A wet weekend

Not much of a weekend here. It rained all day today so the washing didn't dry, Alex couldn't play outside and we didn't wash the car. Actually we didn't get anything we'd planned done. Yesterday was pretty much the same too. Alex has been difficult and it's throwing everything out of order. He just doesn't want to sleep. He goes to bed at night and if we are lucky he goes straight to sleep but then he is waking up multiple times in the night wanting to play or even demanding to watch TV! Now as long as he doesn't scream himself sick we can leave him in bed and hope he goes back to sleep but he habitually takes his clothes and nappy off and we can't go to bed ourselves until he has settled because we have to keep checking that he is still dressed. Why did he have to choose Winter to go through this stage? That is I'm hoping it's just a stage.
Last night he didn't go to sleep until about 3am , the night before was just before 2am. It's not as if he isn't tired, he is, which makes it worse 'cause he is cranky when he is tired. Last night after he finally went to sleep he woke up again at 5am. He wasn't screaming so I stayed in bed and spent the next few hours just listening to him. Eventually he went quiet again until about 7am and then back to sleep until 9am when we found him with no sleeping bad, socks or trousers on and his nappy undone. So this morning we were all too tired for our planned early start and I had to wash his wet PJ's.
Tomorrow will be interesting. Alex and I have to be out early and if he keeps us all up tonight it's going to be very difficult.
The good news is Alex's talking is taking off like crazy. He isn't any easier to understand but he is using more words and at least I can understand him. He said turtle in the bath tonight and 'ubble ubble' which is the noise the turtle makes. He is speaking French quite well but Graham and I don't so we have some creative conversations. Everything he says seems to start with la or le. He has a pair of la shoes which are la blue.
Oh and Alex is taking after his Grandmother. He has a habit of picking the skin off his finger tips! His thumb is quite raw and sore looking now and he wont leave it alone. He has mastered the art of picking at it one handed (same hand). Something previously only seen in the women of this family.
OK photo time.
Don't these two look cosy? Good thing Tilly is only a small girl or they wouldn't fit.
I don't know what Tilly will do without her bed buddy when Critchon goes home.

My darling husband bought me some amazing flowers. The scent was fantastic and filled the house. Unfortunately they didn't last very long. This time of year with the heating on it just dries the flowers. They don't die they dry. Having to put them up high out of reach of the cats and Alex means they are closer to the aircon too which doesn't help.

Got the 'new' car yesterday! This is the swap for the 4x4.
Eunos 800 or Xedos 9 or Mazda Millenia.
Not the Miller-cycle engine.
These were something like $80k when new but now are cheap as umm cheap cars.
All luxury. It's our first car with ABS, air bags, cruise control and leather seats!
It has power seats, sunroof, 3 sunvisors, cup holders and some funky 4 wheel steering at low speeds (good for parking).
It was a wet and dark day today. So much for my plans to wash and polish the car before taking photos. I ran out between showers to snap these just so I had something to put on my blog. There you go Mom and Dad, that's the new car. It's big isn't it? Would look better with some nice wheels and decent window tinting. The back window has tinting that has fogged up so we'll have to find out about replacing that. It's a bit disturbing to drive when everything in the rear view mirror is blury.
It's got a big boot and 5 seats so do you think we can pick you up from the airport Mom?




Alex looks happy from the safety of the stairwell but if we try to take him closer to the car he screams. The whole reason we wanted to get rid of the 4x4 was because Alex was scared of it and refused to go in it. So we get a nice sensible 4 door car and what happens, he wont get near it. We'll try again when it's not wet outside and he can walk to it himself.

Just for the scare factor :P
This is what happens to my hair in wet weather.
Nope this isn't caused by static electricity, this is just wet weather frizz.
It's even worse with static but I don't usually have any static problems.
Surprised Alex isn't scared of me rather than the car.
Pretty bad though when your son walks in and sees a photo on the screen of you looking your worse and says 'mama'. Would have been much nicer if he didn't recognise me.