a post of many things

Well hello
Here I sit at 8:11 on the 13 May 2007 with little Lily next to me on the floor playing with all her favorite toys,her puzzle , her Fischer price balls, her maraca and the tissue box! It looks like a whirlwind has swept through and shredded all the tissue in the world and left it on my carpet.
Lily is 9 months today 39 weeks to be precise. In another 2 weeks and 1 day she would have been out in the world longer than she was inside my tummy. How the time has flown (she says again)
On the lily front I would love to say yay! she is crawling ,but , I will say Yay! she is semi crawling. As of yesterday before bed she did 3 little crawls to get something but any further and she just sits on her bum again. Perhaps by the end of the day I will be retracting that as she seems to be quite confident this morning.
She also is saying dada now. its so sweet as she says it with loads of spit flying in all directions. I have found this before with Lily she does no new things and then all of a sudden she is doing 3 new things at once.

Lily and I have been busy bees this week starting on Thursday when i decided we should go to bluewater shopping centre to escape the foul weather. this is how the day went. I get up and frantically run around trying to organise lunch for lily and then pack her bag for the day making sure I have wipes nappies nappy sacks and the like. I then dress her and plonk her on the bed with Kristian so I can go and shower. she fills her nappy so must undress her ,change the nappy, and dress again.
Ok now I shower and then get dressed put make up on and try not to look like a frazzled sleep deprived mother (which I am at the moment)... almost there now, so I put on Lily's socks ready to scoop her up and leave but , oh I need the toilet... come back , Lily has taken the socks off and is spinning them around her head like some sort of lasso....sigh.... put them on again and go to pick up the bag.. lasso lily...put them on pick her up and off we go.
At times I think just getting ready to go out is entertainment enough for 1 day.
anyhow we make is unscathed to bluewater. lily is in the buggy and off we go shopping.
At this juncture let me explain something about the british consumer culture. They are like hungry feral animals in search of their prey.
As an example, last week Anya hindmarch the handbag designer created a bag for sainsburys. It is calico with the slogan "I am not a plastic bag" on it. its all about bringing awareness to the plastic bag issue and packaging in general. It cost £5 and would be available in store. I thought "oh I will pick one up when I go into Salisbury's" little did I know that people queued all night outside the stores, the bags were sold out in 8 minutes and by the time I was having my morning cuppa people had closing bids on ebay for £150 yes people £150.

being a bit of a clothes lover myself I hear that Lily Allen has a range at new look and Kylie has one at hennes (H&M) and the ultimate Kate moss collection at top shop. On this particular Thursday the Kylie one and the Lily one are released. You can imagine the pandemonium as people clamber for their £14.99 silver kylie bikini.
I therefore ended up avoiding those shops even though I just wanted a look and stuck to other shops. but it seems with all the new seasons clothes everyone is in a big hurry. In fact we were almost run over by a mobility scooter in Marks. Its not that I don't sympathise but its like as soon as these people get a scooter and are let loose they just go. God forbid you are in the way.

It was a very tired Wendy who packed everything in the car at day end and wended my way down the A2 to the delightful nursery rhyme cd that keeps madam quiet in the back of the car...the wheels on the bus go round and round............

Friday saw us go swimming with Leigh and Ami ,our baby friends. Ami LOVES the water as Leigh dunks her under she comes up laughing in delight. My little angel is less certain that this pool is a good thing and is happiest when i perch her on the side and she quietly plays with the water lapping over the sides. When lily is with other babies I realise how quiet and placid she is. she much preferred it when we went for lunch later and Leigh was giving her rice cakes and playing with her while Ami slept(tired out from all the joyful playing and swimming)

so far this weekend the weather has been terrible we had a short afternoon out to Bromley to buy a new shower curtain and to get me new jeans. the shower curtain was no problem but my jeans are just a nightmare. highlight for Lily was the Jamaican steel band which she woke up to hear , laughed and clapped and then promptly fell asleep again when we were out of range of them.Her aunty Ronnie thinks she was a rasta in a previous life!

Hope everyone else had a good weekend
Love Wends