I went on a holiday and came back tired!

Went down to see my mum on the farm I love it down there and so do the kids we had a great time and went to stay at the beach for a few days so why am I so damn tired ! 

Peanut and Shrimples enjoying the beach 

Exploring the rocks 

Nynie getting sniped by a dead crab 

Me floating in peace 

one of Shrimples many faces ! 

Chilling on the top of the slide 

My friend needs your help

About 12 Months ago I met this amazing lady and her beautiful daughter, both of them immediately filled my heart with love and laughter.  Monkey is the funnist sausage. Her medical condition is far above my level of comprehension but basically her gut is just not working. In the last few months after an amazing year of improvements Monkeys condition has gone down hill she is now life support dependant. Her mum and Dad have never asked for financial help, But now they need help to buy a mygo seating system. I cant give alot but I wanted to share the link to her cause in case anyone out there was willing to donate even just a few dollars. If you cant I ask if you could please share with others.  Thanks 

PLEASE help Princess Mikenzee get her throne, The Mygro seating system
 

He's Weird !!

He's weird, This is something I hear all the time from kids in the playground. 
They are right. He is weird, I get it, he knows that. 

But why is weird a bad thing? 

Why is weird something that makes children want to get away from him as fast as possible?

It hurts...... me, I have no idea if it hurts him but having people disappear as soon as you appear must effect you. It must make him less likely to try and be social. 

I dont know how to fix this, how to make this okay, how to teach them that he is okay, that he wont hurt them, That he might be Wierd but he is also Wonderful. 

Right now though he doesnt have the skills to be a friend, I get that. We are still working on it. In the mean time please dont run away so fast, please dont make it that obvious, Dont say he's wierd or strange please dont snigger or giggle at him.   

Burst !

Peanut corrected his speech therapist today while following 3 step instructions ! 

I live for moments like these ! 

I leave my pants by the front door

Confession 
I leave my pants by the front door so on hot days (who am I kidding most days really) I can walk around with knickers and a singlet on. 
If someone knocks on my door its a simple as step into the pants and pull them up as I open the front door. 
If only I could get around the bra situation to work a bit easier.

- Pomfrit

The Blog is back

I dont know where to start I have been gone while  the year got hard not a Im gonna kill myself hard or a FML hard more of a slap my forehead and constant eye rolling sort of hard time. 

I will do some catch up in bullet point

• School got hard - for peanut   
• We brought a block of land
• Shrimples did well at school 
• I started Uni 
• Backpacker did well at work 
• Law suit came to an end
• Peanut got merit award 
• Shrimples counts to 200 
• Peanut reads books 
• Peanut became and over hugger 
• We all had a great lazy Christmas
• Backpacker and I realised we should really be saving more money 
• Peanut had a HUGE language burst  - and an attitude problem came with it. 
• Peanut turned 6 - Which Im pretty sure is where that attitude came from 
• Shrimples got addicted to the xbox 
• and now we are two weeks out of the start of the new school which already promises to be a better year 

so there you have it 9 months in a nutshell  =) 

Shrimples Birthday

 Well Shrimples is 4 he is officially a big guy now, although he has been telling people he has been 4 for a good year.  Shrimples went to Kindy and shared his ironman cupcakes with his Peers and then we picked him up and drove down south for the weekend, Fish and Chip dinner, swimming, bouncing and water slides (which he had to go down with me ) we had a great time Peanut was sick  ( temp From Tuesday afternoon) and finally got better on the sunday we left  ( typical)   but we ate at brewreys and wineries and had a good time the boys were really good apart from occasional moaning by Shrimples and on the last day running away by  Peanut well not so much running away but thinking he was on a racetrack and we were racing and nothing we could say would make him think others wise.  I have some News about Peanut but  Id like ot keep this about Shrimples my amazing little munckin so Ill talk about Peanuts things later .

Shrimples made a Friend in Teddy ( he loves stuff toys)  who just by per coincidence  happen to have Autism and be 2.5 years in his journey infront of Peanut  went through the same sort of schooling issues ETC  and  not only was that bizzare in its self that they became best friends but also that I knew Teddies Mother! from a private Facebook page we had never met in person but it was funny how we sussed each other out and then got on really well.

So now we are back at the rat race and  Since monday Shrimples has gone to bed with no nappies  first night he woke up dry  second night wet and last night he woke up dry at 5:30am but decided to lay in bed until daddy went and got him at 6:30 which meant his bed by then was soaking ! argh  ohh well no stress little bladder blah blah  I just so want there to be no nappies in this house.

Shrimples is doing really well in school writting and spelling his name and telling me what letters everything starts with. His beautiful drawing on the other hand has gotten  umm how do I say this  .. well they have turned to shit  just lots of scribbles  one today he drew was all black with three dots on the outside and one on the inside it looked like crap ! LOL   but we discussed the drawing and like  a good mummy I praised hm accordingly apprently its a cave and He is stuck in it and  Daddy mummy and peanut are all outside yelling " Where are you Shrimples, Shrimples where are you? " but he just cant find his way out cause the noises are too loud !!!...... umm  I think I need a psychologist for this child LOL  here are some picture of my handsome little man on his Big 4th !!