Jean and Pretending (by sarah)

Jean regually picks up her plastic bowls and spoons and pretends to eat out of them - she will even pretend to feed you and say 'all gone' and tip the bowl upside down after a while, whilst grinning her head off!

Unfortunately as you can see she has been proving hard to photograph again!

This one we are saving for her 21st birthday!

She looks ruff! an tha be no mistake!

Jean has the Geologist Blues (by sarah)

Everyday we go out into the garden and everyday Jean fills my hands with stones carefully selected from the garden, then she cries when I say we can only take one as a specimen.

She cries even more when I wont let her have more than one specimen of the same rock type. So far she has slate, oolitic limestone, banded sandstone with calcite cement, a few feldspar crystals (though ashamedly I forgotten how to tell feldspars apart with out the add of thin sections and a microscope!), and a bit of flint.

Now all I have to do is show her how to lable them up and classify them!

Jean’s adventures with Shoes (by sarah)

Jean is more than shoe obsessed!

Yesturday we came in from the garden and I took my trainers off and before I had a chance to try and remember where I had flung my fluffy boot slipper things, Jean was cuddling one to her going 'shoe shoe!'

Just as an experiment not really expecting anything I stuck my foot out and said, 'thats right Mummy's shoe' to my amazement she put it on my foot! Ok so it wasnt all the way on but it was most of the way there! Then she went and got the other boot slipper and insisted on putting that one on me.

🙂

We have been trying to impose an outside shoes and inside shoes rule which is mostly going well though some people still come inside in their wellys!

Jean has taken to this idea extrememly well - we have a pair of orange duck slippers for her with flappy beaks and everything - ok so now each shoe only has one eye and I can only find one of the missing eyes! but still. When we come in now Jean will stand by the front either with duck slippers in hand that she's taken from the shoe rack or if they are not there she points to her feet and says 'shoe' and then points at the shoe rack looking slightly confussed.

I just find this incredibly sweet but in hind sight this is probably a very boring and gushy post - oh well.

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!

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!