Boiled egg, pickled onions and ice cream Sundae….

Boiled egg and pickled onions is what Stringbean had for breakfast yesterday. She has eclectic tastes in food

Had a half written blog for the weekend last night,but somewhere I los t it. So this will be shorter version.

Butterbean hit 4 weeks on Saturday, and continues to grow in gorgeousness, she often has smiles. She continues to eat for England, and grow similarly (must be well over 12 lB now) – she certainly is a chunky monkey . Her muscles have grown much in strength, she kicks and pushes with here legs and can lift and hold her head up for sometime. She’s taking a fair bit of notice of what’s around here now, looking at things moving here head to track things.

What has been pleasing is how well SB has responded to her, she shows her such affection, and care that it is wonderful to see. Yes of course there are little moments of the jealousy, but nothing more thna you would expect. She loves to help out with bathing, nappies etc. and would help out with feeding if she could. We thought she probably would as she seemed so excited about it and said she wanted a baby, but it’s so nice to see it action.

The other night she was cuddling up on Mummy, when I brought BB in, she said something to the effect that she wanted to cuddle mummy by herself, so me and BB went off and had a cuddle and a doze on the bed ourselves, which was nice.

Saturday SB and I went to the library and took back some rather overdue book. She loves the library and choosing books, though she tends to be a bit random in her selections – if it has a nice picture on the front it’s fair game. They had some free bookmarks on the desk – she wanted to know what they were – I explained about them being used in longer books to keep you place – she took one and then wanted to find a book for it. So she found one about a boy who is in coma after his dog was killed and he was injured in a road accident – a cheerful subject for a 3 year old (though it has happy ending). She insisted Helen start reading it too her, much to Helen’s dislike. I did try to leave it behind, but she wasn’t having it. I had more in mind the rather nice Winnie the Pooh collection the Bookpeople are doing at the moment (?10, 30 quid in Waterstones) . We did also have an educational bit though, we paln to vist the Jovik Viking Centre in York early next year, so are going to do a bit of something on Vikings so got a couple of books, a DK Viking one and a story book/tape about a Viking who got sea sick.

Did a bit shopping, including getting some bits for making Ice cream Sundaes This all started the other day when SB was doing a maths CD – Jumpstart Maths or somesuch – with a daft bunny called Hopalot. Anyway, they had Ice Cream Sundaes in it somewhere, she wanted to know what they were, and then we decided to make some. Cue getting ice cream, chocolate sauce and various sprinkles organised. We had fun making and eating them later (I like this HE lark…)

Sunday Aunty M, Uncle M and Mark coming round for Mulled Wine and Mince pies in the evening. Me and SB made mince pies. She looks very much the cook now, and can actually manage to do some of the bits herself quite well, which is big change on last year. Cutting out, sticking the tops on she can manage especially well. We had to cut out little stars and hearts to decorate the tops for extra fun though.

A bit of manic cleaning/tidying up and then BB was introduced to her Uncle Mike (well Great-Uncle really) and Cousin Mark. Mark has just the odd piercing, which SB found intriging. Much mulled wine was drunk and food munched.

Monday Nursery day for SB, given the late night she had I’m surprised we managed to get up in time. I went shopping, bit busy but ok, managed to survive a quick hit and run on Ikea and a quick viist to town, I fripped in Waterstones on audio books (Winnie the Pooh, Some Mog stories and a kiddies songs CD) I even got a hair cut All set for Crimble now I think. Helen did some packing – we head of on our Xmas perambulation tomorow.

When I picked her up from nursery, SB was going ‘Ooo Ooo’ at me, and pointing – ‘Look all the rufflies have gone!’ (I’d had a shave as well….) Got to 20 on the advent calendar, she knew it came next, but didn’t remember what it looked like. Last night she complained that her pyjama trouser legs were half way up her legs – so I bought her some more, this time managed to find some reasonable one in Asda, last time I looked they all seemed vomit inducinglly pink/princess/barbie/disney type efforts, managed to find some better ones this time, cute, girly ones but not offensive. SB was pleased anyway.

Helen went out for a meal tonight taking BB with her, she seems to have behaved well. I was uspposed to have tidied packed sort for tomorrow, but SB didn’t get to sleep until 1030 or later,so scuppered things a bit (she came down about 10 saying she was hungry and wanted some cold spaghetti hoops – so she finished off a tin and went back to bed.

Then I wasted the rest of the time writing this…….

Could add some piccies, but must do something useful maybe another time.