Playcentre

Kaydins being going to playcentre since he was a couple weeks old with me and my grandma (his great-grandma). Playcentre is an early childhood centre with a difference. it is rum by the parents and they attend with their children. It has been so great for me and Kaydin both. I have loved being able to watch him grow and learn and experience new things that he may not have been able to do at home and i get to share it all with him!
The last school term has been especially fantastic. his interaction with other children and adults has gotten so much better its amazing to watch.
A the start of term i would follow around with him to help him play and keep an eye on him to make sure he wasn't getting into things he probably shouldn't. i also followed him because being a single parent im so used to being the only one their to really watch out for him, but by the end of term the other playcentre mums and dads have reassured me and made me feel so much more relaxed knowing that yes someone else will stop him from jumping off the top of the fort, or tell him that climbing into the water trough is not really the best of ideas. infact the last couple weeks of term he didn't even want to play with me for the majority of the sessions preferring instead to follow other children and do activities with other mums.
but thats ok, while i did miss being the favourite it meant i got to play with the babies (while their busy mums were busy with older siblings) so win win situation for everyone

Happy New Years!

this was my first new years eve without Kaydin, for the past three years i've always been with him and gone in to sit with him while he sleeps at midnight. Last night however he was at his daddys and i was invited to the cock & bull NYE party with a group of friends because one of them works there. i had a great night but i certainly felt a little sad to not be with Kaydin for the first time. and when i jokingly said that i hadn't seen my son all year or since last year it took me a bit by surprise how upsetting that was.
but i picked him up this afternoon and he was so happy to see me and i, him. kisses and big cuddles!! he fell asleep in the car on the way home but i just wanted to wake him up so i could keep talking to him and giving him kisses.
being without your child makes you realise how much they mean to you, i've heard people say that parents who make their child their whole life are a little sad or desperate but i don't agree at all. its such a wonderful feeling knmowing that here is someone who you can always love and who will always love you (even if when they get older they don't know it)
i hope you all had a great NYE and may all your new years resolutions come true!!

Childhood Careers

Have you ever noticed how many different jobs people suggest children might have when they grow up?
So far Kaydin will be 7 different things in counting.
he loves playing with tools and has helped numerous uncles, daddy's (his and other peoples) in building or constructing things so maybe he will be a builder.
Or as he can recognise a rugby ball anywhere or even just the shape of one he might be a rugby player (I've been teaching him to say Dan Carter)
He could drive any kind of vehicle really, motorbikes and trucks are his favourite but boats and trains come a close second followed by buses and helicopters.
Then comes the ones his dads not so sure about like a make up artist. He could be a hairdresser as he loves playing with, brushing my hair, Opoes, Aunty's anybodies really.
And he loves pretending to put make up on others and is always getting into my lip gloss, moisturiser or thin Lizzy so perhaps a make up artist.
As a typical boy he loves running, jumping, falling, rolling around on the floor and after watching him Christmas night one of my uncles came up with him being a stunt double. then after being told about his make up artist option the uncles decided he could do both, especially on those budget films where he could do his own make up before doing his stunt acts.
Then again he also likes handbags and high heels. He recently got upset at a shoe shop when he was stuck in a trolley and unable to pick out shoes to try on. so maybe a fashion designer is o n the cards to.

Whatever he may choose to be i hope he always knows I and his family will always be there to support him in all his endeavors :)

Christmas Day

Christmas Day was such a great day!!! after waiting till 8.30am before waking kaydin up he was absolutly spoiled rotten. he loved his Black & Decker kids tool sets from me and Opoe (old dutch for grandmother)and his woody doll from his uncle which is the same as his cousins one he loves to play with. then at daddys he spent nearly 10 minutes just opening his presents, which is his favourite bit anyway :)
its so neat that although he didn't understand the santa thing he did enjoy opening presents this year.
the present from kaydins dad was a dvd i wanted so i think we are making progress on the parenting together and being friends part. he also went and strted playing the playstation game i & kaydin got him so i think that went down well to.
All in all Christmas was great we saw nearly all of my mothers side in the morning, kaydins fathers family 4 lunch and all my fathers side for dinner.
we went to bed full and happy (although kaydin didn't want to go to sleep till 11pm i think it was the sugar)