Phew thank goodness that was over! I watched it but covered my eyes up when I was on. Mind you that was worse as I got to hear my terrible Essex accent innit. Anything remotely intelligent I had to say was cut but I was happy as I felt the overall view it gave was good. Obviously the GF fans bugged me silly. Bloody Eamonn and Ruth (who annoy me anyway, I'm allergic to GMTV) with their smug faces boasting about their child sleeping through. For goodness sake, your child's sleeping habits are in no way indicative of your parenting skills or your child's happiness. I'm a tad weird I guess in not actually wishing my babies to sleep through. Especially from a SIDS persepective I believe babies should be easy to rouse from sleep and they need to feed often and never to sleep alone. Anyway I personally think GF fans are either uninformed of the risks, aware but selfish, or in denial. Surely you cannot ignore the plethora of well educated and very experienced experts in child care and mental health that all seriously question the methods in Gina's books. But then if you are capable of ignoring your own child...
I was flicking through a book of Jon's today and found Noel Fielding! Uncanny don't you think?
Another pictoral find was this advert for the record player I had as a child - My lovely vertical record player. Once the rubber wheels in the tape player part melted, ruining a perfectly good Technotronic tape. I do have occasional flashbacks. I'm trying to remember an old Amstrad game I used to play. So vague is the memory that a mere screenshot that I can't even describe is all I have to go on. Frustrating. Today this made me laugh.
It's World Book Day today and the boys have dressed up for school! It's hard to think of something easy to do with short notice. Personally I was tempted to send Dill in to school with a grey jumper and plastic poo on his head for the book The Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business but I'm not sure how the school would take it. Fantastic book though!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
I hadn't realised it had been so long since I blogged. Those boys and schools runs keeping me busy. Plus computer time has been limited since the main PC gave up on us! Must admit we did abuse it a little, expecting way too much from it, not enough memory, dodgy heatsink/fan wotsit, it overclocked all summer unless we took the sides off! Thank goodness I have the laptop but I am missing my photoshop!
Tyler came out with a funny one today.
He's been learning electric guitar at school and they are allowed to make song requests. Tiggsy asked for Teen Spirit. The teacher taught him how to play it and told him a little about Kurt Cobain. Then today we watched the video on youtube. I told him about Dave Grohl now being in Foo Fighters. Tyler then asked why they didn't replace Kurt and carry on like when they replaced Gregg in the Wiggles with Sam! I just had to write that down to show him in a decade!
I'll be on TV Monday night perhaps. Although part of me hopes I've been edited out! Travelling into London with baby in tow is not at all conducive to a glamourous yummy mummy ready for her close up, more like a frazzled milky harrassed one! I also rambled on for hours and I'm sure I missed out lots of intelligently thought out points against GF and only came out with nonsense. I'll be watching with my eyes a bit closed. Anyone who knows me knows gina is my nemesis. I could write on for hours about my problem with her but I'll try and shorten it.
She's unqualified and has no children.
Dominating! The bookshelves that is. For years now she's been faced up with a shelftalker out the bottom (before you ask no I will not photoshop that) in Waterstones. Walk into Mothercare and all you can find is her and Supernanny (I also have issues with her but at least she did try and defend herself when I rang her once). What hope has a new mum with little support have of making an informed choice when the only options are of the strict detached quick fix variety?
Her methods appear to work. Society and it's warped childist view on how babies should behave has led to many people believing the behaviour of a trained baby to be desirable. Convenient it maybe, healthy it is not! There's a serious lack of foresight in quick fix approaches to parenting like those in her books.
Scheduled feeding, if you have common sense it should be obvious this is wrong. Successful full term breastfeeding would be hard to achieve on such a regime. You may manage a month or 2, after that supply issues can arise. Controlling food is a dodgy thing to do, what kind of associations are being made by teaching a child to ignore hunger signs. Then you have the serious risk of dehydration. Babies should be fed on cue, all the evidence supports this so why does GF say otherwise?
(see I tried to keep it short but I rant on!)
