What they said ...

Cat: Did you hear Tiger, I'm going bra shopping. Do you want to come with?

Tiger: ugh NO! That's disgusting!

Cat: You can come help me pick one

Tiger: Talk to the hand sister!

Hitting the High Notes

Driving home from school the other night we could hear Tiger singing in the back of the van:

All the single ladies, all the single ladies

All the single ladies, all the single ladies,

Put your hands up, up in the club

Then later the same evening Cat was walking around singing as well, only this time it was:

Take me down to the paradise city

where the grass is green

and the girls are pretty

ooh o won't you please take me home

That's right, we don't discriminte, we listen to both Beyonce and Guns N' Roses in our house.

I wonder what other 7 year old boys know the lyric to?

Not what I knew the lyric to at  9, think my parents would have freaked out



Say What?

So we're driving along to drop the kids off at school this morning and Cat (9) says to Tiger (7)

'Remember we're playing poker against Loic and them today'.

You're doing what? I ask cause I'm pretty sure I didn't just hear her say poker.

'What, we're playing poker'. (exasperated voice)

Now I can't play poker, and Himself tells me that he can't be bothered to remember how to play poker

but apparently our kids can and they do during break time at school.

So this is what my kids do during break as school?

Mid-term break

I'm so annoyed I wrote an entire post about our weekend and then when it came to down loading my photo's last night my memory card would not work !!

I had a couple of choice words to say (under my breath) to my camera

And without the photo's the post would just be too blah for words.

　

Soooooo what now I have to come up with a new post.

Our kids are on their mid-term break this week. Himself had a couple of things to do in town yesterday so he left the kids at home. Ok ok before you all reply and comment on how could we ever leave our kids home alone let me just say this:

We live on a 'farm'

We own 3 big boxers

Said dogs are scary if you don't know them or they don't know you.

There is no crime in our village

It was only for 3 hours & they have a phone to call us if anything happens

Right, so when he got home he found them working in the garden. Yip you read that right, my kids had decided on their own to rake up the leaves in the drive.

When Himself asked Cat what they were up to she said:

'Well you know dad, it's good to get dirty some times'

They have gone to Eftling today. Efteling is the Dutch take on Disney. It's great! The kids love going and we don't mind going either. It's better than Disney land Paris in our opinion because it's spread out more, the cues are shorter and Tiger can go on nearly all the rides.

Credit

Because someone has to work I could not go with.

When putting the kids to bed last night Cat tells me that she thinks I should call my boss & tell him that I'm sick. Maybe say something like I'm vomiting.

Mmmh she was off school last Friday because she was sick & vomiting.... makes me wonder.

PS. My opinions about Disney Land Paris & Efteling are my own. I was not asked to promote and/or comment on either.

Jumping on the bandwagon and giving my 2 cents worth...

I've seen quite a few news articles about people who are raising their kids 'genderless' There is 'Pop' in Sweden who's parents were in the news in 2009 and Storm in Canada. Not forgetting Egalia a school in Sweden which practices “gender netutral” education.

I have one of each and they are very clearly a boy & a girl. And shock horror I'm raising them as kids, my kids. I don't get what the whole whoo ha is about raising boys to be boys and girls to be girls.

They are different!

Thank goodness.

At the rate society is going we are all going to end up being androgynous its! How boring would that not be?

I am not saying that we have to revert back to the dark ages with regards to women's rights but please what is so wrong with letting your kids know who & what they are?

Tiger has no problems with playing with dolls or cooking or cleaning, in fact, he's much more eager to do those things. Maybe because he's dad cooks (he's not so big on the cleaning but will do it if & when needed). And Cat is quite happy to anything her brother does.

The best part is that they know who and what they are.

So I'm saying: I'm the proud parent of a boy & a girl!