Mutha of Meltdowns

Today was My Boerewors' first day back at work after being at home with us for two weeks. It all started off pretty normal and okay until we drove to the shops to do Megan's last bit of shopping for her back-to-school stationery.

When we got to the Mall, Kaylin (my three year old) spotted the "car" trolleys (similar to the one in this picture) and immediately got soopa excited and bolted towards them.  Unfortunatelywhen I eventually caught up with her I realised that they were still all chained together and no one in sight to help us get one free.  I told her we'd have to go and get a regular trolley in the meantime.

This set Kaylin into her Mutha of All Tantrums. 

I have NEVER seen her so destraught, angry, sad and frustrated.   This was the biggest wobble she as ever thrown!!  She started screaming at FULL volume (like her fingernails were being ripped out with a rusty pair of pliers), kicking like a grumpy mule and sobbing and stamping all at the same time.  At first I just stared at her - totally shocked at her over-reacting to the situation.  It was liked someone flicked a switch.

She was livid!

I could see she'd stepped into her "black zone" and there was no turning back or reasoning with her. In her rage I tried to smack her and landed up whacking my finger against her shoe and I now have a swollen and purple finger (serves me right for loosing it with her and falling for her winding me up). 

I immediately took her back to the car which made the tantrum increase because she now thought I was going to take her home (Kaylin loves shopping and going to the mall) when in actual fact I just wanted to get her to calm herself down.  Her face was turning from pink to red.

We sat in the car for a good ten minutes before she actually caught her breath and listened to the fact that if she didn't stop we weren't going into the shops. Eventually when she did pull herself towards herself, Megan whispered to me "Mummy I've never heard her scream THAT loud!".

Well neither had I!!

My ears were bleeding, my nerves shattered and my energy was instantly depleted.  I didn't want her to win though, so I gave Megan all my attention because the shopping trip was for her benefit after all.  I plonked Kaylin in a regular trolley and Megan and I walked hand in hand behind the trolley chatting about what we were going to buy.  Soon Kaylin realised that she wasn't getting any attention having a fat lip and sulking.

In the end we got everything done without a glitch.  Megan and I laughed and joked and fooled around while silent huffy Kaylin was pretty much ignored until she asked me for something. 

Sometimes playing deaf works the best.

What do you do when your little monster throws the mutha of all tantrums??

A Very Talented Lass

Boxing Day with Family

Our Boxing Day was spent with the in-laws and visiting with Andre (Riaan's Brother who lives in the UK) after two years since his last visit to South Africa. We also got to meet his girlfriend Laura who is from Lithuania but now living in the UK with Andre.

I was a lovely sunny day by the pool and eating AGAIN.  We had a lovely family lunch together.

Laura, Andre, Riaan, Gillian, Mother-In-Law, Father-In-Law aka Mom and Dad

Front:  KK and Meg

My girls

Megan and Uncle Andre

Andre, Megan and Riaan

Then it was time for some bubble fun in the garden.

Kaylin

Mummy

Kaylin

Megan

Megan on her brand new twinkly bike looking dead chuffed with herself.

Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve we fed the Reindeer, left Santa milk and jelly tots this year and then we went to my best friend Mandy to join all our friends to wait for midnight to open our R30 gag gift presents from everyone. 

Good Times!

The girls glitter hands after sprinkling the reindeer food on the lawn.

Some apple for Rudolf

All the presents under the tree at Mandy's Christmas Eve Gathering.

Mandy is addicted to Farmville Facebook

and one of her gifts from Riaan was a little farm

Percy with his gorgeous Christmas hat and stunning new teeth

Norman got a pair of goggles and immediate wanted to take a dip

The clown of the group got an appropriate outfit.

Tammy got a Barbie face cloth (Don opening a prezzie too)

We only got home at 2am from opening gifts at Mandy's so Christmas morning I was knackered when Megan woke me up at 7am to open presents.  We nevertheless had tons of fun opening gifts and watching the girls faces with each one.

Kaylin with one of her first presents

Megan got a dolls house and all the furniture

and a harmonica

Just when they thought they'd opened all their gifts, I gave them this little sign gift wrapped.

"Look Outside!"

When they got outside they found their brand new twinkling bikes. 

They were thrilled.

And that, my friends, was Christmas 2009.

Today we're off to Riaan's family to celebrate with his brother and his girlfriend who arrived from the UK late last night - so we're doing Christmas all over again with them today.

My trousers are already getting a little tighers!  Eek!

Merry Christmas!

Have an awesome Christmas Day!

May all your wishes and dreams come true and like birds, lets leave behind what we don't need to carry.  Pain, Sadness, Fear and Regrets.

Fly light!

Enjoy the day.

Freaky Friday - Episode Five

Freaky Friday

Theme : Circus Oddities

Jean (or Juan) Baptista dos Santos is said to have been a “Gipsey”, born in Faro, Portugal around 1843, to normal parents with two other normal children. His career as an exhibitionist seems to have been confined strictly to medical circles; in 1865 turned down a sum of 200,000 francs to appear for two years with a French circus. He possessed two functioning penises and three scrota, the outer two of which each contained a single testis. Dos Santos claimed that the central scrotum had also contained a pair of fully-formed testes, but that these had retreated into his abdomen when he was ten years old.

Has she ever heard of waxing?

Freaky yet beautiful

I've always been facinated by contortionists..

Smoke get in yer eye.

These aren't circus freaks but I thought I'd throw in a Christmas Oddity to celebrate the day.

Have an Awesome Christmas Day!!!