Tag: Spawn

Alex came up to Pearl Beach with Nanna and Gonad for our last weekend, and he and Inigo had their first sleepover together. They both slept pretty well, but Alex woke up just before the crack of sparrow fart, and then said, are you awake Inigo? just loud enough to make sure that he was. The conversation that followed was gorgeous (I listened from the other room).

Alex: We went to Fiji.

Inigo: We went to Fiji too. Fiji is my favourite place. Did you have a good time in Fiji?

Alex: I had the most awesomest time ever! I went to the kids club every day.

Inigo: I want to go back to Fiji, but my mama says its very expensive. Mama has to give all her money to the bank, and then we can go back.

Alex: Were going back too. My mum and dad have lots of money, but they have to serve it all up.

Inigo: Yep. So then well go back to Fiji.

Alex: Yep.

Had a rough day today, watching Rabbit Hole (the movie).

Anyone seen it?

Am I going to regret this?

On Saturday night, Inigo had his first sleepover with a friend. He’s had sleepovers with grandparents, but this was a leap of faith. Thanks to Richard and Miriam for looking after him so well, and to Oscar for being a good friend, and inviting him to play under the Christmas tree.

Two boys under a Christmas tree.

And Two parents having a great time at a Christmas Party

And some pretty fireworks!

The blog keeps falling over, and unfortunately Mark can’t get to it to fix it through the firewall at his work, so it was down for rather a long time from Friday till late last night. I suppose that is an indication that life goes on even without the blog – but apologies anyway.

Yesterday Mark and I took Inigo to the movies for the first time. The candidates were “Puss in Boots”, which would have been our preference, and “Arthur Christmas”, which our darling boy had a strong preference for. At least it was an Aardman film, so it wasn’t a crass American extravaganza (no offence to the Septics, but the English do tend to have a touch more restraint).

He sat still through almost all of it, but sat on my lap eating popcorn for the last 20m or so, which I rather enjoyed. Apart from the whole adventure being way too expensive (around $70 including popcorn, water, and parking), it was gorgeous to see his excited little face, thrilled by the whole experience.

Inigo, today, you are four. Yesterday you were only three, and now you are FOUR. Four is big and bold and messy and monstrous, and I can’t believe how much I love you, and the gentle, boisterous, tender and wild thing that you are. I love that you challenge me, and that you care for me, you surprise me and amaze me.

I can’t wait to see what the next year brings. And even though I am terrified about pre-school, I know you are ready, I know you will love it, and I know that a whole new world is about to open up to you, and I am going to have to learn to share you more and more with the world.

Love,

Mama

My little monster turns 4 tomorrow, and we had a little party for him on the weekend. You remember, the beautiful, sunny, hot weekend? The one that started with a downpour?

Yup. Guess which part of the weekend we picked for the party?

The downpour.

This is what the park looked like when we arrived at 9am. Those shiny bits of grass were actually little lakes forming, and you had to walk through inches of water to get to the play equipment.

There was no wet weather alternative.

So I decided to stay positive, and we put up tents. Mum and dad had a marquee, and Bonnie and Zenia had two, so we were set up in no time, and the adults and babies stayed (mostly) dry while the kids had the time of their lives!

Most of the pics are already up on Facebook, but I’ll stick a few here of non-stalkbookers 🙂

And here is the commemorative t-shirts I made for the kids (and one very special adult) instead of lolly bags. We also had monster branded water bottles instead of soft drinks, and all of the food was (reasonably) healthy to make up for the toxic birthday cake.