Little Sister's faces

This is a face that Lucy can only have learned from Amelia - Amelia has a slight over bite and often sticks her lower jaw out - Lucy doesnt have this - but obv mimiks her big sister. I. LOVE. IT!!



Amelia-ism of the Day
'I dont want to be your little girl anymore - ~I want to be Daddy's little girl!' all because i made her fasten her bib at the back!!!

Amelia's Birthday

Amelia had a wonderful birthday - we went to Old MAcDonalds Farm on the day..

Which we all loved!

And then she had her parties - one with her chums - see her with Best Friend Scarlett - fairy princesses together and eating their dinner in the wendy house!

I cannot believe that she is now 3 - where have the last few years gone?? She has been assigned her sessions at PlaySchool - a tues and a friday afternoon, starting September 7th .. I just feel sick about it! HAve really got to get my head around it.

She had a little 'visit' there last week - and had fun , she made a few little friends and I can tell she will fit in, be a good girl and just enjoy herself.

Amelia-ism of the Day

'I am a big girl - look at my feets - they are three years old!'!!

Dr Meme & Nurse Juicy

Today, whilst playing, I was injured...badly.






Thank goodness that nearby was..

Dr Meme

and Nurse Juicy

They selected the equipment to patch up my injured arm..

and Dr Meme administered a dressing to the patient, whilst Nurse Juicy sang soothingly to me..

Look at that professional finish ... I just hope they are about next time I get injured!!!

Amelia-ism of the Day

A- 'Why did the Clown knock on the door?'

Me- 'I dont know'

A- 'To see what the dress was!' (Hysterical laughing)

Me - 'Where did you learn that joke?'

A - 'You told me Mummy - when you were a little girl!' ???

Holiday!

A holiday report!
We had a wonderful 13 day holiday. Our flight was at 7pm, we wondered if and when the girls would sleep in the journey... well after parking the car we had to catch a bus to the terminal and Lucy screamed the entire way as she had to sit on my lap and not in her own seat like Amelia. We thought the flight would be awful, but they were good girls from then on. We didnt really stop moving (queuing!) in the airport and boarded relatively easy and quickly.


The girls had new comics and stickers to entertain them on the flight - and they were good as gold and very cute... even when Amelia decided she needed a pooh mid-flight and her and Duncan were gone 20 MINUTES!! Several people gave up queuing outside the toilet!!!





At the airport the hire car firm didnt turn up so we just had to hire one from Hertz and pay double the price. It sucked .. and we didnt get on our way til gone 11 UK time and neither girl had had any sleep and were just good as gold. They slept as soon as we started the drive to the villa though!

They shared a room out there and were pretty good with it - but got into the habit of getting me to lie in there with them til thety had gone to sleep - not exactly a hardship - as they are very lovely! Amelia also developed the habit of sleeping naked - and is still doing it now!

Most days we went to the beach in the morning, back to the villa for the girls sleep and then spent the afternoon at the villa in the pool.

They loved the beach. As soon as we starting put our stuff donw they would trot off to the sea with their watering cans. We spent hours buiding sandcastles, holes, tunnels, channels and paddling, collecting shells and swimming, until Amelia got a little excema flare up and the sea water stung her!

The villa pool was aften really cold as there were some really high winds. Amelia pretty much just hacked the cold.. but Lucy didnt like it - so we got some sand up from the beach and made her some sand and water play on the patio - and she didnt mind standing there in the freezing cold hose-water!! Then we got a little boat and she sat in the pool in that splashing everyone!

They loved the Spanish food- especially paella, croquettes and the little tuna pasties, empanadellas!

All in all, it was brilliant. Liz & Geoff joined us for the last few days and we even managed a night out (well dinner!). Journey home was fairly horrific, with the girls screaming for most of the flight ... but it was the journey home .. so it didnt seem to matter so much.

Amelia-ism of the holiday

'I miss my lovely old toys at home. I want to go back to Hockley!'- The misery!!!

Stopping feeding

This wont be of any interest to anyone - but me!

In April I stopped breastfeeding. It felt like the right time .. Lucy wasnt actively wanting milk anymore and was just having a last feed at night, which wasnt helping her fall asleep ... so I stopped..

It really wasnt as emotional as when I stopped feeding Amelia, it really felt like the right time. Though now I am no longer breastfeeding or pregnant, which felt very wierd for a while...but I am used to it now.

She is really growing up and definately not a baby any more..

This week

The girls have been on great form. Though its kind of annoying that they play the nicest together when they are being naughty together! Like today when they 'watered' the settee! Amelia knows she wont get told off too much if Lucy is colluding with her!

Amelia also spent a lot of the morning in front of the wardrobe mirror playing at 'putting in my contacts!' - she has poked herself in the eye several times .. but is loving the pretending.

Poor Lucy is now having what we think is her MMR jab reaction.. ridiculously high temps, trouble sleeping (we were up at 5am!!) and generally not her happy self. Hoping it will pass soon. She fell over in the garden Sunday too and has a nasty graze on her face and all down one shin - between the two of them - they dont look that great! Amelias legs are covered in bruises as they are just carefree daredevils!

You can see the graze in this video .. this is Lucy trying not to fall asleep today - she was sitting on my lap while she should have been napping - but she was so upset - I just let her sleep on me ... Look at this gorgeous sleepy baby ...

Here is another video - Lucy splashing Duncan with sand & water - her laugh is so wicked!!

Here is the two of them jumping on the settee - i love videos like this - it just captures part of the day and the silly things we do

Just hoping Lucy has a better night and is happier tomorrow .

Amelia-ism of the day;

'Mummy. I'm going to sulk behind the curtain'. When asked what sulking is (while she was behind our bedroom curtain... 'Hiding from Lucy!'

Cast off!

The cast came off yesterday.Amelia was so brave .. no problems at all. As long as she can get it straight and starts using it properly within the next few weeks - no more appointments are needed. It was so dry flakey & limp yesterday - but its nice to have a proper bath without the 'crab claw' dressing - and we had the play sand out in the garden today which they both loved .. though half a ton of it was tipped down the back of my trousers while I was planting out some veg!

Funny thing is - she is still walking round with it bent in front of her like its still in the cast! And she isnt really using the hand yet, to eat or draw etc - she got so used to not having full use of the arm - she is even sleeping with it bent across her!

Lucy has had a few rough days - terrible teething at the weekend - and the MMR today (cant wait for that reaction ) - but there is no excuse for the strop she threw this morning after not being allowed a biscuit...

She has the little stroppiest temper I have ever seen. And its so hard not to laugh at her!

She is also refusing to kiss anyone - she teases us with a little pucker but shakes her head and turns away at the last minute..

She looks ridiculous in her sisters hair clip and my necklace - but they both love dressing up!!

Amelia-ism of the Day

'Mummy why do we have Mummies and Daddies? Why cant we just look after ourselves?'

'Mummy - can I look at those men with bones in their tummy?' (A pic of some footballers in their pants in the Sun - she meant their tummy muscles!!)

''Mummy - why dont slugs like slug gel?' 'Because it smells like slug pooh. No one likes the smell of pooh' 'But why does Tom put it on his head?' Poor Amelia getting very confused between the slug repellent and Toms hair gel - to be fair - i dont see much difference!!