Juice

She calls herself 'Juice' now. .. and takes it very seriously!!!

Amelia-ism of the Day

Thsi took place while i was in the bath - amelia is showing me an empty plate ...

'Buy some honey mummy'

'no thanks'

'oh please'

'ok'

'thats five pounds'

'thats a bit steep...but ok'

'Eat it then'

'OK... mmmm its yummy'

'Ha ha - its Pooh!! You ate Pooh!!'

The Fox

Every so often I realise that a new little routine has formed. The Fox is one. We sit down for dinner and EVERY night at some point Lucy will say..
'Fox' (though it sounds like Wox)
'Wheres the Fox Lucy?'
and she will look all scared until either Duncan or I says 'Its dark, the fox is in bed'
' Fox. Bed. Duck'
'Is the fox in bed with the duck?'
'Yes. cuddle'
'Is the fox cuddling the duck'
'Yes. babies'
' and the fox is cuddling some babies? what are they called?'
'Boo. Ash. Nanny'

Then this conversation is repeated several times. I have no idea why she is scared of a fox, or why it might be cuddling a duck, but guaranteed , every dinner, she will bring it up and we will follow that conversation. Something similar is developing at lunchtime involving a robin who was once on the table outside the window and Amelia scared it off by jumping up to see it!
'Robin. Scared. Meme'

I love the randomness of what we accept to be our normality!

Amelia-ism of the day
'Maybe all Daddy's hair fell off his head and just stuck to his body?'

Amelia's Christmas Concert

Yesterday was the playschool concert. Amelia put on her costume and off we went to watch the show. It was in the PLumberow School hall and it was rammed! But we got some seating on a side bench. I took Amelia to the stage and she was very reluctant to join the other children until she saw her little friend Vanessa and then she sat with her without a backwards glance. Lucy was more upset and kept wanting to know where her sister was. I think her constant asking for Meme probably ruined the videos taken by people sitting near us!

The show was basically a small naration about a Ooop-a-Daisy clumsy angel on her way to Bethlehem. One of the playschool ladies naratted and the chidren sang about 5 songs. A few of the older children were actual parts and the younger ones just looked cute!

As soon as the curtain came up,Amelia was standing up looking for us and waving! then she did some singing, she didnt know it all but had a good go at joinung in and doing the actions! some of the children didnt join in at all and sat down and some compensated by being very loud. It was very cute, as were the attempts at dancing, all of which seem to be a random jig!

I think Amelia did quite enjoy it - though not as much as us watching!

Amelia-ism of the Day
'Lucy - you extract Mummy while I pour the water!' I assume she meant distract? either way.. Lucy failed!!

Snow!

Well ast week it snowed tremendously over 4 days.It was brilliant! The photos cover the small amolunt of time we actually played in it though - it was just too deep for Lucy and each girl quickly got fed up with cold hands after playing in the snow! It was too deep for me to drive, but we got out and about wit the girls on the sledge...Lucy sitting on Amelias lap! They looked very cute and Amelia looked after her sister, catching her by the hood when she fell off so Lucy got dragged face first through the snow!!! Poor thing!

We also dragged them into the village on the sledge, once we were almost there, a car pulled over and informed us that a little pink welly was back down at the station. We looked down to see that Lucy only had one welly on!!! So Duncan had to walk back and get it! The snow was brilliant fun- though now its soooo icey!

Yesterday, both girls had an allergic reaction to something. They look like hives. Lucys was much more severe than Amelias and they have both been very itchy - got to try and figure out what caused it!

Amelia-ism of the Day

'I'm an expert ice skater!'

A Few Videos

A few recent videos, Amelia and Lucy doing a 'stunt' with Amelia jumping over Lucy, who was supremely unconcerned!

This video is from dinner. Amelia randomly created the song 'Daddys got awet bottom. Cos he tried to feed his bottom', so I asked her to sing it again while I recorded it. Lucy didnt like it though and is shouting END to try to get Amelia to stop singing!

They are a great little double act at the moment. First thing on the morning they have a genuine cuddle and also when Lucy wakes up from her nap (though on the days that Amelia is at playschool, Lucy is most upset and cant wait to go and get her!) Amelia is really encouraging Lucy with going to the toilet (which Lucy is reluctant to do until she is bursting) and most of the time they play really nicely.

Amelia-ism of the Day

In a loud whisper 'Lucy, do you want to sleep in my bed with me?' Lucy replies 'Yeah!',

About 30 seconds later 'Thats enough now Lucy, in your own bed like a good girl please!'