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quiet

well nearly, sb at nursery.
parents gone home as dad has exam – help!
BB and I went to docs – she has a chest infection and on antibiotics. I was listening to her wheeze and ruttle all last night so knew not good.
i have been told off for excess use of arm – just tell me how not too with 2 children, one of whom is 1 and ill, and just wants to bf, refusing all food and bottles?? I know i have too, our livelihood depends on my arms!
Chris is still ill. my patience has gone, though not his fault, just cos I have none left. Will send him back to docs i think.
may not make our holiday next week so *really* pissed off.

Anyway HUGE thanks to my parents for enabling us to survive thus far, and also to SB, who has tried her best to be a star. She is only 4, and needs Mummy and Daddy attention too.

Me and my officemate [who has had a bad year] are going to have a hippy cleansing of our office at the new year to welcome in more positive vibes – go on you lot, how shall we do it?

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,
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [bb again]
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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Go away, go away, go away

Just go away lurgy, I have had enough , I I want to get on with life. It going , but not quick enough :-( :-( :-(

I just want to fall asleep and it all be gone, but ervery morning it isn’t. Annoying little b*****s. And of course so does helen, whos patience will be running thing

Some ed achieved

yesterday we did a hama spiral glaxay [rofl], some addition and takeaway with beads, and read many books including the buddhist tales from barefoot.

Today we did 4 pages explode the code, 4 pages singapore maths, making letters with maxi hama, christmas cards – stamps and sitckers – for the early HE list. A sudoku grid. Nanny took her to the park to wear her out [failure]

BB has dreadful conjunctivitis, but is trying to be a gorgeous smily star anyway. She got to push the dollies pushchair today – what a big girl! A few single steps, and finally got the swapping hand on hidden thing gag!

luckilly my parents here

Chris been in bed with manflu 2 days now.
We had no clean clothes, as manflu last week meant no washing done, so I have done 5 loads today. Mum has washed up for england. Dad is decorating the littlebeans bedroom.
The beans are semi-feral – though BB has nasty conjunctivitis.
My arm is killing me, however, I have a cold rather than manflu.

Grumble grumble grumble…….

aagh

only gone and broken my arm.
chris still v unwell with manflu
sb done her best to be perfect :?)
aarrghh

sorry to Karen O
getting late by the time escaped A and E, and suddenly realised to late to get to party. SB was very disappointed not to go, but neither Chris and I could drive – and we were too late.

Absolutley dreadful

Is how we feel today, lurgy has come back with a vengance, after an ok day yesterday. 30 mins of activity knocks me out, and Helen is potentially busy with work as well.

We are all going to bed.

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!!!!

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.