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Wednesday 30th November
I had a bad dream last night and crept carefully into Mum and Dad's bed at about 4.30 when they were at their weakest. Surprisingly Dad was on full alert and (eventually) returned me to my bed. He stayed for a few minutes so that I could pull his hair sleepily and then went back to his own bed. Defeated, I remained in my designated sleeping area until seven-oh-oh.

Tuesday 29th November
Peter went to see Father Christmas today - I had to stay at home, but at least my snowman without a carrot nose was still in the garden. He looked a bit sad without a nose and unfortunately Mum said that we didn't even have any carrots. We do have humous though and I'm wondering if humous will do instead of carrots. They often go together.

Monday 28th November
Today it was snowing when Dad came home, and in fact for some of the afternoon. Mum was keen to stay indoors because quite frankly she doesn't really enjoy the snow at all on account of it's coldness. Dad however loves it, and was outside in his T-Shirt making us a snowman. It was dark and snowy and we had our coats and hats on and Dad was busy rolling a tiny snowball all around the garden. Peter and I wanted the snowman to have a carrot for his nose, but Dad couldn't find one. I amused myself by throwing snow at the back of Dad's trousers. one tiny snowball even went inside. Dad was made even coder by my thoughtless actions. :)

Sunday 27th November
I helped Dad mend the shed window tday and I was in charge of the hammer. My general duties included hammering anything I could reach outside, and then passing the hammer to dad so that he could bang in some nails. I was also in charge of making sure that Dad was OK. I did this by asking him if he was ok every minute or so - sometimes even sooner than that. We did a good job and the window was fixed.

Saturday 26th November
Today I went on a special trip to the toy shop with Dad. I was allowed to select my own treat from the hallowed Thomas shelves because of sleeping all through the night in my own bed last night. I chose a Mavis train so that my Toby train will be kept company. I am very pleased with it.

Friday 25th November
There will be no news today - nothing much happened.

Thursday 24th November
There was great joy and much rejoicing today because when we went to school this morning I ran tothe tree where I thought I had lost my Thomas and there he still was - a little bit wet, but not too bad. School children must be very unobservant.

Wednesday 23rd November
There was terrible news that was terrible and sad today, when during the usual tumoil of the school run, and amidst a tantrum, I very sorry to say that I lost my Thomas. I think I may have put him down somewhere and now no on knows where he is, least of all me. I tried to butter Dad up when he got home to ask him whether or not another Thomas would come in the post to replace the Thomas that replaced the original THomas that we originally lost and then found again.

Tuesday 22nd November
Today I have been grumpy with mostly everyone for nearly the whole day. I have also been tantrumonius and unhelpful.

Monday 21st November
We had a cafe style breakfast this morning in our very own living room. Peter and I sit at the little table and drink our complimentary milk, which is usually freshly prepared by Dad. Then, when Mum comes downstairs, she takes our breakfast order. Then she shouts some numbers into the kitchen where Dad is. He is always drinking his coffee, so he generally ignores the numbers. Then, a bit later on Mum comes back into the living room with our breakfastses and says the numbers again. Whatever number she says it is either toast or rice krispies.

Sunday 20th November
We went out to see Father Christmas today. For some reason he was turning on the christmas lights in our town. I'm sure he must have far better places to be. He also appeared in a Tardis. Strange.

We did go on a few fairground rides though. Most of them went round and round which only enhanced the cold feeling that I was getting, even though I had about 100 layers on. I was almost round.

Saturday 19th November
Today we all helped Dad as he made some special shelves for Mum. My favourite was the sawdust. Peter seemed to enjoy collecting it all into one big pile for some reason. I enjoyed kicking it all over the place for some reason. The reason was fun.

Friday 18th November
There will be no news today.

Thursday 17th November
Today I am celebrating because I am 2 and 10/12ths old. I can't believe that very soon - in only 8 weeks (or thereabouts) i shall be THREE. I was telling Dad today that although I might be a big boy when I am three, I might also still be only a tiny baby. I'm not sure what I'll be when there is a tiny baby here as well.

Wednesday 16th November
I injured myself with a train today. I dropped the train from a certain height and gave myself a nasty cut. There were tears before bedtime, that much I can tell you.

I think I might be starting to become a big boy rather than a baby.

Tuesday 15th November
Despite their hardest efforts, Mum and Dad have still not managed to cure me of waking up at the crack of dawn and trundling into their bed and wriggling for an hour. Speaking for myself, I still rather enjoy it, and until I get to the point where I'd prefer to stay in bed I shall continue to disturb them, and everyone else in the house.

