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By hissychick | April 29, 2008
Hellloooo internets. I’m back. Miss me?
I’ll fill you in a few holiday highlights before I head back to sorting out the massive backlog of washing. How selfish of the children to need clean clothing.
Anyway.
A good time was had by all and there were no inlaw related hissyfits thrown by me (yes I know!). We all enjoyed a trip to the Werribee Zoo (highlights being the meerkats and the safari bus tour), some retail therapy and we even survived the assortment of relatives who came to marvel at the brilliance and beauty of our children. Mr hissychick and I even managed to go out to dinner. By ourselves. For the first time in almost a year. And talk about things other than the kids. I have a taste for this going out with my husband alone now, must find ways to feed it. But that’s a topic for another post.
Oh yes and then there was my friend’s wedding. We actually managed to attend both ceremony and reception and it was all rather lovely. Except for the fact that I forgot to take along the present. Oops.
E appropriately chose our holiday time to cram in a few new party tricks along with another new tooth. She now holds anything remotely resembling a phone up to her ear, or in the absence of said object, her own hand, and then says something that sounds suspiciously like ‘hell-ah’. Being the caring parents that we are, we have been getting our youngest to perform this feat for all and sundry. Dance monkey girl, dance!
Other fixations are pointing to lights and saying ‘da’ in a manner eerily akin to a member of Hillsong. She remains fixated with anything musical, enjoying a toy xylophone at her grandparent’s house and mimicking simple tunes that we hum to her. A star is born and you heard it here first folks.
E has also completely won over her Melbourne grandparents, even managing to con them into rocking her to sleep on the two nights her evil parents dared to go out and have fun by themselves*.
A positively revelled in all the extra attention, and did not watch any television whatsoever while we were away, not even her beloved Playschool. She roped her devoted Pa into many and varied imaginative games, and it was absolutely hilarious to watch my workaholic and somewhat absent minded engineer type father in law engage in endless hours of pretending to go to school with A and undertaking numerous trips to the local park when normally you can’t drag the man away from his work.
A also amused me by calling everyone by their first names (I am sure mr hissychick will elaborate on that so I’ll leave that to him). And then there was the following exchange:
A (spying her father sneaking a lolly from the pantry): Daddy, what are you eating?
Mr hissychick (guilty as sin, eyes shifting sideways): Nothing sweetheart.
A (hands on hips): Daddy, I asked you a question. What are you eating?
Mr hissychick (choking with laughter on his guilty treat): …………cough……..Where’s your Mum?
Like mother, like daughter.
And. Your. Time. Is Up.
PS And just so you know, I have at least 50 unread posts from my favourite bloggers and at least as many emails to catch up on so forgive me if I don’t pop up in your comments section/inbox for a while. I do love your work and I really have missed you. The cheque is also in the mail, and I will call you in the morning. Just kidding..
*Of course she wouldn’t take a bottle when Mummy’s boobs were not available, but that again, is another topic for another post.
Topics: E is good, Silly Daddy, Taking a mini break, Threenager alert |
hahaha…looks like you have many more posts to catch up on!!!
Sounds like a great holiday! And kids always get spoiled by their grandparents don’t they!
Glad no hisses with any related parties…children included!
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Posted by: Ann on April 29th, 2008 at 10:44 amAbsolutely wonderful that you guys had such a good break.Especially the time alone with mr. hissychick. Need to try to feed that more, Yes.
Micah also caught Gadget-daddy having a coke and asked what he was having, to which his daddy said herbal tea. Micah insisted on a sip and exclaimed: It’s coke, Daddy, NOT herbal tea!
Kids, just can’t fool them these days.
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