Some snippets of the kids

I was sitting and "painting" nails with Catmen- more like "schmeering"- lol and I told her I loved her- very clearly she asked me- If you love me mom- why do you leave me with Ouma? Wow!
First she said it so clearly - I was quite amazed at her reasoning - for 3 I think it's very good.Of course she put me on a gulit trip - until I remembered that me and Pierre also have a right to spend some alone time together.
Poor pumkin fell asleep while sitting ast the coffetable on her arms. Shame- I just per straight into bed like that.

More of what I got

up to last week.

I only realised

yesterday how far Carmen has come this year. We went to the schools oriantation day and I recalled what worried me at the prevous orientation day a year ago.
She wasn't properly potty trained- and I was stressed hugely about it as the school required them to be fully potty trained.
She was very attached and didn't let go of me for one minute.
This year she is toilet independant.
She goes of on her own to play and try out all kinds of dangerous equipment (according to me). She thinks they are just plain fun. lol
She is an independant little girl who doesn't need mom all the time.

Amazing hey!!

Carmen

Carmen had such a ball today with Connor. She kept on calling him "her" baby.
Eventually, as all girls do- she shared her dolls with him. Connor pulled his nose up at this. Carmen looked all perplexed until I said to her- that's boys for you.
She just shook her head and said BOYS. LOL- it was too cute.

What a morning..

Sjoeweee...what a mess. My car didn't want to start this morning and since it went in for a service on Friday both Pierre and I was convinced that the service centre did "something" wrong.

So I phoned them. They are convinced it's the battery. So Pierre takes it out the car for me and of I trundle to our local battery joint. Battery fine.

Back home phone service centre again.grrr. Now we have to tow the car in. Phone the AA. Told they are extremely busy and I will have to wait 2 hours fo them. Wait impatiently. After 3 hours they pitch.

Friendly AA man scratches around in engine. Car starts. Whoohoo. It was some loose wire in the engine.

Thank goodness.

Get to work at 2.

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Carmen has started to cut her top left back molar. Just as I was convinced she would end up with no back molars :)

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Dinner post

jip- we are taking this up again

Dinner tonight is Lasagne with a green salad.

Back to school

Turned out to be somewhat of a disaster. After two days in the new school I decided to take Carmen out. Reason being that they expect the kids to be fully toilet independant. Now while she is fine most of the time, she does get distracted when she is playing or in a new environment.

So while she is in the morning with her own age group - this is quite alright- but in the afternoons in the aftercare- all the age groups are together and that is when things get a bit too much. So instead of forcing her or expecting the teachers to deal with it, I decided to take her out and put her in a new creche to give her time at her own pace to become toilet independant.

This created a bit of stress and heartache as I had to find a new place in one day. And most places are full at the beginning of the year as people place their kids at the end of the previous year. I was lucky to find a place that is on the way to Andrew's school. It was quite an adjustment though and she and us are battling to settle down. Hopefully things will start to settle this week.

Pic was taken by Jeanette