Leaving babies to cry. For me just the knowledge that right now somewhere in this world at least one baby is being left to cry brings me close to tears myself. Even the mums I know who have done this say "it breaks your heart to do it..." Yes it does...because it's supposed to! Mothers are supposed to be stressed by their babies cries so they can respond accordingly. But these mothers believe they are doing good because some book or uneducated health visitor has told them to do it. To put it basically it's brain damaging. It's negatively influencing the way that young immature brain is developing. All those pathways are being made under the influence of hormones released through stress. Buggering it all up! This is where the foresight comes in. Baby may seem fine the next day, try waiting a decade and see how it is then. If the brain develops under these conditions all kinds of problems can arise, from mental health issues like depression to stress related conditions and immune system disorders. Addictions is more likely too. I don't remember seeing a disclaimer in the contented baby book pointing out these risks.
The excuse GF fans give. Happy mum=happy baby bollocks. Yes a baby will pick up on your moods. Still no excuse for moulding your child into some unatural, unhealthy routine with the only benefits being those for the parents (or so they think, if they experienced and attached replationship with their child they will realise what they are missing). Blimming selfish if you ask me. If anything strict regimes can lead to depressed mothers. If you have no idea about babies except your baby and some bestselling book and your baby doesn't fit the book, you may feel a failure (I've been informed this is a common side effect of the books). If you are already predisposed to PND it's certainly not going to help you at all. Just the crying will alter your own stress levels and affect your mood. Attached babies who have their needs met are quite often happier babies. Babies have a right to be treated the way they are physiologically designed to be cared for. They have some innate behaviour to help guide the mother in her caregiving but when some book tells you to ignore all of that, all those years of evolution that have gone into creating us, it's just plain bonkers. That's numberwang!
She's robbing us blind. Of money (40 quid to join her website to hear more of this nonsense), of instincts (because telling a mother to not feel guilty about leaving her baby to cry is doing just that), of bonding, of a life (how do you go out when sticking to some routine), and of fun!
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Just relax, be responsive, stop comparing, your baby is unique, hungry when they feel like it, sleep when they are tired and quite rightly want a cuddle most of the time! They grow up way too fast so make the most of it .
I'm sure more issues I have will occur to me and I'll add them when I remember.
Ooh I'm excited...Maximo Park news! Just got their mailer with details of the new single and album. Single, Our Velocity, is out on the 19th of March with album following closely behind and coming out on the 2nd of April!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Grrrrr this stuff just really pisses me off!
Formula companies now make all their packaging vague, so you see the brand name rather than the specific product name. So then they can get away with advertising like this. This is from UK Living website. SMA nutrition also have adverts on the channel and online. It's blatantly targeting pregnant women and new mums. They keep getting away with it, nobody is stopping them. We have laws against some advertising but you are lucky if trading standards bother to do anything about it. Our laws are inadequate anyway, we need to adhere to the International Code. It might seem like an load of old fuss about nothing to most people, but this advertising really does influence mums. Just look at the results of this survey in the US just proving the influence of formula marketing upon parents. It would be lovely if we were like Norway.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Well we lost a wall! Luckily just the car park wall and nobody was near it. Some of the other walls where we live were looking rather iffy too.
I was too bothered watching out for the snow coming next week (apparently) that I didn't really notice how bad this wind was going to be.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Well I'm all older now. Spent most of the day rather oddly practising my lactational aim! Jenson developed a rather gunky eye situation overnight so there's nothing better for that than a bit of breastmilk and it's natural antibiotic properties.
Despite his gunkyness Jenson was happy enough to take out for a lovely birthday lunch at The Waterfront Place. My food was just so delicious I actually took a photo! The beer battered fish just melted, I ate extra slowly to prolong the experience. Rarely that happens, I've normally got a small person or three to see too so I wolf down my food. Jenson happily played with the vegetables, flirted with the waitress and nicked some of my "jenga" chips to scoff!
I got a brilliant present from Jon and the boys. A new iPod nano in green. My poor old one looks like a brick in comparison. I remember the days when I was impressed when walkmans could stop at the beginning of the next song when you pressed forward. Perhaps I really am 28 now then. I don't feel it though. I got stuck at 19 in my head.
If you've seen my myspace recently you'll notice my new wintry theme. I'm hoping it'll intice some snow in my direction. Next week is looking very interesting in that department. I'm of to treat myself with a birthday beer. My favourite one in fact, called Brahma from Brazil.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Diagnosis Murder on the dance floor!
