Corey has been not too bad this weekend although he had a few moments yesterday where he threw tantrums and told me that I’m a jerk and a loser.  I just tried to stay calm and ignored it and stuck to my discipline and didn’t give in to him.  I must admit his tantrums weren’t quite as bad as usual. 

He has been sick this weekend too which has probably kept him a bit quieter than normal.  He had a fever for a couple of afternoons and has had a sore throat and been a bit flat.  We were planning on taking them to the Museum on Sunday as they have Palaeantology Week but we didn’t end up going since Corey was sick.  It is still on next weekend so hopefully we might go then.  I think the boys would love it, they are into their dinosaurs and things – just like boys.

Ben is very much into animals lately and sits and draws animal pictures or goes on the computer and makes powerpoint presentations of animals.  He watches animal TV shows and reads animal books and is always coming and telling me all these interesting facts about animals.  So I think Ben would just love going to the museum.

Anyway, I hope that corey behaves today while I am home on my own with him.  I know yesterday Derek went out for about 20 minutes and of course as soon as he left Corey started his behavior.  The swearing is becoming a real problem and he had his mouth washed out with soap yesterday, it really doesn’t do any good though.  He spent quite some time in his room yesterday because of his language too.  I might have to start a swear jar, although I think he’ll just run out of money to put in it.

Thanks for reading once again
Sheryl

I guess most of them were together at my Uncle’s funeral but I unfortunately missed the funeral as we were travelling at the time and I was up the other end of Australia.

Anyway, back to today…..

Corey has been pretty good today actually, we have a few moments but overall he was pretty good.  I was watching him interacting with the other kids and he tries hard he really does.  I guess he did ok today but he just doesn’t seem to quite fit in as well as the rest of them do.  At least he did try today and there was no fighting between then all.  My Gran was there and she is 87 next month and she has 13 Great Grandchildren all of whom were there today.  The older five are getting to an age where they go off and chat but the youngest 8 had a ball.  Poor little Madison though, out of the younger 8 she is the only girl but I don’t think she cared too much she got in there and had fun anyway.

The funniest thing of today, was with my little one Lachlan.  Lachlan was born on my niece Alisha’s 16th birthday and they really do share a close bond.  However, Alisha is 21 now and she has a boyfriend who came to the picnic today.  Lachlan was not impressed, you should have seen him give poor Jason the evil eye – how dare Alisha have a boyfriend she is only supposed to love him.  It was so funny, he was hiding behind the tree staring at Jason and he was just not impressed one little bit.

Yesterday I had a really bad headache and I was really, really tired.  All day I just wanted to lie down and go to sleep but I couldn’t because I was at the Athletics Day.  This morning I woke up and my headache was worse for a couple of hours.  Once the panadol kicked in it was ok and is fine now.  Corey this afternoon toward the end of the picnic looked just not 100% and I asked him what was wrong and he just said he was tired.  When he got home he had a bit of a fever and a sore throat and headache, so I’m thinking that perhaps yesterday I may have had a bit of a virus and now he has it.  Poor boy, hopefully he will get over it pretty quickly.  He could really do with a big sleep in too.

Well that’s all for today.  Thanks for visiting our blog again.
Take care
Sheryl