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Eureka! A Nikon D40

Posted on December 30, 2007

Lookie what Santa left under the tree!! 

After care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion and much much much hand wring­ing.  I finally decided on the Nikon D40.  Decid­ing to pur­chase this cam­era was a very tough deci­sion espe­cially for some­one who is usu­ally pretty darn deci­sive.  I fought long and hard against my nat­ural ten­dency to go for a cam­era w/ more megapix­els.  I chose this one because all of the reviews said it was a great easy to use cam­era.  I toyed w/the D40x but again every review said it was a waste of money, not worth $$ for the extra megapix­als.  I think I made the right deci­sion.  I’ve used it loads and it’s a really great cam­era.  I’ve only ever used it on auto as I don’t have a han­dle on how it works and have been too busy tak­ing care of Squidge to prop­erly read the manual. 

Squidge is still  not 100% but is show­ing signs of improve­ment.  She’s very pale and tires easily.  We’re strug­gling try­ing to decide what is wrong with her.  We think she’s teething.  We think she still has a bit of a cold.  We think that she has been hav­ing ter­ri­ble headaches.  We don’t know what to think.   We went to Eureka today and she had a fantab­u­lous time.

You can see  more pho­tos here

Then she got home and had a melt down.  She had a bath but did not enjoy it.  Now if you had ever seen Squidge in a tub you’d know that is a sure sign to worry.  The girl loves her bath.  Tonight she was ten­ta­tive, whiny, cry­ing and wanted lots of hugs.  I’ve been giv­ing her Calpofen but I don’t think it really does much.  I have a lit­tle bit of baby Motrin from the US I’ve been hoard­ing and I gave her some tonight– like a magic elixir!  She was back to her­self 10 min­utes after tak­ing it.   

The Christmas that never was

Posted on December 29, 2007

Well we’re on the mend, at least some of us are on the mend.  Squidge is still not feel­ing too well.  She has a hor­ri­ble hack­ing cough, is whiny and is run­ning a low grade fever.  So a recap of this past week.

On Mon­day I went to Victoria’s for a Nor­we­gian break­fast.  I was sneez­ing and a runny nose but noth­ing that was con­cern­ing me.  By 4 I wanted to die.  If I had known I was that sick I would never have gone to Victoria’s, I hope I didn’t infect any­one there.  So I had a messy house, none of the gifts were wrapped and death would have been wel­comed.  In my delu­sional belief that Christ­mas was still going to hap­pen I cleaned the house and wrapped the gifts.  When I was done I finally dragged my sad sick behind to bed.

Tues­day morn­ing Wal was a sweetie and took Squidge down­stairs around 8 and let me sleep in a bit.  I thought he’d know not to let her open the pressies with­out me.  I thought he’d know enough to at least take pic­tures if he did let her open the presents.  I’m sure you’ve guessed what hap­pened.  My dar­ling lit­tle Squidge turned into a whirling dervish.   Before Wal had a chance to take it all in it was over.  All that was left were the empty boxes and torn wrap­ping paper.  When I dragged myself down an hour later it was to a wrecked liv­ing room and no pho­tographs.  I did think about reen­act­ing open­ing the presents but couldn’t be both­ered.  After her lit­tle burst of energy she just moped around the house cough­ing and sneez­ing.  The last cou­ple of days are a blur and I don’t really know what we did.  It involved sneez­ing, cough­ing, med­i­cine, sleep­ing, a Christ­mas din­ner a day late (cooked but not eaten), and lots of feel­ing sorry for ourselves.

I did feed her some fruit– hey it’s sup­posed to be good for you when you’re sick.  Isn’t it?!??!!

Today Wal and I were feel­ing a bit bet­ter and decided to finally get out of the house.  I thought a trip to the Lowry was a great idea.

We had a good time except that Squidge still isn’t feel­ing 100% so she was a bit whiny.  I can hear her now upstairs in bed cough­ing and cry­ing to herself.

We also went to the Impe­r­ial War Museum.

I didn’t get to see much of it because Squidge had a bit of a melt­down, Wal enjoyed it.  So if you’re in Man­ches­ter head over to Sal­ford and visit the Lowry and the Impe­r­ial War Museum, it’s a great way to spend an after­noon. Both of the muse­ums are free and the Lowry is next to the Lowry out­let mall so you can do some shop­ping too!

As you can see after a cou­ple of pots of petit filous she was feel­ing a bit bet­ter and ready to roam.