I have always played this silly game where I like to hear the wrong music. Just like Joel "coke copy me" Veitch and his Morris Dancers. I personally lack the software (as you can see) at the moment to adequately create my own goings on in my head (I also need new PC, only got 256 ram and a buggered fan ...I'm torturing the poor thing). So I play with you tube. I suggested the idea for Jumpen vs Okey Kokey for example and some kindly fellow made it for me.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
You know when you are not quite awake properly you can't be sure what you hear or watch is real. Well I've had a couple of moments like that, mainly involving BBC Breakfast News. Whilst in labour with Jenson the news was on in the background, high on gas an air, I thought the story about Labour spending £300 on Star Trek costumes was my imagination. Then more recently I woke up to the Breakfast coverage of the Two of Us show, Jim Branning practising for his Maneater performance! Now Rik of Headstaggers has spoken of Jim's vocal talents for a long time now so it was like some kind of strange dream to see this on the news. Finally today, bleary eyed and nursing a sleepy Jenson, I had to laugh at the story of Morrisey possibly doing Eurovision for us this year! Dermot Murghnanhahnan then ended this mornings show with a scandalous revelation that he "always swallows" when asked the age old question. He such a cad that one, with his special super fertile red sofa!
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Even little 8 month old people get bed hair! He's such a little sweety at the moment (he always has been), little hands wanting to explore everything he sees. I love the little smile we get when I get near enough to something he's watching and he gets to touch it. Gravity is also an exciting play thing. As soon as you've picked one thing up he's thrown something else. All this experimenting you'd think would wear Jenson out but he's so interested in the world he fights sleep. He can go all day nearly without a nap if it's a particularly interesting day. Sorry this is a bit dark but I just had to grab the camera to capture the giggles!
Oh bugger! Just found out Jon is DJing until 2 tonight. So it's just me tucked in my cosy chocolate bed (just bought a new brown jersey duvet set), raspberry pavlova, mini cheddars and wine watching a bit of Jools. So you get two posts today. Double the nonsense. At the moment I have 4 tabs open on my firefox; you tube, hunnybeez, blogger and b3ta. I was just watching Doctor Who's The Leisure Hive to see what Nigel Lambert looks like because love his narration in Look Around You. He is all warm and nostalgic. I'm sure he narrated something in my childhood just can't think what. I'm inclined to think perhaps it was one of my Storyteller stories. I had the whole set and they all went in some bootsale I think. I loved that Dot and the Kangaroo story...it's all coming back to me now!
*ring Jon for the last time this year*
Ten minutes left of the year, and I'm blimming blogging! Usually Jon and I would have a takeaway on New Years Eve. When the boys are older I expect we will have parties.
I noticed today just how much Jenson is like Tyler. You can also see some Dillon features (bottom left) but if you see a picture of Tyler at 8 months (there's a bit missing as there was a mishap with the only copy of that photo) and Jenson now you'd think it were the same child!
Ooh there go the fireworks! Happy New Year! *ring Jon back, hard to have a conversation with DJ at midnight though!*
Great that means I'm older in just over 2 weeks. Bugger. As I said last year still not grown up enough to be this old.
Where was I, oh yes I have you tube open also because I just uploaded a bit of Dillon having a little sing in Macaroni Grill on Friday. He wouldn't sing during his Christmas play at school (he played a ball in Babushka) but will on his own with all the attention. Typical Leo! I had a yummy bit of Key Lime pie and a perfect glass of Pinot Grigio. I love taking the boys there as the children's meals are rather good, actual vegetables are involved for a start and you can draw on the tables which is the best bit!
I had a tiring Christmas. Not entirely sure why as I didn't really do alot. Spent the day at Jon's Mum's place. We turned up to find a car sticking out of the hedge! About 10 minutes before we arrived it had crashed and the driver ran off. Jon's family hadn't noticed until we mentioned it. So we had the police round Christmas day. The owner was soon round to apologise for of her offspring's antics!
Here is a cheesy party playlist I've been fiddling with.
Did you see that fat quiz of the year? The presence of Noel Fielding kind of counteracts the Carrness making it tolerable. Peep scarf, mouse peril and cheese shipment. You can guarantee some sillyness. Brand was on his team, an obvious choice aesthetically. I've realised though I prefer old Brand. Especially after watching him interview some absurd BNP youth leader. He should go back to this stuff instead of just prancing about with his 'citing ball bags and that.
