busy bees

I have a half finished post with photos in my drafts and many more ideas and things to tell you all , however it seems potty training is bloody hard work and by the time I put Lily to bed in the evening I am ready for mine. On a positive note I have her almost dry in the day with little or no accidents and using the normal toilet when we are out and about. I did lose my coffee this morning though as she needed the loo and I was halfway through it so we just had to get up and go. speed is very important at this stage.
Please hang around I will get there in the next few days....

the country

2 Sunday's ago the sky looked like this. there was a big , bright yellow thing in it emitting rays of warmth. I just took a photo of it in case it disappears for , like, 6 months again. We decided to go to a farm " in the country". there are city farms around London but as much as I love cities, when it comes to farms, I like the country. This farm is not far from us as we live in greater London. 25 minutes tops. However as we drove so the roads became lanes and there was much stopping and pulling in to those little thingys on the side and letting others pass. I could hear Kristian's breathing growing shallow the deeper we went. He's a city boy. As we entered the village of Downe my head was filled with images of me living in a wisteria covered cottage , growing fruit and vegetables and herbs and inviting Jamie Oliver round from next door. I could help organise a village fete! Whilst on the other side of the car there was a lot of this " why cant they just make it 2 lanes for "*&&*** sake, why do we have to kill ourselves driving here. bloody land rover " blah blah blah. and so it went on until we got there , parked with major difficulty and finally made our way up to xmas tree farm. Its a gorgeous little farm with a lovely area to have a drink and bite to eat out in the open. You can then wander about the animals there with buckets of feed which you can buy for 50p and feed all the animals. They are so tame and take the food so gently. City boy was a little alarmed that we were required to feed the animals wit our hands but he did very well putting on a brave face for his daughter. The cow was perhaps a step too far though. haha.
Lily had a great time and was eventually feeding the kids that were roaming about at the front as well as some ducklings she found.
We headed back to our urban home later that afternoon feeling all healthy and wholesome. Kristian's colour finally returned as he saw the streets turn to motorways and we have vowed to return soon.

tinkle tinkle

the wee fairy came and helped Lily do her first wee wee in her newly purchased bright pink ("I love pink , mummy") potty.
I realise this sort of information is not too everyones taste but I am so happy she finally "got it" after a looong time of prepping her.
Great thing was she just did it on her own and shocked the hell out of her daddy and is now eating her "prize". 5 pink ("I love pink , mummy") smarties.
Well done poppet!!

linear

My lovely husband has a blog now. He is not fluffy like me (only at weekends) and has wide and varied interests so it will be interesting. My very sincere apologies to anyone who saw the link before and clicked it only to be shocked by adult content. I nearly had heart failure when i discovered. I have had it drummed into me linear 01 01 ,Wendy NOT linear 1 .
check him out HERE

Yippee

Congratulations to my dear friends Caroline and Craig who safely welcomed their second daughter into the world this morning. Welcome to the world little Nina. And thinking especially of Little Amy, the big sister, and hoping she settles into her new pattern quickly and happily
xx

daytrip photos

the escalator into the earths core

Darwin AKA father crimpas

Run , run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!

piggy back

ps my apologies for the seperate posts but I am trying to post via picassa but have given up doing that now. its so much easier to give up .

day trip

On Saturday we did a great trip into London , taking the train into charing cross station , with Lily loudly telling the whole carriage which stop would be coming next. Picture this you leave your station and then a small toddler shouts Lewisham , Lewisham, Lewisham next stop Mummeeeeeee!

well it was not quite that bad but she is absolutely loving railway stops.

We then take the number 9 bus all the way up pall mall and Piccadilly, along Hyde Park, getting off at the royal Albert hall, just a hop , skip and a jump from the natural history museum. They have a wonderful dinosaur exhibit there and lots of fossils as well.Animals of all kind actually. stuffed you understand but very informative way of learning. Being the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the origin of species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth there is a Darwin special exhibit and they have moved his statue to the steps. Lily of course approached it and exclaimed "Look Daddy Father Crimpas" (christmas)

This is why children are such a joy.

After looking around for a couple of hours we went to next doors V&A museum which is my personal favorite. They are having a Stephen Jones exhibition of hats showing Millinery through the ages. Oh how I would love to be a milliner. Oh what do you do " oh I am a milliner" I would say.

The tea rooms there are quite spectacular as well which is always a make or break for me. You had me at fabulous tea rooms.

A wonderful day!

the Routemaster No. 9 bus

Daddy and Lily walking along

The outside of the natural history museum

The main hall of the museum with the huge dinosaur fossil

why?

I was so embarrassed today. In England we have health visitors that deal with your child's health and wellbeing from 10 days old onwards. They will weigh your baby at clinic and you go to them for advice on feeding , immunisations etc. As we have moved into a different borough now the health visitor arranged a home visit with me to check Lily was doing ok and introduce their service. I ,of course, forgot and at 10 am this morning I was unwashed , had not brushed my teeth yet. wearing black trackie bottoms which were too short and Kristian's brown puma sweatshirt and my slippers. Oh the shame when I realised that it was her, Heather, who was coming to check on my child. There I sat , said child's main caregiver, looking like a tramp. Thank god I had dressed Lily already but then got involved in putting washing on and cleaning up before I could do the same. She was lovely though and put my mind at rest about toilet training. It seems that although Lily is physically ready to toilet train mentally shes a stubborn cookie and will not even try. I have just left it for now until the weather gets warmer and then I will have to introduce a potty downstairs as we have no downstairs loo and a reward chart of sorts. This will probably include large quantities of jelly worms and choccie buttons being given out.

The most important thing I learned today was this. get up and then immediately shower and dress.no lazing in my pjs. as much as its all I want to do.