A number of years ago, Nick and I had a garage sale. We didn’t bother to put an ad in the paper, we had nothing of any value to sell, one of our dear friends came over in tears and declared that their marriage was over (your identity is safe with us) and we only made a total of $35. It wasn’t really a success. But despite this, we thought it might be worth doing before the big move. We went to the trouble of putting an ad in the paper and making street signs, I made price stickers and even put together an inventory of items. Basically it was a million years away from our first garage sale.
Instead of getting a good night’s sleep, Ollie decided to keep us up throughout the night and I spent the last few hours before daybreak sitting in his room with him sleeping on me (damn these pesky teeth). Once we kicked the sale off it was absolute chaos with strangers standing around as we set stuff up well before the kick off time. Thankfully one of my dear friends across the road offered to take Ollie back to her place for the warmth and the company of her two beautiful kids. It gave Nick and I the chance to flog off a heap of stuff, most of it within the first hour and we ended up making over $700 – for stuff we were going to throw out. Ollie had a great time too, each time I went over to check on him he was having so much fun that he wasn’t even the slightest bit interested in seeing me.
Nick’s birthday is coming up soon but with the move looming I was worried that it might get missed. So we had Em, Hayley, Simon, Luke and Fiona over for dinner last night to celebrate, unknown to Nick. After the garage sale we were pretty knackered but it is always lovely to see Ollie interacting with his Aunties and Uncles and he didn’t disappoint. Em & Ollie had a great time playing with playdough out on the deck (I’ve worked out that the inclusion of salt in the recipe is probably only to stop kids from eating it – but it STILL isn’t enough of a deterrent – yuck).
The highlight of the evening took place after Ollie had gone to bed, with Nick getting his birthday present from all of us – an iPad. As part of their global takeover, Apple have created another ah-mayz-ing product that we just couldn’t live without. Nick had been wanting one for ages but had no idea that he would be lucky enough to get one, especially before his birthday even happened. But it isn’t just for Nick – Ollie has been playing with it today – his favourite app today is the piano one with him loving bashing all the different notes out.
On Yo Gabba Gabba today there was a segment on breakdancing. O thought this was great and this was him attempting a headspin. Not sure if I really want to encourage this though.
In very exciting news, we have had a major advance this week. As Ollie has been getting a bit cranky with us cleaning his teeth (probably because they are so painful) I bought some stickers to reward (BRIBE) him for cleaning his teeth. He is loving this and declares them “teeth stickers” every time he gets one. They aren’t very sticky though and I keep finding them all around the house. Probably the worst one was the one I saw him swallow the other day. Yergh.
But the stickers have evolved to another kind, “poo stickers”!. I know this is probably a bit too much information but Ollie has declared himself wanting to use the toilet like a big boy. I wasn’t actually planning on sorting this out until after the move but O has called the timeline on this one. We did have to go out and get a special potty for him though as he kept nearly falling in to the toilet! Here he is checking it out – fully clothed thankfully.
A big thanks to Nanna Carmel for sending back (and Aunty Em for bringing back) some lovely clothes from Canada. Here is Obear all rugged up in his new jumper and hat before we headed out to West End for breaky this morning.
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