Surprise!
Monday 29 June 2009
When I opened the fridge I knew that something was odd, but it actually took me a moment to work it out!
Life with young children is full of surprises. Sometimes the surprises are good, sometimes they are terrifying, and sometimes they are just laugh-out-loud funny. It’s at those times that I try to remember to grab the camera and take a quick pic. One day our little munchkins will grow up, and hopefully become independent, responsible, rational adults who make good choices. I don’t want to forget that in the process of getting there, we still had days when somehow, a gumboot ended up in the fridge!
Have your kids done anything ‘surprising’ this week…?
I have a younger sister who is still at primary school and during school holidays I look after her. This morning she had a dentist appointment so my son Tristan and I waited for her in the waiting area. They had lots of toys and a big fish tank which Tristan spent most of the time staring at. However what I didn’t see is that it didn’t have a lid and before I realised Tristan had put his hand into the fish tank and grabbed a gold fish. Luckily I saw it in his hand before he put it in his mouth so I quickly put his hand back in the fish tank and dropped it in! I’m just hoping it doesn’t die!
Oh Hayley, that’s SO FUNNY!!! Wish I’d been a fly on the wall for that one. Tristan did well to nab a fish… quick reflexes!
Hehe, that looks like something that *I* would do!
From Facebook:
Mary Griffiths at 5:04pm June 29
Yes… and last night’s snow peas behind the lounge cushions!
Dawn Logan at 10:25am June 30
hilarious. That’s the neatest fridge I have ever seen and the gumboot completes it. lol
Caroline Brumpton at 3:13pm June 30
That’s hilarious! What a gorgeous gumboot too!
Nicole Maxfield Carr at 7:47pm June 30
I’m onto you, you really just want us all to see how tidy your fridge is, and how healthy you eat. Wait on I think I see chocky bikkies there.
So funny I had to revisit your page to let you know. Yesterday I had nothing to say… today is a different story. I left Zoe in the lounge room watching playschool, went and changed Riley and did some washing. I heard Zoe yelling Mum Mum come on quick. So I hurried back to the front of the house to my surprise she is getting in on the moving action. She had moved two lounge chairs a recliner, the kiddy seats and a bean bag. The room was a total disaster and she was so proud to help us move and rearrange things. I just had to laugh and thank her and asked her to help me put things back the way I had them. But I did take a couple of photos for the album.
My daughter came into the living room yesterday wearing black tights, a lilac colored silk blouse that I gave to the dress up box and hot pink/white tie-dyed tights on her head. She looked like a court jester. Of course I took a picture. She wore them all evening.
Love it!
My father found a kitten in our fridge once. My brother had put it in there with a saucer of milk so the milk stayed cold.
@Meredith – ok, that cool cat story tops it I think! Too funnny…. LOL
Yesterday I gave Immy a damp cloth and suggested she clean down her chalkboard (she loves helping to clean). I turn around and she is instead cleaning her chunky chalk pieces!
Too funny! When we were kids, my sister put a kitten in the toilet. Luckily she didn’t flush, and Mum heard the kitty bumping against the lid trying to jump out!
My 3yo, Max, has a *bit* of an obsession with a scene he saw in passing when we were watching Drop Dead Fred (remember? Rick Myal) where he gets his head stuck in a fridge door and when he pulls it out again his face is flat…well Max constantly shadows me in the kitchen waiting for the door to open so he can stick his head in (or any one of his toy’s heads) and pretend to have it squashed and goes in to fits of giggles about it. This has been going on for over 6 WEEKS now and I have had to make him little fridges for his spiderman and other figurines to go through the head-flattening routine…….ok, at what point to I take him to a professional therapist???? Needless to say if a toy is missing we FIRST look in the fridge and then under the lounge etc…