Interpretation

As a general rule a Mum is needed to translate a small child's babble. As the babble turns into well formulated sentences one needs intelligible wit to deconstruct the complex code.

'Is it someone's birthday today Mum?'

'Would you like pancakes for breaky today Bastian?'

Can I have some of that?

Elliott is happy when he is tasting what everyone else is eating.

Elliott's New Room

The boys are enjoying hanging out in Elliott's new room and I am enjoying the other end of the house, block free in peaceful quiet.

The Plan unfolds

The more we rearranged the more we discovered needed rearranging. To the delight of both boys the little table came back from Sebastian's room to the lounge room and Elliott had to learn that generally speaking, good manners dictates that you take food from the plate in front of you.

We also successfully decorated the shelves and covered up all of the old holes in the wall to cheer up Elliott's new space.

Plan

We needed a plan. Elliott needed a bedroom and is was becoming glaringly obvious that waiting to share with Sebastian was not going to be the answer. All we needed to do was take out Sebastian's little bed and put it under ours, give him the spare bed from the study, move the desk to where the spare bed used to be, transfer the shelves that had temporarily been in the kitchen for the last 4.5 yrs back to go with the desk, install new temporary kitchen cupboards, transfer the antique filing drawers from the lounge to use as a room divider and then take the cot and drawers out of our room. Nothing to it - sounds like a plan to me.

Sebastian's First Day

I have been warned that by putting your child in school you are giving a free license to the following years to fly by. I have a suspicious feeling that this has already occurred considering that all of a sudden it is time for Sebastian to start Prep.

Follow Up:
Sebastian is loving his new classroom and teacher and is happily heading off to school each day. However it was the second day of week two when Sebastian asked me 'How many days this week Mum?'. For a little boy who is used to a 5 day/fortnight Kindy program it was a little bit of a shock to hear that the answer was the whole five days.
'That's a lot, I don't think I need to go that many'.
Welcome to the real world Sebastian.

The Joy of Baking

I now have two boys who share my passion for baking or are very supportive of it at the very least.