High Five!

Oh my godfather! Ruby is such a little madam! She has started to get a real voice, and when she says some words she sounds like an actual person, rather than just a baby. "Ruby, come and give me a kiss." you might say to her. "No!" she replies, but with a posh accent, like, "Noi!" She also holds her hand out to you and commands "High Five!" If you comply with this demand (and god help you if you don't) she then says "Down low" (actually dow-oh) and flirtatiously offers her hand again before whisking it away with a shriek and wagging her finger at you in an extremely cheeky way. Ohhhhh. I could just gobble her right up! Her peach fuzzy skin and that baby sweaty smell of her neck when she wakes up. I got home from work late on Sunday afternoon and she was so overjoyed to see me and gave me a big squeezey cuddle. The girl missed me, and it feels nice to be missed.


Today at breakfast Simon counted all the way up to 100 by 2's. It's amazing how quickly kids learn stuff, so fast that I've become almost casual about it. I mean, he can READ!! He can COUNT!!! I should be totally overwhelmed by it, and I have to keep reminding myself that this time last year the only word he could read was his name. I need to remind myself to step back for a while and look at the boy this baby of mine has become. He goes into school each morning reluctantly, I have to take him into the cloak room and put him through the door, although at least there are no tears anymore. But by the afternoon he has become a messy, sweaty, smelly six year old boy who bounds out of the classroom all smiles and nonchalonce. He thrusts his bag at me before running after his friends and then totally ignores me. In the car I ask him how his day was. "Good" he answers. "what's for afternoon tea?"


Poor old Dexie had a big stack outside school this morning. He insisted on wearing Simon's batman sandals, which are too big for him, and then he ran down the hill to the school gate. Naturally he went totally A over T and scraped all the skin off his knees. That boy is just naturally clumsy, he has days where he is 'in the wars'. I don't know if it's because he is tall for his age and his legs and arms just kind of get in the way? Last week at kindy he fell over and loosened his top front tooth. I just keep the medicine chest full of bandaids.