: : : Here is the news for February : : :

Monday 28th February
There is not much news today, but I did do a painting.

Sunday 27th February
There was nealry an accident because I ran away while Dad's back was turned for just one second. I did it while he was posting a letter. I ran to the escalators and fell over. I had to crawl quite fast to keep myself on the flat bit. Luckily Dad ran as fast as he could and snatched me away from danger just in time.

I very much enjoyed the film we saw. I think it was about a train or something. Anyway - there seemed to be lots of excitement. I ate my crisps as quietly as possible.

I was as noisy as possibleat Funky Monkeys.

I ate most of my chicken dippers at Pizza Hut and Dad got me a huge bowl of ice cream. I repaid him by picking out the best bits of ice cream with my fingers and handing them too him.

Saturday 26th February
I went shopping this morning, and this time I was hoping that Dad would let us buy (with his money) one of the very special little cars that Sainsburys has on offer at the moment - only 87p. I chose a large golden bus with red wheels and Peter chose a silver car. I'm happy to say that as our behaviour whilst shopping was exempliary we got to bring the cars home. I drove my car all around the walls of the house.

Friday 25th February
I had a mollipop today when I was going to pick Peter up from school. Mum was telling me to finish it up quickly because she had forgotten one for Peter and she didn't want to upset him. I grumbled a bit and didn't finish it. She was going to put it in her handbag aat the last minute but I stopped her. When Peter came out of school I gave him my Mollipop. He was very grateful.

Thursday 24th February
I woke up a lot last night. I said "mummymummymummymummy" and to my horror Dad CALLED in from his bedroom "nightnight Andrew". I said "night night" and went back to sleep. He tricked me. Later on I woke him up again and sadly he bashed his shin on the bed leg. I heard muffled shouting.

I did some nice painting today - Peter did proper paintings of hoovers and I did abstract ones.

Wednesday 23rd February
I think that I may actually be a French boy instead of an English boy as all the words that I should say that start with an "H" usually get the "H" dropped an have a teensy accent added. The best word that I say like this is "Ippo", although " 'At" is quite good too.

It was snowing really hard on the way to dropping Peter off at school today and I was really excited. My excitement dropped off a little bit though because the snow was really hard and really cold and really in my face. I think I'm with Mum on the snow issue.

Tuesday 22nd February
It snowed lots today and I took my time coming home from dropping Peter off at school so that Mum and I could make some snowballs. She is very good at it. I even tried eating a few. They were not good to eat though. Later on I tried eating some playdoh again. I always enjoy a lovely bit of playdoh as it reminds me of olives.

I asked Dad if I could have his playdoh elephant when he got home. He said "No, because you will eat it". I made a little frowny face. How did he catch on to my plan so quickly?

Monday 21st February
Today Peter went back to school, and although I missed him it was nice to have some time to myself again. When he got back from school we put up the sweetshop and sold Mum hundreds of cups of tea and cake at either massively reduced or massively inflated prices. I also counted four things which was nice.

Sunday 20th February
We went out with Gaye this morning to the shops. As usual I was confined to my pushchair, but as it was bitterly cold I didn't mind too much. Dad bought some chocolate buttons. I'm complaining to the chocolate people. They should really put more than four buttons in one bag. Unless Dad made that bit up.

In the afternoon we went to ANOTHER soft play area. I helped a big boy by pushing him down the slide. He had been sitting there for far too long in my opinion.

I read the whole of Mr. Magnolia to dad at bedtime. It's still my favourite book.

Saturday 19th February
Today we went to Funky Monkey's, which, as either I can't quite do Fs yet or I've misheard what the place is called, I pronounce as Monkey Monkey's. I played some really good games with Dad there while Mum ran around with Peter. My favourite game was either the "stand up, fall over" game or the "goodnight, good morning" game. I shan't tire you with explanations of excactly how these games work, I'm sure you can work it out for yourselves.

Afterwards we went to see Uncle Mark, but I was verytired and even a little bit grumpy. We had a bit of food and then came home. I fell asleep on Dad while we were watching Shrek, He was very pleased because it meant that he couldn't stand up, so he had a little nap while he was waiting for me to wake up.

Friday 18th February
I started to make some GIngerbread men today. I distracted by the washing up though, which is, to me, a lot more fun than actually making gingerbread men. I'm very fond of spreading water around on the floor. Anyway, the gingerbread makery was disturbed because we had to go and eat a cake in the library with Peter and Dad. I nearly ate my cake all in one go.

Thursday 17th February
I have been on a train today which was great. I stood up for most of the journey so that I could see out of the windows. Only the top of my head gets to see out if I sit down. We had to traipse around a lot of shops when we got to where we were going. There didn't seem a lot of point for me as I had to sit in my pushchair because of all the people.

When we got home I played the "lets see what happens" game with Dad. You fit all the shapes into the holes and then wait for them to pop out - not forgetting to always look surprised.

Wednesday 16th February
I am not feeling very well today, I've been very listless and been banging the doors on the cupboard all day, much to Mum's annoyance.

Tuesday 15th February
I always like to take at least one vehicle to bed with me. Tonight I have chosen to take my little wonky tractor with me. I hope I don't lie on it like I did last night because it's very uncomfortable.

I watched Shrek today through some special 3d glasses. The film isn't £d, but the glasses were available and made it look a little bit different so I thought I'd try them.

