Posted in Baby Musings on February 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We’re all through the worst, and at the end of a really difficult week, with smiles and hugs all round. Mouse is feeling less itchy and more his toothy, cheeky self; I’m totally wiped out and fighting off an ear infection but just so grateful that we got through in one piece. The doctor has [...]
Posted in Baby Musings on February 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
R has it. His spots are bursting and itching, covering him in pus and bloody streaks. He’s still my little love, so patient, so uncomplaining; he says it itches, but that’s it. My heart is breaking.
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Films, Home on February 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To add to the general babble and aforementioned list of words now issuing from the Mouse’s mouth, we have this week:
Pad-turn - Paddington; ANTZ! (self-explanatory); Dan-chooo - Thank-you; wee-wee (again, no translation required here); Pooed! (same!); Crackers! Cheese! (In response to Curse of the Were-Rabbit); Peppas - red pepper, not to be confused with pappas [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Food, Friends, Garden, Work on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Great word, hummock. It describes a bump in a lawn that isn’t large enough to be called a hillock but will still rattle your dags when you drive over it on a mower. As a metaphor it could be used to describe parts of a life that are running less than smoothly. As in; ‘How [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Home, Sleep on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So the night before last was an hour, last night was 15 mins and tonight was 4. Long may it continue.
He knows we’re not going to leave him, that we haven’t abandoned him; today he and I spent the whole day pottering, talking, laughing, listening to music, shopping, playing and singing. He has settled down.
He [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Sleep on January 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, tonight, he just didn’t want to go to sleep.
We did the usual, made all the right noises, fed him all the right cues, but from 7pm to 8pm he cried constantly.
This sounds like nothing - in fact there’ll be parents out there who are rolling about laughing that I even mention this. But as [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Home on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Me n the Mouse did loads of lovely things today… wrestling; laughing at Wallace and Gromit especially the rabbits in the fridge; shopping for cake; eating said cake; cooking and eating ham n marto omelettes for lunch; ironing with him handing me items to iron; cleaning with him sweeping with his little brush from Granny and [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Quality!, Work on December 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m such a good girl; adding layers of gilt to my already sparkling halo…. well, not quite. This is really just an affirmatory exercise to ensure I get the entirety of Christmas off next year. I’ve put my effort in and I will the year after next too. If I’m going to suggest guidelines then [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Home, Work on December 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
and this is no bad thing, despite the fact than any sensible 9 to 5er would have inveigled all the time between Christmas and New Year off.
I’ve had a busy day with a colleague, planning our line of attack for the New Year, and now I’m catching up on my sites and listening to really [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Home, Sleep on December 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
He’s been asleep for 8 minutes, and he’s been awake since 3am, and so have I; so by my calculations the meter reader, the postman or some feckin religious nutbar should come pounding on the door in about 15 minutes or so and wreck his slumber. Like Coleridge when writing Xanadu, I shall watch the serenity [...]
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