Once again this is an overdue blog post. I have been writing this in my head for days now, so it might end up being quite a long one. I might also ramble.
I was bathing the girls on Sunday and we were having a fat chat when Daniel comes into the bathroom. “Mom, do you remember when you put the rope on my door?” and laughs.
I almost died.
When Daniel was 18 months we moved him out of his cot and we went through the whole saga of trying to keep him in his bed at night. Enter Toddler Taming, a book that someone recommended to me that had some sound advice, amongst which was a little trick to keep your toddler from wandering around the house. You tie a rope around the inside door handle of your child’s door and then on the outside to another door so that the door isn’t closed, but the child can’t get out. So they can see and hear you, but they can’t get out.
Send the Parenting Police, I don’t care. (Ok, maybe just a little) What got me was that he REMEMBERED it.
He wasn’t traumatised by it, but our boy remembers stuff that happened when he was 18 months old. Scares the living crap out of me.
Then.
The kids are very into Bible stories at the moment. They each have their illustrated Bible books and we read them. A LOT. It’s actually fine because it beats the Barbie Trifecta and the lessons are good.
On Saturday my friend Sue and I took our kids for lunch at Nitida. (her little girl is Daniel’s BFF) and we took a walk around the farm to see what their school looks like now. (You might know that they were all at Chameleons until the end of 2011).
As we are strolling, minding our own business, a group of guys come walking up the road, one of them wrapped in a red sheet in what appeared to be a Bachelor’s party.
As we pass the group one of the girls pipe up: “Mamma! Kyk! Dis Jesus!”
Of course they heard us and were all canning themselves. We herded the kids away very quickly, stumbling to explain that it was, in fact, not Jesus, but someone dressed up for a party. But we had a good chuckle over it.
Ok, I’m done rambling. There is more, but I’ll come back later for more.
Hope you all have a fantastic long weekend, we are gearing up for Daniel’s party on Tuesday. Gulp.