Saturday 24 October 2009

Winter blues

S.A.D. has kicked in. Not helped by the fact I am now officially a labrat, chained 8 till 6 at a desk miles away from a window, or weather. And I have a shitty cold and a sprained ankle that keeps threatening to recover, only to let me down miserably. I'm knackered and am feeling more than a bit run down.

My silver lining is that Jambeans and Felix have been amazing today. We went and bought them Halloween outfits. We had to tell Jasmine it was a "fireworks dress" because she's adamant Halloween is all a bit too scary, and she'd rather not partake at all but simply stay home. Not that I mind this attitude, but I do wonder what they told her at nursery to make her so fearful, and I am dreading the tantrum that will ensue when she realises she has to go to school that day.

We also bought early Christmas presents, noo shooze for Felix, got them both lovely haircuts and spoiled them with cake and tea.

So I'm totally loving spoiling my kids but am going back to being a miserable snotty cow now.

Thursday 15 October 2009

Monday 12 October 2009

Felix undergoes his language miracle

So Felix is learning new words at a rate of knots, but the last sylabble/consonant still eludes him. So this weekend I learned he could say:

no(se)
mou(th)
bubby(=buggy)
ma-mmy(=jas-mine)
schoo(l)
cha(lk)
noi(se)
dow(n)
trou(sers)
da-do(n)-dy (=dragonfly)
da(s)-da (=pasta)
mee-mee (beep beep)
and lots more

how.
utterly.
skill.

Saturday 10 October 2009

a quick rundown of the things i want to remember

  • Felix & Jasmine squabble sometimes, particularly over toys. When Jasmine says "Felix isn't sharing" sometimes it means "Felix isn't sharing" but mainly it means "I want Felix' toy"
  • We cut back on Felix' milk and he now sits at the table (though normally on a lap) and eats his meal with the rest of us. But he has to use a fork. Fingers are OUT.
    (Before he would just run all around the house because he had Joy of Movement and a full up milk belly.)
  • Jasmine had a big snotty nose so we gave her Montelukast and then all she had was a big snotty nose that went away
  • Last night bf and I had a row over me coming home late night-after-night and him having to look after the kids and make dinner and all that all by himself. And we sorted it out and found a solution, but at the time all I could think was "OMG, we've swapped gender roles" and I was totally shocked by that.
  • We bought a SkyHD box and bf recorded Stepup2 for me in HD and I have been watching those dance moves over and over and over and over
  • We now also listen to Jan Pehechan Ho on You Tube about 6 times a day. Jasmine does the shaky head dancing, and Felix screams "Yaaaaaaay" every time it finishes
  • We are going to the Ickworth today for a night. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY

Sunday 4 October 2009

Where is Babymomma?

Still alive. Just trying to get the hang of this working-full-time-looking-after-kids-and-then-finding-time-to-write-about-it.