Kasey's pooh bear oops

I have a knack of tuning out on my kids, which can be a good thing, but sometimes it can lead to trouble.  While in Tasmania in January, I bought Kasey a purple lavender teddy bear which doubles as a heat pack. She has been heating up her bear the last few nights to take to bed with her. She came down last night and asked if she could put her bear in the microwave (along with some other mumblings)  and as I was busy looking at chooks online I casually said, sure, without looking up from what I was doing. About 40 seconds later  I was interrupted from my reading by kasey hysterically yelling " pooh bear is on fire!" on pulling pooh bear out of  the microwave, he was smoking...no flames, kasey was crying hysterically and all I could do was laugh! After putting kasey to bed for the 4th time after her continually coming downstairs upset, she finally went off to sleep, and pooh bear underwent emergency surgery. I had to cut off all the crispy bits, his head was completely unattached from his body, and resew on his head. I couldn't save his shirt as it has big melt holes  in it.  His surgery was a success and he is now all better, he just has a shorter neck, but once I make him  a new shirt, it won't even be noticeable. I still giggle every time I think about it, kasey just frowns at me. :D
Ooops

 

All fixed - just a little naked....

This will definitely be a story to retell on her 21st!

Roar...

Toni, Kasey and I were sitting at the dinner table tonight, and I was telling them about the scrapbooking retreat over the weekend. I mentioned that we did some line dancing on Saturday night at the Western Theme night, Kasey looked at me with her hands clawing at me and goes "Roar"....and then giggles....Toni and I both laughed and said ....."Line Dancing...not Lion dancing"....she goes "oh" and giggles histerically.....I love those moments...

Kasey's Xmas list

Kasey has written up her Christmas list...lol..... it is very cute....she has some big dreams about what Santa can fit in his sleigh though.....

 so, she would like a 

 Remote control helicopter, tyre swing, remote control cars, a "real" computer, ice cream maker, milk shake maker, dolls house, lots of stickers, cake maker, crazy sunglasses, card making supplies, bunk bed, cup cake maker, radio, cd's and a tv!!!  Phew.....just a few things.....She has addressed her letter to Santa at the North Pole, and will post it tomorrow.....I just love the spelling and the writing, she is sounding out all of her words, and while not everything is spelled correctly, I can understand everything she has written...and she did it all by herself....

Tomorrow I am heading to the shops for the day, to try and wrap up some of the Christmas shopping...knowing me I will get to a point where I just go, that's it, I've had enough and I'm going home, and it tends to happen very suddenly...so not sure if it will be the whole day yet (well, school hours anyway) or if I will only be able to stick it out for the morning....

Kid logic.....

Kasey:  "Mum, I don't like fruit cake...."
Mum:  "I thought you liked my fruit cake??"
Kasey: "I do, I just don't like the yukky bits"
Mum: "What yukky bits"
Kasey: "Um, like, the fruit"


LOL....

Vege garden, Sunday and a near tragedy....

I took Kasey to a Gymnastics open day today, she seemed to really enjoy it. I have booked her in to a school holiday program for a couple of hours tomorrow, and will see what she thinks. If she really likes it, I may book her in to the actual program during school terms. Today I sowed some carrot seeds in the vege garden, cleaned out the chook pen, and placed new straw, pulled out the last of the carrots from the last crop, along with some sweet potato and corn. This is today's harvest:

Kasey enjoying a freshly picked carrot from the vege garden..

I am going to keep the small cob of corn for seeds, as the corn has been delicious, very sweet and juicy, so I would definitely like to grow some more of this variety, as I think it is the nicest corn we have ever had. I think there will be about 150 seeds on the small cob, so I have it in the pantry in a mesh bag to dry for a few weeks. I will probably buy some more in the meantime and plant another crop very shortly. While getting the straw out of the storage shed this afternoon, I discovered a batch of rats in there, Max has turned out to have very good ratting abilities, and made short work of 1, but the rest scattered and took off, but I will let him in there each afternoon to try and get rid of the rest. While I don't like the idea of killing anything, a plague of rats is definitely not needed, and I think Max taking care of 1 in a couple of seconds is much more preferable to baiting them, which to me is inhumane. I also spread some more straw around the vege garden where needed. Last night, I made my first attempt at a crocheted dishcloth. It has turned out ok, a few missed stiches here and there, but practice should improve things. I think I may knit them in future though, as crocheting seems to use way more wool, even though it's quicker.