Right off to find something amusing to kill the time whilst I wait for Jon to get home.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
I love this kind of stuff but have very little time or energy these days to read about these things. Just to counteract that, seeing that it's New Years Eve, have some party music for tonight!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
We've been fairly busy this week, a few parties including a lovely Winter Solstice party at Roxy's house. She made some yummy croissanty mincemeat twisty things. I have managed to find some dough since and I'll give it a go too. Last minute shopping and Happy Feet yesterday and a search for fairy lights that work today. That failed. Our old ones died yesterday so bought some more and they died after a few seconds. *touchwood* we still have some on the tree that work. Pressies are all built (that Tardis set was a bugger, plastic thingys everywhere) and wrapped. Buzzcocks, pringles and wine...so I'm off now!
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Just a few christmas tunes I've picked out. Best not to watch number 3 if in the vicinity of small ears though unless you fancy being asked what a "chuff mountain" is at an inappropriate festive moment! Once I heard this version of In Dulce Jubilo it was never the same again. It's hard not to sing along when you hear it in a shop!
I usually like to find some festive covers. There's a whole blog just for Last Christmas covers and you can find a few gems on the Coverville podcasts.
Monday, December 04, 2006
I read this account of life in SWF during the war on the BBC site a while ago now and while flicking through a book of old pics I found the shop. It was actually built by some relatives on my husband's side of the family. It's now a private home that I walk past everyday on the school run. Nice to see there was once a time when Asda didn't rule. They are knocking down a fair few old buildings these days so I might try and capture a few before they go.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Sunday we took the boys to see Father Christmas at Altons, thought we'd get in there before the December rush. Great value for money, you get a very friendly Father Christmas, a christmas card making set and a real christmas tree to plant in your garden for a fiver. Tyler was his usual chatty self but Dillon was a bit shy. Jenson just said babababa and blew a raspberry. His usual conversation, although I swear he tries to say brothers now. You just have to say that and you get a great big smile from him.
If you have some time to kill this website is perfect. Been playing about with it all day!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
The B3ta website have a newsletter where at the bottom they make absurd requests for what they'd like to see. Many happily oblige, making objects from melted haribo sweets or eat brightly coloured foods to see what poo emerges. Reminds me of The Word a bit. Anyway I have my own list that I dare Jon to do, he's yet to take up the challenge. For example I'd like to see someone busk the hits of Paul Simon outside the curtain shop of the same name. I want to arrange a flash mob in my local asda. Assemble the members of the SWF myspace group, take over the walking mike with Black Lace and Conga down the aisles. One silly thing we do though is what we've called snarfstalking. We've noticed many shops (Tescos or PCWorld for example) are bluetoothable. So we take a picture of the shop or a joke one (every little helps *groan* I know photoshopping brings out the worst in me) and bluetooth it to the shop. Back to woodham again, I had this premonition of the future.
Now parking is limited in town to 3 hours only by corporate decree, shops are closing down like nobodies business and soon parking won't be allowed down many of our residential streets. You can see how not driving and being able to escape here sometimes can drive me a bit bonkers.
Ooh new Doctor Who!
Jenson's being a poppet as usual.
Tyler and Dillon are getting excited about Christmas. Dillon is playing a ball in the Christmas play, Tyler is singing and possibly playing guitar, he has electric guitar lessons at school and they've taught him to play the Doctor Who theme. He's been sent hom with lyrics to Shakin' Stevens Christmas classic. So we use the wonders of you tube to show him the original. It's so handy, especially for nostlagic moments. I found this awful performance by Buck Fizz on Pebble Mill strangely amusing. I've been thoroughly enjoying killing time browsing through this guys collection of 80's adverts and really want to see the rest of this episode of Telly Addicts. Particularly love the TV listings there. Very Look Around You. This week I got myself a haircut, got bored, asked for something new so got a fringe and layers. Also got some fluffy post as it's known in sling fetish circles. A gorgeous custom made reversible XT babyhawk. It's fantastically comfy, big thanks to Becky for organising that! I'll leave you with a picture I took the other day of some yellow leaves I liked. I've noticed it's been a very yellow autumn. I'm assuming that's due to how warm it has been until very recently.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
The weetabix hands particularly amuses me right now, bloody pomphloyx!
