Things I had forgotten

Bubble-splub of splub-nibes and scrundy spluff nuffs.

(don't ask...)

No longer a babymomma

After a week since those first steps Felix is really getting the hang of walking, which means my Babymomma days are well and truly over. It's the end of an era.

But a new phase does lead to new discoveries, notably that Felix' walking currently resembles that of a heavy, plodding, somewhat malcoordinated monster navigating unknown territory.

Enter "Todzilla", most excellent new nickname.

Which makes Jambeans "Todzuki" - also very apt

Twisting my melon man

Felix' names are getting better and better. Recently we've gone from Squealy-copter, via Copter-boy and Copter-merchant, then to Squealycops, to "Call the Cops" in honour of one of the finest anthems of our generation.

It so works!

Felix' new nickname, as invented by the bf, is Squealy-Bin.

Hahahahahahahaha. It SO works!

At last - some silly bubnames

Whilst on holiday we managed to flex our word muscles and come up with some appropriately silly nicknames for the bub: Squealix, Double Felix (bf's favourite) and Squeali-copter (my preferred option). What a relief - I was beginning to worry we had exhausted all the silly name generation with Jambeans.

The Little Boy Man - He Smiles

HSBCs

So we've just invented a new acronym for Jazzie's recent spate of messy poos:

Huge Sticky Bottom Chocolates

aka HSBCs

Bam-jeans latest

• name: Jasmine spilgy bub
  
• age (corrected): 8 months, 3 weeks
  
• latest nicknames: Grabby Babby; Bam-Jeans (see here and it makes sense)
  
• latest fad: saying aw-wa-wa-wa-wa-ba-wa-ba-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa ALL the time
  
• latest development: using her index finger for everything
• latest diva-like behaviour: refusing all types of food
  

Latest Jazzie nickname

It's Jam-beans all the way

About Jasmine

• Born 27th April 2006, 9 weeks premature
• Proud celebrator of 2 birthdays (actual birth date and due date on 28th June)
• Hobbies: eating, sleeping, weeing, pooing, gurgling, yelping, being a princess, looking cute
• Has many aliases, current favourites being that spilgy bub and Jassa-mina-vacuum-cleaner because of her fondness for hoovering food
  
• Shows early signs of having inherited family traits of obstinacy, impatience and looking cute
  
• First baby, first niece and first grandchild - hence ridiculously loved and doted on by her silly parents and spoiled rotten by her grandmas
  
• Did I mention how cute she looks?

Abbreviations

There are only 2 really -

• dp = darling partner = boyfried
• db = darling baby = jazzie

More Jazzie nicknames

• Bub
• The Bub
• The Bubble
• The Bubble-splub
• Jassa-mina
• Jassa-mina bubble-splina
• Jam-se-min
  
• Jam-se-min Bam-se-min
• Jammie Dodger
• Jammie Donut
  
• Jammie Sandwich
• The Sandwich
• The Sandwich Baby

(see also this and this)

My new babymomma blog

I've been a blogger for 1 meagre day and am already feeling ambivalent about the, well, teenage-ness of it all. I'm 33 for chrissake and haven't written a diary since i was 15 and miserable. well, it seems the self-doubt is still there so maybe this will work out.

And I'm not miserable now, just forgetful. My reasons for starting this are that here are some things about my life right now I don't want to forget. I already feel like I've started 8 1/2 months too late because that's when the beautiful Jasmine (aka Jazzie aka Jazz-fried aka Jazzoi aka princess jasmine aka chicken aka Bubblicious aka Splubble bub of bub-fried aka ad nauseam) was born and I just want to capture every moment before it disappears...

But most importantly, make notes. Because that's what I like to do. But also because we hope there's going to be a second one day and my notes will come in damn handy.

So lets hope this bloody well works, having just spurned 20six cos their image upload function doesn't work.

This is what I wrote yesterday:

"Horrendous day today.

Day 4 at nursery. Jasmine did 6 hours, pretty good going, but the lower lip was wobbling madly (hers, not mine) when I picked her up, and this evening she just would not settle down for a nap, opting instead to scream.

And scream.

And scream.

Also went back to work for a planning meeting ahead of the dreaded return. Nothing seemed to have changed - good, in that my comfort zone is still there - but we spent a couple of hours going over familiar territory - same issues, same questions with impossible answers, same personalities saying the same thing yadda yadda. All making me feel very ambivalent about my new role, and whether I will be able to make a positive difference. Especially only doing 3 days/week.

Anyway - got to put the peas on. And then come back and work out how to make this thing look pretty."

Which obviously didn't work as I defected to blogger today.