Well this week dad was supposed to be working on Jeans 'real' cot but what with the flood and all it hasnt been finished. This has not been helped by the fact that he had lost my original design and there was a few techniqual things we had to sort out - like how to put it together in a safe non wobbly way! Also we had to by a router which still doesnt go deep enough for the female part of the joint therefore progress has slowed dramaticallt as dad finishes the joints of with chisels and Als rubber mallet - this is time consuming and difficult to make neat but dad is doing a fantastic job as always!
Al also saved me and dad from a headache earlier in the week by knowing of a special bolt thing neither me nor dad had come across before - called tee nuts - these are lots of fun!
This cot is going to be Jeans first bed to which is one of the special design features along with sides you can drop so I can get her in and out of the cot without hurting my back! Yes yes it should have been ready about a month ago but what with me being ill and the move Dad hasnt had a chance - still Jean has her travel cot which is fine - I would just like her to be in the nice cot I designed!
Jean is now ticklish!
Its so much fun - all you have to do is to run your finger along her neckline and you get giggling and scretches of joy 🙂 She still has a cough but the illness seems to have passed, once again she is the smiling fun baby who has waitresses cooing over her and trying to teach her to clap even though they are now closed and should be chucking us out!
They are here at last!
Little baby has cut her top two front teeth, as one of our chairs found out!
She'll be able to bite things properlly now!
Yesturday me and Al put in hooks to hang Jeans alpherabet fairy lights along the main bean in her room! They look so cool especially as we fitted the whole alphabet on one side!
We also put up the irredescent, purple, butterfly bead curtain in her window - this was the curtain we had at the top of the stairs in the Essex flat - of course we had to trim the bottom but it looks really cool. We also put up her Trum (erm something like that German for dream or something?) Spiral which is rainbow coloured and twists round - she loves it. Whilst we were at it we also put up the plastic irredescant spirals that Clair (The one with funky nails) got me last year for my birthday - they too are in Jeans window along with the Taz that Mark, Simon and Fraser (the Physicists) won me at a Summer Ball at IC 🙂
Oh and last but not least we put up on of those tuby net things - like lots of compartments that hand down from the ceiling - into which we have been stuffing her cuddlies!
Her room is almost there now - we are quite proud of ourselves 🙂
Poor Jean - she's had a snuffly nose for a few days, and has been generally unhappy about it and hard to get to sleep at night. She's been spending lots of nights in with us.
However, today, while I was away in Bournemouth, she started projectile vomiting, so Sarah took her in to the doctor, who said she had some kind of virus. She has to go in again tomorrow to see how she's doing, and in the meantime is on high dosages of Calpol.
I will probably postpone my visit to London tomorrow, because it's been pretty hard on Sarah looking after a very grumpy baby on her own 🙁
Building Maintenance, Jean | sarah | 
Mon 5th Jun 2006 12:23 am | 
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