Dad's 60th Birthday.

Me and Dad

Emily, Gracie, Kimi & JJ

Dad's birthday went without any hitches, there was quite a good turn out at his party, including somefriends from Holland, and various family from all over the East coast of England. All the children (all girls, under 2yrs) were well behaved (can't say the same for all the ADULTS..lol :P) But it was a good day. Dad has picked up his bus pass, and for some very strange reason, he's awfully proud of the fact he gets cheap bus tickets now, but really don't get it cos he still has a car and never uses the bus! Oh well..lol

Finally...

Yes I've worked it out, and I now have a bit of time in the evenings. I've managed to get JJ to bed by 7.30pm by cutting out one of her naps in the afternoon and giving her a long bath so she kicks and splashes and tires herself out. It's working!!

And Kimi has finally started going to bed by herself. There was a time if you put her in her cot and left the room she would scream the house down. CIO didn't work because she'd get herself so worked up she'd puke. So we were resigned to cuddling her to sleep then putting her in the cot. Well a few days ago I was fed up with it, JJ was screaming for a bottle, DH was working late and I just chucked her (not literally) in her cot, gave her her milk and her teddy and left the room, I went down to JJ, fed her and put her to bed, and when I checked on Kimi she was fast asleep, so I took the bottle away and chilled out til DH got home.

We tried it a few nights to make sure it wasn't a fluke and nope! She will go to sleep herself. We sometimes hear her talking to herself, but in general she nods off almost straightaway, and if not, she talks herself to sleep.

Nights to myself ROCK!!

6 Months going on 10! (contains FOODMENTS for my HG friends)

Ok so "little JJ" has the biggest appetite ever, she's not quite 6 months yet and she already has cereal for breakfast, a dinner and pudding at lunch and a dinner and pudding at tea time!! Her favourites are mummy's home made cottage pie and and hot mashed bananas. But she will happily scoff down anything I put in front of her, and so far she has only had one very mild reaction to a food that we have now taken out of her diet. She has been wearing 9-12M clothes and for the most part she is still in those, but she has also been getting into some 12-18 month stuff too, I have a real feeling that give her another 6 months and they'll be wearing the same size clothes! At last weigh in she was over 18lb so she's probably over 19lb now as that was over 2 weeks ago.

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!!