Random Bullets

Presenting to you, a brain dump in bullets....

• The Muppets version of Bohemian Rhapsody is an absolute gem. Go and look it up on YouTube right now, I’ll wait for you. http://tinyurl.com/37b7b4n My boys absolutely love it. I used to love sitting them on my knee in front of the laptop and watching it with them. Now I find that it is much more fun to stand behind the lap top and watch their impersonation of Animal. Hilarious!

• Happy Birthday to Dusty! The boys’ cousin celebrated his first birthday at the weekend. Can’t believe that it has been a year already. He got a great present from his grandparents – a mini bouncy castle. My boys decided that the motor was too loud and refused to get on it. Cowards!! Especially bad when Dusty, who can’t walk yet, was happy as a pig in muck sitting in on it and being bounced from pillar to post by the other children there. Update: turns out he can walk, he celebrated his first birthday by taking his first steps – two and a stumble according to reports – and then by keeping his father awake all night.

• Monkey Boy got the end of an ice cream at Dusty’s party the other day. It was a Brunch, which, for the uninitiated, is one of those ice creams covered in biscuit crumbs. He was delighted with it and perched himself on his Nana’s knee to eat it. The child is destined to be rich and pampered because every time he took a lick and got one of the crumbs he would stick his tongue out until Nana removed the little lump. He got very cross when Nana got talking to someone and was quick enough cleaning his tongue and absolutely furious when I attempted to take it off him to remove the crumbs. Precious little pet!

• The boys are over their stomach issues and are either eating to make up for lost time or are in the middle of a growth spurt. Either way, there is no satisfying their appetite the last few days. On Saturday they started off by having a few cheerios in a cup while I got their breakfast , then they ate all their breakfast, then they had some of my breakfast [and would have drank my coffee if I let them!!]. Then they had more cheerios followed by some of my toast, then they moaned until I gave them a biscuit. Then they demonstrated that they have added a new word to their vocabulary and I heard “more”, over and over and over. That brought us up to 9.30am! It was a long day trying to keep them fed.

• Tiny dancer – Regular readers will now that I have issues with child performers but my budding superstar turned his performance into a health hazard. Monkey Boy was doing the hot dog dance from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse the other day. He was really getting into it, waving his hands in the air and working the hips. He was shaking his bootie so enthusiastically that he actually unbalanced himself and narrowly missed hitting his head off the corner of the TV unit. As usual, I was trying to get the camcorder ready instead of being on hand to catch him!