Happy Birthday Queeny Baby, thanks for the weekend!

 Image by Simon Howden

Ohhh I had fun this weekend :)

We planned to use the three days to tackle the house. You know those jobs you keep putting off and putting off until you don't really even notice them anymore? Well those were our challenge - to reclaim the backyard from all the overgrown plants, to get all the laundry done, to strip back the deck and re coat it and to start painting the living room. Guess what we got done?

Nothing :)  

Instead we made pancakes for breakfast,  played on the swing set with the Bear, tickled the Butterfly till she was squealing with laughter, made cubbies under the doona, hula hooped for hours on end and generally pottered our way through the three days.  Both little ones made a discovery though - the Butterfly discovered her true love, the vacuum cleaner. She spent ages searching the house for it, then let out the happiest squeal of delight when she found where we'd stashed it. She then proceeded to rest her little head on it, coo lovingly and look so incredibly happy we didn't have the heart to move it away.

The Bear made a discovery of his own - having been toilet trained for about 6 months he's never had reason to pee anywhere but on the toilet, but today he discovered he has the ability to pee outside :) While gardening he announced he needed to pee "right now Mummy!" so I let him go and good god, the gleam that came into his eyes was hilarious! He then kept on ducking around the corner with a mischievous grin declaring he needed to go again and again and again. Such a boy. I'm just praying he doesn't decide that's where he wants to go from here on in!

Meanwhile I made a discovery of my own, an online shop called Creative Butterfly Designs. They sell handmade hairbands and clips and they are oh so pretty and girly. I went a little crazy and ordered these for the Butterfly, what do you think?

Pretty hey! When the Butterfly grows enough hair I'll probably go mad with the clips, but until the I'm pretty chuffed with the headbands :D

So what did you get up to on your long weekend?
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