Visiting Relatives (by sarah)

Yesturday we got to meet some of Alaric's far flung relatives - we enjoyed a great lunch talking with Roger and Delores who I think are Als Dads cousin anf wife - but am not too sure!

Jeans Vocabulary (by sarah)

Its growing!

She says things like ubbish for bits of paper she picks up or any food she decides she doeant want anymore of!

'All gone' is her latest which normally involves me being handed an almost empty bekker or bottle and being looked at expectantly.

We do however have the same argument with her every morning,

'Shoes!' 'No they're socks Jean.' 'Shoes!' 'Socks.' 'Shoes!' 'Definatly socks these are your shoes, those are socks.' 'Shoes!' 'Thats right they're your shoes' 'Shoes!' 'No Jean they're your trousers.' 'Shoes!' 'Yes they are shoes but Jean you're already wearing some shoes.' 'Shoes!' 'Yes Jean they are Daddys shoes you can't... oh you can wear them as well as your own shoes - cleaver baby!'

Even my sparkly red high heels had her cooing shuoosh at them - now she says shoe properlly though there is still some confussion over what it means, we think!

She has also taken to trying to help me clean, unfortunatly this also means she will empty her beaker in order to blot up all the water!

Black splodges (by sarah)

Sigh - to our annouance it looks like I'm going to have to do some serious stain treatment on the bedding and stuff that got hit by the mank from the highchair 🙁 Standard techniques have left them all with black splodges, including Jeans nice white fleece blanket!

On top of that we have yet another leak in the kitchen - so that needs to be sorted out tonight - at least I hadnt yet got round to shampooing the kitchen carpet!!!

Black Water Mank (by sarah)

Sigh - I think I've killed the highchair.

Today I was moving the highchair into the kitchen for cleaning - I dont normal move it as its quiet heavy, I sort of accidently tipped it on its side and black water ran out of the metal pipes that serve as frame and legs.

It went everywhere, over the carpet, over the settee, over our guests beding, over the bottom half of the bookcase, over Jeans bouncer and small teddy, and over me!

I was not happy - now me and Sasha are faced with about four loads of washing - we are hoping the black comes out, and the prospect of having to carpet clean the hold of the living room and kitchen where it sits oozing 'rust water'.

We think that maybe water has been getting in when I've been cleaning it or something and has been sitting in the tubes rusting 🙁 Also I broke the strap yesturday - one of the prongs just snaped off whilst I was strapping Jean in and I noticed that the plastic material that covers the seat is starting to crack revieling the foam undernieth. I'm wondering if it is just its time to die or weather I used too harsh cleaning chemicals for the plastic or something?

I think it is definatly on its last legs though 🙁

Charlottes Wedding (by sarah)

Thanks to the rain we managed to make it to the reception of my friends wedding. Which was in Hatfield!

I think its the only time I been glade to see snow melt! It was great 🙂

Charlotte wore a buetiful 'fish tail' dress and becuase it is Febuary she had a lovely little white fur wrap! She looked very Fairy Princess 🙂

We made it before the first dance too, which was amazing as we had got lost for about an hour once we came off of the motor way! Well it was probably less time than that but I was bursting for a wee and we had to change in the back of the van etc....

Even though it was a very late night for Jeany-bo she really loved it! Though I did have to feed her most of the fruit for the chocolate fountain!

Sorry it was too pretty not to photograph!

Ecellent - pure genius!

It was a bit too hot inside though, we found so we went exploring outside and found there was Ducks and Fire!

And of course I could not help myself - there were geeks presant so I did what I always do and make them pose!

It was really lovely with fireworks going off to Jeruselum and cheesy music to suit any conorser 🙂

We had a great time- I was sad when we left at Midnight as it would have been fun to stay longer but we had a 3 to 4 hr drive to get home. And Jean was inevitably getting a bit grizzly. Of course me being me I forgot the wedding presants so still have to sort that out at some point!