This is getting weird, AG has just turned 18 months and duck-duck will be here in a matter of days.
It doesn't seem that long ago that CK and I got together, now I'm looking at getting a bigger car, spending my weekends scrubbing double-buggy's and jumping out of my skin whenever my phone rings, this is weird, very weird...
I guess I should paraphrase how I started this blog, hurry up duck-duck, daddy's waiting
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Monday, 21 March 2011
and the baby is going to be called....
It's not go to be long now till the boy arrives and that we haven't revealed his name yet is a cause of frustration for our family's, so my parents took the sneaky approach of asking AG, hoping that she would reveal the secret.
This backfired on them somewhat as although AG knows the name, she decided on her own alternative, she thinks he should be called......"duck-duck"
This backfired on them somewhat as although AG knows the name, she decided on her own alternative, she thinks he should be called......"duck-duck"
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
we have lot to learn about room planning
Upwards is AG's new frontier, she has found a real little talent for climbing which should be pleasing to outdoorsy types like us.
However this new found talent is being used to take her to places that were intentionally inaccessible such bathroom selves full of lotions, potions and sharp little gadgets and now all the way up to standing on her bedroom windows sill (via her bed and across a table).
Maybe I should attach magnets to everything, so we may stick them to the ceiling instead, that'll stop her (at least for five minutes)
However this new found talent is being used to take her to places that were intentionally inaccessible such bathroom selves full of lotions, potions and sharp little gadgets and now all the way up to standing on her bedroom windows sill (via her bed and across a table).
Maybe I should attach magnets to everything, so we may stick them to the ceiling instead, that'll stop her (at least for five minutes)
Monday, 28 February 2011
Three house guests, one trashed laptop, one tidy garage, one swapped bedroom and a big fat tumble dryer
Another weekend zipped by in our preparation for the arrival of the boy.
It didn't start off too well with a virus crashing the hard-drive of CK's windows skype laptop.
However things soon picked up with the arrival her great-grandfather and enough vegetables to sink a battleship and her grandmother who proceeded to turn it into enough soup that you could then re-float it again.
A day out for AG and big tidy-up of the garage followed, the plan being to turn it into a utility room to cope with the increased amount of washing, our efforts were rewarded with a local Italian meal, nice.
Then onto Sunday and following the arrival of my Irish friend we swapped the guest and children's rooms over and added in AG's new cute little bed, which she found made for a good trampoline, hiding place, climbing frame and no-where that she was interested in sleeping.
Then a flying visit to my parents to fix some lighting and then home to a vampire program and a well earned beer.
Up again with the dawn on Monday to take delivery of a tumble dryer for our utility room before heading to work and wondering where the weekend went!
It didn't start off too well with a virus crashing the hard-drive of CK's windows skype laptop.
However things soon picked up with the arrival her great-grandfather and enough vegetables to sink a battleship and her grandmother who proceeded to turn it into enough soup that you could then re-float it again.
A day out for AG and big tidy-up of the garage followed, the plan being to turn it into a utility room to cope with the increased amount of washing, our efforts were rewarded with a local Italian meal, nice.
Then onto Sunday and following the arrival of my Irish friend we swapped the guest and children's rooms over and added in AG's new cute little bed, which she found made for a good trampoline, hiding place, climbing frame and no-where that she was interested in sleeping.
Then a flying visit to my parents to fix some lighting and then home to a vampire program and a well earned beer.
Up again with the dawn on Monday to take delivery of a tumble dryer for our utility room before heading to work and wondering where the weekend went!
Thursday, 24 February 2011
a few of my favourite things
*Brushing my daughters hair
*Her cheeky smiley look
*The way she looks like her mother when she yawns
*That she likes pressing her face up against glass and making silly faces
*That she came up with the idea of changing her dolly's nappy all by itself
*The way she'll present you with a book she has decided she wants read
*That she likes getting out her old birthday cards and going through them one by one
*that she runs to her own timetable and has little ways of telling us bath time, bed time etc.
*that she says "bye bye" and waves to people
*Her cheeky smiley look
*The way she looks like her mother when she yawns
*That she likes pressing her face up against glass and making silly faces
*That she came up with the idea of changing her dolly's nappy all by itself
*The way she'll present you with a book she has decided she wants read
*That she likes getting out her old birthday cards and going through them one by one
*that she runs to her own timetable and has little ways of telling us bath time, bed time etc.
*that she says "bye bye" and waves to people
Monday, 14 February 2011
Behold the green-eyed monster
We only have a month and a half now till baby boy will be with us, so it was time for an evil experiment.
At a family party we borrowed my brothers three weeks old baby and had CK cuddle him, we then watched our spaghetti Bolognese stained daughter toddle over and try to force herself up onto her mum’s lap for a piece of the action.
So far our preparations have been reading stories about babies joining family’s and giving her a realistic doll to play with, looks like we need to go back to the drawing board, because the clock is ticking…
At a family party we borrowed my brothers three weeks old baby and had CK cuddle him, we then watched our spaghetti Bolognese stained daughter toddle over and try to force herself up onto her mum’s lap for a piece of the action.
So far our preparations have been reading stories about babies joining family’s and giving her a realistic doll to play with, looks like we need to go back to the drawing board, because the clock is ticking…
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
words
AG is beginning to learn words now, her record so far was learning to say "bubbles" in just three attempts.
This mornings word was accompanied by pointing at my "average daddy belly", which chose to describe with the word "baby".
I think she's telling me it's time put down the chocolate, pull on my running shoes and go and get fit again!
This mornings word was accompanied by pointing at my "average daddy belly", which chose to describe with the word "baby".
I think she's telling me it's time put down the chocolate, pull on my running shoes and go and get fit again!
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