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lovely house…………..

i decided while outside eating dinner looking at it. when i’m panicking over money and wondering what we have done, i am going to go outside and look at it. the back view *is* my dream home, no wonder we overextended to buy it.

Anyway, BB is a happy girl. she has been plying with those press and ghastly woofy tunes play type toys today. mesmerising! Also while in bath did first roll from tummy back to back – a surprise for her! She lies on my lap like a little cherub form rubenesque school! we would make a very rubenesque mother and child!

SB had her stagecoach show today. it was all very lowkey – as anticipated for a group of mostly 4 year olds. i though SB concentrated remarkably well, and her overacting building sandcastle and pretend cry as sea washed it away drew laughs. I was proud!! [also low key].

At home we played shops – gradually i am using money with real values as i think we use switch too often! We also made our own pompoms to turn into a chick. attention span didnt quite last, so i finished. A bit of piano playing and object hide and seek.

the day brightened though, so we went out intio the garden and dug up more potatoes and picked more beans – yummy. SB raced around the garden, and even rode bike without stabilisers [i think the like a bike a like was instrumental there]. We played tag, and i was hampered by BB in my arms, particularly when my trousers fell down – luckilly no cameras! SB also had great fun climbing and swinging on the tp frame.

the weather was so nice we ate our curry sitting on the lawn. BB had peas and swede instead, as dont fancy her having tummy ache!

OH, earlier in the day SB wrote my sisters birthday card. She is getting quite into writing so nearly did sonlight order for getty and dubay but couldn’t find cc. Also hadn’t clicked from mudpud. on that note, cant find my link to sarah’s science experiments in a box??

chris and i have come up with an order of housedisasters to be sorted – roof leak being at number one spot!!

edit – omg 2.30. how did it get to that time??

quick post to update

just so Merry can see photos
it was great to see you and family. when my life settles, will see you as often as poss, as SB wants your family to live with us!

Chris’s cat – honestly!!

V late home from work today, as on call [but not resident thank goodness]
Chris prob wont blog, but they went to health centre for the health visitor check [she was mostly uninterested as BB fine, suits us!] and to storytime at the library.

i’m not sure quite when, but chris and the girls went to look at a stray black cat – it was at some distance, and he wasn’t sure if guinness. SO gave the man a catbox. Sure enough, man turns up with cat, chris unsure if cat got fluffier, so at present we now have a non-guinness hiding behind the sofa! [we will hoover with our animal dyson thoroughly, so as no extraneous hairs for the merry girls.] It is def not guinness as more of an english type moggie, than the delicate siamese cross of guinness.

I’m dissappointed its not guinness, and not sure what we should do with this cat. Is it a girl or boy? does it have a home? will it crap/wee everywhere?? Is it pregnant – horrors. What will whiskey think. where is my lovely guinness??

Anyway over to you….

Nice Kessie piccie




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Originally uploaded by Scrumbledelicious.

Merry reminded me this is a great photo

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shhh, BB asleep

at last!
she does seem to have a very low sleep requirement. She had a good day playing today, and had fun bashing keys on baby toy to make a tune the hit herself with it!

chris took the girls swimming, which they enjoyed.will try and go reg on a sun early morn as well. SB keen on idea of lessons, but as monthly we seem to be spending more than i got for a full year as a student I think we may have to pass. [just done budget, and we are def on that trendy asset rich cash poor thing. ho hum!]. they both enjoyed it. SB also had fun with the baby toys and investigated new webland issue

When I escaped home, me ‘n SB hama’d a bit, read some phonics, podded beans ate tea and cuddled up with bedtime stories [ i fell asleep first]. since then i have budgeted [where is gorgeous alvin when you need him?], whizzed around blog ring, and played with BB – as she last slept pre teatime]. She has finally zedded out.

chris has put shelving in what will be craft cupboard, so hopefully can make headway in creating order out of chaos.

Thank god it is ok

Your IQ Is 135

Your Logical Intelligence is Exceptional
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Genius

pride would have got me if came out crap!! Aren’t I sad!
Saw it first on Jax’s, then nics then joyce’s, but I think Katy’s originally – thanks for the blogmeme

sunny day

And so it needed to be, as first opportunity to play with SB for me since I left Kessie. only got home from work at half 10 and ravenous, but after that went for quality SB time, as get more interaction with BB in the evenings.