Toni had a bad night last night, and equally bad day today. As she was leaving a party last night, a very drunk girl jumped in front of her and laid on her bonnet, and fell off and hit her head on the bitumen, and is in hospital with a hairline fracture to her skull, bruising on her brain etc. Luckily, Toni was in first gear and only going about 5 klms an hour, but an ambulance was called and the police turned up, and breath tested Toni who returned a 0.00 result, and the police have told her she was not at fault and have cleared her of any charges or traffic infringements, but Toni feels awful as this girl is a friend of hers.  She has been crying all day, and is worried that her friends are going to blame her, and she has been feeling sick all day about it. It just really irks me that people do such irresponsible things, which causes distress to others. The girl is going to be ok apparently, but will be in hospital for a few days, and she can't remember what happened. It is a very hard lesson for her to learn though. I can only imagine how bad it could have been it Toni had been going faster, or had had a drink at the party....

hmmm....today was well.....hmmmm

It has definitely been one of those days today. I have found it really hard to get myself out of bed this last week or so, and this morning was no exception. I think I have dropped Kasey off at school after the bell most days this week, which isn't like me at all. Last night I applied some liquid nails to the inside of the souls of Kasey's school shoes, as she has been dragging her toes on the concrete in her shoes and they soul has been flapping around in it's own universe for a couple of days. So this morning, the liquid nails had dried, apparently, so she popped her shoes on. I was busy cleaning her room (as usual) and she brings in a tissue and says "Mum, is this the colour of the stuff you used to glue my shoes together?" I was very frustrated with Kasey this morning as she was being a bit hard to deal with, so I didn't even look at her, and said, "Look Kasey, just give me 5 minutes, I'm not going to answer you right now, just leave me to get a bit organised"....I lived to regret that....when I came out of the jungle, I saw liquid nails smeared all over the floor, from the dining room to the lounge room. It had been seeping out from her shoes, as the stuff in the middle of her shoes hadn't quite dried yet....so after spending about 15 minutes scraping it all off the floor, I said, right, let's go....and as Kasey turned around to head out the door, I spotted it.....the back of her school pants was covered in liquid nails...!!!  oh lordy....
anyway....after I changed her, took her to school, and then returned home to scrub as much of it as I could off her pants, I proceeded to do the mountain of washing that has once again accumulated. I then did some bookwork, and organised the insurance renewal for Damian's car, then I went to the demo at the sewing centre for the Palmer Pletsch dressmaking course, picked Kasey up and took her to the doctor. Turns out she has a ringworm on her arm, so have to put cream on it for about 6 weeks. So this evening after doing all the usual stuff, dinner, light the fire, do the chooks, feed the dog, load the dishwasher etc, I was quietly sitting at the table reading some blogs, and Kasey decided she would make me a beaded necklace. Something in the back of my mind was shouting "danger, danger" to me, as I was envisaging all these tiny beads being spilt all over the floor, when Kasey took the lid off the beads, the lid was stuck so she pulled extra hard....and....yep....the teeny tiny beads ended up all over the floor....Kasey is in bed now thank goodness, so my floors might be safe for another day.....then again, Toni is due home from work any minute....so you never know....
4 eggs today, 1 chilli picked, a dozen or so passionfruit, 1 stalk silverbeet and a few heads of broccoli for dinner....the tv is off, the kitchen is tidy, and peace currently reigns....bliss...

Hey Big Spender !!!

Hey Big Spender....!!!

Ride my blender....!!!

(Done in a loud voice to the rhythm of the Hey Big Spender song)

This is Toni's version of the chorus to Hey Big Spender, she thought this sounded right, until she looked up the correct wording..she is so funny sometimes....