We had a pretty good day today. The girls did day 1 at daycare/kinder. Matilda and I are both a little emotionally traumatized but we managed to recover soon enough and hopefully next Monday won't be as bad.

 Any day I manage to get all 4 of the girls bathed is a good one in my book. Here is my latest trick for getting reluctant pre-schoolers to get clean. A few drops of food colouring and they suddenly stop with the "we can't have a bath, we're busy" and jump right in.I tried this out a few weeks ago thinking that for sure the kids would turn blue, but desperate times called for measures ....and hey, it worked. No smurfs :)

Matilda is such a patient girl. Happy to play games with Mama while the big girls splash about.

You have to love getting new things. The packaging are just as exciting as the new scanpan saucepans T-man got me last week (yay!). Alex, Jess and Tayla sat quietly popping bubbles for a good 20mins. Yay for an unscheduled coffee break for Mum.
Messy Matilda

This is her before her bath. Only about twice as much basil pesto was in her hair as on her face. And she had one very explosive diaper. That girl really needed her bath tonight! What a stinker :)

Tayla cracks me up. This is her pose whenever I give her milk. She says her bones are getting STROOONG!!!
Well that's about it for today. T got a new TV over the weekend so look out for our cardboard box art project  in a couple days.

A big sooky-la-la post

Today I admitted defeat and sent the girls (ALL the girls) to daycare. For Alex and Jess its not a big deal. 1 day a week of daycare. Their room/class is a kinder room and they are at kinder age so I'm not too worried about them. Tayla I can justify sending too, because she is 3 and could do with learning to be a little independent. But Miss Matilda .......I'm not sure about that one.
 Alot of it is a selfish need to have a break once a week. For my sanity. It is a great centre and she will have alot of fun. But it still doesn't sit right :( Its hard to find a balance. I kinda need this to stay sane. I don't want to make the kids crazy and snap at them all the time. But still feeling guilty. Might take Tillie back out of daycare next year when the older ones start kinder for real. It will only be one bub at home so I should be able to cope alot better. Parenting is such a guilt trip!
The funny thing is if it were a friend of mine saying this I would be all 'what's the big deal? SO your kids get out of the house and get a break from Mum and Dad once a week'. Anyway, rant over.

I'm back baby!!

I can't believe I used to think I was busy. 2 kids, ha! Here's a quick update if anyone's still out there.
Baby No.3 turned out to be a lovely (and emotional) lil miss called Tayla. Don't know how we ever lived without her. And cos we hate odd numbers, and everyone needs a friend.....A lil bundle called Matilda followed 2 years later. So that's my excuse for not finishing what I started. Cya soon :)