A Little Space for Me

First off, I wanted to give Lotus a hug, but since she’s so far away, I’m gonna dedicate this week’s winners to her. Lots of love honey xx

For Lotus

Zack decided he wanted to be Baby Zack this week… the boy has NEVER sucked his thumb before in his life!

I took some picks on the way to pick up our friend from the airport.

Waiting for the train…

At the bus station…

A rainy day in Glasgow…

Max adored his new ‘Uncle Nosey’

We took him to see our city centre.

Zack was happy to be let loose for a while!

Lots of places to run around!

Especially when you’ve got someone to play with!

These two had lots of fun - it scared me how alike they are!

Even in real life they tried dueling each other!

Uhh… who do you think won?

On Saturday we even went Bowling for the first time with Zack!

I was beaten by my 2 year old son *sigh*

(That was AFTER I bowled my ball… see it in the side?)

Obviously the stress was intense for Zack…

But he got over it! (Unlike daddy! >_< )

All in all it was a great time I was pretty sad to see Tim go (/poke!! ), but I think he’ll come back sometime… Zack loved the thought of him being up in the air in a plane! I *think* he understands that’s him gone for a while. We shall see tomorrow morning I suppose!

If you liked these pics then head on over to Lotus at Sarcastic Mom to see some more, and make sure you bring lots of love and hugs for her too!

Oooh this has been a fun week with my new camera! Lots of pics to share and it’s so difficult to choose just a few, but here are my favourites!

Max got a bit confused as to why I was spending so much time playing with a camera instead of him…

The bunny was wanting some of Zack’s dinner.

The First Morning (with the new camera) was spent taking pictures of The Cuteness.

A random pic that I had tried to shoot with the old camera and failed. Not anymore! Still not perfect but we’re getting there

You’ve gotta love these lips - even with cookie crumbs on them. They’re Oreo cookie crumbs after all!

I finally got some decent pics of the corkscrew hair!

Max had his first taste of Toast.

J got a bit freaked out with a pooey nappy…

and he was not impressed at becoming a chew toy either!

He was VERY happy when he got the first few new components of his PC despite being missing part of his head…

and Zack was just as happy to have a new box to play with!

Max got his first experience of the Tummy Slam. At least his big bro was careful because it was Max - we’re not so lucky!

Max enjoyed playing with his new toy (which arrived yesterday morning) and proceeded to claim as many pieces as he could with his slobber!

He REALLY loves his new toy!

and as you can see, I’ve been enjoying mine!

If you like these, or want to see some pics that AREN’T of my kids, head over to Sarcastic Mom for the latest installment of her meme Weekly Winners

WARNING: THIS IS A RANT! If you think you may be offended, leave now!

I do the huge majority of Max’s night feeds in our house.  If I’m lucky I can usually persuade J to do one at the weekend.  Now normally I don’t mind this - after all he’s going out 5 days a week doing a job he really isn’t that keen on (although it is a desk job so not physically tiring in the slightest) to bring in the money etc, he’s up earlier to get to work, and *at the moment* the boys seem to have taken to sleeping til about 9am which is amazing, although I doubt it’ll last.

Thing is… the very IDEA that he do the night feeds on the friday AND the saturday night and apparently I’m being unfair.  I don’t think that’s right as he is getting 6 nights a week of proper un-interrupted sleep (i have to thump him awake when he does do the night feed cause he sleeps thru the crying) while I’m living off about 4-5 hours of very broken sleep that whole time and having to run around after a toddler each day, keep up with the housework, and tidy up after said toddler, baby and husband. and to top it all when he actually does the night feed he needs a lie in and a nap to ‘catch up’.  see where I’m going with this??

do you think i should stick to my guns and ask him to do the fri and sat night feeds on a regular basis? or am I being unfair?  please don’t be too mean in your comment if ya think I’m being unfair or I’ll cry!

4am: I have been kept awake by a 2 yr old trying out various laughs at 3am. I kid you not! Was just trying to settle Max back down to sleep (still trying *sigh*) I heard a loud “HA. HA. HAAAA…” followed by silence. Did I just imagine that?? No? how do I know for sure? Because about 3 seconds later it’s followed by “hmmm, nope. don’t like that……. HE. HE. HEEEE…… YESSSSSS”and repeat for about half an hour.

11am: He eventually went to sleep once I had gone in to tell him to, I think he may have an imaginary friend the way he was talking last night. Kept saying things like “I’m gonna tickle you”, “you need a drink too?” etc… either that or he is one smart cookie and was trying to sweet-talk me into doing things for him without actually sweet-talking me, if ya get what I mean!

He’s currently sitting opposite me at the PC playing his Gameboy… the bane of my life *sigh*
Max is sleeping - finally… it felt like he was up half the night being unsettled.

Oh, and we got one step closer to J sterilising the bottles properly… he washed them and put them in the steriliser, we’ve yet to get him to switch it on though, and I was still left having to make them up at all hours because he’d forgotten yet again. We will get there I’m sure… probably by around the time they no longer need sterilised anymore.

Ooooh and other news, I got my first bling! Thanks to Veronica for this cute lil badge

I’ll wear it with pride
I’m still looking into the self-hosting thingy, we shall see how it goes. It’s definitely something I’ll do at some point in the future… most likely as soon as I can, so watch this space.

Thanks J, now we all have the dreaded cold/flu thing you have… I know it’s all about giving in a relationship but really, you could have kept that one just for you honey!

My eyes just want to close, but there’s too much to be done, I may be unwell but so is everyone else so it’s up to me to take care of them all *sigh*.

The life of a SAHM, who’d change it eh? Most of the time I love it, but when you are hit with things like this it just gets me down a little bit - when do I get ’sick days’ when I can have a day off my work and just stay in bed? I don’t, because J can’t take time off to look after the kids when I’m ill, which is fair enough I suppose, but still - I’m cranky and have every right to whinge about my lack of days-off when I’m sick, it is my blog after all! lol

So… if I’m not around for the next couple of days you know why - I’m off sick. I’m going to get some cold medicine…maybe chocolate (ok definitely chocolate) and I might even see about watching a Disney movie once Zack’s up just to make myself feel a little better… *sniff*