Mama Chameleon

Thursday, November 20, 2008



Trampoline Time and Wrestling



Strategy for the two- on-one match:






You want a piece of me?






My homey?


OOooof! Strategy worked!




Plain old fashioned jumping



The workings of a mid-air somersault





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Tuesday, November 18, 2008



Dandelion: Day in the life- a photo story! (Heehee!)


The chosen one








Contemplation



'Float well, fair seedlings'





'Ffffffffffffffffff'





The next victim....

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Monday, November 17, 2008



Guess what I got.........











I haven't looked at the manual yet, but I am a happy girl!!!!!!















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Sunday, November 16, 2008




Just when you think you have your kids figured, you learn something new and surprising about them!

Spindles is the least attention seeking in our clan; the quiet achiever, the peacemaker; he doesn't like to show vulnerability. In short he is predictable. Or so I thought.
The past couple of months, we have developed a routine of playing Scrabble a couple of times a week and at least once a day on the weekends. It is our thing.
But not until today did I realize his pattern of play. Yes, this old girl is a bit slow.

So here it is. When it is his turn, Spindles often puts forward absolutely ridiculous suggestions of words that wouldn't exist in any language, let alone ours. Then he checks the dictionary, and attempts several more crazy combination of letters, before settling for something short and unhelpful like 'as'.
So all this time I have just thought he needed a LOT of help. And I check his letters, and find he can put down a very satisfactory 5 or 6 letter word, which when I point out to him he will not put down. And I put THAT down to him being independant and only wanting to put down words he can come up with himself.....
until I noticed that...
Spindles routinely beats me by about 20 points, and I am pretty good with the English language, thank you very much.
Know what he is doing? Waiting till he can fit a word over the triple word boxes, or a word using either the 'x' or the 'z' smack onto the triple letter box. And if there is no way HE can possibly do it, he actually attempts to block access to those places so I can't get a look in.

His whole Scrabble gameplan is just getting by till those options turn up and then he strikes like so many bolts of lightening, and gets 3 or so 25+ scores in a row, and leaves me in his dust.
Is that normal?
I knew he was competitive when playing games with his siblings, but with his sweet little Mama? :)
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My Chrisco order arrived this weekend. Chrisco is a hamper company where you order hampers and pay a small amount every fortnight all year. Then it arrives near Christmas. This is my first time doing, having seen a friend (Hi Wendy!!) get hers last year.

I did not order any pantry packs, as I knew we would waste a lot of the stuff, so we opted for plain and simple. I ordered the meat and seafood pack, the fruit juice pack and the ice cream pack; things that would come in handy for the Christmas BBQ season ('cookout' to some of our American friends?)
We had been given word that someone would have to be at our residence all day to receive the perishable goods on Saturday. Diva and I were out shopping when the hampers arrived, but everyone else patiently waited till I got home to unpack our goodies.

Here are some pics:

In my excitement I forgot to get a photo of the fully unpacked meat. It totally obscured our table.
As for moving to our new house: looks like moving day will be Dec 13. Fun times!!!

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Monday, November 03, 2008




Made an offer on a house......

.......agent is getting back to us within the hour!!!!!

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