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Conversation breakers from kids

How do you stop another person from parrotting everything you say? The tried and true method was to say the person is “a silly duffer.” Of course, they can’t parrot this or they’ll be admitting it. It’s foolproof. Or it was… 

Me:

“Daniel’s a silly duffer!”

Daniel:

“Daniel’s a silly duffer!” *pause* “Ha ha! I called you Daniel!”

Now what about those neverending yes/no debates. How to diffuse them without the tears? Impossible you say? Emma knows the way.

Daniel:

“Yes!”

Emma:

“No!”

Daniel:

“Yes!”

Emma:

“No!”

Daniel:

“You’re lying!”

Emma:

*pause* “No, I’m Emma.”

Can’t beat that, can you?

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•  MuzeKez said:

  Heehee! I told Mum and Dad about these on Saturday night. :) They laughed!

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Leaving home, life was never good to me

It’s nice to see Daniel (5) and Emma (2) playing nicely together. Yes, there are a few tears but on the whole they have worked through them together and I’ve never seen them playing as brother and sister so well. You’d think that would make for a nice weekend—and it is a highlight—but it feels more like one of those grit your teeth and get through it things.

There’s a bit of a cold around the house and Caitlin (4 months) isn’t sleeping so well. She’ll sleep just fine when held—I sat for an impromptu screening of Wings of Honneamise and she slept until 2 am while I did so. Pop her in bed and she wakes to cry in an instant. Yes, there is a bit of a cold and a whole lot of tiredness. Perhaps this is why my wife told me she is waiting for me to “leave”. ’Coz why would anyone put up with this? Her thinking, not mine. I know who, where and why I am.

The whole week has been a bit like that. I did a lot of ironing today.

n.b. the title of this post is from a Jebediah song, not an indication of intent!

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Twin Caitlins

It seems I am very slow in blogging this important news — we have Caitlins!

Specifically, our second daughter, born 25 October 2007, and our first niece, born 16 November 2007. Both doing marvellously well, and balancing out the genders in our families. Look out boys! (Oh wait… that's me!)

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Hooray I got a job!

I did it, I won a new job. More money, new challenges (hmm do I need challenges with a baby on the way?) All happening soon - gonna be a busy year!

We also got a tank.

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