Monday 14th November
After the whole palava of getting me ready to take Peter to school and dragging me down the road - all of which I hate - there was no school for Peter today because apparently the heating was broken. Peter came to BRAG with Me and Mum instead. Peter looked after me by stroking my hair and making sure tht I was OK - just like a big brother should do.

Sunday 13th November
I did lots of helping today. I helped Dad clean the shed out, although my role was more of a messing it up kind of one. I emptied all of my lovely plastic tools out onto the path and then mended Dad's bike, while offering him some words of encouragement while he put the slide back together.

Afterwards I tried to drink some water from the watering can. No one was pleased.

I've been finding some really good hiding places in our new house. My current favourite one is under Mum and Dad's bed in the corner near the chest of drawers. No one can find me there.

Saturday 12th November
It's Dad's birthday today so happy birthday to him. To celebrate I made him a cake. Mum put all the ingredients into several bowls and I mixed them all up and put them in a cake tin. Later on it nearly got burnt, but that wasn't my problem.

Ben and Sam came round to play and they helped eat the cake. I was a bit sad about all of that because my cake wasn't finished in some way.

Friday 11th November
Dad's gone to london again and I'm still worried about that bridge business.

In the morning I went to the hospital where I saw a picture of the baby that Mum has secreted about her person somewhere. I was more interested in the lollipop though. the lollipop was delicious.

Thursday 10th November
Today I have done a lot more disagreeable things like not wanting to go to school, not wanting to come home from school, not wanting to go back to school to pick Peter up, walking on the high up soily place, playing on the climbing frame that I'm not supposed to and not wanting to put my shoes on. Grumpyness.

It was another Daddy putting us to bed night. I didn't get my fingers trapped in the stairgate tonight - that was an accident that happened last night. Instead - we had our tea and then went for a bath. THEN we come back downstairs and watch a few cartoons before bedtime. Dad sometimes falls asleep on the sofa while he cuddles us, but tonight he didn't.

Wednesday 9th November
Today I have developed anew way of wiping water off my face at bath time. After Dad has poured the water all over my face ia slap it with both hands several times until all the water is gone. Dad thinks it is funny so he usually pours the water over my head several times.

Tuesday 8th November
I was a bit naughty today, what with all the running away and everything.

Monday 7th November
Today I didn't really enjoy going to the sealife centre. I realise that that sounds quite ungrateful of me, but I actually didn't like it very much. I wanted to be somewhere else, and no one knew exactly where that somewhere was. I was mostly grumpy and unhelpful for the whole day.

Later on Peter and I drew some cards for Mum so that I could say sorry for being grumpy. Peter drew a flower and a bee and I drew a butterfly and some wheels. Both pictures had their own merits.

Sunday 6th November
There were plenty of jobs going on in the house today and I helped Dad do some of them. I held the bottom ofDad's ladder while he mended the light in the front room. Sometimes I held it still and sometimes I wobbled italittle bit - just to keep him wary at all times. He still managed the job without falling off so I gave him a kiss on the face.

Saturday 5th November
We had a fireworks party today. It was great - there were olives and pretzels and other delicious snacks and cakes. Afterwards Dad made some magical fireworks out on the lawn. We all sat on the bench and watched them all gong off - somehow he had organised for fireworks to go off in the gardens of neighbouring houses too - it was great!

Friday 4th November
There will be no news today because I have been very grumpy - I suppose that that is news of a sort.

Thursday 3rd November
Sleep training has begun in earnest now, I was told that I was no longer welcome in Mum and Dad's bed during the hours of darkness. Dad expressly told me that I was NOT to get into his bed. I honoured his request and got into Peter's bed instead. It was a legal loophole that was tightened up this evening when new legislation was brought in.

Wednesday 2nd November
Not much happened today. I got up far too early what with the clocks going back and everything and then I was a little bit grumpy and tired for the rest of the day. Dad has promised me a treat if I stay in bed all night without getting up once. I pranced around singing "i'm getting a tre-eat, i'm getting a tre-eat" to the tune of "ner nerner ner ner". Peter told me that my treat was going to be a Stepney. Dad also told me that his new office is right next door to the Thomas the Tank Engine Shop. It's all nearly worthwhile actually sleeping for a whole night.

Tuesday 1st November
Today when the telephone fixing man came , I noticed that Mum gave him some biscuits on a little plate. The biscuits were in a sort of circle. After my sandwiches I insisted that I should be having a biscuit. Mum gave me a biscuit. I gave it back to her and asked for it on a nice plate like the fixing man.

Dad came back from London OK. Apparently the bridge was ok.