ALEX & CALEB: "Alex is here! Hooray!" "Caleb is here! Hooray!" Much yelling and running around.
JOSH: Is intimidated by all the yelling/running. Sits with Mum.
NATHAN: Is asleep.

ALEX & CALEB: "Let's go play downstairs! Hooray!" More yelling and running around, but downstairs - where it doesn't overwhelm everything else in the house.
JOSH: Is now ( Read more... )

That surprising thing I keep going on about?

Here it is.

( big photo under the cut )

- Intended to do housework. Instead, went to an unexpected birthday breakfast with my boyfriend's family (for the boyfriend, whose birthday is next week). Didn't get my house all tidy... but much more fun ( Read more... )

Nathan Edward Louis Elbourne was born today, and looks just like his big brother.

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I think I'm going to have to start devouring children's pop culture, just so I can talk to my nephews.

Yesterday, Caleb told me he'd watched Rack, Shack, and Benny. (From Veggietales.)

I know from experience that "Really? What happened in the story?" will get nothing but blank looks. But having seen R,S,&B multiple times, I could instantly ask " ( Read more... )

- Voted in an election that still has no result. Apparently, our country has no firm opinions, and can't decide who we want in charge ( Read more... )

NICE: playing with Caleb, and having him decide that opening a toy car's doors would make the car into an aeroplane.

NICE: feeding chooks with Caleb, reading books with Caleb, and pretty much anything else I did with Caleb this morning.

NOT NICE: cleaning up the many dishes left by Caleb, after he went home.

NICE: seeing boyfriend.

NOT NICE: ( Read more... )

Caleb is coming here to spend the night, tonight.

The poor boy will probably be horribly confused - because, after all, this is Nan and Pa's house. Except Nan and Pa aren't here and Auntie Deird is here instead, and WHAT IS UP WITH THE WORLD????

I anticipate fun and loveliness, though. :)

Very busy day.

( yesterday ...with footnotes )

Last night, Caleb read The Cat In The Hat Comes Back to me - half through reading it, and half through memorising bits.

*is proud*

There was also a long discussion of language, in which we decided that apostrophology should be a new branch of science, dedicated to finding the shapes of punctuation in star constellations ( Read more... )