Crafty shite and a few other things

So we made it to the end of August and now into September.
I still don't know what happened to August. It went by in a blur.
It was a busy month. We had a family friend come stay for 2wks.
We had 4 family birthdays (Mums, Dads and Mine and Miss Midget).
We had a trip to Starship for Missys lump and yeah.

So Missys birthday went really well. All projects that we had set out to do as presents for her were completed and she was thrilled.

We had to acknowlegde that Mummy and Daddy told fibs and that the "trailer shed" was really her new play house. The afternoon of her birthday was the big unveiling. Once she figured out it was for her she promptly made a little track from the house to her little house taking what ever we would let her out there. We had touble getting her in that night. She was determined she was sleeping out there lol. So 3yrs old and ready to move into her own place. I knew she was advanced for her age but that was a bit more than Mummy was going to let happen. I can't imagine it would of lasted long though given theres no power out there or even a bed for that matter :)

As for my little project I'd been working on, I managed to get that completed on the 23rd with the help of my mothers sewing machine. We ended up giving it to Missy when we went down to Auckland for the hospital trip. She seems to like it and has been playing with it a bit since then. It's a bit hard to tell if its a hit due to her having received some many other toys during the course of the week.

Have also been dying to work on a little side project that I had thought of but wanted to wait till I'd finished the house.
Tinker Bell has become a favourite in this house well at least with Miss Midget. So I found a picture online which looked pretty cool with Tinker Bell and all her fairy friends and decided I would try and make them. The last photo in the long list below will give you a indication on how I'm getting on :).

Oh also big news here. The Dummy fairy came and visited on Thursday night. I am now rather sleep deprived as it's about night 3 we're up to tonight without dummy. Miss Midget is doing well though and hasn't asked for the dummy to many times. She did say this morning she missed it though. We just gently remind her that the dummy fairy gave it to a baby that needed one as she was now a big girl and didn't need dummy. She's seems ok with this answer, I do however think she is now trying to substitute her bottle for dummy. So I guess that'll be the next to go.
We haven't been to concerned with the bottle due her food intake during the day (somedays getting her to eat anything is a mission impossible) but I'm thinking now that we will need to seriously look at the bottle as I don't particularly want to be going through this all over again in just a little while.

Anyway thats it for me. My eyes are starting to hang out of my head. I hear my bed calling my name which is a pretty good sign it's sleep time :).
Will update you all on the lump and the starship appointment another day.
 


Playing with the door of her new house

 

Playing with her awesome stove top her Nanny Jan & Popa John made.



Awesome butterflies given to Missy by Nanny Pam and Popa Les

 

Outside view of my house project

Inside view of my house project

My side project :)

 

Miss Midget and time wasting tactics

Before I became a mother if you'd asked me when a child started to learn time wasting tactics I wouldn't of known. Maybe I would of guessed about 4 or 5 as they like to think they know everything but yeah turns out I was wrong and it's a lot earlier than I thought.
Miss Midget has been trying to use time wasting tactics a lot lately to get her out of things. She will try and use things like going to the potty, drink of water, wash hands to get her out of doing things liked tidying up or going to bed.

Lately it has been mainly before bed. We go through it almost every night that she needs to use the potty (Put her on there and she wants to sit there and chat to me and not actually use the thing - Yes it's cute but high on the time wasting scale of things), brush teeth again, Wash her hands. Wants me to read her another story. When most of these fail she gets a hug, kiss and a good night - More time wasting with "more kisses Mummy", "More hugs Mummy".

I have since found out today after discussing this post with Tayla's Nanny that she is also trying to utilise time wasting tactics when it comes to tidy up time. "I'm tired nanny, to tired tidy up"

So it's made me wonder where she's learnt these?
From what I can see it's not a learnt thing that she's picked up from anyone as such. It's just a "I'll see how far this gets me" thing.

We have been on to Missy's stragedy for awhile but it still never ceases to amaze me thats she's 2 almost 3 and has been doing it for months now.

So you people out there who don't have kids yet or have just had them take it from me be on your toes, these children learn quickly the fastest way to get what they want and have you wrapped their little finger. I'm still trying to figure out how to untangle myself :).
In saying all of this I really shouldn't be surprised as my child has had the nickname "The Tiny Terrorist" pretty much since the day she was born.
Lol.

On that note I'll you to it till next post :)

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