you just have to smile...

Well if you dont then you may as well just give up now! right?

Alfie has been particularly (tries to find a suitable word...umm) intense (yea there you go) over the past week (or being more precise over the last 286 weeks and 3 days lol) but he has had his moments where i just couldn't help but giggle.

Our neighbour was in his garden a few days ago and Alfie spotted him

"Hello JOHN" he shouts, the name John coming out in Alfies lovely singsong way

"Hello Alfie" John replies.

"It's my birthday JOHN tomorrow JOHN is my birthday"

"Is it Alfie, how old will you be?"

"How old WHAT JOHN?"

"How old will you be tomorrow Alfie?" By this point John is trying his hardest to get away

"TOMORROW John? is MY birthday i be TWENTY Joooooohnnnnnnn"

"Ok well happy birthday for tomorrow Alfie...Bye" John runs as fast as he can into his house

"Byeeeeeee Jooooooohnnnnnn...humph, eeeeeeeek, glaph...weeeeeeeeeeee"

John came round later that day with a birthday card and pressie for Alfie, i explained it wasn't his birthday till Oct, John just smiled and said to give it to him then (bless him)

Today Alfie was on the trampoline, and all i could hear was

"Noooooooooooooo! Go AWAAAAAAAY!"

Thinking it was Alfie being terratorial about the trampoline i ignored it while i fed Tommy his bottle

"i said GOOOOOO AWAAAAAAAAAAY! stupid...Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" the Eeeee was so highpitched im sure glass shattered and dogs, dolphins and bats all over the world committed mass suicide just to escape.

suddenly Lily and Charlie came running down the stairs to see what was happening...Hmm so he wasn't telling them off, Harry was sat next to me on the sofa so it wasn't him either!?!?

Taking Tommy with me i went to investigate...Alfie was running round the trampoline surrounded by about 30 small plastic balls (the kind you find in ball pits) and he was trying his hardest to run away from them, but of course everytime he moved the trampoline dipped and the balls followed him.

So yes Alfie is constantly trying my patience, but then so do his siblings (and their father lol) but i am learning that instead of concentrating on the negative things it is always best to see the lighter side of things.