the cars they've built. The little man wanted to play with the four cars they'd made together and asked his daddy to come and play. Daddy told him to start playing and he would come and play when he was finished with what he was doing.
The little man stuck his head out of his room looking confused "but daddy, I don't have four hands"

Long car journey?? Here's some tips for you....

We've just been on a car journey and as I wrote here a couple of weeks before we left, we had bought these dvd players for the car journey. They were used and did their job to keep the princess and little man entertained. It did nothing for them getting an achy bottom from sitting in the car hours at a time though. Well, we did do short stops quite often and every time I told them to shake their bottoms! It did help but looked silly though but who cares. The daddy on the other hand thought he'd put more action into it..... Not a bad idea at all!

It defo helped their achy bottoms so they'd happily sit for hours again in the car. We're back home now and straight away had to start planing the princess' birthday. It's next Friday (20th). She had lots of wishes so we went for the easy way... The internet! All her presents are ordered at Toys'R'us, very easy.
Click here!

2 weeks and we're off to Disneyland.

As from tomorrow morning at 8am, there's excactly 2 weeks untill we start driving towards Disneyland. Thought it might be a good idea to invest in a dvd player for the car. It's a long drive down to Paris. I easily convinced myself we could not live without these portable dvd players, they don't just play dvd's they also play CD's so really no excuse not to get them, eh!? Føtex had them on offer so off the daddy went! He got one in pink for the princess and a black one for the little man. Both with a strap that attach it to the front seat and headphones so they can watch their film in peace and we can be spared the sound.

Also, they don't always want to watch the same film. Well, we'll not have to have that argument now will we! Of course, another one could start instead as suddenly they have to watch the same film just because.... No, not even that can ruin my excitement. 2 weeks woop woop, I can't wait!!

Olden days and new days....

Daddy: "What did children get for Christmas in the olden days?" The princess: "Statues, black and white statues..." "Really, no toys or sweets?" "Nope...!" Daddy: "How did people look then, in the olden days?" The princess: "They were tall and thin and they had very long noses!" "Long noses, why?" "Dunno but they were black and white all of them." Daddy: "Were there no colors at all?" The princess: "No of course not, colors did not come until the new days daddy" "Right and when was that again?" "100years ago of course"
So now you all know these important facts about the olden and new days. And who would not believe an intelligent little princess like this!

The little man said he knew a lot about the new days. Daddy sat down to have a little chat with him about that.
Daddy: "Do you know how many people there are in the whole world?" The little man: "A million!" " A million in the whole world?" "Yep" Daddy: "What about cats? How many cats in the world?" The little man: "Ten" "Really, just ten?" "Yep and ten aeroplanes" Daddy: "How many cars then?" The little man: "A million!"
Wow a car for everybody in the whole world but very long queues in the airports! Here's a very relaxed little man who clearly knows what he's talking about!

Extreme excitement....

.... we had in the house yesterday afternoon! The princess, the little man and their daddy love to play the Cars game on daddy's old and totally out-of-date Playstation2. Patient they are not so to get new and exciting races, "cheat" codes had to be found on the internet and used instead of racing to earn all the points to do other races. Takes too long apparently. The codes were typed in and the screams with delight from all 3 when new races were now available, were loud, long and extreme. If this is all it takes to get them over the moon with joy, then let it be!

Technical world....

Even playing with toy cars the computer world is brought in. My 3year old son (well 4 on sunday) was playing with toy cars with his daddy. The cars was waiting to drive cos according to the little man they were "loading". A phrase we do use a lot when he is getting impatient waiting for a playstaion game to load or a game on the computer. Obviously to him loading = waiting!

Laminating fun 7.30 in the morning!

We started with cutting pictures out of my son's many magazines from the movie Cars. Then it was laminated and hung up under strict supervision by the little man.

My daugther did all the cutting and gluing herself. I did the laminating!

 I laminated one of her wicked drawings as well.

And this is what I was left tiding up when they got fed up with the fun of laminating!

I love my laminater and could quiet easily keep laminating everything I get my hands on....