This months theme on motivational monday is children. Hey..guess what…
I have a few of those 😉
So i thought i would give a little run down of each of the little folk who dwell here in this dwelling.
So first up. My guy. My only one.
Yes..thats right he is the only boy..
yes he is surrounded by women, yes he has lots of sisters, no he isn’t henpecked…
blah blah blah…
you can tell i have heard those sort of comments LOTS before right?!
We all know a baby doesn’t come with a ‘tick the box’ option don’t we. *stares*
A-n-y-w-a-y (thats a whole other blog post) 😉
My pioneering child. Breaking all those first boundaries of parenthood. He is the one that we have had to scale that steep learning curve with and i reckon that fact that him and us are still all alive and vaguely sane is the sign of a success!
Yes?
Anyway our not so little boy is now staring down the barrels of 11.
Sweet. mary. jo.
We are so close to teenager it could spin my head clear off my shoulders!
But right now he is 10.
and right now he is:
- Very very much into Minecraft, which is a game that i cannot understand the attraction in. He is asking me to download all sorts of guides to it on the Kindle and then spending hours working out how to make houses. The graphics remind me of something that was around in the days of the ZX-81 😉
- Finished year 5 this year and waved goodbye to one of his favourite teachers. The teacher is leaving the school as well so there is no chance that my girls will have him which is a shame. We liked him a lot
- He loves formula one. You could talk to him for ages about cars. He knows so much about cars, their makes, models and how fast they can go. Largely fuelled by his father’s interest in formula one and all things a bit petrol head ish.
- He currently wants to work for Nintendo and has taken it quite personally that the Wii U has bombed slightly! 🙂
- He is a great big brother to his sisters and is pretty balanced about being a big brother to a bunch of girls. He is especially close to our youngest girlie.
- He loves movies, and scripts. He remembers dialogue and quotes it often! Currently we are all about dispicable me 2 and Monsters U.
- He is after a phone…we are resisting..we might meet middle ground with some walkie talkies 😉
- He still likes trains
- He has no love for girlie pop groups such as one direction and the like. Usually a point of conflict in our house!!
- He has never ever tasted tomato Ketchup, he used to tell people he was allergic to it. He now develops a big kinship with anyone who comes to our house who feels the same. 😉
- He is a natural musician and plays by ear, which sometimes frustrates his music teacher. He isnt, however, a natural practicer (is that a word?) so we have to use increasingly inventive ways to get him to practice!
- He can be a bit ‘chickin lickin’ Which we laugh about but we sometimes have to have very serious conversations about how the wind outside is not going to turn into a tornedo!
- He is, to date, the only one of my children who has had to endure a general anesthestic. (thank God). He fell onto a coffee table when he was 2 and has to have surgery as it had gone across the line of his lip. He now has a cute Indiana Jones type scar.
He is also turning into a little bit of a photographer and this weekend asked me to help him take this sort of shot. I think he did a pretty good job.
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Giveaway this month is for a fabulous luxury box of cosmetics from LUSH, that shop you can smell from all the way down the street. Just follow the rafflecopter instructions. Good LUCK
I think he did a fab job with his photo!
Aw what a handsome boy you have Sarah – what lucky girls to have a big brother to protect them! My boy has a very similar scar which he got when he was 3 but we were in Portugal and no general anaesthetic there! He is also obsessed with Minecraft! Lovely post 🙂 x
Such a lovely post about a really amazing boy. He sounds brilliant – just the sort of son anyone would be proud to have. He also has a lot in common with both my sons – right down to the bright yellow Mario Tshirt! And the photos are beautiful as ever.
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What a lovely post about your lovely boy x.
Actually it is possible to pick the sex of your child – they’re doing it in America. Something I saw at the London Science Museum yesterday and was considering writing a post.
Sounds a lot like my 10 yr old – who also left year 5 and his teacher left the school! Mine, however, does have a phone. We are all on Giffgaff and it’s a cheap handset.
Talk to Laura Seaton – she says they have things in the pipeline for the wiiU – what’s the Christmas wishlist? Ps4 or the Xbox new one?
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You are a great photographer (unlike me) Thank you for sharing your work!
What a lovely family! No wonder you’re so proud of them …
What a lovely family you have 🙂
Thank you :o).
Great comp, thanks.
Wow what a wonderful post about your boy. He seems like such a great role model for the girls and look at his photography skills! Great post, thank you for sharing with #whatsthestory
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Great comp and lovely post! 🙂
Looks like you have a photographer in the making there.
Fab Comp great website.
aw what a great post about your boy.
your son sounds lovely I bet your so proud, great comp too!
so much want to win this..keeping my fingers crossed.
lovely giveaway 🙂
what a lovely prize, would so like to win this!
I’m in a similar situation to your boy, my daughter moved out leaving me in a house with 3 men, love them all but they are hard work.
Fingers crossed
awww what a lovely post and a very handsome little chap x
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My son is coming up to 21 this month, now that’s scary! I have no idea what to get him for his birthday! I had no money for his 18th either and made him a CD collection of all the best bands of all time that I thought he should know about! I bet they’ve ended up as drinks coasters hahaha!
lovely prize – many thnaks.
Fab post. Makes me so excited for everything my little boy and I have to come
What a handsome fellow and with a personality to match. Loved this heartfelt post celebrating your boy. I feel sure that coping with all those sisters can only be character building! Helen
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fab comp 😀 and what a lovely post about ur boy who will turn into a lovely man who looks out for his sisters
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I don’t exactly know what counts as sharing comment love but I’d like to share that my brother is also one surrounded by girls. Me, my sister, my daughter and my Mum (when we all lived together) and even the pets are all girls. Maybe that’s why he spends all his time playing minecraft, to escape the girls?
awww what a really fantastic post about your son and as always such beautiful photos.
Thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments x
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great photos
I bet the prize smells lush… lush, get it? (I’ll get my coat).
I have 5 young children & one of my boys, Harrison is a real heartbreaker, all the girls wave & want to play with him; he’s five 🙂
Great comp!
I love love love lush!
Super blog.
Ahh, I remember 10/11… then came the hormones and mood swings… 😀 Seriously, it’s not been as bad as it could have been (I was ten times worse than my son!). Next big transition is secondary school. Hope all goes smoothly with that one 🙂
Ahhhh, what a lovely boy-nearly-young-man you have there. I used to be obsessed with RuneScape – and that was only a few years ago – he may or may not know what that is! Love it when they get swept up in imaginary online worlds, which might sound like an odd thing but I do love the creative and imaginative elements of it.
Stunning photos x
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