and the kids are sitting completely silent infront of Phineas & Ferb ("Curse you Perry the Platypus!!!") so I thought I'd take a minute or two to update you as it's usually bedlum around here..lol.
Well the girlies decided they wanted their ears piercing and they've been going on about it for a while now and so we decided that it was probably time. We headed in to town with Nana in tow for support and we hit the shops. First we tried a well known accessories shop (also known as "Claires") that does piercing.. now... call me tight but I think that £25 for someone to put a hole in your ear and plug it with a piece of surgical steel plated in gold with a fake diamond on the end of it a wee bit excessive.. especially when you have 2 little girls to do.
Yes thats right.. £50 Claires accessories wanted to charge me. FIFTY pounds.. count them.. I did.
Why? well apparently the girl goes in to the back of the shop and brings out her mate to help her.. and they do an ear each at the same time... and that costs £25 cos they both doing it.. in half the time obviously, which means they'll be able to do twice as many too I suppose.. at £25 a time.
Er... no.
cue lil jewellers across the mall. £17.50 for both kids inc said piece of surgical steel plated in gold with a fake diamond on the end AND a bottle of ear aftercare wash... trouble is she does it one ear at a time.
oof.. can they cope? for £30 less?? er... yes. Yes they bloody can.
Angie went up first.. which quite frankly worried me, she's notoriously soft in the needle department at the docs when they're handing out jabs and she screams when she grazes a knee so I figure she's gonna punch someone for holding a piercing gun to her earand then she wont let her do the other one and then Heather wont have it done and I'll have a child with one ear pierced.. lol
but I can't fault the kid.. she never made a sound. I know!!! shocked the shit out of me too..lol
Heather made a face and held her ear and gave an "OUCH!!!!" but she didn't stop her doing the other one an here are the results... Angelina has "ruby" ones and Heather has "diamonds" lol
So that was that.
The last week we had "World Book Day" and the kids (and staff) had to go to school dressed as a character from their favourite book.
Well, its not really difficult to guess what character Princess Heather went dressed as is it??
Angelina pulled a blinder and went dressed as a ballerina.. "Angelina Ballerina" of course..
"Cos I am Angelina and I'm dressed up.. as a Ballerina!!!! Brilliant int it Mummy???" LOL she had no trouble posing for pics and even had to stand up in assembly and tell everyone who she was and why Angelina Ballerina was her favourite book.. I wish I'd been able to see that one.. I can only imagine what she said LOL
The boy wanted to go dressed as a Jedi... doesn't want much does he?
Now I can sew.. and I have a sewing machine but even I'm not that good that I can knock a Jedi costume together in less than a week and so I do what all mums do when faced with a dilemma such as this... I cheated and bought one from Amazon.
One Jedi costume was winging its way to us.. bit expensive but still.. he'll get some use out of it think I.. and it comes with a belt, a lightsaber and even a plait for the hair so he can be all Anakin Skywalker.. bless
So we wait... I ordered Saturday..paid a lil extra for fast postage, figure it'll be here... Tuesday.. Weds at the latest and thats fine cos dressing up day is Thursday..
By Weds afternoon its not here. I check online and the tracking number is up.. its on the van for delivery and they delivery up to 7pm at night.. winner, it'll be here..
but at 6.55pm it wasn't andthere's no one answering the phone at the depo which to be frank, really pisses me off cos I would LOVE to be shouting at someone by this time... the boy's on the verge of tears and I have nothing.. what to do what to do...?
Phone Mum.
what?? Yes I know I'm a 35 year old woman but tell me.. when you have a disaster of epic scale on your hands who do YOU phone?? Yes thats right.. you phone your Mum... don't judge me..lol.
I explain my problem and she says.. "I have some black material.. I'll make him one. Don't let him go to bed, I'll be 5 minutes."
I give the.. "nooooo you cant come down now its 7 o clock, it'll take hours... we'll never make it in time.." blah blah blah but really I'm thinking "please please please help me mummy.." LOL
So poor Nana Sue turns up in her nightie and slippers.. (she's shoved her jeans on too dont worry) and poooooooooooooor Grandad John who is in extreme pain and can hardly move his head but has still got out of bed and driven her down here for me.. or Jake more likely lol... and she wraps him up in black cloth and whips out some pins and a needle and starts sewing...
and bugger me it looks good!!! she sews it up.. tries it on.. sews some more.. tries it on him.. takes a bit out and changes it.. sew some more... she's like a f*ckin whiz.. I'm not kidding and I didn't think I could get it done in 4 days and she does it in 2 hours. Full on Jedi cloak.. even Jake's impressed.. he's planning on going as "Evil Anakin just as he's changing bad" cos the cloak is now black instead of Jedi brown.. and he smiling!!!!
Nana puts the last stitch in and says "Ok ... come try it on Jedi" and there's a knock at the door...
"who the bloody hell's knocking ont'door at this time?" say I and I open it and there's a man... with a box and a big smile..
"Parcel for you!!"
I sign for the parcel.. slink back into the room carefully cos I'm convinced my mother is stood at the back of the door with a really big bat waiting to clunk me one and I see Rich out of the corner of one eye with his whole fist in his mouth trying to stifle a giggle..and John sat doing the same on the other sofa.. or he would have been had he been able to move..lol
and my mother says... "I don't f*cking believe it..I'd just put the last stitch in!!!!"
Thankfully we were all laughing and Mum, who I have to say was fabulous on a grand scale that evening... took it brilliantly.. even when Rich said "He couldn't have timed that better..I didn't pay him - honest!!"
My poor Mum.. and after all that of course Jake wanted to wear the bought one (as you do..) but no matter.. Angelina's dressing up as Darth Vader in the black one later ;)
Here's the Jedi.
and here they all are together..
being silly as usual..lol
So that was our week. At the weekend we saw the lovely family.. took a trip to see Luke, Jess and baby Beau on Saturday which is always lovely.. and then saw Vicki, Scott and kids (tooooo cute) on Sunday.. it's been a lovely week and whats even better is that now I've managed to get the blog post finished and its bed time for the kids!!! I'm winning all round tonight! ;)
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