Author Archives: Daddybean

After nappachino rang for an appointment to register butterbeans birth. Realised that if didn?t do it that afternoon, we may not make it in the 6 week window! SO a rapid turnaround and dash to registrar. I always look like a criminal, as use married surname for nothing apart from family envelopes and a as a group name! So on certificate has both my names with an otherwise known as! Afterwards Stringbean could smell ?a lovely chip smell? so decided to follow smell to find a caf?, where we all had teacakes. A stop at lovely bakery for cakes, and we were set up! God thing I don?t breastfeed and diet at the same time! -H

In a moment of madness, decided to host nappachino at our house ? coffee morning for cloth nappy users, and those considering using them ? for the local real nappy network. Cue manic tidying up, and closing of all non-essential room doors to hide up the piles of tidied away things! Lovely Christmas nappy I bought for Butterbean displayed!! All the children that came with Mums of toddler age, so Stringbean a bit disappointed, but shared nicely and played well with them. -H

Rampant Butterbean growth continuing – no wonder I’m permanently ravenous! 11lb 4.5oz!!! Unfortunately grown out of lovely newborn kissaluv nappies, and at this rate will soon be out of 0-3 month clothes.
Stringbean in nursery in the morning. Afternoon spent at local childrens farm with playbarn with my postnatal group from first time. that meant stringbean had manic time running about with friends, and I got to do the look at my gorgeous new baby bit while drinking tea. 8 adults and 15 children, 7 within a few months of stringbeans age, and the rest younger. Almost relaxing!

Did it make stringbean easier to get to bed?? No! Nana and Grandad French go home tomorrow. – H

Stringbean has become some sort of energy draining alien life form like something off of Red Dwarf. Nanna and Grandad French are up for a few days to see new arrival. They have gone to bed, Helen is up there, and Stringbean? she is still going strong……

She did go to bed about 20.15, a bit later than normal even. But for most of that time she has spent it listening to tapes and playing complicated games and stories with her soft toys – but now H has gone to bed she has decamped into there and I can still hear her chattering away – doesn’t seem at at tired…..

In fact better go and rescue H, she isn’t feeling too good still in the head department and Butterbean needs a nap change.

Just been into do my normal pre-bed check on Stringbean, this is what I saw :-):

Just like her parents……

(she had been left tucked up, listening to a story tape, but seems to take at least 1/2 hour to go to sleep now)

Nighty, night.

A productive day.

Health Visitor came round for her first visit today – seems pretty laid back. As reported by Helen on the Muddlepuddle list she ‘came out’ about HE to someone ‘official’ for the first time. HV seemed positive about it – not that we actually care

Helen and Stringbean spent ages playing with playdough,making animals out of book Stringbean was given while back as a present, and generally being ‘creative’. She still has one of her cute mis-pronounciations of words that has stuck – she still calls animals – amni-als. It’s one of those things that you find yourself saying after a while.

Later me and Stringbean started up Operation Xmas Card, making cards – for the Muddlepuddle xmas card list for starters. She has a very ‘open’ view of xmas symbolism – as well as robins, stars, snowmen etc. it also seems to involve pink bunnies, tropical fish stickers, snowmen with orange feather tails and the such. some people are goign to get so ‘interesting’ cards. Hoping to amange to amke them all, as well as family ones,so Operation Xmas Card has sometime to run..

Butterbean ate , slept, ate slept, ate, slept……… She seems to pracising different faces, she has a cute smiley one (I don’t think) she is yet smiling in response to anything yet. But she does have a fair few less attractive ones – inlcudng a lopsided sneer

Stringbean is still catching up on sleep. Helen has a migraine, so me and Butterbean are enjoying the peace and quiet downstairs. She is lying next to me squeaking and groaning (!) on the sofa while I write.

I think the government is missing something in it’s ‘five a day ‘ campaign. Helen and Stringbean made a rather lovely Carrot and Cinnamon cake yesterday afternoon. Stringbean has been baking with us for ages (Muffins are her forte) and has got pretty good at the measuring, mixing and working the food processor. Anyway, come dinner time I was discussing with Stringbean what to have with baked potatoes, and said we needed to have some vegetables. Quick as a flash she replied -

we could have cake, that’s got vegetables in it……

It was a real, ‘well, you got us there’ moment She still had the Broccoli though.

In the morning we had gone out for family trip to Golden Acre Park – Stringbean took her new bike and while still not sure of going down hill and braking, she was doing fine on the flatter , smoother paths, and it was Butterbeans first trip out in the pushchair – all wrapped and warm and looking cute. It was a lovely sunny, winters day. Normally – esp at weekends, the ducks etc. on the lake get so much food from people that unless you get there first thing in the morning they are so full they aren’t bothered about a bit more bread. So of course today we didn’t take any food and of course the Ducks , Geese and Gulls were all up for it !

Had nice lunch in the nice warm cafe, finished off lunch with cakes. Helen had two – one for baby – which given the amount she is feeding is probably necessary …..

Two wide awake girls, one having a feed, the other having wet the bed sitting chatting waiting to help changethe nappy of the other, who had clean one about 20 mins ago….

ho hum

Daddy, Elinor and Alys