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My Geek

February 22nd, 2012

Our kids are destined to end up as geeks, I don’t think they have a lot of choice in the matter and Annie already displays a level of love for Star Wars that makes me a very proud geek Mummy…
 

Our kids are destined to end up as geeks, I don’t think they have a lot of choice in the matter and Annie already displays a level of love for Star Wars that makes me a very proud geek Mummy.

This morning at breakfast she said, ‘ I have long teeth and go “grrr”, I’m a rancor and you’re Malakili‘. I don’t know how many adults know the name of the guy who looks after Jabba’s rancor, I’m fairly certain it’s not something most 2 years old like to chat about.

We sit down at least once a day to read through the Star Wars Character Encyclopaedia, we name everyone in the book, talk about which movie they’re in and what she’s seen them doing. She likes to watch me play Lego Star Wars and the day she is old enough to work the controller and play it herself may well be one of the happiest of her life!

At bed time she likes you to make up stories about her favourite characters as she snuggles down underneath her Clone Wars Duvet and hugs her R2-D2 noisy keyring. I’ve even asked a friend to send over some Star Wars fabric from the States so I can make her a blanket with her favourite characters on.

So far she’s only seen the original trilogy, she knows there’s 3 more films she’s not seen yet and she’s excited by watching them. I do worry that she’ll love Jar Jar Binks and I’ll have to disown her but that’s a bridge to cross at some point in the future!

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Under the Weather

February 21st, 2012

Our house has spent the last 2 weeks in the grip of some horrible bug that Annie brought home from nursery. We’ve been coughing, sneezing, aching, sweating and shivering, all of us at various stages of ‘unwell-ness’…
 

Our house has spent the last 2 weeks in the grip of some horrible bug that Annie brought home from nursery. We’ve been coughing, sneezing, aching, sweating and shivering, all of us at various stages of ‘unwell-ness’.

Annie had it quite badly and spent the worst part of a week complaining of a stomach ache. She spent most of the time in her jammies, clutching a water bottle and toy, strewn across various bits of furniture or the floor. She threw up for the first time in ages and her toddler brian connected the bowl she was sick into with the act of being sick, so every time she saw it she panicked because she thought it would make her poorly again. She swung wildly between being a ‘brave little thing’, and an, ‘awful whinge-monster’ which I guess is a nearly three year old’s prerogative.

While the 3 of us were ill, Ezra remained aloof, he never once gave any suggestion that he was coming down with anything, even after his second lot of jabs at the dr’s. Instead he suddenly started looking about 3 months older, developed a stupidly cute belly laugh and found his hands finally. Here he is obviously pondering the cure for the common cold ;-)

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Assault Course

February 15th, 2012

Annie is a bit of a daredevil, to be fair she’s an all out loony with no regard for personal safety, but what 2.5 year old isn’t! She can turn any item or place into an arena for adventure and possible bruises or split lips. Her latest favourite game is to lay out a line of nappy bags and walk along them, with different obstacles or ways of traversing them, walking backwards, hopping or jumping…
 

Annie is a bit of a daredevil, to be fair she’s an all out loony with no regard for personal safety, but what 2.5 year old isn’t! She can turn any item or place into an arena for adventure and possible bruises or split lips. Her latest favourite game is to lay out a line of nappy bags and walk along them, with different obstacles or ways of traversing them, walking backwards, hopping or jumping.

Of course there were ‘out-takes’, I’m just glad none of them feature blood or ambulance men ;-)

It astounds me that she hasn’t had more serious injuries than a split lip and bumps and bruises because she goes all out in her quest for more daring things to do. She really has no fear and to be honest I encourage her, I’m way too reserved and I want Annie to feel like she can grab life by the horns and to have learnt through experience that even if she falls over she can simply get up and try again. I’m proud of my tiny stunt-kiddo!

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Jumperoo Love

February 14th, 2012

Ez is at that awkward age where all he wants to do is stand up, unfortunately he is a bit of a lump and my arms give up way before his desire to be upright does! This is when the jumperoo comes into it’s own…
 

Ez is at that awkward age where all he wants to do is stand up, unfortunately he is a bit of a lump and my arms give up way before his desire to be upright does! This is when the jumperoo comes into it’s own. He’s just realised that he can jump up around but he’s still not quite old enough to be grabbing for the toys, you can plonk him down in there and he’ll keep himself occupied for ages, giving my poor arms time to recover.

The bonus of the jumperoo is that it wears him out and the super secret free gift from this? Sleeping babies in a jumperoo are one of the cutest sights ever!!

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My Sunshine

February 9th, 2012

For the first 6 months of Annie’s life I only dressed her in babygrows because I wanted her to look like a little baby for as long as possible, but I’ve gone totally the other direction with Ezra. He only really wears his babygrows at night, and spends his days rocking out in trousers and tops like a dinky little gown-up! I really love dressing him up and finding cool clothes for him but have no idea why I’ve taken two totally opposing attitudes to dressing the kiddos…
 

For the first 6 months of Annie’s life I only dressed her in baby grows because I wanted her to look like a little baby for as long as possible, but I’ve gone totally the other direction with Ezra. He only really wears his baby grows at night, and spends his days rocking out in trousers and tops like a dinky little grown-up! I really love dressing him up and finding cool clothes for him but have no idea why I’ve taken two totally opposing attitudes to dressing the kiddos.

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Annie loves it when he wears anything with Star Wars characters on but my favourite is his t-shirt that says, ‘you are my sun shine’. I love the colours, the sentiment and the font, I’m going to be so sad when he finally outgrows it but I think I’ve already decided to frame it, so you can just see the quote, and put it on the wall in our room.

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The red Hawaiian shirt is in honour of Jon who had a collection of ‘loud’ shirts when we first met, I’ve bought, and put aside, ‘interesting’ shirts for as Ez grows and it’ll be interesting to see if a predilection for loud shirts is genetic or not.

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