Friday, October 20, 2006
Can't wait!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Das ist Nümberwang - That Mitchell and Webb Look
Sunday, October 15, 2006
For those of you who refuse to give one penny of their money to those bastards at Nestle I hope will understand my joy when the products I have missed all now have adequate replacements! There's Terrys Waifa, filling the gap kitkat chunky left, Terry's the Chocolate Orange Mint bar replacing the mint aero and finally for any lion bar urges I have Terry's Caramel Bite. Thanks Terry (whoever he is, Jon suggests Nutkins) for answering an ethical (ish) consumer out with her chocolate cravings.
If you have the time The History of Oil by that clever Rob Newman (see my husband's blog for Rob doing Pebble mill!) is worth a watch imo. You can catch it on more4 but it seems to only be on at ridiculous times like 2am. So thank goodness for things like google video and you tube eh! I'm also rather liking this new way of displaying the time although I'm concerned that fellow synaesthesists who have already allocated colours to numbers won't remember the colour times. I colour days, today is a bit like this, tomorrow more like this and Wednesday most definately like this.
Having 2 Alfie Kohn books on the go right now (like I have time to read!) I was so happy to read this story on rethinking primary education. My favourite bit would be It called for an emphasis on "children's intrinsic interest in learning", instead of using "fear of disapproval or desire for praise" to motivate them. My school years were dominated by trying to keep to he straight A standard people expected from me. I thought nobody would like me if I failed. Caused me way too much stress so I don't want my children thinking like that. I want them to learn because children are naturally curious not because they'll get a sticker/team point/marble. It's shame all this target crap ruins school. I would actually love to home educate but I'm just too isolated for it to work. No driving and the fact there are very few home schooling families about ( I don't know of any in woodham) means I'd probably not speak to any adults other than Jon for weeks on end! If only there was a Steiner place round here.
I'm off now, QI is on. I'll leave you with my mini collage of housewifey crap that I hate. Why do they assume stay at home mums like this stuff? Drives me mad.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
New BBC One Ident Montage
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Jenson being highly entertained by Dillon's antics here!
I have been waiting ages for the BBC to change their idents. That do do do do do do do doo do do do..tune has been really annoying me for months now! I'm looking forward the hippo one.
captain..hope you all had an excellent Talk Like A Pirate Day. TBH though apart from the E4 voice over guy and didn't experience an awful lot of pirateness. There's always next year.
Excellent Mitchell and Webb tonight (and still laughing to myself about Cheggars on Extras last week)...
From a home of Top Gear/Brainiac fans thoughts are with the Hammond and family.
It's our anniversary today, not that we can celebrate much so just had the usual takeaway from Chilis...our local scrummy indian fusion restaurant. Serious multitasking evening sewing name labels into Dillon's uniform while feeding Jenson in bed. Dill starts tomorrow, he's still so little turning 4 just 2 weeks ago. He seems happy enough with the idea though. Just Gorgeous Originally uploaded by moogyboobles. Jenson is as gorgeous as always,not far off 5 months now. It does amaze me though looking at him that many babies his age are already on solids! I have a theory on that...either parents mistake the 16 weekish growth spurt (where they just need more milk and feed alot to get supply up) with needing solids, or they get bored. Bored of just milk and now want highchairs, bowels and all that paraphernalia! We do it the baby led way. Having experienced the traditional 4 month puree way with Tyler (i knew no better then) and the BLW with an 8 month old Dillon I can easily say BLW is easier and much healthier. Anyway I'm sure I'll have fun pics of a sweet potato covered Jenson and tripp trapp in a few months time!
I found the best job ever (in my opinion as someone who interrupted their Physics degree with reproducing activites) in the New Scientist this week. Imagine that! Which reminds me of the fantastic shirt I bought that husband of mine this week.
Jon,Jenson and I all went V on Saturday. We did plan to take them all but we found out too late that Tyler would need a ticket, we know for next time though! We didn't hear a peep out of Jenson (except when beer was thrown over the Radiohead crowd while I was feeding him and it got him a bit!), he loved all the attention I think. I missed out on a few bands I fancied like Young Knives and Go! Team as it was too loud in a tent for a baby (I plan on getting those baby ear defenders for next time), Girls Aloud looked popular, people were flocking to that tent. Kula Shaker were great, I like their new anti Bush song. I really enjoyed Editors, definately give a more confident performance compared with last year. Their REM Orange Crush cover was fantastic. I saw just a bit of Radiohead and Kasabian (last song we heard before we left was Empire) but decided to beat the queue out and left early. Got home in half an hour just in time to stick E4+1 on to watch what we had just seen for ourselves!
