Remembering those funny little things

So often the boys will say something that just tickles me and I think to myself, " I should write that down."  and I never do. So I am going to try to put some of them on here.

Reuben: "At nursery, Ben can't drink normal milk, he has to have Ben's special milk.  And he can't eat cheese.  But he can have raisins"

Today we have discovered that Rowan has some veruccas.  Reuben comes down to the kitchen after tea really upset, real big tears bursting out.
Me: "Whats the matter?"
Reuben: "Rowan won't let me touch his verucca because he says I will get it."
Me: "Well that's right, they are very contagious"
Reuben: "But, I want a verucca!"
This then went on for about 15 minutes of him being really upset because he really wanted a verucca too!

Crickey, Where's June gone?

It seems that I only get a chance to update this once a month at the moment.  I should try and do it more often but we are so busy that it just slips off my important to do list.  But tonight I am having a night off sorting and decluttering, Tris is out climbing, I have a glass of wine and some choccy and I thought I will sort through the photos from the last month and pop them on here.

Where has June gone?  Time truly is flying by, we have only 13 weeks until our proposed day of moving out, WOW, that's come around quick!  We are doing ok with the sorting, a little everyday.  Lots of dump trips and giving away things to friends.

As for the paperwork side of things, Tris is still waiting for his certificate to prove he is Aussie so he can get his passport and hopefully I will get the official approval for my visa next month.

The boys are doing well, Rowan seems very excited about the move, he is looking forward to meeting his Grandad that he has never met, being able to wear shorts and crocs every day, but most of all he is looking forward to buying an inflatable crocodile!  The other day we were making a list of jobs they had to, to help with the sorting and I asked them to decorate it with pictures of things they thought of when they thought of Australia - Rowan said, "I don't know how to draw an inflatable crocodile!"

Reuben has been having a tougher time of coming to grips with it all and has been not wanting to go to nursery, but we have worked through that and even though it was hard he is back to loving it there and is even talking about going to school in Australia at circle time.

Anyway here is a mishmash of photos from the month.......

The boys posing in new jim jams

A sunny day out at heartlands, its truly great fun there and on a warm day the kids just love to run up and down the red river

Big boy Boo, getting there with the pedal bike, he is still unsure and would rather take his balance bike, but he is getting there

Rowan has been doing a healthy eating project, one activity we came across suggested trying 5 new foods and rating them out of 5 to encourage a wide range of food in your diet.  Well anyone that knows Rowan will know that he does not have a limited diet!  So in Tesco it was very hard to find 5 foods he had never tried.  We ended up with salsa, cheesestrings(?!), pickled red cabbage, a passion fruit (unripe!) and an onion bahji.  He said the cheesestrings and pickled cabbage was the best.

We did some multimedia art.  We printed out large black and white images of their faces and stuck them on some paper then let thier imaginations do the rest with some paint.  Rowan is a cool alien with golden glasses, pointy golden ears and an awesome golden handlebar moustache!

Reuben is a clown with a crown!

Blogger is being a pain in the bum tonight and I can't put anymore photos on, so that's it for now, but I will get the rest up soon x

May catch up

Well from looking at this blog you would think we haven't done anything in May except Reubens birthday, so I thought I would bung on a load of photos in one go.

Life has been super busy, the weather is generally good so we are out a lot and longer, now the evenings are light too.  And we have been busy sorting and selling.  Tris has had a quiet few weeks on the work front, so we have made use of the time and done car boot number 1, and started sorting for the next one.

I think Reuben has realised the enormity of our move and got quite upset about missing his friends, but we have had a good chat and he seems better now and is helping sorting out his stuff as well.

Anyway heres some photos....

The weather had been lovely recently, so the sand box has come out again.  No longer are they happy to just play in it, but everytime it comes out now the whole box gets tipped out and generally thrown around! 

These boys are so funny, as soon as the sun comes out they whip their tops off

Our friends got married at the beginning of the month at Tehidy Country Park, which was a lovely day

The ceremony was beautiful.  The wedding party followed Matt (groom) through the woods to a clearing where we all waited for Kells (bride)to come the other way

There in the clearing, surrounded by bluebells, friends and family they recited their vows, exchanged rings and a couple of others read some lovely verses

A lovely spur of the moment ' Lets go to the beach for the day'

We have also had a fire station trip with the home ed group, which was ACE. 

All the children got to wear firemans coats and have a go on the hoses.  They all loved it

Reuben has now decided that he wants to be a fireman

I did a whole post on Reubens birthday but didn't mention Tris' birthday.  Well it was Tristans birthday on the Saturday and the sun was shining, so we went to St Ives for a lovely pub lunch, then met up with Gavin and another climbing friend and did some bouldering.

I went to beach with the kids whilst the 'men' went off to do some harder bouldering, they all came back commenting ' Tristan is a nutter!'  Yep, we know!

I think Tris had a really good birthday, look at that grin :)

Daddys carrot cake, unfortunatley it wasn't cooked properly :(

Last weekend was the first day of the Olypmic torch relay, so we headed out to Falmouth.  It was great fun.  The sun was shining and there was an amazing atmosphere, even though the torch was half an hour late.  The town was packed.

This toy soldier street performer quite often pops up in places we go to.  The boys love him

Lots of freebies, although you had to battle with the grannies to get some of them!

Falmouth put on a very Cornish affair, which was great. 

The relay

The amount of police was astonishing

The torch

And then it was gone!

Reuben is 4

Yesterday was baby chickpeas birthday, little Boo was 4 and he had an amazing day.  We had planned a little garden party for him and his friends and only he could choose his guests, so he choose 4 friends from pre school, 2 of which couldn't come, but when we gave him a list of suggested others he stated he wanted only Piran and Japser to come, they are his two best freinds.  They are all so similar, slightly bonkers and lots of fun! 

The sun was shining, we had a bouncy castle and party food.  I did plan on doing some party games, but they were all having so much fun, the opportunity didn't arise.

Reubens birthday table all set out

Reubens last sleep being 3

Woohoo, a pedal bike

Rowan choose him a board game for his present

Oh, I love this photo, he is so happy

Blowing out his birthday breakfast candle

Reuben has had a fascination with skunks of late, and for his birthday he really wanted a pet skunk, but with an overseas move coming up (not too mention the fact that they smell and are not native to the UK!) we said no, so he then asked for a skunk cake!  I am quite happy with how it turned out, and so was he, which is the main thing.  He also now has 3 toy pet skunks, all of which get tucked up at night!

Bouncy fun

Love this one too!

Party time.  It was a lovely party, it wasn't crazy or manic, quite chilled in fact

One of his friends gave him these little monsters that live in bins, he loves them!

All in all it was a great day.  When I asked Reuben at the end of the day, what was his best bit, he replied, "The end, when I gave my friends their party bags"
He is such a caring, loving, generous soul that the best bit of his whole birthday was giving someone else a present!

Happy Birthday, my sweet, loving, cheeky booboo boy, Reuben.  We Love You xx