Moving Day

(after a long days work the boys had our local f friendly ducks pay them a visit!)

( actually excited to go to bed)

With the baby on the way we are starting to have to make some changes to our sleeping arrangements to ensure we all fit. Even though we have a 4 bedroom house, Matt has to have a study. He has SO much junk and I hate having a computer in the living areas so the only option was to have the boys share a room. This option is not one Ethan has been very excited about. But yesterday we finally got the bunk beds we had been waiting for to arrive in stock. Matt and Sean spent the morning putting the beds together ( a job I am glad i did not have to assist in and that Sean came and helped instead!). By the time the beds were up both boys were so excited that they moved Daniel's bedding in straight away and set up the beds and there soft toys that sit on their beds. I did however ask them not to move any toys in and that i would work out how to fit all there stuff in during the week......But during my afternoon nap on the couch i wake up to matt informing me that Ethan was creating room for Daniel and most of his stuff had been moved!!! I would have been annoyed but the fact that Ethan was so willing to make room for Daniel overshadowed any frustrations I had.

So this week I get to sort out the boys room and set it up and finish cleaning out Daniel's room for matt to move his study into there. I have decided that I want to study for the nursery so matt gets a new room too :) I am actually looking forward to all the moving being done with so I can start painting and setting up the baby's room.

Dinosaur Day

Ethan's class has been learning this term about dinosaurs, fossils etc. He has absolutely loved it and spends so much time at home learning about them, drawing them etc. Last Friday his class had a dress up day and they had to dress up as a dinosaur, dragon, princess etc. Ethan is normally not into any kind of dress up, and this time he still didnt want to wear a costume and I thought that once again he was going to miss out on something fun as he never participates in anything like this. But He was happy to have a dinosaur "back". So we spent Thursday night cutting out the "plates" for the back ( not spikes as i was calling them!) and made him a dinosaur back. He was so thrilled with dressing like a dinosaur that he wore it all day!!!

I was so pleased that he actually made an effort to participate :)

Hard Done By

Daniel is feeling a bit hard done by at the moment. Everyday he and I have the conversation of "why was Ethan born first". As he ask the question his eyes are filling with tears and no answer satisfies him. He is starting to feel like Ethan gets to do all the "fun" stuff and he misses out. And it all started a few weeks ago at school when in assembly Ethan had to go to the stage to receive a certificate for his nomination for Aussie of the Month. Daniel was sitting watching and by the time I picked Daniel up from school he was a little teary. Those tears welling in his eyes broke on the way home and he cried (hard) for the next hour!!! Since then everything Ethan does or has that Daniel doesnt have it starts again.!!! I have tried to tell him that he is lucky because he gets to be a big brother and a little brother which Ethan doesnt get....but his responses is just "I wanted to be born first".........I am just hoping that this phase will end soon as it is one i just cant win!