On the first day of Christmas

Posted on December 27, 2007

my true love gave to me… the flu.

This is how we three have spent the last few days. 

An interview

Posted on December 23, 2007

A while back I was read­ing Laura’s blog and she asked if any­one wanted to be inter­viewed. I jumped at the chance. I know you’re all just chomp­ing at the bit so…

1 ) I just love the name Squidgy­boo, now I’m assum­ing its not her real name but how did you come with it? She’s had a cou­ple of nick­names in her day. She was peanut while she was in my tummy and for the first few months. Then we started call­ing her Squidge. Squidge became Squidgy­boo because it rhymed when I would sing ‘squidgy­boo I love you. Oh yes I do, love my squidy­boo’. Yah, I know I’m corny.

2) Being a first time mum what would you say has been your hard­est moment so far? In the begin­ning when I didn’t know what I was doing I really missed hav­ing my mom around. I was scared to death.

3) Do you ever wish you were rais­ing your child back in the US, or are you happy with life in the UK? I do some­times wish I lived closer to my fam­ily. I don’t think it’s ever going to hap­pen– mainly because of health­care (my worry) and edu­ca­tion (his worry). I am very happy liv­ing in the UK. Except for the odd irri­ta­tion and the weather. I miss hav­ing a proper New Eng­land summer.

4) Have you man­aged to make your­self at home in the UK, Man­aged to find places and peo­ple that you care about? I think that I have made a home for myself here. I have some bril­liant friends. I do wish I had a rela­tion­ship w/ Wal’s par­ents but I don’t really dwell on that.

5) What would you say is the biggest change in your­self and your part­ner since hav­ing your daugh­ter? We’re a lot less self­ish. We don’t sleep until 12 on the week­ends. We very rarely get to go out out just the two of us.

Enjoy

Now it’s your turn. If you want to be inter­viewed, leave me a com­ment
includ­ing the words “Inter­view me.” I will respond by email­ing you
five ques­tions. I get to pick the ques­tions. If you don’t have a valid
email address on your blog, please pro­vide one. You will update your
blog with a post con­tain­ing your answers to the ques­tions. You will
include this expla­na­tion and an offer to inter­view some­one else in the
same post. When oth­ers com­ment ask­ing to be inter­viewed, you will ask
them five ques­tions.
Lindy

Meme, by Squidgyboo

Posted on December 23, 2007

A while back I was tagged by Con­nor. 

Each player makes a list of eight ran­dom facts/habits about themselves.

At the end of your list, choose eight peo­ple to to tag and list their names.

Leave them a com­ment on each of their web­sites to let them know that they have been tagged.

The peo­ple tagged will write a post on their own web­site about their eight things, post these rules, and tag eight others.

 1.  I will be exactly 18 months on Christ­mas day.  

2.  I,  on a reg­u­lar basis, use croc­o­dile tears in an attempt to get my way.  Oddly it never seems to work, I might have to bump it up a notch and start throw­ing myself on the floor.

3.  I love watch­ing my mummy dance like an idiot while we watch Cbee­bies.  I think it’s funny that she dances to make me dance.  I don’t.  I just stand there and watch her while I suck my thumb.  Just as she’s giv­ing up I’ll throw her a bone and shake my boootay for her.  It makes her happy when I do that.

4.  My favorite thing to do at the moment is brush my teeth.  If I could I’d do it all day every day I would.  Unfor­tu­nately my mummy is a meany and won’t let me.

5.  I poo’d in the bath­tub the other day.  I did it so my dadda would empty the tub and I could have ANOTHER bath. SSSHHHH don’t tell my dadda.

 this was taken by my dadda in Cape Town– just a lit­tle shout out to Con­nor as it’s in his neck of the woods.

6.  When my mummy is on the com­puter I some­times sit on her lap and we look at pho­tographs together.  My favorites are the ones of me and my friend Cait.  When­ever I see a photo of Cait I squeal and clap my hands– it’s nice.

7.  When my dadda and I are in music class together I run around the room because I think it’s funny when my dadda chases after me.

8.  I love help­ing my mummy out in the kitchen.  I’m always putting things in the trash bin.  I also help her by putting my empty bowls/cups in the sink.  I have to strain a bit to reach the sink but it’s worth it to help my mummy out.

I’m not going to tag any­one.  If any of my peeps want to par­tic­i­pate feel free. 

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