First Dates and Sexual Harrasment!

So in the short year that we have been in Australia, Cyrus has managed to find a girlfriend and has had the same one for almost the whole time. Her name is Eneka and she is a very lovely little girl.

About a month ago we were on our way to yet another birthday party when from the backseat he asks me if boyfriends take their girlfriends on dates? I amswered with "well the good ones do, lol!" So then he says that he would like to take Eneka on a date and did I think that the movies was a good date?

Of course I said yes and that we would have to clear it with her mum first. So finally we had agreed and found a day that worked for all of us.

So last Friday Cyrus took his girlfriend on his first date. We went to the movies and they sat in the row ahead of us and we watched Night at The Museum 2. They shared popcorn and we would see them giggling with each other. Too cute for sure. I still think that 7 might be a little early to date, but it was all in good fun. That same night Max was at yet another sleepover with a couple of girls.

Gaia and Ella. These are 2 very confident 5 year olds. While Cyrus was at the movies, Max was being kissed and hugged and told how much they loved him. There was even a fight over who would spend time with him the most at the sleepover.

At one point Max was in a closet with one of the girls and was re arranging shoes? While the other was being left out. I was told later by the mum that Max was sitting on the stairs looking sad and said that he just didn't want to be kissed anymore. Poor kid! Lol!

Then they fought over who was going to sleep next him, mum eventually seperated them all. The next morning when I called to let him know that I was on my way to pick him up, he told me that they hadn't had breakfast yet and he wasn't quite ready to go. So he seems to be no worse for wear and was glad to see them both at school this morning.

Cyrus and his girlfriend!

Cyrus had his birthday party at a place called Time Zone, like a big arcade...He only invited one little girl named Eneka. She has been the object of his affection since last year. Well he had some points to buy some things at the counter when the party was finished and he bought the ring that I told him I had liked the last time we were there.

So when he walked up to me and showed me and asked if it was the ring I liked I totally assumed that he had bought it for me..you know his mom, but he right away said "good, I really hope Eneka likes it"

He later told Grandma that it wasn't a silver ring that you get when you get married though...What an sweetheart!

Max

I have my very first Canadian visitors! My cousin Kevin and his girlfriend Lisa. I am very happy to have them here and it was nice to see some familiar faces.

My cousin Kevin is about 28 years old and Lisa is 19, cute, bolnde and fun. So right away my boys are showing off and wont leave her alone. On Friday night we are at the table eating dinner when Max breaks into his version of 20 questions, I am almost immune to this now and only answer about every 5 questions. Lisa on teh other hand is all over it.

Max finally asks her how old she is? She answers that she is 19. Max looks very confused by this and glances over to Kevins direction and gives him a good look over before asking how old her DAD is!!! My mouth drops open and I am trying to put this all together, and Kevin starts to answer by saying that his dad is.....And Curtis and Lisa and I all jump in and say...Max wasn't asking about "your dad" he was talking about you. Well we all laughed for a good 20 minutes and will now never let him forget the day he became the "old guy"!!

Holy Hot Batman

OK so when we first got here to Perth, the weather was pretty crappy and depressing. I have never seen so much rain in my life. I kept saying "does it ever get nice here" well about Feb. 8 it does. It is so freaking hot that I can't stand to be outside. We haven't been to the beach or pool in over a week, cuz we would fry like an egg. Now don't get me wrong, I am in no hurry to see the rain again, but a breeze would be nice. It is so hot that the great tan I did have is starting to fade as I can only be outside for just about long enough to have a very quick cigarette.

I know I shouldn't bitch too much as the rest of Australia is either flooding or buring and I do feel for those people. I am not really bitching, but it is finally hot enough for me!

Breezy or Flakey

Ok, so I like to consider myself a fairly laid back person who sometimes does really dumb things...if you know me, you have most likely heard of the time I spent $214 on cardboard boxes..not my proudest moment. However, I am also a girl who isn't afraid to take a chance on say like moving my family around the world. I also like to think that I am a really good parent and somewhat responcible.

My youngest son said something to me tonight over supper that made me think back to when my oldest was in Kindergarten. After we left the house to take Cyrus to school he would always ask me if I had locked the door, packed his lunch and had his backpack. He was always worried that he would be late for school. Now I have never forgotten his lunch, I always locked the door and he was never late. I thought he was just one of those kids who worried.

So tonight I asked Max, the youngest how his day was and if liked the sandwich I had put in his lunch. He is a pickey eater and lunch is tough. He told me that he ate half of it and wondered what I had put on it. I told him that it was ham and cheese and butter on one side.

He looked at me with his most grown up serious face and said that tomorrow he would just like ham and butter and no cheese. I said, of course I can do that and started to clean up the supper dishes., Apparently he did not think that it was a good enough answer. He looked me right in the eye and asked if he should get me a pen and paper so that I could make a list and write down exactly what he wanted.

Really....WTF. it is a sandwich, I think I can handle it. He was dead serious.

So I started to think back to when Cyrus first started school and how he was always concerned about everything...now I am wondering if it is me and not the kids... Breezy or Flakey... you be the judge.
If you don't know the cardboard box story I will tell you, but only on request, it was bad and I now will never buy anything from Discovery Toys!

So the boys have started school again. Max is in Pre-Primary and Cyrus in Year 2. We have just finished the first week back since the Summer holidays.

We had a great summer, we went to Bali, John Forrest National Park, did a lot of swimming and just hanging out with friends and at the beach.

On the first day of school when I went to pick up Max, I asked him how his day was. He had a great big smile on his face and told me that he was kissed by a girl.....He was so excited! I am so excited that he finally is enjoying school. By Monday next week he will be going full days just like Cyrus. What will I do with my days......

Cyrus is really liking year two and can't wait to learn everything he can.