Finn Henry

Finn was missing his pyjama pants yesterday morning and was downright evasive about where they had gone. He has a chart for toilet-accident-free days and it seems he was worried about breaking his good spell. It turned out that he has an upset tummy so he stayed home with Mum and Leila yesterday instead of going to kinder.

He didn’t eat any dinner last night so I wasn’t surprised when he asked me for something to eat at about five in the morning. And really I wasn’t that surprised when he came to our bed at six saying he felt sick and wanted a cuddle. I’ll spare you the details but he was quite right about feeling sick and we all started today earlier than planned.

However better that it should all happen with us there to help than alone somewhere else in the house.

This afternoon he seems a bit brighter which is nice.

Leila and me are being artisters 1 by Nicky P

One of the great joys of having two children is watching them together. The sweet and gentle way Finn plays with Leila (when he’s not bouncing blocks off her head) almost moves me to tears. They’ve been drawing together and now they’re crawling around on the floor looking for ‘preasure’.

I couldn’t be more proud of our lovely boy at these moments.

Endangered Species!! by Zenaoi & Fujiko - CTL

Finn is very interested in endangered species at the moment. And fighting.

He tells us that when people are being naughty you have to talk to them first, then fight them. We have tried to impress on him that the first part does the trick almost all of the time but he is very taken with the idea of fighting generally.

This ties in nicely with his concern about endangered species (which I think he has learned about on the interwebs). He thinks that any animal which dies or gets killed (such as goldfish in our house) are an endangered species and we need to talk to the people or animals doing the killing. And then fight them.