Good grief, somehow I have become the mother of a teenager! But he spent most of the day playing an updated version of Elite ('80s computer spaceship game, for you young 'uns) and this evening we had pizza and family video night - his choice: the Winnie the Pooh Heffalump movie. I think we're going to be all right! :-D ( Read more... )

A real land-mark day - prince_eldarion, aged seven-and-a-third, has just played his first D&D session :-)

Inspired by kargicq's starting his children off role-playing, skordh dug out our old D&D rulebook. El spotted it and was interested enough that he has been reading it for the past few nights for his bedtime reading! So after school today, Skordh helped him generate a ( Read more... )

Scene: ext. The road to school.

prince_eldarion: Hey, look, someone's done some... what do you call that naughty painting again, Mummy?

jane_somebody: You mean graffiti?

prince_eldarion: Yes, someone's done some kerfeety on that post-box!

I'm definitely going to be calling graffiti Naughty Painting from now on :-D

frodo_lad is a fortnight old today. He seems to be thriving, although he has developed the same flaky skin at wrists and ankles that prince_eldarion had when he was born, and somewhat dry skin in general, so now we are oiling him with extra virgin olive oil ;-) He also has gungy eyes, but these are apparently probably due to blocked tear ducts rather than an infection, so ( Read more... )

The baby in the ticker on my profile page says, "I should be here by now." Earlier this week it was saying that it was about ready to come out "unless I'm feeling extra snuggly", or words to that effect. Clearly this baby is as lazy and fond of staying cosied up as El was/is - indeed I have to say my boys take after their Daddy ( Read more... )

Frodo-lad is currently on his third bout of hiccups today...

Let's see, at the end of my last proper update I mentioned that there were other things I'd meant to write about; however I can't now remember what they were ;-( So I'll just get on with giving an update of what's happened since then.

( Woburn Safari Park )

So today is the 2nd of May. I have seen several posts about May Day yesterday, but for me this is the more significant day this year. It is exactly two months till my Due Date (not that I'm expecting to actually give birth *on* my Due Date, you understand), and prince_eldarion is exactly two and a half today. But most on my mind at the moment is the fact that ( Read more... )

1) Skordh and I seem to finally be delurgified, if still a bit run-down and shellshocked ;-) prince_eldarion, I'm glad to say, remained pretty healthy throughout, even if that did mean he had more energy than the rest of the household combined, which was a little trying at times ( Read more... )

...although as usual I don't have the time or energy to be as reflecty as I would like, especially after having spent the last fortnight with two rotten colds one after the other with no gap in between ;-( Am currently sleep-deprived due to the whole not being able to breathe while lying down thing (and nothing at all to do with the New Year's ( Read more... )

First of all, thank you to everyone who posted birthday greetings to prince_eldarion last Friday. In case he doesn't get round to replying to them himself, I wanted you to know skordh and I appreciated them very much ( Read more... )