Getting dinner for the girls ready tonight, I put a bottle of tomato ketchup on the table. Butterbean (who was pottering around in the kitchen) pointed at it and started shouting ‘Chips! Chips!’ (Ketchup mostly comes out when we have chips – it was lamost I suppose – sauted potato)
Quite clever really I thought, as well as rather amusing. 
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well, my Mum and Dad are having a party here at the weekend. this means they are trying to make my house look presentable! So far, Mum has spent all day on just 2 rooms! i should have invited Ros and Joyce next week!!!! Dad is in the garden.
BB has spent today eating, running and shouting wildly, doing lots of pegboards and dance mat. I’ve read her lots of books, we have had roust about games and she has done some fun blox playing. She is adding new words all the time, but I am glad of apple and banana, as it doesn’t make it appear that we only feed her sugar!
SB has done halving and doubling maths today in a picked up workbook, some explode the code and 3 chapters of Story of the world – cretans and early greeks, followed by MoRE myths and legends. We also did some of the activity sheets. SB spontaneously put a ‘line with levels’ up the side to help me direct her on the map to the key cities! Not grid referencing yet! the maze was a hit, and she enjoyed the colouring in. Also quite a few board games and fun blox. lots of running about too. We made a Dundee cake together – well, actually SB did most of it, so fingers crossed. It doesn’t seem to have risen much though, and I’m sure the last one did. Oh well. Its for the party. Will make and decorate a sponge cake to go with it.
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Every time I listen to this I still get goosebumps up my spine – esp. the bit about 30 seconds in when were walking back through the assembled guests. It was the music (Overture from the soundtrack to the Kenneth Branagh film Much Ado About Nothing ) played at the end of our wedding ceremony – 9 years ago today (just about still) we got married. Though we’ve been together for 18 years. After 9 years we figured we were grownup enough 
to get married.
It was a wonderful day, great location, beautiful weather accompanied by family and friends, it couldn’t have been better really.
Love you as much as I ever have done Helen.
Musical wedding anecdote: THe DJ for the evening disco thing tried playing slow smoochy stuff near the end but there weren’t many takers. So he gave up and finshed of with ‘The Prodigy’ :- which was much more welcomed
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One of BB’s early words has been ‘duck’ – as in ‘stuck’, not the animal. Duck in the high chair, duck in the car seat, duck in your arms, duck getting out of buggy etc.
Well she really got duck today. Hear shouting and knocking on her door this morning about 7.15,, went up to find she had managed to lock herself in. (She sleeps in what is basically a bathroom, so it has a lock on the door. It ones of those lock/catch things that screw on the ouside of the door, rather than being fitted into the door, and it has slidy catch thing, that I’d forgotten about as we never used.
A bit oworrying as BB was the otherside wailing by this time. The bit the catch goes into was only screwed to the outisde of the frame, but it took a fair bit of kicking to get it to open (if it has been in the frame it would have been much harder). Helen was wondering about taking SB up a ladder and putting her through the window…..
The door did open rather forcefully, as part of the bit fixed to the frame broke rather than the screw pulling out. Luckily, BB had had enough sense to go back ino the room with the banging on the door so it just missed here.
time to check other possibly locking doors methinks…
SB was in the room next door asleep, with the door open. Did she notice a thing…..?
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Katie (or is it with a ‘y’ – can’t remember), brought along some homemade chocolate sauce, which was rather yummy on the Saturday morning breakfast pancakes.
It comes highly recommended by Teeny:
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about me – well still waiting, have offered up 10% paycut [yes another one!] and awaiting outcome.
SB this week has had a lot of fun playing with cousin Oren, including a fun visit to Hunstanton with grandparents and funfair adventure. Oren was here today as going back to France tomorrow.
We have been less match and sorty – though some going on! But I have read loads of books on history, geography, science, lots of chats and discussions and geomagging and brainbox electronics. We have also baked!
BB getting alot more words. She is very clear over some directions – like get up and move it!! She can shout ‘thumb out’ at SB [which causes a riot!] and lots of other small words appear to be peppered in her still largely incomprehensible [but long!] sentences. She is gettng good at shape sorting, and having a bash at pegboards – but not so good at rotation! She is a know-no-fear climber – loves steps of any kind! A passion second only to that for ‘bicbic, coctut, cake, fapjak’
SO to the weekend – a really fab time at SOTP. they have a great camping field, lovely atmosphere and a good guest list, so that we were too busy wathicng children having fun and nattering rather than taking pictures!!! one of the good things about having met each other a number of times before, is that I no longer am concerned about either of my childs little foibles [wailing/eating everythng in sight] and their responses to other children’s foibles, so it is far more relaxing, and this seeing them used to each othr and adapting, and occaissional nudging into better behaviour [after all, lord of the flies is better as a book than in real life!], should help SB avoid the social pariah trap that I didn’t if things didn’t go my way, or I didn’t ‘get’ the game.
Mmmm to food – pancakes was inspired! Was that a standard pancake mixture or a slightly thicker one? We have gazillions of guests this weekend, so thought i might copy!
ANyway, many thanks to the hosts, hope chaos has been magically transformed back to the oasis of tranquility! lovely seeing everyone. oh, I want one of these for xmas!
oh, and after lots of meddling, I still can’t get flickrbadge to work properly! link to my set.
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As I just ran down the stairs, I trod on dead mouse. It made a squishing sensation and since partially dismembered, a blood an entrail imprint on my foot. YUK!
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In town today, looking in estate agents window – as you do.
SB: ‘ That’s a good house, it has two garages. One for all the stuff and one for a car’
Personally I think she is being optomistic thinking that one car would have space….
Off to pick Helen up from work and then head off to SOTP for camping garden party, don’t know who else is going so looking forward to getting there
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