Woolley Family

Well we woke up this morning and Megan has a lisp :) She came running up to me completely upset because her OTHER front tooth had fallen out and she couldn't find it. She hasn't lost a tooth in ages and now she's lost 2 in one week. We eventually found it in her bed, so the tooth fairy can visit tonight. She has announced that she knows that I am the tooth fairy but doesn't seem to think that should preclude the tooth fairy actually visiting. I am trying hard not to giggle when she says words that contain "s". Luckily she thinks it's kind of amusing too! You can see the packing box in the background. The big day is one week from tomorrow.

So it's parent information evening at Megan's school and Dallas has interviews, so it's me and the kids going to an evening where we are actually supposed to be able to hear the teacher talking. I expected disaster but not in the form it eventually took. Before we left we put their pj's on, brushed their teeth, and packed a bag full of activities to keep them moderately quiet for an hour. Everyone went to the toilet and off we went. When we arrived, knowing my children well I asked if they needed to go to the toilet again. Of course they didn't. There was a power point presentation shining up on the wall, so Reid got excited that we were going to get to watch a movie. We started reasonably well, with Reid doing some drawing and Megan looking at books. Then Reid found the sticky tape dispensers and started pulling out bits and squishing them together. I moved those away from him. Then the power point presentation started, during which Reid interrupted every 30 second...

So it's me, the computer programmer, who is probably the last of my friends to create a blog. Now all I have to do it actually keep it up. As I write it is only 11 days until we move to our new house. We are moving to Windaroo, which is only ten minutes from where we are now. We have been in our current house for almost ten years and were ready for a change. I am also ready to have an office where I can close the door and Reid cannot spend his evenings using my postage stamps as floor decorations and my company address stamp as a tattoo (see photo below). We also want to have a place where the kids will have their own space to entertain their friends as they get a little older and enter the "my parents are stupid phase". I think we are just about there with Megan already (she is 7). I've always said I want to have a house where the kids WANT to bring their friends home to hang out instead of me having to wonder where they are. Hopefully this is it. It's in a gate...