AUG08 - Sunshine, Friends, Food, & Fun

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Yay oops for early home comings

VG your green fingeredness puts me to shame. I plan to learn this year, what with our substantially-larger-than-the-last-house-garden

I've trimmed O's hair twice and it needs doing again but he's not a fan of 'mummy with scissors' . I'm also planning to attack ds1's hair tonight

Gardenia the allotment is coming along well, thanks We had a lovely couple of hours up there today, with the sun breaking through just as we got there. Me and my friend managed to get some more spuds and onions in the ground while friend's DH wrangled the boys. I agree, it is so lovely watching the small ones toddle around examining things, although DS is a bit too fond of exploring other people's plots...

Other than the potatoes and onions, we've got some artichokes and rocket planted, some raspberry canes in, and there is a big crown of rhubarb and some strawbs left over from the previous tenant. And loads of weeds

Hair: DS has had his trimmed by the hairdresser that visits his nursery, she did a great job of preserving the curl while revealing his face so I shall stick with her

Boo Buckets!

Glad you're getting yr dh back oops.

Am not green-fingered at all, I love being in the garden and I love other people's garden, but I have been known to kill mint. I like growing food though, and I love love love preserving, jam-making, that idea of storing up goodness against a hard winter. (Cos you can never get jam in the corner shop in January ). Tis one of my few domestic things really. I wish hoovering were one of them.

OK I hear you ladies, could be time to get snippy on the fringe. While he sleeps, I suppose. I vaguely remember doing that with ds1.

Wow I saw the most amazing artichoke in a friend's allotment last year, I'll put some photos on FB if it won't put you into a deep, deep snooze...

No haircut here either. DD's hair isn't very long yet though. I can confirm that MiniOops' hair is lovely though, it repays your efforts Oops! Glad you are getting DH back.

Good work on the allotmenting Cyteen. We like the idea of growing veg but not the actual work . Oddly from inside our house you can only see the back garden if you lean out of an open upstairs window
so very often it is out of sight and out of mind.... so our good intentions die or rot .

Nice weekend here, lovely anniversary lunch here and quick catch-up with a friend today before he leaves for a job in St Andrews! Obviously I sang the praises of the area and its inhabitants .

Sorry not to catch up better. to you all.

Hey all
Not much to report here, nice bit of sunshine, DS1 still convinced he's a robot boy and showering DH with affection and gratitude for inventing him. Erm... thought I played the major part in his invention actually?
Have a feeling that Squirt thinks 'Star' means rocket or anything spacey. We have a spacey collage by his changing mat so I label them every change but he just points to everything and says star. Still not sure if he just has a hidden stubborn streak, has an actual S&L delay or just doesn't give a toss.
DD has filled several pages of a notebook with a spooky story (in chapters), I'm off to read that before bed. Hope I don't get nightmares.
Night all. Mwah mwah mwah.

It sounds as if his speech is coming along fine Buckets. DD's story sounds fab and I love the idea of the grateful robot. No Frankenstein complex there then ...

DD2 was much exercised about seeing some escaped lambs today. She told dh about 'lambs, gate, road' with much flapping, and when he asked 'what did the farmer say' she said 'ee ay, ee ay, oh'

Lots of fun on the beach today. Dh didn't come but dd1 told him to 'work less, play more' at dinnertime so hopefully he'll heed her advice.

Isn't the sunshine lovely?

Not right this minute, obviously. It is dark even this far west.

Buckets - not much language here, although we have lots of directed noises now. DS says bbb for belly button, nnnnnnnnnn for nose, tes, battro, battro, tes, seis, ocho (you see he can count in Spanish!) zeezee for TV (not sure I am very pleased to have worked that one out) but nothing in fact very useful yet, and very few words that actually sound right.

DH took him to the park yesterday afternoon and he met another little boy and apparently they talked scribble with each other.

Am soooooo tired, and to be honest a bit fed up with breastfeeding now.

Marking done. Student to write to tonight. I think that working was the right choice, but well, it's only a couple of months so I can collapse in a jibbering wreck at the end of it. Mum arrives soon. I plan for her to run the house and for me to sleep.

toes painted. calendula cream generously slathered all over both winter crusted feet. girls in bed. dh missing. i think he went out to get himself something to eat.

my dad & his wife just left. it's nice that all the crap that happened 21 months ago is water under the bridge with us. dad said he gave my brother a good talking to regarding the "no talk" issue that is still present between us. maybe this summer all will be resolved.

i totally wish i could grow a garden. yard weeds and roses, i'm a pro. anything else....not!

5 weeks till the beach!

do ya'll think i'm totally bonkers for asking dh if he wanted to ask his parent's to join us at the beach this year.

dh just pulled in the drive....have to run look like i'm working.......

