Story Time

When Grandad was here during the holidays the boys got him to read them a story one evening after we had been out.
He turned the story upside down and added names for the characters that were different to the book. The boys were enthralled. They laughed and giggled their way through both stories and hung on every word Grandad read.
Steve and I got to sit across the room from them and listen, it was so great to see it all. I managed to take some pictures of them all together, however they are not great but they show 2 little boys loving on their Grandad.

Grandad please read us a story?

It was quite dark in the room so the camera had to be really still to get a great picture. As you can see I never quite managed the stillness but the pictures didn't have to be perfect.

The Perfect Sleep

Over at Scribbit, she was giving some reviews and finds for the week.

What I liked was the bed she had fallen in love with.

Now I thought a bed was a bed, and that it stood on 4 legs but when you go check out these beds you will see that 4 legs are now optional.

Here are some pictures to get you started before you pop on over to see the other weird and wonderful delights on offer.

This bed above is actually a New Zealand designer with a company called Okooko. The New York Times did a piece on him and here is what they said:

For Setting Sail to the Land of NodOkooko, a 3-month-old eco-friendly mattress and bedroom-furniture company based in New Zealand, recently opened its first retail store in the United States, in Philadelphia. (There are two other stores, in New Zealand and Hong Kong; a fourth is expected to open in New York this spring.) The company — which takes its name from the Maori word for “to cradle in arms”— sells mattresses ($2,500 to $3,000) made of natural latex, bamboo and wool, and beds ($2,200 to $5,500) made of wood from sustainable forests managed by the New Zealand government. It also sells high-design beds like Float ($25,000, including the mattress), above, by David Trubridge, a New Zealand designer. And for every bedroom suite sold, Okooko promises to plant a native tree in New Zealand. Okooko, 205 Arch Street, Philadelphia, (215) 667-8240 or okooko.com. ANNIE BLOCK

Makes you wonder how comfortable and dreamy these bed can be. I think I need to totally rethink the house to fit beds like this in!

Sleeping

Unfortunately as daycare were not aware of Alex's sleeping habits, they let him sleep for nearly 2 hours during his day time sleep.

This meant that after the kindy party, bath, teeth and pyj's Alex was still not ready to settle.

He sat himself in timeout by the back door and finally went into his room, only to dissappear under the bed.

I said fine and walked out and left him, knowing he would crawl out in 2 minutes and either come find us or climb into bed.

At 10 when we were getting ready for bed Steve checked on the boys and came rushing out to say did I know where Alex was?

Turns out he had stayed under the bed, with only a 2 second out time to collect his pillow and blanket.

So there he was sound a sleep under the bed, unfortunately the only way to get him out was to drag him.

But in true Alex form he slept through the whole putting into bed part.

On the true Alex part, last week we had some serious problems with our house alarm. I was out one evening and I got a call from Steve to say I had to come home as the alarm was going off (never set as he was in the house) and he couldn't switch it off.

The siren for the alarm is in the corridor outside the boys room and it is loud!

Ben (hates loud noises, doesn't even like the hand driers in the public bathrooms) apparently came flying out of the room and had to be comforted and put to bed in our room (other end of the house) but Alex, well this alarm rang for 10 mins before our friendly electrician got there and he slept through the whole thing! Not a peek.

Brushing Teeth

It seems to have taken forever to get the boys to really be into brushing their teeth.

Now I do realise that this will be an ongoing battle for the rest of their born life, whilst they live at home. I will always be nagging them about it, well, until they get girlfriends and then I will be for ever complaining that I can't get anytime in the bathroom!

Anyway, we are still having trouble getting them to brush their teeth twice a day, but at least we seem to have conquered bedtimes.