Saturday Smiles

At the moment I am surviving on very broken sleep, a lot of coffee and copious amounts of sugar. I have a constant foggy brain and am needing to write down anything that even remotely needs remembering. I am also learning to quickly survey double meltdown situations where both of my girls are howling and decide who I need to attend to first and who can manage to wait for a few more minutes before they implode.

Luckily, I have a lot of lovely, kind and funny people in my life who help me to smile. So for the next few weeks I am going to try and write a post every Saturday which details some of the moments in my week that made me smile.

My Choo Choo Girl

Funny little Miss Muffet is a big fan of trains and we are very excited that her slowly expanding repertoire of words includes the word " choo choo". The other night, as I headed off to bed, I stopped in to check on Miss Muffet and make sure that she was actually in bed and not asleep on the floor. This is what I found:

 

Little Miss Muffet fast asleep and cuddled up to her favourite trains, which she has smuggled to bed without Action Dad noticing. Love her!

Daylight Robbery
Today we went to visit Amazing Sister, Mr Darcy and Mr Expression. Mr Expression sidled up to me and showed me a wee plastic bag of his treasure- a collection of small stones he had decided were Very Important and Most Special. Mr Expression very kindly offered to gift me one stone which I accepted. He then sat and thought for awhile before announcing that he was going to go outside and that he required a table because he was going to sell his stones. Amazing Sister and I tried to convince him that this may not be the best idea and I offered to buy a second stone. I scrounged $1.20 in loose change from my purse and counted out $1. Mr Expression gave me my original stone! I offered him the further 20 cents, which he took. When I asked what that would get me he replied - " one! And you already have it! ". That boy is going to go places.

Flowers

We were so lucky to receive beautiful bunches of flowers to celebrate the arrival of Buttons. I have had them all sitting on our kitchen bench and everytime I see them, they make me smile. 

 

A Tale of Two Rascals

 

Miss Muffet, Mr Darcy and Stinky Teddy

Miss Muffet is incredibly lucky to have a whole bunch of cousins who all adore her and spoil her rotten. One of the major reasons that we wanted to move home to Wellington was so that she could grow up with her extended family around her. She has five cousins on my side, who are all boys; three cousins on her dads side, who are all girls; and three half cousins! They range in age from 10years -18 months and she is quickly establishing friendships with them all. 

Two of Miss Muffet's most favourite people in the world are Amazing Sister's little men- Mr Expression ( aged 4, insanely intelligent and wins the prize for best use of eyebrows and hand movements for expression) and Mr Darcy ( aged 3, tall, dark and handsome, cuddly and funny) Miss Muffet's whole face lights up when she sees " her boys" and they spend all their time racing around, playing trains and giggling uncontrollably. 

On Saturday, Mr Expression and Mr Darcy came to visit us at home and spend some time with Buttons. They were heartbreakingly adorable, cuddling her and marvelling over her tiny hands and cooing at her- Real melt your heart stuff! 

 

Mr Expressions and Buttons 

 Mr Darcy and Buttons sharing a smooch 

Action Dad and I were enjoying a cuppa with Amazing Sister and Awesome Uncle when we realised that A) Miss Muffet and Mr Darcy were no longer in earshot and B) the house was suspiciously quiet. Action Dad went on a hide and seek hunt to try and find them, calling their names and opening doors and cupboards searching for the two missing minors. 

When he came to our bedroom, he immediately noticed that our wardrobe door was closed- unusual and totally suspicious. Upon sliding the door open, he found Miss Muffet and Mr Darcy on the floor with a quarter bottle of sparkling raspberry soda, sharing swigs like naughty 14 year olds with rocket fuel before  a dance! 

Apparently they both had absolute deer in headlights looks on their faces and the fact they were caught red handed and with raspberry stained mouths and that they were dead end in the wardrobe all just added up to a hysterically funny tableau- I wish , wish, wish that Action Dad could have taken a picture! 

Miss Muffet and Mr Darcy are all kinds of naughtiness together and I am looking forward to hearing what antics they get up to when Miss Muffet joins him at Crèche in a few weeks time- I feel very sorry for their poor teachers!