10 Things We Did Today On The 10/10/2010

Hi everyone. Today as we opened up our curtains hoping for lovely sunshine, we were greeted with more rain. In fact it's still raining- some 15 hours later. Let's see if we can find 10 things that the 2 boys and I did today to mark the significance of the number 10.

1. Started the day with a delicious juice. According to Brandon it was the most delicious juice that he had ever tasted. Made with 2 boys squashing as much fruit into the juicer as possible. Obviously successful because it was absolutely superb. Spent the next 20 mins cleaning up boys and the 5metre radius of floor around Bailey. It's amazing how far food and liquid can travel  from just 1 small little boy.

2. Went to swimming lessons. Now the school holidays are over normal life for those without school age kids can resume. The 2 boys went brilliantly. Brandon can successfully swim several meters on his own and Bailey just wants to dive in and swim. Bailey loves the yellow plastic ducks that always seem to pop up in his swimming lesson. I am sure they are never the same after he has finished attempting to eat them. The 2 boys just love the water.

3. The boys ate and ate and ate, and we were still in the car park for swimming lessons. Bought some lollies as a special treat and they went down so very fast- and that was just from mummy and daddy!!

4. Headed home while Bailey feel asleep in the car. No matter what we said or did we just couldn't entice Brandon to sleep. The rewards were obviously greater and life more interesting for him if he stayed awake.

5. Watched a new Thomas The Tank Engine DVD. Sometimes kids are so easily satisfied. Thought Brandon needed to have a sleep so off we went to his room with his hobby horse which I just knew would end up in bed with him. And it did. It stayed there for the whole duration of Brandon's sleep. Now Brandon hasn't slept during the day for so very long that I just can't remember the last time.

6. The 2 boys and daddy played. There is nothing like a daddy who can throw 2 boys up in the air 1 at a time, catch them and do it over and over again. There's nothing like a daddy who can have 2 boys draped all over him and make them giggle and laugh while pretending to be asleep.  Maybe daddy's not really pretending. I think if the boys listened close enough they might hear daddy snoring every so often.

7. We made banana muffins. Messy but heaps of fun. The boys love cooking and the muffins turned out really well.

8. Brandon talked to a nanny and poppy on the phone. Told them about banana muffins, compost bins, food scraps, art and craft from Friday, worms and everything that was going through his head. He just loves to talk. Once off the phone I asked him what he would like for dinner. His response;
 I want peanut butter
 I said "What do you want peanut butter on?
 I want it on toast and cotton.
 You want it on what?
No I want peanut butter on chicken.

9. Cooked dinner but there was no peanut butter, cotton or chicken on the menu. While dinner was cooking I began cleaning up all the cooking mess. I said to the boys they can lick the bowl from making banana muffins if they want. As I turned to the sink for 5 seconds and then back to the boys sitting on the bar stools at the kitchen bench I saw Bailey literally licking the bowl. It was so funny. I just imagined they would be civil and use a spoon to scrape off left over muffin mixture, not take me for my exact words.

10. Just before bed the 2 boys played a little animal piano, pretended to post letters to each other using under their doors as a letter box, and ran and jumped off Brandon's bed.

Finally they are both asleep. I wonder what 11 things we will be doing next year to celebrate 11/11/2011.