Morning

Remind me never to tell DD that Papa will be home when she wakes up because she woke at 3 am refusing to go back to sleep because 'Papa home now, where my Papa' nearly 2 hours of it is still night go back to sleep didn't work so I just rolled over and told her to go back to sleep or go back to her cot - she snuggled into my back and went to sleep - clever girl! She woke at 8 and is waiting by the door for him with a bowl of cereal - it could be a long wait as his fligh was delayed and he will be another couple of hours yet.

My mum prep-ed our veg bed when she was here and planted some tatties - our corn, courgettes, tom plants are still too little for outside but am planning to plant raspberry canes and new strawberry plants this week.

TS So did he really go out to feed himself and not the rest of you?

Oops I now no longer envy you for your incredible chatting child. Don't think I could cope with such an Alpha Female!

LWFH Blimey you must be shattered. Hurray for mums and siestas.

Ladies - I have just put on the first load of baby washing now she just needs somewhere to put it once it is dry. A trip to Ikea may be in our future

MW popped over with my blood forms and gave me a once over - bump has now not grown in 4 weeks and she is now concerned , 4 weeks ago it was too big now it's measuring to dates it's wrong Scan on Firday and I'm not too worried and she is moving and being generally wriggly, MW also thinke she may still be 'unstable' in the way she is lying. My response to that it BLAH

Oops, before I forget. I put a Pantene leave-in conditioner in dd1's hair and there are no battles- not sure how it would work with more curly hair though.

Oops what an over-anxious MW. By 'unstable' does she mean moving around, erm, like babies normally do?! Hope she has not upset you.

Sazzles I'm impressed with washing machine fixing! What a useful chap MrSazzles seems to be

TS ILs at the beach could be great if they do their own thing some of the time and relieve you of some childcare etc the rest of the time! Is that likely?

Gah my laptop is painfully slow today.

Oops, my 'growth retarded' dd1 was 8lb 13.5 oz. Most pronouncements on growth are totally random as far as I can see ... V. upsetting though.

Hi Pert.

Oops I'd be willing to bet your pea isn't sitting in your bump properly THUS the goofy measures. Now that's just my non-medical assumption. Do you feel like she's breach or transverse? A transverse lie would really muck up the bump measurement.

Sazzles it sounds like ya'll had a blast!

As for my IL's at the beach...
We invited my dad & his wife to join us several years ago. They did but stayed with our island friends and not us. At first my thought was just for a few days but DH was like . They do keep to themselves and their room would be on the 3rd floor with their own bath. MIL would be in a book the entire time. FIL would be very fun and it would be good for him and DH to spend fishing time together (a pasttime they mutually love). I really don't mind. It's only one week afterall.

DH did leave to get food only for himself. This was fine because I'd fed the girls while my dad was here and cereal was my choice not McDonald's. HOWEVER, he did not pick up, in his the two trips out yesterday, bread or toilet paper. This I found out in the middle of the morning school rush. We had a LONG talk yesterday morning about US. I want us to be a SUPER couple not a ROOMMATEs couple iykwim. This is for LIFE so we need to look at things and tweak the problems along the way!

Reese is still snotty. She woke at midnight and screamed her head off for a little while. I let her scream, giving her comfort as best I could. I figured the screaming helped open up her sinuses a little. Phoned the doc a moment ago and left a message with her current symptoms (which include nose bleeds). I'd say they will call her in anti-b's at this point. My normally jovial cutie is a firestorm of rage today.

Roofers are pounding away on my roof! YAY!!! How boring my life is that a new roof is exciting.

better sleep last night, an episode of the west wing and empanadas, so am generally more rounded and chilled. Also the cleaning lady has just arrived so I need to get into gear to tidey.

Sazzles am thinking about formula, but in general I think that it would stress me more, with the am I feeding too much, not enough, too often, sterilising everything correctly, making up powder etc. so I'll leave it to 6 months and then see. It's funny though, because I've never really felt this way about breastfeeding before - and more chilled anyway today with a bit more sleep.

All the gardening sounds lovely.

TS - glad that you had a good chat and a new roof.

oh and yesterday we went to see a bagpipe band walk down one of the main avenues in the city. It was all a bit naf. They had the babgpipers in uniform, then some Spanish regiment from the last king of Spain and a Tolkein reinactment society and they had a bit of a chat and then a procession up and down the avenue. All a bit random, but lots of people but not too crowded, quite quiet and lots of pointing and clapping from DS so overall a success of an afternoon we think.

How incredibly bizarre Longway. How about just giving DD a bottle of formula at bedtime? Formula always zonked out my kids for a good night's sleep . Best of both worlds?

Am working on an idea to get me out to see DH's gig tomorrow night. Big 2 are having a sleepover at PILs. Will ask other bandmember (also neighbour) if I can pop a sleeping Kurt round to theirs for a few hours and chuck their babysitter a tenner. Genius, huh?

You know Sazz, sometimes it's fine to just fit one day's worth of excitement into one day

Caught up with a friend and her adorable son today, first time in ages; we were bed-neighbours at the birth centre so our boys are only a few days apart. Was really nice