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
You can probably guess I'm keeping a close eye on this Gina Ford/mumsnet malarky! (loving morningpaper's apology) This publicity is great, I'm hoping it alerts some parents to why some people hate the books she writes so much and go find out for themselves what the possible consequences of the methods advocated in such baby training type books are. It really is quite amazing (well I think so) when you learn just how much is going on in that little body, and how they are treated in these early years is so important. I don't deny these quick fixes can work but I don't actually want the outcome you get with a trained baby. I want babies whose mind and body does what it naturally is supposed to do. They should wake at night to feed (and when nuzzled up against mum there is little disruption to sleep anyway), it's healthier from a SIDS perspective they are easier to rouse like this (see the work of James McKenna at the Mother-Baby Sleep Lab, link at the side). They should feed very frequently, they have so much growing to do, all those essential fats needed for the brain developing at a fantastic rate and teeny tummys. They should "manipulate" us into getting as many cuddles as possible. Not that the manipulation is done with intent (their little brain isn't developed enough to form that kind of thought anyway) but inate and done for survival. To make sure they thrive and are looked after properly. Trouble is the fashion for a while has been to learn to ignore this. Babies know they need tonnes of touch and cuddles, this helps create positive healthy pathways between neurons..then we get happy, healthy and confident adults later on. You need foresight in this job, and well it's hardly a chore to snuggle up with a yummy baby. If you leave them to cry alot and make them wait to be fed it's not helping them fulfill their potential, those synapses formed in this case are going to form a brain that's not as healthy. Hormones released under the stressful situation of being left to cry alone or seperated from parents too often have an undesirable influence too. In fact research shows they can end up with all kinds of problems, depression, learned helplessness, addictions, stress related illnesses and eating disorders. Dehydration is also a known risk when schedule feeding a baby. I'm sure many parents if they knew would not risk this outcome for the sake of an "easy" baby and an evening to themselves. To be honest to me all this training nonsense looks like hardwork with no benefit anyway. Now i'm on number 3 I can truly appreciate how much fun it is just to really get to know your baby and just go with the flow.
Do you think now authors can go and censor the net I can go censor books? If I got my hands on that book it would be full of blank pages..and then possibly be the best childcare book ever!
My suggested reading list if you want to know more about all that brain stuff going on (not that I think you need books, just do what feels right. I'm just a curious so and so and love to know how things work) - The Science of Parenting Primal Health Why Love Matters
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Feeling really crap recently. Ever since school finished. It might be a healing crisis from the homeopathic treatment for my colitis or just general run downness, I don't know exactly but somehow I have caught a cold during the heatwave! How on earth did that happen? Anyway boys are bored already, we did all the Back to the Future's today, has to be done. Might make them watch Flight of the Navigator tomorrow. I need to get Wargames on dvd too. They will watch my childhood films if I have anything to do with it. They may have found aliens! How did this news snippet get past me? At least I have found it now. Jenson's being yummy and smiley. I had forgotton how lovely cosleeping is. So lovely to wake up to a happy chatty little baby next to you. Growing up too fast though. I'm rather looking forward to Time Trumpet on Thursday night...
I'm off to bed now.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Anyone else get songs in their head when hearing the reporters on the BBC Ben Ando and Orla Moore?
Monday, June 19, 2006
All smiles
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Dillon...
seems to think he's a BBC announcer!
Gurgles
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Apparently -
Your Inner Child Is Naughty
Like a child, you tend to discount social rules. It's just too much fun to break the rules! You love trouble - and it seems that trouble loves you. And no matter what, you refuse to grow up!
I've been so busy what with all this running to school and back I didn't get round to adding any words to my last blog. We basically had a lovely day in London. Met some fellow babywearers including the lovely Jemma and her gorgeous children in the Natural History Museum . We even got to swap babies for a cuddle as you can see in the pictures. Popped over to Earls Court to see the TARDIS (loving that devil in tonights episode), bit of shopping in Covent Garden and Tyler spent some birthday money in Hamleys. Completely knackered when we got home as you can imagine. Please excuse any typos from now on as doing that one handed blogging whilst breastfeeding thing. This week I've mostly been a bit warm, wearing my new yummy sling from Calin Bleu (perfect for this weather), listening to a few new albums like The Feeling's debut. When they say they like ELO they are not kidding! If they ever remake Xanadu they could do the ElO bit, Kylie would be a good Kira, I suppose I'd stick Robbie in as Sonny and perhaps Lionel Blair in Gene Kelly's role!
