"Yes i'm timothy's mother"

Ok so Timothy (5) is very popular. When I say "very popular" i mean that when i drop him at preschool there is a line waiting for him, all wanting to ask important questions like, " Is this shirt cool?" or " will you play with me today?", and that's just from the preschool teachers! But this popularity does have its draw backs. Like never have a weekend free of a birthday party and Timothy never knowing the person who invited him. I kid you not, last term we went to a party where when we arrived I said. " Timothy go and give Cameron the present." Which was met with " Ok, who's Cameron?". I love that Timothy is confident, " Cameron tell your mum it's time for the pinata.", what bothers me most about his abundance of friends is the awkward moments I face when Timothy's "friends" mothers think cause their child and mine are"friends" we should be too. And look they are all lovely people I'm sure, (well actually that's not true some of them are bitchy and horrible), but I don't have to be friends with my children's friends parents do I? No more then I expect my children to be best friends with my friends children, oh wait I do expect that, but that's because I have awesome taste in friends and they all have heaps cool kids! Anyway I figure I'll just let them all have Timothy over for afternoon play dates like they all want and then the mothers will back right off.

Dolcie turned two this week and got some lovely things like the beautiful bag with babooshka dolls printed on it from aunty Josie and Tully which has gone everywhere with her including bed, or the My Little Ponies which she has put in the bag to take to bed, she also got lots of lovely hair clips, a tea set which has been popular, Library-nana bought her a big girls bed, so lots of lovely things. Oh and an ear infection, with a side of infected throat which comes with wickedly bad breath. But she has been able to console herself with some lovely cups of lemon tea. Two seems quite old which is silly really, I know people who have had coughs longer than that, did turn out to be emphysema. Still she seems to have grown up. She has this whole girly attitude going. Bossy as Aaron calls it, or divaish it has been refereed to as by Library-nana. It manifests its self in many forms, but mostly just telling the entire family where they should be sitting or what they should be doing from moment to moment. Like yesterday when she mentioned in passing, while taking dolly for a walk round the house in her pram, with her bag and a pony trailing behind tied to a piece of string that I can only imagine she told Jake to do for her, that it was time to get Jake from school and I should wake up Molly and put her in the stroller. The thing is she was right and I did. Anyway she's growing up.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it but Arthur and Timothy, although 21months apart are very close in height weight and stature. They both have the same short hair, Arthur's has a tinge of strawberry but nothing I can bleach out eventually, but they really are quite similar to the unfamiliar eye. I don't get shocked anymore when passer byers ask if they are twins because I know in they're heads they are just really trying to figure out how I have 5 in 6 years with no twins. I just politely say no, or if I have the time and inclination I say no they are my largest gap. However I was surprised when at swimming lessons, which started back this week, Arthur and Timothy when asked by their new teacher "Are you twins" and they replied" Yes". What kind of 5 year old says he is a twin of a 3 year old? I guess the type that also has the confidence to mention he has pee'd in the pool......

Ahhh yes good times in the Clark house. Have to go now, got to wrap up the presents for Timothy's birthday parties lined up for this weekend, Dulcie told me.

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