Here’s another quickie flock post – but I had to share this dialogue between M1 and myself!

me: Please stay at the table and eat your dinner

M1: No

me: (a little more ‘forceful’) Please sit down and eat your dinner

M1: calm down Mum

me: (trying not to laugh) I will be calm when you sit down and finish your dinner

M1: (in a VERY adult-like soothing voice) Lithen Mum – justh calm down

Isn’t it funny how they emulate eactly what we say!

M1 cut M2′s hair yesterday. Yep. Not that M2 is any stranger to the chop – we had to cut a big chunk of sticky fly paper out of her hair at Christmas time – so she had a mini mullet for quite some time! Anyway – back to yesterday – M1 has a pair of those safety scissors. I only caught the tail end of the ‘chop’, but when I asked M1 to show me how much hair she had cut off – she held up a huge chunk! The fantastic part is – I have no idea where the huge chunk came from on M2′s head – there doesn’t seem to be any missing – so at least M1 is an unobtrusive cuttter! Anyway – the bright orange ‘safety scissors’ have been put away! On a somewhat sad note – M1′s first pet guinea pig ‘carked it’ the other day. Fred. Poor little lad. We had only had him for around two weeks. Luckily M1 didn’t see him doing his ‘death roll’ – she was asleep. I walked past his cage – only to see him lying down in that “Fred is lying down, but doesn’t look awfully well’ typew of position. I picked him up, and he was limp – then he gave a gasp – aha – he was alive! I rushed him in to Will – who started to poke, and squeeze him, and blow in his face (a weird guinea pig CPR type thing I guess!). I was all for taking him to the vet (Fred – not Will – although sometimes I wonder!!). Will was like – ‘it’s an $8 pet”. Yeah – well – let’s take him anyway. So off they went. 15 minutes later – Will came back sans Fred. Yep – Fred’s dead. Vet took one look and said – ‘can’t do much – he’s dying’! Great. So the vet kept Fred, and we told M1. She looked at us and said – “can we gewt another Fred?”. Ahhh – if only everyone and everything was so replacable!!!! We do have another guinea pig – we bought Ginger a week ago for M2. Giner is a little more sturdy than Fred was. Ginger is an adult, and large – which is quite fitting – coz M2 isn’t the most gentle toddler around!

Gotta tell you about M2 widening vocabulary. Yep – finally she does things other than ‘grunt’. We get (now I am going to spell these out phonetically – just letting you know – just in case you thought I was a) a bad speller, or b) that I was teaching M2 some weird alien language!)

– ‘dadoh” – thank-you

– ‘bah bah’ – bye bye

– ‘hayoh’ – hello

– and last night’s gem ‘gogo’ – yoghurt

Yes – I think I have a phonetic whiz on my hands!!!!!!! Anything else is just a grunt, and a grizzle.

Oh – might I add – our chooks are ‘on the lay’ again. Thanks goodness. No eggs from ‘em for ages – but al of a sudden – whammo – we are getting a couple a day! Yay. Now – if only I could cook a good sponge! Does anyone have a good egg recipe they would like to share?

I know this is long-winded and boring – sorry – but FLOCK doesn’t let me pot pictures -and I have some great layouts to show, and some items to pimp – so when I can be bothered (!!!!!) I’ll do a proper typepad post!

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so sorry for that long boring post the other day — what was I thinking – oh yes – ramble on here for a bit – it’s nearly like having an adult conversation!  Oh the joys of having tiny children!

I am so full of creative ideas right now – but no time to create!  I want to be able to sit down and create, design, scrap, draw – and I just don’t get a chance.  My brain is choc-a-block full of stuff that is just waiting to get out!  must. stop. wasting. time.  Why oh why are forums, blogs etc so inviting!  can;t everyone lead a boring life for me – then I won’t have anything to read!

Picked up my 1GB RAM the other day – early Christmas pressie for the computer (lucky thing!).  Phew – photoshop doesn’t know what happened to it – now it needs to keep up with me!

Did a big bake on the weekend – Christmas balls and choc-chip cookies – yumboliscious.  Must get rid of them soon – they are not a staple diet!!!!  They are so very tempting though – mmmmmmm!

Righto – down to business – I have decided what to do with all my website ideas – there will be three!!!!

1. www.thespottedcow.com – web design and hosting – with some cubecart, zen cart and post-nuke customisations thrown in for good measure!
2. www.kylieclark.com – digi-scrap store – selling my scallywags, and all the other digi-goodies I have planned
3. www.digiscrapspot.com – a resource site for digi-scrappers – includes anything and everything pertaining to the digital scrapping world.  I know there are a couple of sites out there very similar to what I have in mind – but none are using the ‘user-friendly’ program that I will use (thanks to www.justdigitalcalls.com ).

At present – I am designing a ‘skin’ for cubecart – so that I can use it at ‘scallywags’ – it’s a bit of fun – nice and bright.  also working on a new spotted cow – here is the latest:

okay – maybe not – typepad does not want me to upload images at this time!  Pity – she’s such a spunky cow too!  – Aha – typepad is fickle today – here she is:

There are a zillion other things in my head – banging on the walls of my skull to get out (no – wait a minute – that’s just someone using a hammer in the distance!).  I can’t wait for next year to happen – I am having a break over the festive season – and then whammo – back with all ideas blazing!

Look what I made!!!!  In more ways than one!

They are such gorgeous creatures – so happy and cheeky!

My heart melts when I look at this photo!