Hmmmm?

Amelia's favourite thing at the moment are her beloved keys. Well, she's always loved keys and has to have a set with her everywhere she she goes. We usually just give her an old set, but she always seems to lose them so we are slowly running out. But the other day she found this tiny little set in the car that are from a little travellers pad lock for your suitcase, and they have been her favourite! They are only tiny but she always has them with her, she even has to take them to bed. I don't know what it is with them, but she is very cute when she has her little "teys"!

She also has this other funny habit. She hates it when I respond to her with "Mmmm or Hmmm". She always says "Not say mmmmm, Mummy! Talk to me!" And she is always very polite when she wants my attention, saying "Estuse me Mummy!" But of course, if I don't answer her right away or if I say "Mmmmm", she gets very upset and starts yelling "Stuse me, MUMMY!" with a very whiny, loud frustrated voice. It was quite funny!

washing powder....

We have had a bit of a sick house for the past week. Last week Annabel kept complaining that she had sore tummy and felt sick, but otherwise she seemed normal, she stilled played and ran around, but would just stop occasionally and grab her tummy. This went on for a few days so I kept an eye on her.

Then one night I was tucking her into bed I asked her how she was feeling and she said:
"A bit sick, but I'm okay Mum. I think it was just the washing powder I ate the other day."
Me: "What??!!" What did you eat????!!!"
Of course I panicked. Every cleaning product or household good has strong warning label "Keep out of reach of children" and a poisons information line to call in case it has been ingested.

Annabel just about fell out of bed with my sudden surge of panic. She thought she was in really big trouble so she was to scared to tell me anything. I managed to calm down though and I took her out to the laundry so she could show me what she had eaten and how much.
She told me that the other day she had tasted some that had fallen on the ground, thinking it was some sort of lollie. It was the day that Amelia had tried to do the washing for me and pulled a chair over to the bench top and started scooping out the powder. She is always wanting to help me! So then of course I felt terrible because I had not put the powder back in the cupboard away from little hands.

So then I called the poisons line and they were great. They basically said that she should be fine if she only ate a little bit and that if she hasn't been complaining of a burning mouth or throat she should be okay. Relief!

So we tucked her back into bed, and everything was fine, until 10 minutes later Annabel came running out and vomited all over the floor (hard floors though, thank goodness!). So it was then that I realised that she probably had a bit of a stomach bug as well, and that was probably more what was making her feel sick.

So all night and the next day I was up with her. She is quite a messy sick patient! I don't know how many times I had to mop the floors (even though she had a bucket next to her), and how many loads of washing I had to do that night but it was a lot! I was so scared that the rest of us were going to get it I over cleaned everything.

So that was an interesting week! Amelia managed to just get a bit of diarrhea, but not as bad as Annabel. So now we are all nearly back to good health, except now the girls both have runny noses and a cough, but I can handle that!

Today we are off to a birthday party for one of Annabel's little friends so the girls are very excited. I'll have pictures to post later today!

Annabel with my Grandparents

It seems that every time I go to write a blog something comes (usually something to do with the kids), and I never get arouund to writing anything. I hate falling behind with anything, and I feel like I have fallen way behind in my blogging. So now I have to try and wrap up a whole month in a few paragraphs (thats probably all the time I'll get!).

So I have been doing Creative Memories and I LOVE it! I have been having fun srapbooking and organizing parties and the like. Two Weeks ago I flew back to my Dad's with the girls to spend a week with the family, and while we were there I did 3 successful parties which was great! The girls had fun seeing all the family and being spoilt as usual.

We were down for Mother's Day which was also really nice seeing as though it was our first Mother's Day without Mum. We all went down the beach first thing in the morning on Mother's Day to look over the water and remember Mum. I was always like to just picture her realxing in the water as she always loved to do. We went down to the waters edge and Annabel threw a flower into the water. The wet sand was so pretty and it sparkled in the sun. Annabel looked at the sand and said "I think thats Margie making it sparkle Mum!". It was a nice morning, sad, but beautiful.

We then went back to Dad's and had a bbq lunch, a "sausage sizzle" as us Aussie's call it. Mum told us to always have a sausage sizzle for her, so it is a regualr occurance. It was a perfect Day.

The girls woke me up early in the morning that day. I could hear Annabel in the hall way talking to my Dad telling him "Grumpy, we have to let all the Mothers sleep in today, because its Mother's Day. Mummy is not allowed to get out of bed, she has to sleep in. And we have to make all the Mother's a card today!" She was very excited, so my sleep in only lasted 30 seconds. They both came bounding in and jumped into bed with me. Annabel said "Happy Mother's Day Mummy!" and she handed me my present which was some easter eggs she had gotten off my sister the day before. It was so cute! She was so excited and wanted me to eat them right then and there. Amelia just wanted to eat them herself! Which they both ended up doing about an hour later.

So Mother's Day was a nice day. Adam wasn't there though, but he made the most of the peace and quiet and did all the things that he cant always do when we're all around. He doesn't mind when I fly back home with the girls. He always makes the most of it.