Monday 14th February
I've caught Peter's cough and It's not very nice. Last night I fell out of bed because I was couging so much. Dad came in to put me to bed and he nearly dropped me because he got cramp in his leg. I think he only just managed to put me into bed before he fell on to the floor.

I did some really good pictures today. I spread some blobs of paint onto a big piece of paper and then drove my favourite tractor through the paint puddles. The results were very nice.

Sunday 13th February
I wanted to help Dad today, so I decided to help my hefting around his biggest hammer. I was quite keen to hit something with it. Anyway I dropped it on the new floor and Dad said "errrrr thank you Andrew". I said "You're Welcome"

I did lots of copying in the afternoon, I repeated everything that Peter and Mum and Dad said and Peter was using some of his longest words like:- "Wheelbarrow" and "Helicopter" and "Delicious".

Saturday 12th February
Today - shock of shocks we went shopping with Mum and there were no toy cars that cost 87p with which to bribe us. We had to make do with being good instead. After the shopping Mum took us to Hatton park to play in the soft play area, but we were too tired so we lay down on the soft cushions and had little naps instead.

Dad is making a new floor for the sitting room and it seems to be much slippier than the previous one. We were banished to the upstairs while him and Dave finished it off. It is good though.

Friday 11th February
There has been some tidying up today but I am too grumpy to help, because of being awake until about 3.00am. I had some sore parts to my body, but I was too upset to tell anyone where abouts the hurt bit was..

Thursday 10th February
I spent nearly all night saying "mummy mummy mummy mummy". I was ignored quite a lot and everyone was quite cross in the morning. As a test I said it quite a lot during the day, even when I was sitting on Mummy's knee. It was not a popular thing to do.

We got very wet when we went to pick Peter up from school. MOstly becuase of the rain, but also because of all the puddles that needed jumping in.

Wednesday 9th February
We saw Snow White and the seven dwarves today and it was really hard to understand. Peter kept asking what they were saying and I kept repeating whatever Mum said - just to practice my sentances. I did really well. Peter: "What are dwarfs?" - Mum: "they are tiny little men" Me: "tiny little men". and so on. It was probably very annoying.

I made sure about who was in my family after bathtime. I went through everyone of them and then told Mum and Dad that I loved Daddy, Mummy and Peter. It was a very tender moment. I'm sure Dad shed a tear.

Tuesday 8th February
I have had to put up with Peter muscling in on my Mum time AGAIN today as he is still ill. He has to have medicine to. I didn'tget any when I went ot the Doctors yesterday - It seems I am made of sterner stuff than he is.

I've got two favourite books at the moment - Dear Zoo and Mr. Magnolia- or "Mr Mack" as I call him for short. Dear Zoo is the top favourite as I can decide which animals I want to put in "the naughty place" if I decide they are naughty animals. For example: Monkeys, Snakes, Frogs and Puppys. All Naughty.

Monday 7th February
I'm not feeling very well today so Mum has got Peter and I an appointment EACH at the tiny doctors. Peter is much iller than me so he's not even going to school. After our doctors visit we have discovered that Peter is iller than I am. We had to wait a long time to find that out AND we lost a wheels from the buggy board while we were doing it.

I dressed up as Dad today. First I wore his hat and shoes (which are very difficult to walk in) and I carried around his wallet. I also had an apple core, which is something I often see Dad with. I made a very convincing Dad especially when I was saying "I am Dad, I am Dad".

Sunday 6th February
Dad took us out this morning. We went to a shop, where surprise! we were allowed to roam free without the aid of being in a shopping trolley. Mostly this went well and I didn't take too many items off the shelves. Dad bought us a biscuit as a treat for being so good. Afterwards we went in a car wash, which was, as usual very exciting. IT only made me jump once though.

Saturday 5th February
I have got a new toy today - we swapped it at the shop for something that we bouht there that was broken. It's a BALAMORY play doh set. and very useful it is too. There are all kinds of mould and presses and even a giant bus to fill with tiny play-dogh people. I made a Miss Hooly out of blue, yellow and green and then I ate her, because paydoh is so delicious and salty.

I told an old lady in a lift that I was an ogre today.

Friday 4th February
I'm so tired today that I can hardly even stand up. Dad didn't help either because when he came home after work he opened the door just as I was walking past it and knocked me over. I was very upset. While still upset I went into the front room and Peter knocked me over which made me even more upset. At least I'm sleeping better at night. Sometimes Mum and Dad don't even have to get up to get me back to sleep - they just tell me to go back to sleep in a voice loud enough for me to hear from my room.

Thursday 3rd February
I did some really good painting today. There was plaenty of paper and lots of sponges to paint with. I favoured the bear shaped sponge. I made several excellent and creative pictures using a combination of bear and ship sponge combined with the use of my fingers.

Wednesday 2nd February
When we went to pick Peter up from school I hid in the little playhouse that's near the door. I think Mum knew that I was there, but I hid anyway. After a while Peter came in and said "Would you like a cup of tea with that?". It was to go with my plastic pretzel. I pointed out to Peter that his teapot had no lid. "oh yes..." he said.

Tuesday 1st February
I drew a really good picture today - it was of everyone in the family. There were faces for everyone and eyes and mouths for some. Some of us got hair and Daddy got his beard. It was a very good picture. Mum did another picture for me which was a blatant copy of mine. I wasn't keen on the beard she gave Dad so I made her turn him into a balloon and asked her to draw a better picture of him. Ther results were more than acceptable.

I made my first ever cake today - it was very complicated so I was glad to have Peter's help. He knows what to do.

 

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