Bob the Builder

Is coming to Chorley on Thursday 18th February!



We are going to see what it is like, if it's awful we'll go home via the park. No idea how these things are done . I imagine it could be very busy as it is half term but I think Bob is more for Pre-schoolers than school children. You never know.


There's more info on the market walk website.

Best laid plans....

I've got itchy feet to do something, something big but I can't decide what. I am very good at wanting but not very good at going about getting it!

Ideas so far:

Buying rural ruin in Scotland and doing it up to become fab holiday house (have been scanning property pages up there despite having no cash!)

Starting a website selling baby/child related items

Get a pet rabbit or some chickens or a cat

Have huge urge to go on holiday to somewhere lovely and warm (despite going to Centre parcs next week!)

Teaching myself to play a new musical instrument and buying one!

Having another baby...

Some of the above can't be achieved due to lack of capital unless we consider re mortgaging the house! Others have been tried but darn hormones seem to be getting in the way and preventing things from happening. Grrr

Valentines Day

We haven't really bothered with the above. A few years ago we resorted to just cards, we didn't need to pay over the odds for an expensive meal or get each other silly gifts.

This year Hubby stated he needed to go to the card shop on Sunday. Doesn't take a genius to work out why as there are no family birthdays currently and if there was it would be me sending a card from the box I have at home.

Last night he let it slip that there would be a delivery coming for him soon, and I wasn't t oo look at it. I thought this might be a gift for valentines and I am very excited!!

Until I logged onto the laptop today and he'd left his email open - I saw the "you won this item" email in the summary window below and it's spoilt the surprise - the description of the item was far too obvious and I DON'T LIKE IT!! Not at all what I want and I certainly havn't been giving him hints in this direction at all!!

I shouldn't have looked but I couldn't help seeing it - ahhhh what do I do on valentines day? I wish he'd just done the card and flowers/chocolates!!

Mispronounced Mondays

Little man's speech is rather startling good now. If he doesn't know the word he will make something up and he will copy new words he hears if he likes them.

However as many other toddlers will be doing he can't say certain sounds and therefore certain words often cause amusement. There are many more than the ones below just thought of blogging about a few of todays sentences.

Todays highlights:

"mummy, me pay (play) with me (my) cock (clock) pease (please)" LOL but had to smile nicely and say yes!

Wii, Wii, mummy - meaning Fifi from the Flowertots.

The above two are very amusing now we are fully toilet trained during the day! (Woohoo!) He even asked to go for a wee wee in the middle of tescos today and on a steam train ride in Preston yesterday.

The best one had to be at bedtime - I lub you Mummy! Ahh Nearly made me cry, I don't think translation is needed here.

Me nappy wet mummy

After breakfast this morning, little man was playing with his trains and suddenly announced that his nappy was wet. This is true as he's still in his overnight one, we usually change it after Peppa Pig and Thomas and friends have finished! Do you want a new one I asked? Yes, upstairs, dessed (dressed) was the reply! shocked Mummy alert!

Little man has managed to spit out the entire English language since Christmas, comments like the above have become common place and he surprises me everyday. He can say so much and gets very very excited it. The big change with this has also been in the toilet training department.

We now do our number 2s on the toilet although they are still called beebies. He has even done them on the toilet in strange places like playgroup and pubs. Very shocking. He is still happy to wear a nappy although we are using pull up pants around the usual time he needs his beebies. He hasn't yet started to indicate he would like to do wee wee on the toilet although he does do sometimes. He's very young still and I don't want to rush him.

We haven't toilet trained our little man, he's been sitting on the toilet before his bath since 19 months and done a few wee wees on it. Recently he started coming up to us and telling us he'd done a dirty nappy and wanting it to be gone. Gradually this changed to him being able to tell us just before it happened. We gently suggested he tried sitting on the toilet to do them and it worked! I think he likes doing it there!!!

We tried no nappy the other night but he got upset about there being no nappy there so we substituted for a tiny pair of underpants. They have pictures of George pig on them so we told him not to get George wet. With the help of careful watching he did a wee on his potty and didn't wet the underpants. However the next day he wanted a nappy one so we've stuck to that for now. He's only 25 months and I don't want to rush him when he's not ready.

Maybe be this is baby led toilet training!?! Either way it's been very easy and stress free so far.

The Favourite Photo Meme

Okay - I wasn't tagged but I wanted to join in after seeing pictures from Sandy at Baby baby.

We have so many photos of the little man, thousands in fact. We recently had to break the "baby" folder down into 0-3 months, 3-6 months etc.. so it didn't take 20 mins just to open the folder of pictures!

I have many favourites from his baby days but I have chosen this one for my blog. Here is a picture of me and little man. He is just a day and a half old and we were waiting to be transferred back to Chorley hospital from Preston hospital. He looks so tiny and his legs are so small! Gorgeous! I think he had just had a feed.

bit upset

I don't see my good friends very often, my husband is my best friend and my best girly firend lives half an hour away so nipping round for a cup of tea isn't as easy as it could be. I have made many friends from playgroups but I don't see them outside of playgroup. I really need to make an effort to invite people round more.

I needed to say this to someone, so my blog it is! Our friends who had a baby on Tuesday, invited all the blokes to the pub last night for a "wetting the baby's head" drink. My husband wasn't invited and it's quite upset me, why did they leave him out? Maybe they just forgot? Either way I feel bad for him especially after they commented about it being a good night out on facebook several million times!! The baby's father was our best man at our wedding. I'm not one to make a big deal of something but it's just got to me a bit today. They probably didn't mean anything bad by it.