He did what......?

As a mum of two boys I consider it my duty, no, actually my right, to embarrass them whenever I can. At the moment it is hugging and kissing Son no 1 in public that has him squirming and running away from me. He is only 5!

But what happens when the little darlings embarrass you?  Well for a Flashback Friday moment I thought I would share with you the moment when my eldest little delight truly and utterly embarrassed me.  Of course I will have the last laugh in this matter. I can’t wait for the day he sits down to read my blog and finds this!!

So picture the scene, I am at work about to go for an important meeting (coffee) with another manager.  So my lippie is on, I grab my coat and then the phone rings.  I notice it is from the nursery, bugger, do I answer it or let it go to voicemail and ring them back after my coffee? 

I decided to answer it, this was a bad move!

Hi it’s Jo from the Nursery.

Oh hi, what is wrong, everything okay with F?

Yeah he is fine, but we have had an incident today which I need to inform you about.

Phew okay (thinking great I don’t need to rush home) what has happened?

Well at carpet time this morning he decided to take out his Willy.

HE DID WHAT?  (At this point everyone turns at look at me as I turned from my normal shade of pasty white to a bright pink)

He pulled down his shorts and took his Willy out.

Oh my god I am so sorry.  (Thinking this is all...)

That’s okay.

So did you tell him off?  (Still thinking that this was all)

Yes. but there is more.

MORE?  (Getting redder at this stage)

Yes, he then started to play with his Willy.

HE DID WHAT?  (Now more people staring, almost burning up with the embarrassment)

Yes he started playing with his foreskin, pulling it back, showing and telling all the children what he could do.

OH MY GOD!

The rest of the conversation just blurred into me apologising more and more in a very high pitched voice.  With images of what he usually does at bath time flashing through my head.  But really, on the mat, at nursery!  Her telling me not to worry as it happens all the time at nursery, both boys and girls do it.

Of course the fact that it is quite common for the little angels to do this didn’t make any difference to me.  That afternoon I sheepishly walked into the nursery with my head hung low.

Oh the shame..

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FlashBack Friday - Before and After

For this week’s Flashback Friday over at Cafe Bebe, Karin has put a theme of Before and After on it.  So it got me thinking of what I could do and then it dawned on me. 

I am going to take you back 5 years almost to the day, when I was very heavily pregnant with Son No 1.

So here is the Before.  My 39 weeks bump picture, this was taken the night before I went in to be induced.  Pretty impressive bump don’t you think, there was a 9 pounder hiding in there.

Here is the After, taken last week when we went into London to see his daddy for lunch..

Tomorrow we are having his 5^th birthday party, it’s a cliché but I really don’t know where all that time has gone.  Even with my youngest the time just seems to be flying by, which when it comes to my youngest might not be a bad thing!

 When I look at this slightly cautious, stubborn, bad temper but gorgeous, cheeky, funny, loving, bright little boy I can’t help but think “Yeah he’s just like his mum”

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FlashBack Friday

For this week’s Flashback Friday over at Cafe Bebe, I am going to go back two years today, when I was very heavily pregnant with Son No 2.  In fact I was booked in for my c-section the next day, the 30^th.

However, he had other thoughts and I was enjoying my last night at home being pregnant and waited on hand and foot by Mr P when my waters broke.  At first I thought I might of had a bit of an ‘accident’ as first time round I had been induced so this happening naturally thing was all new to me.  Then I realised that I hadn’t, doh!  So a quick call to my good friend K to say “Yeah I think I have gone into labour what do you think?  Okay, can we drop Son No 1 off?”  Son No 1 was quickly taken out of bed, we all jumped into the car, dropped him at K’s and zoomed to the hospital.

I had to wait 4 hours as I was 3^rd off the rank so to speak for my c-section but at 2am on the 30^th my second bundle of joy was born weighting in at 8lbs 12...

Son No 2 he was 1 hour old when this was taken

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FlashBack Friday

For this week’s Flashback Friday at Cafe Bebe I have dug out this photo of my twin sister and I at the British Open in 2005 at St Andrews.  Mr P and I had only been in the UK 4 years at that stage but had already managed to clock up 3 Opens. 

This Open was a bit of a family affair as our older sister and her partner was over from NZ so we were sharing a big house in Anstruther then driving up to Skye for the following week to see family.

Within a few months of this photo being taken I was pregnant with Son No 1 and my sister was on her way back to NZ via India after spending 11 years in the UK.  Even thou we have spent the majority of our 20’s and 30’s living on the other side of the world from each other and we may only talk to each once a month our bond is still as strong as ever.

And in case you are wondering Woods won with -14 and Monty as always was the bridesmaid on -9.

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Flashback Friday – Spring

It is hard to believe that with the weather that we have been having lately that this time three years ago it was snowing.

I remeber thinking what a great sight it was to wake up in the morning and to find the garden blanketed in snow.  We were all very excited as neither my husband nor I had ever experience decent snow fall before and even better we now had a decent garden to play in it. 

Son No 1 who was just short of turning 2 was so excited about playing in it.  He was so fascinated by the snow drops trying to catch them all, without glove on of course!!

It was my first ever attempt at building a snowman, luckily for me the guys at work had given me a heads up on how to build one.  Who would have ever guessed that you needed to roll the snowball?  My husband thought I was mad when I was trying to explain it to him.

3 years on how do we feel about the snow?  Well let’s just say after being stranded at train stations, taking 5 hours to travel 3 miles in the car and being made house bound as we can’t get the car out of the garage.  Not a lot really, in the words of Son No 1 after the heavy snow in December. “What snow again, how boring!”

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