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little of this. little of that

Posted on July 27, 2009

noth­ing much going on here so I’m strug­gling w/ the blog­ging again.  We’ve been doing some DIY– the entry­way of our house is now orga­nized w/ a nice handy dandy shoe orga­nizer from Ikea.  I also picked up a side­board type table from Ikea for the kitchen.  Wal has been slog­ging away in the bath­room– no it still isn’t done.

Last Fri­day we met up w/ Byr­ney & Co and had a bit of a picnic.

While we were there C asked if Squidge could come over after school. So we headed there later on in the day for a bit of a play and some sup­per– thanks B for feed­ing my kid!!

After­wards we headed home to change into our jam­mies for the long drive to Liv­er­pool to pick up Daddy.  She fell asleep 1/2 way there so good thing we changed into jam­mies.  In the morn­ing when she woke up and daddy was home there was a very happy lit­tle girl.

Chaaaa chaaaaa changes

Posted on July 22, 2009

*sob* We finally did it– we con­verted Squidge’s cot into a tod­dler bed.  We’ve talked about it for months and months.  We had talked about chang­ing it last CHRISTMAS.  I kept putting it off because she is such a good sleeper and I didn’t want to mess that up.  Friends would tell me that they changed over when their lit­tle ones started to climb out or if they needed the cot because #2/#3 was on it’s way.  Well she never did try to climb out of it and #2 looks a long way off so some­thing had to give.  This week­end I decided that enough was enough and to just do it.  I want to start potty train­ing at night and that wasn’t going to hap­pen if she was still trapped in a cot.

I thought I took pho­tos of her help­ing Dad w/ the change over but appar­ently I just thought about tak­ing some pho­tos.  So because I’m slack and haven’t doc­u­mented what I’m sure to all of you would have been an utterly fas­ci­nat­ing series of pho­tographs here are some of her bed­time rou­tine.  When I say rou­tine I should add that this is not in fact rep­re­sen­ta­tive of her bed­time rou­tine because we don’t read to her sit­ting on the floor by her bed.  We read to her in the liv­ing room on a nice soft squishy sofa.  So lets just pre­tend mmmm k?

After some more fero­cious thumb suck­ing it was time to turn off the lights.  This is just about the time where she went from being out of her mind excited about her new sleep­ing arrange­ment to not so excited.  It took a cou­ple of times going back into her room but she did finally set­tle down and fall asleep.  All and all not as bad as it could have been.  I checked on her a lit­tle later…

It’s been 3 days and so far it’s been alright.  She’s been hav­ing night­mares but I’m not sure if that’s the change or her age.  Com­ing soon a post about that great big stuffed dog she’s sleep­ing with.

4th of July *revisited*

Posted on July 21, 2009

I real­ized I never really posted any pho­tos from our 4th of July celebrations.

Bicycle! BIKE!!! BIIIIIIIIKE!

Posted on July 17, 2009

Wal and I have been on the look­out for a bike for Squidge, one that didn’t have slutty dolls, princesses or car­toons.  Do you have any idea how dif­fi­cult it is to find a bike like that??  I didn’t want it to be pink either, I like pri­mary colours so thought that a nice red bike would be fan­tas­tic. We finally struck gold when Wal checked out Ridge­back (Wal has a ridge­back moun­tain bike) and found they have a fan­tas­tic line of kids bikes.  The bike is pink (sigh) and it is devoid of any decals depict­ing slutty dolls, silly pri­nesses or big breasted Bar­bie dolls.  There are no explor­ers or tanks and trains or any­thing like that.  It’s just a plain bike.  <insert con­tented sigh here>.  Now I’m sure most of you are won­der­ing why it’s such a big deal and I sup­pose in the grand scheme of things it’s not a big deal.  I just feel like she is exposed enough already.  I don’t need her tooth­brush to have a Thomas the Tank engine on it or her bike to be spon­sored by Bratz.  They should just be tooth­brushes and bikes.  So while I still have a lit­tle bit of con­trol I’m made a con­scious deci­sion not to buy items that are embla­zoned w/ the lat­est and great­est cartoon. 

OK so I lied a lit­tle bit– the bike DOES have a decal on it. Do you see it on the top pic­ture? That lit­tle blog on the bar right under the seat?  It’s a car­toon face of a girl.  I’m think­ing it’s sup­pose to be Honey as that’s the ‘name’ of the bike.

Squidge is get­ting to be an expert on the bike.  When we were at the bike shop she didn’t even know how to get on so any­thing would be an improve­ment.  I’ve added a cute bell and a bas­ket (not shown) so she’s styling.  Now we have to get my bike and we’ll be able to head out for a bit of fam­ily fun– I can’t wait!!

Edited to add: This is not to say that she doesn’t own loads of ‘dis­ney’ just that I try to find alter­na­tives if they’re available.

We interrupt this blogging break to say…

Posted on July 13, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!! YOU’RE AN OLD GIT NOW– HOW’S IT FEEL??

Today was Wal’s birth­day.  To cel­e­brate Squidge and I baked him a choco­late cake.  We had a blast and Squidge was soooo very excited about eat­ing CHOCOLATE cake. Appar­ently choco­late is her favorite (her favorite changes depend­ing on what is in front of her mouth ready for eat­ing) and she couldn’t wait to eat the cake. As you can see by the sec­ond to last photo. She sat there like that until Wal got home– it was too funny.

 

 

I won’t say how old he is– that would be rude.  I will only say that he’s half way to 90.

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