April, 2010

Testing his future-birthday-present for fit.


Mackas!

Into hiding things in his room (or Jasmine's)

What? He's feeding himself!

Stuff from March and April:

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"Goosey, Goosey, Gander, where shall I wander?Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown, There I met an old man who walked a crooked mile..." Twisted Nursery rhymes
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Decided to call Jasmine "Jazzy" with no apparent outside influence
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Learned to climb over the gate Daddy had just built between the yard and the paddock
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"Do you want to ask me if I want a bath, Daddy?"
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Being very vernacular; "Good-O!"
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"The number of the Day! That means it's time to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house!" Strange but useful brain connections

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"You're doing a really good job with your wool, Mummy. Your wool is pretty. Your wool is nice! That's just amazing and nice..." inching closer to the yarn I was dyeing (when told to stay away) with compliments to distract me

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Mummy: Bunnings? Why would I want to take you three out of the car and herd you all around Bunnings while you run away, and be naughty, and touch things you shouldn't, and then try and get you all back into the car? That doesn't sound like very much fun for me.

Byron: But it sounds like fun for me!

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"Look, Jasmine... see the bus?" Pointing out shapes in the clouds.

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Daddy: Don't get in Grandma C's car in your dirty boots!

Byron: [takes off boots and climbs in]

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"Well, I think I AM allowed to..." trying his hand at willing things into reality.

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"I'm not tasty; I'm a yukky boy! And you're not a dinosaur, Daddy!"

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"One day when I'm a cat and I've got strong eyes, I'll be able to see through the fog."
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"Jasmine and I are playing "Grandma and Grandpa". You are Uncle Matthew and Zach is Auntie Kelly." [runs off to buy me a motorbike]

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Mummy: Where's my little sewing box?

Byron: It was on the couch. I think Jasmine took it.

Mummy: Hmmm. I wonder where "she" put it?

Byron: I think she put it in my cupboard...

(Morality aside, the learning to lie phase is pretty funny!)

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Mummy [growls at Byron]

Byron: I'm going to buy some insects and let them sting you because you're saying bad things!

Mummy: Well, you haven't got any money.

Byron: Well, not yet; when I'm bigger.

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Also seen making up a story to go with the new book he hadn't heard yet, and telling Jasmine (correctly) which Dr Seuss books (pictured on the back page) that we did and didn't have.

March 2010

I looked out the window, and there he was, little Monkey.
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Sometimes having three littlies is a bit awkward. Here Zachary, upset at being left alone, joins Byron for story time... but doesn't make it to the end of the book ;D
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Byron watching TV while sitting on my back, as I laid on my stomach on the floor.
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He loves playdough, though it end up getting confiscated every single time he's allowed to play with it :)
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Burning off some energy at Macka's. We go here fairly often, but it's hardly bad for his health, as he's too busy playing to eat more than a few chips for lunch.
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Pressing the bell buttons at the Eureka Stockade playground
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February

The school bus, apparently.
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Trying to get to the tree branch like the girl up the tree did. (The rule is "You're allowed to climb up the tree if you can climb up yourself")

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Lending a hand Ü

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Relaxing on the swing in the sunshine

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Inside the toybox

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Byron this month:

Put an icecream bucket on his head and ran around headbutting stuff, to prove it didn't hurt.

Started going to Playgroup with Grandma

Hid himself under the toybox on the treadmill so I wouldn't know he was squirting bbq sauce on it.

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quotes:

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From the top of the treadmill (with supreme confidence): "If I fall I'll just do a flip and land on my feet."

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Holding a cardboard tube "exhaust pipe" to his chest: "Hey, Mummy! Smoke is coming out of my engine!"

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B: (after putting a sand "chocolate cake" into the "oven" under the back step) Look, Mummy; I'm climbing into the oven!

Me: Don't burn your hands

B: I won't; I'm wearing oven gloves.

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(to Jasmine, with appropriate actions) "Gimme five... to the side... down below... TOO SLOW"

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(to Jasmine) You'll fall if you climb up onto the roof... You should get a ladder!

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Checking out the new gate... which doesn't help him escape the 'yard' at all...




Carding some wool from the black sheep...



Why else did you think I wanted Jasmine's pink back pack? ...

Making pancakes with Jasmine...

Staking trees with Daddy

December, 2009

Byron this month:

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We started playing a game to make having his nails clipped more fun, where I call him "sir" and charge him to come to my clipper shop. After charging him an imaginary $2 for clipping all his toenails, he decided to do mine, charging me $100! (At least he said, "Thankyou, sir")

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"I think my milo's not a baby, cause it's milo." (stomach contents become confusing when Mummy has a baby in hers.)

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"Daddy, I want some Beyonce! I love Beyonce!" (asking for music to dance to)

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"Where's the Princess? The queen is gone! I have to find the queen!" (on waking up; obviously dreaming of rescuing some damsels in distress)

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Daddy: Why are you putting the cushions over there?

Byron: [flapping his arms] Because that's where my nest lives.

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"Mummy, you need to go inside for a minute, because I'm starting the angle grinder." (kicked out of his 'shed')

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"I just want the pineapple only!" (complaining about having to eat pizza)

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"Thankyou, God, for our yummy food, in Jesus' name... and bless your cotton socks... in Jesus' name, amen." (grace)

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Byron asked me to make the toy chipmunk a milo, but I refused, saying to Chippy, "You eat nuts." He quickly backed me up, saying to the toy, "You eat nuts... and bolts".

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"Mummy, the men won't wave to me!!" (indignant at the rudeness of airplane pilots flying far above us)

November, 2009

How does one go about getting cute pictures of a naughty 2-year-old? I know...!

Hehehe. Well, okay, he's also pretty cute when he's not asleep in bed, in the car or on the beanbags... he just doesn't smile and stay still at the same time very often Ü

Quotes for Nov

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"Mummy, stop making noises! I'm trying to watch the news!"

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"I think I could climb into it and get a pig..." (after watching some cute piglets on TV)

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"There are two left." (I took the jelly bean container off him and said if he could count how many he had taken out, he and Jasmine could share them. He showed me the hand containing two... and hid the other handful behind his back!)

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He's also started the annoying habit of repeating what someone just told him. But he has learned how to control his temper enough to (sometimes) yell, "No Thankyou, Jasmine!!" instead of just whacking her. Progress ;)

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October 2009

Getting a lesson from Daddy on How to Pedal.

Potted

At the Goldsmith Steam Rally (boys' day out with Daddy; technically Nov 1...)

Emptying the dry dirt from many pots into the rainwater in the empty sandpit = MUD
Despite the look on his face, he was allowed to play in it. Did a lot of washing that week.



Up under the handle of the treadmill. Anything to pretend he's riding a motorbike!
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QUOTES FOR OCTOBER

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My legs aren't sore... I think I can walk... yep! (self-testing after seeing a boy in a wheelchair on TV)

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Don't unchance me! (When told he was naughty and couldn't have another chance. He was angry at the punishment (Jasmine got a lollipop and he didn't) though she let him have hers shortly after.)

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Two is enough... (different opinion to Mummy re. iceypoles)

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I'm not being good, but I'm still being good! (trying to convince Mummy)

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Daddy: Come here.

Byron: You have to say, "Come here, little robot" (he had a bucket on his head) and you have to say please!

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also:

Mastered the forward roll

Told the toy horse all about his day yesterday

Reads books when he should be asleep (he's realized that we hear the click of the light going on, so he leaves it off, but he still reads out loud Ü)

Cleaned the tables at Happy Jacks (playground) with the toilet brush he found

Taught Jasmine how to ride a motorbike (the only props were two toy rings, used for steering wheels)