25 October 2008

I know, I know, original title huh. I'm obviously not in my best witty form today ;) I was supposed to have some more photos from Brooke's birthday today, but haven't actually managed to do that yet. Her party was on Saturday, but her actual birthday was Sunday. After opening more presents on Sunday morning, we left the biggest for last, and took her outside to see the new trampoline. She was stoked. Gave this little half-embarrassed, shy "whaaaat? For meeeee?". Then proceeded to jump to her hearts delight. The tramp is actually for Brooke AND Elisa's birthday presents, since Elisa's birthday is at the end of November. Elisa doesn't quite have the knack of jumping with both feet off the ground yet, so she prefers running around the tramp, giving us a heart attack whenever she goes too fast and almost off the edge. It was a good purchase though, and the girls love it, using it at least a dozen times a day.

Yesterday Brooke decided she wanted a new Polly doll. Her old one was dirty, ragged and worn, and stitches were missing. I got a new Polly from it's hiding place in the scraproom, and hid it in my dressing gown. I then asked Brooke for old Polly, turned around and pretended to fix the doll. After a minute I said "All done", turned back around and gave Brooke the new Polly, all bright, shiny and new. She was astounded. "What did you DO Mum?! Was she inside OUT??". ROFL, she totally didn't realise it was a different Polly. I told her this was her last Polly (we're onto number 3 now). When this one wears out, that's it.

And just last night she cracked me up again. Now keep in mind we live in the NORTH Island of New Zealand:

Mum: "What jammies are you going to wear tonight?"
Brooke: "Well it's supposed to go down to 6 degrees tonight! So I better wear my winter jammies." (Said after hearing the weather report on the news about the temperature in the SOUTH Island).

I've managed to do another couple of layouts too: