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Posted on March 28, 2009

Where has the time gone?!?!! So what have we been up to…
On Mon­day I drove down to Stoke to pho­to­graph this lit­tle bun­dle of new­born loveliness

I had sooooo much fun.  It was my first new­born shoot and Jenny (the mom) was super sweet and I hope she enjoys the pho­tos as much as I enjoyed tak­ing them.  I’m still in the mid­dle of pro­cess­ing.  I had for­got­ten how teeny new­borns are.  You should have seen the tiny lit­tle bum this one has!  Not like the big girl bum that comes my way after it goes potty!!

The rest of the week has been pretty bor­ing.  Went to the library on Tues­day, which was good since we missed our nor­mal Mon­day story time.  On Wednes­day I didn’t do much of any­thing.  Thurs­day we went swim­ming and Squidge was sooo freak­ing good!  It was like we had our swim lov­ing Squidge back!  I’ve been talk­ing to her for 2 weeks about swim­ming and not cry­ing and how when she cries water goes up her nose and she doesn’t like that and she needs to not cry and and AND!!!  And I think it finally worked!!  Thurs­day Wal went down to Lon­don for work and when he got back we went out for a curry.  Only thing was we had to wait until it got dark!  It made us laugh because Squidge asso­ciates going for a curry as some­thing that only hap­pens at night.  Not that we go out for cur­ries much so I don’t know why that has stuck.  I won­der what would hap­pen if we went to a dif­fer­ent restau­rant?  Hmm prob­a­bly a lot of tears.

So that has been my week in a nut­shell.  Hmmm did I for­get any­thing?  Oh yes the bath is in. I repeat the BATH IS IN!  Well at least tem­porar­ily, we need to make some adjust­ments and then we can start tiling.  Oh, I am SOOOO look­ing for­ward to that– not!  I absolutely loathe DIY but Wal is happy put­ter­ing around so hey what­ever as long as I sell this feck­ing place by the Sum­mer. Oh I also sold all but one of my lenses (kept my 50mm) and have ordered a Nikon 24–85 f/2.8.  It wasn’t my first choice lens but at £1100 that lens was NEVER going to hap­pen.  At least not yet.  The new lens should be arriv­ing tomor­row and I’m really look­ing for­ward to it as it’s sup­posed to be a fan­tas­tic lens.  

Any­hoo enough of my bor­ing jib­ber jab­ber– here are some ran­dom pho­tos from the past week.

 

 

 

Holy Jeebus

Posted on March 10, 2009

look what Wal done did!

We’re mov­ing along with the bath­room and I am now shower-less!  I hate tak­ing baths but I am hap­pily slosh­ing around in my own filth because it means we’re chug­ging along.  Wal did this over the week­end and then left for Turkey on Mon­day.  We told Squidge that she needed to be care­ful dur­ing her bath and not splash too much because we didn’t have any tiles on the walls.  She wanted to know when we would be get­ting some and Wal told her he would get some soon.  Well he then dis­ap­peared and the kid thinks he’s off buy­ing tiles at the shopses (as she calls it).  

Squidge has been a bit try­ing lately.  Her new thing is that she is afraid of EVERYTHING!  I really do mean every­thing.  This evening the bar of soap fell into the tub you would have thought a sea mon­ster had just bit­ten her on the ass.  Soooooo afraid of the soap.  Mama the soap. the sooooap.  mama pleeeeaase the soap is in the waaaaaaater.  OMG!!! It’s just soap for cry­ing out loud!!  I won’t men­tion the pic­tures of spi­ders (have I men­tioned her favorite books are Win­nie the Witch books? Did you know that WtW books are filled w/ illus­tra­tions of spi­ders?), stuffed toys that are on the floor, pen­cils w/ but­ter­fly erasers and the odd bit of scrap paper *sigh* so this is how life is at the moment.  It’s been a bit dif­fi­cult because this is the kid that up until this point has been pretty fear­less.  I’m hop­ing this is just a stage– a stage that goes away quickly!!  She’s also sooooo bossy (I don’t have the fog­gi­est idea where she gets it from *wink*) I’m not really sure how to han­dle it.  I don’t want to inter­vene and feel like the kids should work (bat­tle) it out on their own but I also don’t want her to bully them.  We’re also going to through con­stant bat­tles.  She screams and cries when it’s time to leave the house and put on her coat– it’s over quickly.  Then she screams and cries at the thought of get­ting in the car.  She screams and cries when we go to the loo.  On a good note the bat­tle doesn’t last very long but it’s just con­stant. I could under­stand if I wasn’t con­sis­tent and she was get­ting con­fused but really peo­ple. When it’s time to go out and she starts to cry it’s not like I say ‘ooooh OK let’s stay home’- we go when I say we go and it’s always been that way.  Same thing with the car– she starts to scream I don’t just leave her behind in the front gar­den– I pick her up and get her in the car.  So I’m not sure why she con­tin­ues to bat­tle with me.  I sup­pose she is her father’s daugh­ter and Wal is noth­ing if not stub­born. Again I’m hop­ing it’s a stage– one that goes away soon because it’s been around tooo damn long!

Mov­ing on to hap­pier events.  On Sat­ur­day Noah cel­e­brated his 2nd birth­day w/ a teeny party.  We were very late– I had it in my head that the party didn’t start until 2 (even though I knew it was a pizza party and that meant lunch) when it actu­ally started at 11.  Around 11:15 I was about to jump in the shower  and then go to Toys-R-Us to pick up his present when I decided to dou­ble check the time.  It was chaos and panic when I real­ized I was already late and still had to shower!  We finally made it– an hour late! 

Byr­ney took pity on me and the kids played musi­cal bump instead of pass the par­cel which I hate with a pas­sion.  Firstly I think it’s mean to give lit­tle ones a pretty wrapped par­cel and then force them to give it up.  Hello!  Shar­ing isn’t exactly high on their list of skills they do well! Musi­cal bump is like musi­cal chairs w/out the chairs and they had an absolute blast.  No one cried (talk­ing about myself here) which is some­thing that can’t be said when PTP is played!

Then it was cake time– Byr­ney had them eat the cake right at the party.  In the UK the kids are usu­ally sent home w/ a slice of birth­day cake.  I find this an odd tra­di­tion and one I for­get about when Squidge has her par­ties and the kids eat the cake while at the party.  Byr­ney being the rebel that she is did it the amer­i­cano way!  Yay!  Not hav­ing to carry a slice of cake that usu­ally crum­bles to bits and falls all over the car before we get it home was a bonus!

Tomor­row I’m off to explore Grap­pen­hall as pos­si­ble relo­ca­tion site.  Good points it has a decent pri­mary school and TWO pubs in the vil­lage.  The houses appear to be afford­able.  I’ll let you know tomor­row if it’s hor­ri­ble or not.  I’m keep­ing my fin­gers crossed that it’s nice.

sssshaawing!

Posted on August 28, 2008

What do you do when your 2 year old insists you watch her swing?  If you try to walk away she calls out mommy! moommy! moooommy!! mooooom!!!! So you for­get about wash­ing the dishes.  You grab your cam­era, sit down and just take pho­tos of a child who is rapidly turn­ing into a ham!

The beach is becom­ing a sweet dis­tant mem­ory. This is what we’re wear­ing around here at the moment.

This morn­ing Squidge received a let­ter from some­one we miss very much!  She was very excited when the let­ter dropped through the door.  It made me cry and after the first sen­tence I handed the let­ter over to Wal to fin­ish read­ing.  I went into the kitchen and had a bit of cry while I did the dishes.

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