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More home comings

Been away in Okehampton with some other HE friends, just releaxing after the journey home, which was rather more tedious than the outward one. We left a bit later for homeward journey and hit the busier roads at the homeward end. In particular road works + heavy evening traffic = long queues which meant the last 30-40 miles took about an hour longer than it should have.

We had a great time, maybe blog bit more later, big highlight of the week though was Butterbean really getting a grasp of walking and showing it off to all and sundry, time to find the camera and upload the piccies and sort out some dinner. Stringbean slept in the last bit of the journey so don’t expect an early night

calming down

chris much better. i’m not, but really expected!
we are hoping to set off tomorrow – and i have packed [very slowly!] the clothes.
will text if we don’t.
i have loads of ebay bids on dressing up clothes, and will see if i have won any on return – chris laughingly thinks i will win the lot, but not wiht my max bid!! prob none.
BB well and jolly, and SB hasn’t caught anything

Actually done a fair bit of home ed stuff – lots of reading, story books, books on engines – plus ad hoc experimenting!] Hama beads, mental maths. lots of role play, sindy playing, lego playing. Some christmas cards – not too glittery actually!

Mistakenly looked at finances after an im with Jax – so back into depressed mode! But decided to ignore until after Xmas, and just be prudent until then – apart from an increase [dramatic] in the alcohol budget.

We unfortunately missed SB’s last stagecoach show, as I broke my arm the week before, we weren’t told, hadn’t been the week before that as Nic visiting, so this week she was taken by grandparents, who stayed to watch it. I’m less upset than I thought I would be – prob because the grand scheme of things problems are a bit large at the moment. SB did us at least 6 ballet shows to make up!

BB a treasure also, very happy laughing and cruising around. [shouting!] only the odd unaided step though. May bring her walker toy with us. Sh’es got great dimples.

Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Down but not out

l feel issue ridden, but not a good time.
BB still dread-ful with purulent eyes.
-*also helping me to typ++e ++++++++a+t th+e- moment – mainly the plus sign, you will have noticed.
lots of sleeping and milk.

SB did 4 pages explode the code with nanny, lots of sindy playing. drove me wild with her bouncing on the spacehopper – only suppose to be done in corridor, but knocked my arm. bowled bb over and final straw my much needed cup of tea. and with it my patience,
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cue totalmayhem and appaling cheekiness and strops. finally settled with sitting beside me quietly for 3 mins, doing an errand [getting bb's cardi], a hug and some tears. she was an angel for the resr of the day. odd. need to get this under control, as cheekiness horrid.

lots of book reading [mostly reading books, included ulysses, a+--nd caught mum to giggle at goriness. She learnt it in latin!], lego and the spent over an hour on a maths cdrom dad brought. we aLso did come german

dad nearly finished pink bedroom, and chris has managed to help a bit.

my arm killing me, if anything worse as had to keep BB ok, as unwell she is not into mummy substitutes.
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TBH

I’m really not in a blogging mood.

We mostly played with Sindy’s today. in a fit of ‘i really wanted one these as a child’, I bought SB a 70′s sindy cooker with grill and lights from ebay – nice and cheap and came really quickly. I was going to stuff it in as an xmas pressie, but forgot about it, so when a parcel arrived this morning, assumed it was a late BB present. Oops, anyway, she/ [we :?))] has/have had great fun with it. I said it was a christmas present she has had early, and hse is happy.

She did a fair bit of mathsy stuff as well. she did the cubes with chris – not sure exactly as SB explained some massively convoluted game to me where I lost the plot. Later, we did sticker subtraction maths together – with bonus sweets to help with the first 5 before all eaten [rofl].

We also read both Hercules and Jason and the argonauts from our usborne cartoon style book. She really likes her greek myths, and def getting the pantheon of greek gods sussed! We looked on the globe where greece was, and Tiryns, colchis, atlas mountains etc. Sb couldn’t wuite understand why Heracles walked to gibraltar and crossed to africa rather than getting a bot, and have to agre with her. Mind you, we decided that the island he went to was maybe one of the canaries, so not in the med anyway. In the book there is a map of the voyage of the argo, and SB a bit grumpy beacuase all the land was white. She says that unless its ice, it shouldn’t be white. So we did a bit on different ways to look at maps with the maps and globes book. Like her mother, she is still sure she is right.

She made a fuss as she wanted a ‘thing’ that she saw at the library. After some delibertion on what this thing was, it was a paper shuffler – no idea of their proper name, but I made a few of the paper shapes I know, including the ‘shuffler’ that i used to play with at school – you know, the thing with numbers and colours that then said something awful inside. It was the right thing, so we undidn it again, had a look at how the squares and triangles were over it, and then coloured and put back together. She is very happy with it, even though it has no messages anywhere!

Other things – well we discussed photos together – looked at Nics baby photos – very cute!! Which led back to a discussion about cords, why they were there etc. And the to us looking at some older ones of SB and her helping decided which ones she liked and we should put up. She doesn’t understand why i tag so much either, but one day she will be a tag convert!!

Other miscellany – playing with BB, she likes the toy radio she got and jigs to that. She has eaten numerous crayons. She can get spoon in mouth without losing all the contents, she has a lovely smile!

Well, TBH, my unwilling blog not so diferent from a willing one, eh! Chris and I slowely returning to land of living – losing migraine makes life bearable again. A cold only is not so awful.