I've also been playng Worms on the PSP, it's just a bit addictive that game! I'll end with yet another picture, I'm sure Jenson thinks the camera is a family member now! Laid back chap
Oh almost forgot then...the new Maximo Park DVD is out now! There's a trailer for it here.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Been rather neglectful of my blogging duties. Although I have had plenty to say (still got my birth story to write, a massive rant about the evils of the gina ford, my suspicions on completely unsubstantiated cosleeping warnings that seem to arise funnily enough everytime it's breastfeeding week oh and Jenson has been smiling!) but anyway yes either I'm on the net onehanded (as feeding at the time)so I make typos or when I have got both my hands at my disposal I fall asleep watching Big Brother (anyone else think Nikki is some hybrid emo chav being with all that whining?). So i've not blogged when I should have. Tomorrow is a long day as doing the Natural History museum to meet lots of fab babywearers and then probably nip off to Earls Court to see the TARDIS. So I need my sleep. I'll just leave you with this fun thingy -
and whilst playing with that may I suggest listening to a little Lemon Jelly and some Four Tet.
Friday, May 19, 2006
A while ago now I was tagged by Jemma and I might as well do it now before I forget (I tend to do that alot!) so here are my 6 strange facts you may not know about me -
1. I got my tits out for page 3! (happy National Breastfeeding Awareness Week!)
2. I hate nuts in stuff. Nuts on their own are fine (except when pregnant/lactating) but in chocolate/food/ice cream I feel sick. Relates back to an incident as a girl involving ice cream, chopped nuts and orange juice!
3. Apparently I have an IQ of 155 (did a proper Mensa test when I were 17) although I somewhat suspect I lost a fair few points at Uni.
4. I don't like the noise of hard bristle brooms on the floor.
5. I'm right handed yet eat like I'm left handed.
6. I have a Blue Peter badge.
I tag anyone else who has read my blog...so not many people then!
Ooh that looks like Old Gregg singing Volare on that Eurovision semi final thingy. Now that would win it! Lets enter Love Games or a nice bit of Tony Rudd for next years competition.
We have no hope with Daz Chav Sampson. I'm voting for Lordi! Already he's looking bigger! There was a great article in The Sunday Times about sleep and the child's mental health which is something I'm really interested in. Basically I parent by instinct and found life is so much easier if you trust the baby to know when they are tired and hungry. Turns out science backs this idea up too. I'll leave it at that for now other wise I'll miss Big Brother!
Just a tad busy this week now Jon is back at work and having to managed the 3 times a day school run with 3 boys! Thank goodness the weather has just been so gorgeous and I have an ever expanding sling collection to help me with Jenson (see my flickr page). Extremely handy as he is just so yummy I don't want to put him down! Yet again Antony Carmichael gets a mention in the SWF Focus, he appears to be adding up his column inches of late as he was spotted in Heat the other day too! Perhaps he is planning a comeback? Personally I think we need to track him down for Eurovision. Yesterday we popped in on the baby clinic for the opening of the new breastfeeding room and support group! Great that there is something local now. I used to have to get the train to Burnham for LLL meetings when I were feeding Dillon. While on the subject there is a great article in The Ecologist (thanks Tracy) on the subject. Also I don't care what Anita Roddick says; as a Nestle boycotter I refuse to buy anything from the Body Shop! It's same as that "fairtrade" Nescafe. Just because they are doing one nice thing doesn't make up for all the unethical behaviour in my book! I'll leave you with a picture of a dandelion..just because I saw it and felt like taking a photo of it today.
Oh I just remembered the lovely Jemma tagged me the other day. i will get round to it soon, same goes for my birth story but I'm off to get some sleep now I think and I'll do that another day.
Well after just the 6 months of knowing we had a little man on the way we finally decided on a name...Jenson Lukas! Jenson because it means Jon's son and Lukas because Tyler suggested Lucky and Lukas is sometimes shortened to Lucky so that keeps him happy! Off now for more snuggly feeds!
Uncanny don't you think?
So we take a picture of the shop or a joke one (every little helps *groan* I know 
