Happy birthday gillo! A new LJ friend to me but a fun one.

Today was DD's Xmas concert. It was exactly the sort of fiasco that makes one feel that it is really nearly Xmas. Fun was had by all and the parents clapped like fools. The Montessori kids were dressed up as snowmen (which involved more black bin-liners than you would think) and were ( Read more... )

Well it surely looks like the chicken pox. However DD is still bouncing round the hosue like a crazy thing and demanding outings and stimulation. She seems a bit itchy but mostly unconsciously so and the lotion is helping. The closest thing to a symptom apart from the rash is her tendency to tire quickly. With luck she might have an easy time of it ( Read more... )

DD was 3 yesterday. Happy Birthday dear buglet!

This has meant a lot of work for Mama and Dada, even though we were not doing anything ambitious (hats off to eurydice who gallantly invited 19 (19!!!!) kids to her house (her HOUSE!!!!) - admittedly they were not toddlers but still, serious cvalour in the face of the enemy stuff in my book). I was feeling ( Read more... )

DD, in very thoughtful tone of voice ... 'When night-time turn into daytime, then i go creche?' How to say, 'can I go to playgroup tomorrow morning?' when you don't have a grasp of temporal terminology. Mr Wol gave me happy look full of a scientist's delight at observing development in progress. She'd thought hard about how to say what she wanted ( Read more... )