Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father's Day everybody! Have a great day with your little ones, and remember the old ones as well!

Literally speaking…

Kids take everything you say literally. This is important to remember, but can also lead to some quite funny conversations. Such as: Me: "where did you last see your hat?" Leo: "it was on my head." Something else I've noticed is that when my son gets hurt and I ask him where it hurts, he…

When you come in halfway through a conversation…

Just to let you know, this morning I woke up to the sound of my son (5), telling my daughter (2 next week) that if you pick someone else's nose you can find lots of things up there. Like bits of tin cans (?), ants (??) and of course, bogeys (boogers). As I hear more…

Is my kid a genius?

Does your child ever say something to you that is so simple, yet brilliant, that you wonder if they are some kind of genius? here is one particular time it happened to me. I was playing the "what noise does a .......... make" game with my son. We had been through all the usual animals;…

Crabs

We went crab catching this morning down at the harbour. We were having a great time and at one point spotted a dead crab floating in the water. I scooped it out so that we could have a look at it. Once we'd finished looking at it we put it back in the sea and…

The Toilet Incident

My son did a massive poo last week and it blocked the toilet. He sheepishly came to me and asked me to help him get rid of it. After a few flushes it wasn't going anywhere and he started to get upset, so I tried to move it with the toilet brush. At this point…