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Especially for Bekah and Gina

Thanks to my mate Rico for the pic….

This is such a cute story (for us anyway)

Max has been having loads of toilet related accidents lately so we decided last night to create a star chart for him in relation to staying dry during the day. We split the day into 6 x 2 hour blocks and said that if he stayed dry and got all six stars in a day then I would read him two stories at bedtime instead of one. This seemed to work and he went the whole day today with only one little accident just as he was getting ready for his bath (this didn’t count as it was after the last time block )

Anyway, on to the story.  Max had been getting himself to the toilet all day and at about 2pm he trundles off to the loo. Vic goes in a minute later to find that he has just finished having a pee standing up!  He’s tall enough that he didn’t even have to lift the seat up I guess he’s seen me do it for quite some time but he’s only peed twice standing up and for him to just toodle off and do it himself is pretty cool!

Well the week has gone OK so far.  We had Aunt Bet’s funeral on Monday and that went as well as can be expected.  There were very few people there, about a dozen I guess, but I suppose that’s one thing that happens when you move across the world in your 70’s and then pass away 20 years later – you just run out of people to mourn you.  After my Dad read the eulogy I got up and said a few words.  I had been thinking about what I remembered most about her and just shared those thoughts with the people there. It was unexpected from my point of view but I’m glad I did it.  I was then a pall bearer (my second time) and was again suprised at how heavy people in coffins are – she was only little so there must be a lot of wood in one of those things!  She was then taken away for cremation and my Dad will take her back to the UK to be with her sister (Dad’s Mum) soon. 

It was also quite interesting explaining things to Max.  He’d only met her a couple of times but understood enough that he knew when the coffin was being driven away that Aunt Bet was in there.  To be fair he was more worried about what was going to happen to the flowers on top of the coffin I think bless him

Another thing that happened on Monday was Max strung the best sentence that I’ve heard him put together.  At dinner I had a can of diet coke and he said “Daddy, please may I have some of your drink” and pointed to the can.  Not hugely long but it was really well constructed and well enunciated IMO for a two year old.  Max and Elliot also did us proud at lunch after the funeral.  We went to a cafe with my Dad and his partner and after our meal had finished a lady came up to us out of the blue and told us how lovely and well behaved our children were!  Admittedly she just just struck it lucky ‘cos they’ve been little shits lately but even so it was nice to be told

At last I’m back!

The time has just flown but it’s been life/work as usual except for the following:

• Elliot’s second tooth came through while I was in Sydney

• The main reason for no update last weekend was that I spent a huge chunk of it putting up my new garden shed.  Timber framed and sheet steel clad it’s a good reason to get rid of tons of crap out of the garage.

• Max seems to have taken some steps back in his toilet training and is having quite a few accidents.  I may have been an attention getting thing while I was away and he seems to have got better since yesterday but we shall wait and see…..

• At 94 my Great Aunt Bet passed away – again while I was in Sydney.  Not a bad innings and she had been mentally frail for some time.  She’s the last of that generation in my family so an era really has passed

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Let’s just say that Max is getting a little cake today Well done that man!

I made a deal with Max a couple of days ago

He had been dry through the night for a couple of nights so I said that we would put a star on the calendar each night that he was dry and that when he made it to five in a row I would buy him a cake

He’s done four in a row right now and is looking forward to his cake…… we’ll see

Just a quick note to let y’all know that Elliot’s first tooth came through last night!

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