Monthly Archives: June 2017

Last weekend we had the neighbourhood street party. LBP wore her festive red striped romper and joined the street party dance routine. ‘I didn’t get shy this year mama!’

Her older brother was reading and asked if LBP knew what the Black Death Plague was…”Sure! It’s sweet flowers that you get allergic to!’

LBP and her friend had their faces painted, ‘I’m a bee and you’re fairy..now we have fly around and sting somebody now!’

We were at the bus stop this morning and sat next to twin sisters who looked like the actress Isla Fisher. LBP wanted to draw them and they happily giggled away. Later she said, ‘I’d like to be them when … Continue reading →

As her big brother did a skateboard flip on stairs, I said, ‘Ah! Please don’t let him die on that skateboard!!’ LBP turned me and said, ‘ He’ll die one day, but it needs to be from oldness.’

During hide and seek LBP turned to the wall and asked, ‘Alexa…can you tell me where my brother is hiding?’

On the way to school yesterday, LBP looked up at me and said, ‘You put in the Monday clip Mama, but it’s Tuesday!’

‘I’m not a Princess Girl anymore…I’m not a girly girl, I’m more of a girl who likes all kinds of things now.’

The spider living outside the bedroom window was christened Billy Jenkins by LBP’s brother. Every night she looks out at him before bedtime and whispers something. Last night it was, ‘You do what you want to do Billy Jenkins. Be … Continue reading →

We visited my friend and her daughter’s guinea pigs. It was like a circle of peace handling these little furry creatures.