WHAT HE SAID NEXT...

"I've always wanted to live in an igloo."

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"When I sniff these flowers, snot comes out."

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Before bedtime...

"Mummy, can you please sing Rock-A-Bye Baby for me?"

"But you're not a baby anymore."

Silence.

"Okay, you can sing Rock-A-Bye-Big-Boy instead."

WHAT HE SAID NEXT...

"Mummy, I know what rainbows are made of. Clouds, water, and... food colouring."

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The other day my six year old asked me, "Mum, what do you love?"

I responded by telling him "I love dancing, and big bubble baths. I love reading and cooking, and being a mum."

But what I love most of all is that he simply asked the question.

WHAT HE SAID NEXT...

"Now... I am SUPAMAN!"

[The goggles are a nice touch.]

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Our four year old boy Madison is our resident superhero. Well, actually a fireman super hero. He's obsessed with Fireman Sam, loves fire engines, and when we're not looking he even has his fireman strut, which is quite giggle worthy.

And since starting kinder he's started a little bit of a fireman craze. He's the head fireman and while everyone else climb up a low branched tree and meow like kittens, he goes off to save them all. (I know this because I've seen it in action and heard the other parents talk about it too. Apparently, there's lots of fireman chat at dinner time.)

Well, today after not being at kinder for a week, lots of his friends had missed The Fireman Boy and were excited to know that they could again be saved by him.

At pick up time, I asked him how his day at Kinder was.

"Good."

"Did you play fireman today?

"Yes we did. But Mum, it was really boring."

"Why?"

"Well, because I'm tired of being the superhero. I want to be a kitten stuck up in a tree. But nobody wants to save me."

It's hard work being a superhero.

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With all the rains and floods, I thought it might be good to explain to Madison at bedtime about what was happening in Queensland. I told him that floods were going as high as the tops of houses and cars, and people were being swept away.

This morning, he stated for the very first time in his little life that he was bored. That's because it hasn't stopped raining, and he's tired of being inside again.

Not long afterwards, a usual trip to the bathroom had him calling out from there:

"Mummy, I'm making it sunny again!"

I didn't think I'd heard it right.

"Pardon Maddy?"

"Mummy, I'm making it sunny again!" He called out.

I went in there to see what he was talking about. He repeated it again.

"Mummy, I'm making it sunny again by turning the tap off!"

"Oh, honey..."

My heart was still for a moment. If only stopping all the flooding and rain was that easy...

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[During an explaining lesson as to why his big sisters Kelly and Leah won't be here for Christmas day...]

"We have to go to London to be with my sister Kelly. Because we love her."

Kids do and say the most cutest, frustrating and funniest things.

And so this month at a day in the life of us, what he said (or did) will be shared each day.

WHAT HE SAID NEXT...

"Mummy, I took my wet clothes off the carpet and put them on the wooden cardboards..."

Umm, did you mean floorboards?

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"The view? It's great from up here."

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"Why is that I can never, ever keep my eyes open when I sneeze?"

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"I don't want to be a fireman when I grow up. I want to be a Super Hero."

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"Oh, the tree is soooo pretty. It's soooo bootifool."

 

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"I've decided that just one small piece of chocolate isn't really enough, so I'm eating it just like you do Mum."

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[After Noah unbuckled his car seat without any help...]

With wide eyes, Madison said: "How did Noah do that?"

And after the cot breakout incident just a few days ago. Oh hell. Mummy is in so much trouble.

Kids do and say the most cutest, frustrating and funniest things.

And so this month at a day in the life of us, what he said (or did) will be shared each day.

WHAT HE SAID NEXT...

 "But Mum... I don't want to go to the Library now. I want to go grocery shopping."

[And later when I decide we will go grocery shopping first...]

"But Mum... I don't want to go grocery shopping now. I want to go to the Library!"

Madison wears: LONG-SLEEVED TSHIRT, Cotton On Kids. JEANS, Target (pre-loved by Ethan). SHOES, Big W. Noah wears: LONG-SLEEVED TSHIRT, Bonds. JEANS, Pumpkin Patch. SHOES, AirFlex.

WHAT HE SAID NEXT...

 

"Mum, I can't be responsible for my actions if you don't bolt everything down,

or clean up immediately after every meal..."

 

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[After being asked over and over again not to eat the pastry while baking]

"Oh look. A little mouse ate a teeny weeny piece of the pastry."

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 "I don't care what anyone says, garden snails taste yummy."

"I. Am. Not. A. Grot."