Snot-tastic

Been a trying week here - my class have started the AIMS tests (every yr 3 kiddie in Victoria does them) and so it has been a little stressful.
Chloe has also developed the most feral and snotty cold ever - and in her kindness - passed it on to me. So I have spent the weekend thus far sniffling, shuffling around in my pjs and comparing snot rags with a 2 year old - yes blog buddies its all action here in Bentleigh!
On the up side though we recently discovered the presence of Playhouse disney on FOXTEL and various kiddie friendly shows that it has on it - Chloe is wrapped - but to our horror we only had it on preview for a week - long enough for it to become part of pur and chloes lives. I switched it on the other night to watch the Wiggles to (HORROR!) find that it was back to being blocked - i panicked and called up the FOXTEL peeps, arranged for it to be added - only to be told that we woudl also get a few other channels - fine I yelled - just as long as Chloe does not have to go through Wiggle cold turkey. So basically we now have almost every channel ever invented (minus the movie ones) including the Sci-fi channel so I can finally embrace my inner geek. Yes, yes, yes, Buffy repeats - every day - on rotation - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Day off hijinks

Had a good day here. Chloes school was shut so we went off to the Aquarium with Freya and Rebecca for the morning - Chloe loved all the fishes and the train ride. All went well - Chloe loved the starfish she saw (her new favourite animal in the whole wide world) and joy of all joys there was one for her to touch.

Chloe loved this and touched gently to begin with but ended up trying to take the starfish home with her.... not a great look.

She also loved seeing all the different sizes of fish - look mumma a big one, look a small one. Eels, sea snakes, Nemo, sharks, spiders, HUGE crabs, starfish, turtles - all were taken in with a two years old aplomb..

When we got to the big shark tank at the bottom there was a diver in there - hooked up to a microphone thingy and he was giving a talk an audience about his job etc... cut to 2 rather intrigued 2 yr olds going right up to the glass of the tank. Chloe then was heard to say - Hello man - what'ya doing?????

On the way out of the aquarium we went into the shop and purchased a starfish toy (to replace the real one Chloe tried to grab) and a squeaky shark - as I feel you are never to young to love sharks.

We grabbed some lunch at the casino (well the food court bit not the actual casino) and then headed home - neither girl had a sleep... Reb and Freys came to have a cup of tea and whilst they were here, Freys decided that she wanted to sit on the toilet - for ages - reb almost dropped dead of shock. So we all got back in the car and headed off to Baby Bunting to purchase a cushie tushie for Freya to have at her home. Not the best idea we have ever had... we had a few baby meltdowns in the shop and then on the way home Chloe dared to lift her hand up in the air - Frey thought she was going to (horrors of horrors) invade "HER" space and it was on.... tears, more tears and yup more tears...

Chloe also came into the hairdressers tonight and had a trim before I got my hair done - she was ok about it - not entirely convinced but it is a start...

Back to school - booo

In approx. 10 hours I will have to enter the sliding doors to school again....not something that I am looking forward to after having seriously enjoyed my holidays - well except for the painting bit - but at least the house is looking almost normal again. I wonder what this term will bring.....

Park Life

Beautiful saturday morning - so after the now traditional walk down "the leigh" for a morning milkshake, Chloe awaited the arrival of her bestest friend Freya so they could go and cause havoc at the park.

There was hardly anyone there - except for 2 boys from Chloes school - who preceeded to ignore the girls (they start young these days) - nevermind, the girls got down to some serious swinging, climbing, and general tearing about.

Chloe can now clamber over the majority of the park without the need for me to hover incase of a fall, so at last after 2 long years I can finally see the day when I can sit on my arse on a seat and relax whilst she tears around like a banshee.

Dr Who tonight was great ... some really great lines in it. One where the Dr was described as magnificant....a sentiment that I strongly agree with. Phwoar that David Tennant is so so yum.

He will be mine...oh yes... he will be mine.

3 legged donkey

Today saw us driving 3 hours north to Wangaratta to watch Stranger Danger run in a horse race. Run is a verb that I use with a bit of sarcasm as he found it difficult on the "heavy & slow" (thats race speak) track. Dear Strange ran his little hooves off but just did not do well at all - 6th out of 12 I think... trainer was heard to mutter words that sounded like glue and knackers yard upon Stranges return to the stalls.

However, I love Strange as he is a cutie inthe looks departement.

See...

Hes also got character....

Too bad he would rather eye up the chickies at the track than run around it at top speed.

Chloe was impressed with him and kept saying "hello little guy" to Strange...not sure that did any good to the horses ego as he really is a little guy in height!

Anyway I did manange to shoot a rather impressive picture of Strange cantering past the finishing post- if you forget that there were about 4 horses that came before him it almost looks like he is coming second!

Go Strange! (hes the one with the yellow jockey on top)

Chloe enjoyed the day and was suprisingly good in the car - we did have to listen to an incredibly annoying song called 5 little starfish on repeat for about 200 miles - but thats ok - she was quiet and happy! She has also discovered sunglasses and is perfecting her "I'm a star leave me alone" poses.