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This is Little Monkey on his "mo'bike". He got this while we were on holiday in Germany last summer. We visited friends and their littlest girl had outgrown the push bike and very generously and bravely passed it on to Little Monkey. She was sad to see it go and was worried that she might need it again. She needn't have, ever since Little Monkey has treated it very well. He's ever so proud to own his mo'bike. He regularly visits it in its house when the weather is not good enough to use it outside. Why he calls it mo'bike we don't really know. Maybe because it reminds him of a motorbike but then he doesn't call motorbikes that. It might be just that particular little push bike's special name.
I know, I know it is inside but after the long cold winter Little Monkey had to make sure it is still alright and we had a good look in the kitchen. It then leaned in the hall for a few hours before moving back out into its regular home. We found out though that he has grown quite a bit since we last got it out and Daddy Monkey will have to raise the seat a little bit higher.

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Big Monkey is waiting for the daffodil to grow that she planted last autumn with her class at school.

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Little Monkey was invited to a Birthday Party today. Big Monkey wanted to come too as she knows the little girl. She does like to take care of little ones. The parents of the little girl kindly allowed her to join in, gave her party food and even a goody bag.
The party was held at a Leisure Centre where they had transformed the gymnastics area into a toddler gym. The Monkeys had a blast, climbing on the equipment, balancing and jumping into a new version of a ball pond. Instead of balls it was filled with foam squares which apparently made it even harder to get out. I didn't try it out as the birthday girl's dad spent an extraordinary long time trying to scramble out again.
Little Monkey had an even better time when he realized that the puzzle cubes could be lined up to make a choo choo train and the hula hoops could be the steam and the steering wheel. He was really disappointed when it was time to eat cake! The fairy cakes had purple icing so his party world was soon in order again.

They were running around so much my little phone camera couldn't keep up and all the photos turned out blurry. I think that is proof that they enjoyed themselves.

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What I found when I stepped out of the shower this morning:


This made me happy which reminded me once again of the article about whether having kids does make you happy.

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I didn't get round to post yesterday's photo. Just when I sat down to start up the computer my back started to hurt. Badly. So I laid down on the bathroom floor and praised underfloor heating. Luckily that helped a lot but by then I wasn't in the mood to type anymore. So here's yesterday's photo:


Little Monkey took a break in building big airplanes to water the pot plants outside. He tried to go on his tricycle first but as I refused to come outside to push him he had to find some alternative thing to do. In his opinion it was not too cold for me to come out. He thought me very unreasonable huddling up to he radiator. But neither did he want to use the tricycle that he can actually pedal on. Nor did he want to come inside. So we had to find the watering can. Now it's not particularly dry right now what with the recent rain and everything but it is one of his favourite activities. He was a lot more helpful when it came to cleaning the fish tank, he got his own little magnet to get the algae off the glass. He happily produced train tracks criss crossing. However, he lost the inside magnet a few times so the fish got a bit of a surprise when it floated past them. Each time they checked whether it could be eaten. It's all about food for these guys.
Big Monkey had a friend visiting, they too insisted that it wasn't as cold as I made out and spent the time singing and playing the harmonica for passing pedestrians.

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Yesterday excitement rose. The weather forecast mentioned snow! It was short lived and no snow came. It did get rather cold though. So you can imagine my joy when I spotted this:
Isn't that beautiful? The idea was that the amaryllis blooms for Christmas but I planted it rather late for that to happen. I expected it to bloom while we were away so this is a lovely surprise.

365* - 026 I spy: Ball

Ha! Who said I'm doomed about having a drawer for balls only? Look Kylie! The balls are all neatly in their drawer. And the pillows are all on the ... floor? With tools tucked under them?
That's because they are an airplane or maybe a train. Since we've been away Little Monkey has found his love for airplanes. The moment he comes downstairs or back from nursery the first thing he does is getting the pillows off the day bed and announce "I ma' airplane, big, BIIIG airplane!". Then we all have to go and sit on the cushion. Then he tells us to put the seat belt on and off we go. Where? That's not important. Important is only the airplane. The big airplane. Why there are now tools under the pillows, that I haven't found out. Daddy Monkey thinks this is now a train rather than a plane and the tools are the track. On the positive side the pillow train/plane is in the play room rather than the hall or the kitchen where everybody has to dance around it. I wonder whether this means that his airplane enthusiasm is waning?