Started with playing all together, with me n SB stacking up cups for BB to knock down, and putting toys in them for her to find. BB is such a sweetheart, and her face is all aglow with excitement in these combined games with SB, who it is quite clear she hero worships. [what a long sentence]

BB carried on while SB and I started doing some hama aboriginal dreamtime style piccies. Actually SB not bad, though attention span compromised, so moved on to playing copy each others patterns and sorting out the colours. Particularly including counting, adding and spatial relationship skills. Kept us both happy!

we spent alot of the afternoon playing in the sandpit, burying our dinosaur fossil and then hiding it around the garden.
Sb also put on shows for us to watch. We then dug up potatoes and picked broad beans for tea, but actually had pasta – LOL. Oh well, there for tomorrow. Unfortunately the potato tops have blight, and the whole veg patch weed city. Not done a good job.

Actually whilst on house update, roof leaking, bath taps dodgy, showers not working, 100 year old grapevine dying etc etc. sigh massively!

After tea we read the 10p book from the hospital friends stall on rivers and water. very nice. It also had a picture off newt eggs on oxygenator plants. we of course know that now from last years experiment of what are these eggs, and what will they become [well 2 goldfish and 2 newts].

BB hasn’t been ignored, and has been doing lots of standing practice and manipulating objects. also some tummy shuffling. She is such a bundle of happiness. 3rd tooth nearly through.

little nanny walking with special zimmer, and the girls visited her for a long time yesterday – did nanny the power of good I think. the other ladies also cooed over my girls. SB took in the usbourne pocket science book of why we are ill for little nanny, so she would understand 0 bless. other ed moment sith chris [in case he doesn't blog] were stagecoach yesterday final rehearsal, and my fav, SB asking if the world slowed down spinning in summer so the days were longer. we need a globe I think!

I really would like to organise and arrange our home ed better again [still autonomous, but with the ideas etc ready] however, with the house in chaos and me always at work, I am worried that we are never going to do it as we would like. Early days yet I guess.

oh, and Chris P, 2 ways to my heart, food and calling my child gorgeous! Thankyou.

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Kessie Brain Dump Post – We Loved It!

Guess I should say something about the week then! Here it is in brain dump mode.

Since I was working, I was only there sat, sun, mon and wed, so chris will have to fill in the rest!

Lowlights ? chris forgetting the tentpoles!!!!; going back to work; BB having a feeding frenzy all one night

Highlights ? meeting lots of people both met before at Melrose, and new; watching how well all the children got on [SB in her element]; basket weaving.

Anyway Alison saved the day with her khyam, so we had somewhere to sleep the first night ? also meant that Chris put up communal tent. Next day he went home at crack of dawn ? lucky not to be thought an intruder by my golfclub wielding dad ? and returned with our little tent. As I was still sulking, he made a good attempt to put it up on his own, though I think Jax and Tim may have taken pity on him and helped a bit!

Sunday was also sunburn day ? Nic had a particularly fetching fingerprint pattern up her arm. Caused by finding the sun tipping the yard arm fairly early and a drinks session in the afternoon. Not just Nic ? I hasten to add! Layla and I decided we had pitched the tents well, as the area in front of our tents turned out to be the communal gathering, pull up a chair kind of area, so without even trying we were very sociable.

On the communal front, ?the other chris? was far more sociable than I had been led to believe. I really enjoyed meeting people [so far more confident ? yes, ok noisy, strident and opinionated ? than at Melrose], chatting away about this and that.

The children played well together, with minimal tantrums. Though SB did bite someone [again sorry]. She really isn?t a biter [or even hitter/fighter] and spent the next 30 mins sobbing in my arms about it. The like a bike type thing from Lidl that we took was enjoyed by most of the children was purchased by other parents after seeing how much fun it was ? so def a Jax started craze!

Also purchased from lidl were 2 sun gazebos to stop further burning by simon. Unfortunately they were child sized~!! [he coped admirably with the teasing] Chris went to homebase for the real thing ? though the kiddies was cuter.

We did no sparky clubbing until the last day, and SB was blissfully unaware of existence. We did go swimming, join in the communal activities, but really left her and the socialisation to its own devices.

BB and the other babies played together in sun cabanas. Mexican waving at each other and eating each other?s toys. They are all of a similar size, so looked v cute.

For me the weather was no prob [though had hideous drive home], a duvet made the bed warm [and BB as the hot water bottle]. I find storms quite relaxing really.

So all in all, really wonderful. Thankyou Merry for organising.
Pictures to follow at some point!