I have not blogged for a month. Well not much has happened to be fair. Mia and Jake have been poorly(again). Jake was off school for two days last week with a bout of diarrhea. He was literally rushing to the toilet every half an hour bless him. He ended up missing Oliver’s dinosaur party which was gutting for him and us because Amy and I had spent ages making an excellent dinosaur head for Jake to wear.
The week before Mia had a high fever. She was very unsettled in the night and a couple of times vomited all over the place. Once was in her bedroom immediately after her milk. Luckily it was not in her cot just over the floor. It did splash though so while Amy cuddled with the poorly Mia I got the disinfectant and mob and bucket out and gave her floor a good wash down.
Today Mia actually took a step. Amy and I were in the kitchen and we were sitting on the floor either side of Mia. She can stand for a while now although gets a little spooked because although she is standing nicely she is afraid of falling when she tried to move. Not that she is afraid of anything else! She brazenly climbs the stairs with a cheeky grin on her face as she looks back to see which parent is following her :-). As predicted in my last blog, Mia now can get to the Wii controllers and everything else in the TV cabinet. Her favourite hobby is pulling everything out of course :-).
This Saturday is Jake’s party. We have already had three drop outs due to various reasons. Let’s hope that’s it now though. It should be a good party. We have booked Mycenae House in Greenwich which is a lovely old house set in wooded grounds. Jake is having a Dr Who party(his favourite thing at the moment) and is dressing as Matthew Smith complete with a bow tie. Amy has been busy today making a Tardis cake and Dr Who cupcakes. After work I will try and use Ben’s projector to project a Dalek image onto some card stuck on the wall. The idea is that I then trace round the image and voila, we have a Dalek puzzle game(well that’s the theory anyway).
Weather-wise it is still quite chilly but thankfully Spring is definitely round the corner. I have planted out my onions and garlic in the raised bed covered by some mesh. We had some frost last week so fingers crossed that the mesh was good enough to protect the sets.