Levi and I at the Wedding

Wedding photos

Levi avidly watching the wedding
Climbing around the church

Climbing

Levi at 10pm at night

Church

Family outside the church

The wedding was really, really fun. Levi had fun and I had fun. He had some very specific questions during the wedding that cracked me up;

1. "Mum, Is Kath going to turn green like the lady in Monsters verses Aliens?"

2. "When Ruby and I get married, where will you sit Mum?"

and my personal favourite;

3. "Mum, When is the wedding going to start?" This one was half way through the service. I said "It has started". "No Mum, The kissing, When is the kissing starting?"

So my answers were:

1. No Honey, that is only a cartoon and I am sure that Kath didn't get hit by a meteor this afternoon

2. I will sit in the front row where Penny is sitting. Georgie will sit with me and Ian will walk Ruby in.

And;

3. Just wait Honey, the kissing comes at the end!

Levi loved the night as well. He just wanted to dance and dance he did. Unfortunately the wedding was late for him and he fell asleep in my arms. When I woke him when the dancing started he was really just too tired. He got to dance with the family but missed the end. Still he had more fun than you can imagine. He fell asleep for real at 10.45pm in the car. I carried him in to bed and was confident that he would, actually sleep in.

And yes, you are correct. Of course he didn't! He woke at 5.45am

Camping

Levi making our fire
The fire

Levi in the tent

Eating dinner around the fire

Finally asleep

Tonight we are camping. Well sort of! Levi is sound asleep in the tent, outside the back door. I think that I won't even bother getting into the tent as the air mattress is already losing air and frankly as soon as the excitement of going to sleep in the tent is over, he is just asleep. I will pick him up and snuggle him into bed. Likely he will get a better night sleep anyway on a night that I really need him to get a full night.

Tomorrow we go to the wedding and he will be up really late. I am planning to keep him there until he is tired and then just leave. It will be a fun night. He will last some of it but not to the wee hours, which is perfect for me. I am happy to go only as long as he lasts.

Levi didn't miss a beat when we talked about not camping by the creek. He just set about making a fire out of a toy and getting organized then he helped me put up the tent, blow up the air mattress and get out the sleeping bags. He then played happily in the tent until dinner. Such a sweet boy!

Another day, another dollar

Today was a normal enough day. I went to work. Levi went to Vacation care. He and I talked about camping next to the creek at our house when it gets dry enough. That quickly translated to 'Friday night' to his ears and now I think we will be camping by the creek tomorrow night come heel or high water, but of those two it's the latter that I am more concerned about. Not really though. It hasn't rained that much, just enough to be a little annoying and making the clean up part of camping harder.

Levi can't wait. He is very excited and collapsed into tears this afternoon when he thought that I forgot. I had just misunderstood what he was asking. I think that most of the crying was fatigue. It would be a perfect thing for money to suddenly appear and for me to not have to work over his vacations, but that is just not reality for either of us. Next holiday is only a term away and that is the big one. We will have all sorts of time to relax then, when we have a whole 5 some weeks. We are definitely counting the days.

Work has been really interesting lately. Our computers are failing and the wait time to open documents is about 5 minutes, to save documents about 10 - 15 minutes and to start the computer itself has been from 30 mins to not opening at all. It means that there is a lot of down time, when you can't really start something else, but also you can't do anything. It degenerates fairly quickly into practical jokes and shooting Nerf guns at each other. In the same way that my Mother reported from every single Parent - Teacher night; "Sue knows exactly where the line is and doesn't step over it"; I am now concerned as we push closer to that line. I think that I am starting to step back again from that edge. I hope that the rest of my team are old enough and smart enough to start to take that step back as well. I also hope that the computers start to respond again, making stepping over the line much less likely.

Day Off??

Levi in the pool

Today I had a day off. Well it was supposed to be a day off. Then I had to go to work to do a media thing for the Shark Bait Kids. I don't mind doing it, but it means that Levi came with me. So he got to play in the pool while they were taking photos of the other kids. Also he could help entertain one of the little sisters, or more likely she could entertain him. The whole thing was at the Corinda pool, so after about a 50 minute trip each way, my day off constituted about 5 hours of work. Watch me be in trouble for working too many hours again this week!

I am excited for the term to start again. I love Fourth term because we get to do the Shark Bait Program, but mostly I am excited because at the end of this term I get to go to USA. Levi is also counting days and weeks.

Hens and other things

Anna and Katie

This weekend we went to Kath's Hens lunch. By we I meant Jo and I. Levi was excluded by virtue of his sex and went to Mim's to play with her nephew. We had a few drinks, learned how to belly dance and took some bath bombs home. It was actually a lot of fun and not as bad as my mind had played out. I think that I am always nervous about fancy lunches and dinners. Levi got to use the bath bombs the last two nights and he has come out smelling like a rose (literally) and very soft. It is a pity to waste them on a five year old, but the only bath we have in the house is the laundry tub. I'm thinking even Levi will be too big for that in only about a year.

I had Monday off as well and was given the most incredible gift of all. Levi slept in. He slept in on a day when I could also sleep in. Amazing! Normally he only sleeps in on days that I have to go to work and so I have to drag him out of bed. Then on days that I can actually sleep in, Levi gets up before dawn has even cracked the horizon. So it is a gift to have him sleep in when I can as well. We did almost nothing until about noon. We played with Lego and played board games. We read books. Pretty much it was relaxing.

Then I had to have a Mammogram, so he went to play with friends. At one point a lady looked at me and said "You are denser than last year". I said "I know, it's a sign of age, but what about the mammogram?" At least she had the grace to laugh.

Australia Zoo

Jumping off the Slide

Meeting Ben 10

Patting a baby Alligator

Crocs

Face paint

Australia Zoo isn't making any money off us anymore! Today we went up at about 10am and came back about 1pm and spent only the cost of the petrol. The boys had a lot of fun and there were Ben 10 things everywhere for the school holidays. It was brilliant. We played on slides and jumping castles and watched a show and then had a monumental collapse from the little one before coming home!