Oh….!! Part wrote a post when the machine hanged and I lost it?..
Try again.
Oh??. !!!, I started trying to write this 2 hours ago ? crashing machines, then Butterbean insists on wanting a feed every hour (or less) and has spent the last 20-30 mins fussing and crying as Helen is busy. Write this or be even later to bed??..?
Keep it short I guess, anyway, plenty of nice things ahve been created in the kitchen this weekend by Stringbean and Mummy, Coconut Ice and Peppermint Creams yesterday, Chocolate dipped Brazil nuts and Crystallised Ginger today – mmmm!. Stringbean of course enjoyed cleaning out the chocolatey bowl…
Other than that – on Saturday, boring things like housework, going to Sainsburys etc. Stringbean isn’t too bad when shopping as long as we don’t take too long. Of coiurse she is now getting to the stage of wanting all sorts of things, which we won’t normally buy, but takes refusal withotu any great fuss as long as you give a reason. And I leap at any chance to give her a choice about things – what fruit etc., and she loves being able to choose some bread. Bumped into a work colleague with her two kids (about 6 and 3). They were debating which flavour Fruitshoot drink to get. Stringbean, in best pretentious girl mode stands there going
‘ We don’t have those, we just have water or juice‘
She likes to help with putting the stuff through the checkout, at the end, she kkept complaing that the little conveyor belt thing after the checkout wasn’t going (‘cos it would all build up), that the checkout woman turned it on, made her much happier. We left to remostrations as too why we were going to the cafe………’ Just for a bit’ , ‘just for snack…’
Ended the day playing with her Happy Street stuff -of which there is enough for small conurbation (mostly 2nd hand due to Helen’s Ebay habit…:-)). Me and her set it all out over the back room floor before she went to bed, so that it would bethere in the morning. (reminds me of being a kid, when my Dad would get finish getting all the toy cars out for me, so they were all out on the floor in the morning) She was quite excited when she got up to find it al there and spent ages playing with it, she is just at the right age now, and comes up with all sorts of increasingly complicated scenarios and stories – we spent ages togther palying with it. Certainly encourages her imagination.
Sunday morning, she had a go at giving Butterbean a massage, with Helen’s help, both seemed to enjoy it. Helen used ot take Stringbean to Baby Massge classes when she was little. She was already sitting up by then (she was sitting well by 4 month) and while all the other babies were lying down, Helen would have to try to massge Stringbean with her sitting up as she was such a nosey baby 
She didn’t want to pull a sensible face for the cmaera though – this si the better one….
Amusing Moments
1. Elinor stomping backwards and forwards on Saturday evening, hands on hips going ‘ You are a boy, boys have to do what girls tell them’.
2. A couple of days ago, running around naked after her bath, singing her own made up ‘Merry Christmas’ song – the pleasures of being 3 years old……..
Tiem for bed – Butterbean is still awake, has been since mid evening – must be on the 10th feed of the night or something already…..
Love funny moment (1) !! Your sweetie making looks fun too
She was being rather shouty at the time. I felt like I should tell her off , but I was to busy rolling around on the sofa
Sounds like a lovely weekend.