Oh, and the DVLA lost my driving licence application [as moved] and with it, bloody passport!!!!

Bleurgh and double bluergh

Me and Helen still feeling very bluergh, helen more so since she has had a migraine and had to drag herself off to work this morning. i’ve had dradful strwaming cold, and a real lack of energy for very long. BB was awake bright and early,so much so that after he breakfast she had fallen asleep in her high chair before Helen had gone to work.

I was up to do the story time at the library today. Had the stories organised but had a craft activity to sort out – so spent some time this morning cutting up bits of paper etc. After much geeing-up SB finally got her clothes on. Ddi the story time and it all went fine. Time we got home it was time for lunch, BB to have a nap and me to collapse on the sofa for an hour or so while SB watched a video, I was sitting at the table trying to read her some books and just kept falling asleep. It was lovely just lying there dozing quietly. Though felt slighlty guilty as Helen at work and wouldn’t have the chance for dozes, but potentially I had to be able to going with the kids til bedtime – so get it while you can I guess.

It revoved me a bit for the rest of the afternoon, mostly spent doing easy going stuff like reading numerous books (just how many Mr Men books did she get from the library, watching her and BB play together, playing with BB etc.. but it was to get to bath and bedtime, and me and H will son be goign as well i think. hopefully, tomorrow we will both feel a bit better. The house is disater zone, but I’m very much at that – ‘i just want to have lie down’ stage. Bit much that we have both been hit with the bug at the same time though, we usually manage to stagger it bit.

First steps!

BB walked one step yesterday.

Cold city!

me and chris both woke up with sniffles today – sorry monster and Teeny! You have visited a lurgy site.

BB had her 8 months checkup, and Dr agrees with me she has bronchiolitis [infantile asthma] so has given us an inhaler and spacer device to use when we see fit. i’m not quite sure when to see fit to be honest, as she never seems bothered. It is prob what ruining her sleep, so maybe last thing at nigth as a trial run? Anybody with any ideas?

ANd here we are still breastfeeding to reduce risk of such things. Nevermind. In the great scheme of things not even really a problem let alone a worry. Just narked.

Was going to have early night but fell asleep on sofa. May just go to bed now though.

BB Birthday

Well, the day was lovely, as it was mostly about socialising with friends. We had Monster and Teeny staying and Merry and girls accross to visit too. Me and my girls were rather tardy getting up, and soon got stuck into socialising and party tea making. the children helped to make jelly, adn then were soley responsible for the artistic decoration of the birthday cake – which I thought looked great. There was some encouragement to put it on the cake rather than eat the icing mixture and sprinkles…

Main games were brio and happy street, but a lot of imagination with the bald eagle toy, and then the fun of blowing up balloons. In the afternoon we opened BB’s pressies and had party tea, and just mingled, which kids and adults alike enjoyed. Will miss Nic for the glass of wine tonight though.

Chris’s parents came across with a lovely trifle and chocolate cake – yummy! SB really excited to see her. They also rather enjoyed being lord and lady in the dining room!! Oh, and thanks very much to Ady for the pouch for Johns bionic device.

Ady has taken some great piccies of our house, thankyou, and I will be flikring lots of party shots.

I am enjoying having blogvisits, and not forgotten you Katy. Nic suggested we should try 2 families at once!

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Happy Birthday

12.22 am

Happy Birthday Butterbean, we love you xxxx

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Baby-blogbumping

Highlight of the day was a ‘Mudlepuddle Triplets’ get together at Patch of Puddles as Trying our Best made a visit there. As Merry commented, it’s fascinating how different they are.

All the kids had great time with much raucousness -there was a big session of playing party games such as musical statues, musical chairs, sleeping lions etc. Ended the day watching Barbie and the Magical Pegasus or whatever it is called. Quite cute, they all sat around on the floor in part circle in front of the TV witht he lights off – looked like a cinema.

Proper Flickring of the photos will have to wait until tomorrow (Drive home late enouhg for children to sleep didn’t entirley work, SB woke, but did go off to bed ok, BB still not in bed at 11pm….), but here is a taster:

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What cute threesome :-)

A nice time, thanks Merry : -)

What else happened here then?

Breakfast, organised and out to the doctors, home where BB had nap and me and SB read her ‘Barbie’ mag we bought in the shop. Then we made a little jewellery box out of the mag and then also some braclets so much gluing and sticking fun was had.

Then time for lunch, she had been going on about ‘Barbie and the magical Pegasus’ or somesuch video which she had seen part of before at The Puddles and was advertised in the mag, so got out the books and looked at who/what Pegasus was, then browsed the book. SB was taken by soemsort of Aztec mask, so we looked at where the Aztecs came from on the globe. She mentioned about the globe and night and day and summer winter, but was a bit jumbled about it (fair enough – she’s not 5 yet, I find 15 year olds who can’t grasp it….). so BB in her highchair became an impromtu Sun and we moved the globe around it talking about what a year is, what a day/night is, how the tilt of the earth affects the length of day, the seasons etc.

Though surely over her head at times, she seems to like to be given good explainations of things, so it’s always interesting to see what sticks. I over heard her this evening telling Helen about some of it at least.

After lunch SB played with Cindy/Barbie upstairs, while me a BB pottered about until Helen came home and we headed off to the Puddles