Terrible two's

Kimi heard about the terrible two's and wanted to get in on the action early. She's driving me nuts with the constant whining, and a sound I can only describe as a cross between a grunt and a growl. It's like something you'd see on Harry Enfield's teenage character "Kevin", only in miniature form. She has suddenly decided she NEVER wants her hair up, even though she'd been so good with it up until now, we have lost so many hair bands it's not funny anymore.

What's worse is that I heard from many friends that the terrible two's never really goes away, One has an eight year old who she says (hopefully jokingly) is still going through it. I think it's time to get a padded room for mummy! Either that or a sound proof room for Kimi! And someone help me when JJ gets to that stage and I have two of them!

The strange thing is, that as annoying as she's getting, she is also getting so much sweeter too. A couple of days ago she grabbed my head and kissed my nose then pulled me into a hug. She's started telling her sister "wuffoo" which is Kimi-speak for "love you" which is a new thing. Then yesterday she kissed both my eyes, and then my nose, then my mouth and then hugged me and said "my mummy"

Maybe the cuteness is a counteraction for all the annoyances she has right now, but I sure wish she'd just do the cute thing and leave the grunts and whining behind.

Computers...URGH!!

I have decided... Computers are more trouble than they are worth. Ok so I couldn't live without mine, it has been my salvation, and my ruin at times. My ex left for someone he met on our first computer, but then I met DH online too a year or so after that. It was also my best friend when I had hyperemesis gravidarum when pregnant, and the girls on the HER website (linked right) were my angels. They supported me through everything and now I try and do the same for those suffering now, I'm totally hooked on that site.

Anyway, back to my computer issues. Last week my computer started running slower than usual, and my spyware scanner was alerting me to all kinds of tracking cookies etc... I know enough about computers to know that's NOT good. But I figured that if the spyware catcher was getting them then that's good. WRONG. every day I was getting more and more, and getting these really annoying pop ups, even though I had my pop up blocker on AOL as well as IE and had messenger pop ups disabled in my control panel. Whatever, I needed to find out what was going on. Eventually my computer just froze on me... Couldn't even shut my computer down, had to turn it off manually.

Great so now it's time to reformat the darn thing. PC whizz buddy tells me how to do that and I set to work. It was a toughie as I'd never done it before, but I managed it better than I thought I would. The main problems started AFTER I'd done the reformatting. I tried to get AOL back on my pc and it decides to tell me that my passwords are wrong.. uh-huh if you say so. I eventually get past that hurdle and then it tells me that my modem hasn't been detected.. UGH!

This all happened yesterday, and I finally got the internet back on this afternoon. And then comes the joy of putting all my programs back on again since I wiped absolutely everything off. Oh joy, guess what? NO SOUND! Grrrrrrr! Aparantly I had no sound drivers at all, or video drivers, so here we go again with searching all over the world (ok the web) for a generic driver because I don't have a motherboard disk since my pc was built from scratch rather than bought from a shop. FINALLY get it sorted and have sound again and got most of my programs installed again apart from PSP but Nikki is bringing it back tomorrow as she'd borrowed it.

Oh and one night away from my forum had me chewing my arm off!

Feeding time at the zoo

Yes JJ has started solids, Ok she started a while ago, but don't tell the HV's..lol But she has just started on fromage frais..wow, she likes that! here are some pics, oh and the dress she is wearing is one of Kimi's old 12-18M ones!!

SLEEEEEP!

I'm beginning to forget what having a good night's sleep is like! Both of my girls started sleeping through at a very early age (5wks) and now that Kimi is still sick I haven't had a proper night's sleep in almost 2 weeks. I sure hope she feels back to her old self soon and actually starts sleeping thru again... I need sleeeeeeeep!!

Nan

I have just recieved word that my nan may have to go into a nursing home, she has been in hospital for a couple of weeks now after collapsing at home with breathing problems. Luckily my aunt was there at the time, so she wasn't left alone for any time. Turns out she has a clot on her lung, she's been given meds to disperse the clot, and seems to be doing well, but mentally and physically, she is not well enough to look after herself. Her memory is so bad she almost has a goldfish memory, and she is not steady on her feet at all. So it looks like she will have to go in a home. I know she will hate it, she loves her home, and is feircly stubborn. I have a bad feeling about this. But at the same time, it's what will be best for her.

YEY JJ!!!

Look at my baby! She sitting up!!

Whoops!

Poor Kimi

Kimi was sick with an RSV last week, she ended up in hospital for a couple of days and is now out and recovering well. Of course we ended up with stomach flu which left us wiped out this week, so this is the first chance I've had to get on here. Here are some pics of our poorly girl