2012: Week 43

Saturday 20 October

The weather might be colder but it's not too cold for sliding. She didn't even mind looking at the camera and smiling :).

Sunday 21 October

This hair is getting more and more uncontrollable... I keep wondering whether to cut a fringe in, but I know the sight of someone (even a professional) coming at her with a pair of scissors would not bring out the best of reactions in her, so I keep putting it off...

Monday 22 October

Sitting on the potty - the wrong way round, but it's a start.  I considered starting potty training this week as she seems ready, but after this particular occasion, the rest of the week she had absolutely no interest in sitting on the potty, so I'll leave it a while.

Tuesday 23 October

I wanted to take a picture of Daisy with Mr Skinnylegs, the spider she made at the Children's Centre this morning, but she was more interested in not missing a second of whatever was on TV at the time :).

Wednesday 24 October

This afternoon we went into town, and bought some bread to feed the ducks at the pond next to the car park. It was all going well until this swan came over... Daisy wasn't bothered by it, but I was so conscious that it might start pecking at her or me that I didn't feel all that comfortable the rest of the time. I kept trying to send bread in its direction so it would be distracted long enough that we could feed the rest of the birds in peace, but it was obviously a bit slow because the other ducks got to the bread before it every time, making it even more determined to try and get some out of my hand... Still, I don't think I projected my fear onto Daisy, and she still had a good time.

Thursday 25 October

This was supposed to be a 'before' picture. After I dropped Daisy at nursery today, I took my car in to Bedford for a service and MOT, picked up a courtesy car and while I was there I drove across town to hire a pressure washer for the day. I got it home, dragged the hose pipe through next-door's garden to the front of the house, and found that there was no hose connector. So I dragged the washer back behind the gate in next-door's garden so no one would steal it, went to B&Q and bought a hose connector, got back, set everything up again, turned it on and it shorted the electrics in the house, despite having a circuit breaker. Long story short, I ended up taking it back for a full refund and other than going for a run and changing the bed linen, I got nothing done today :(.

Friday 26 October

Make yourself comfortable, won't you?

Twenty-Six Months

Ugh, so late with posting this. So late, in fact, that it's past the date I'm due to write next month's entry. However, I've just put together a photo book of Daisy's second year and it was really helpful to go back through the blog and remind myself of what she learned to do and when, so I'll jot a few things down here, if only to jog my memory when I'm doing next year's book :).

She runs everywhere now. Never walks. Why walk when you can run?

She says 'There we go' after she puts anything down.

Her favourite song at the moment is the Hokey Cokey. 'Ohhhh, okey okey okey.... knees bend rah rah rah!' No video yet - working on it.

If something needs cleaning, it goes in the 'washing madryer'.

Jon does bath time, then I go upstairs with milk to do stories and bed.  When I get there, Daisy is sitting on Jon's lap in the chair in her room and Jon is usually combing her hair. When she sees me, she says 'Hello Mummy. You sit in the chair.' So Jon gets up and I sit down and he puts Daisy on my lap, then she points to the landing just outside her bedroom door and says 'And now, Dee go over there.'

It was Mum & Dad's Ruby Wedding this past month, and we all went up to celebrate with them. Here's Daisy explaining what happened...

And a picture of said beautiful dress...

And finally, here's a quick rendition of 'Old McDonald' before Harry and his Nonna knock at the door...

2012: Week 42

Saturday 13 October

Today was Nanna & Grandpa's Ruby Wedding Anniversary party (their actual anniversary is next Sunday, but they booked to go on holiday on Saturday then realised there would be a clash...). We had a really great time with 60 friends and family members. It was a lunchtime buffet which meant that Daisy didn't nap, plus she woke up an hour earlier than normal this morning so I was half-expecting a meltdown by about 15:30, but she was sooo good all afternoon.  I had lots of compliments about how well-behaved she was, to which my response was 'You didn't see her on Tuesday...'! After today, I'm feeling a lot happier about the prospect of putting Daisy in a bridesmaid's dress. I told her all week that she would be wearing a beautiful dress and by Saturday she was so excited to put it on :).

Sunday 14 October

Today was the first time since Daisy was born that I played the piano at Mum & Dad's. I wasn't very good. But Daisy was great, and she loved it!

Monday 15 October

I finally got this sticker on my book at Slimming World on Monday! Eight months later, I'm two stone lighter :).

Tuesday 16 October

Playing Trapdoor with Dee :).

Wednesday 17 October

Ruby came round to play with Daisy this afternoon. Daisy hasn't stopped talking about it since then. 'Ruby come and see you!'

Thursday 18 October

Daisy's new favourite song is the Hokey Cokey, and she loved dancing round the room with Dee while we sang it this evening before bed.

Friday 19 October

Love my beautiful girl.

2012: Week 41

Saturday 6 October

Daisy went to her Dad's yesterday and I didn't take any photos today. I considered finding a stock photo of a Blood Brothers poster (Jon and I saw it this afternoon) but I thought you would rather see this picture that I took a week or two ago and didn't have room to put in that week's blog entry. She had such a good try at putting her coat on - shame it was back to front when she'd finished...

Sunday 7 October

I bought Daisy a new pair of slippers yesterday. As with everything new, she wasn't too keen at first, even though they have Peppa on them, so I didn't make a big deal of them and within 5 minutes she had put them on her feet herself :).

Monday 8 October

Daisy loves watching a particular YouTube video of baby pandas in a sanctuary in China playing on a slide - so much so that when the video finishes, she's learned to press the space bar to play it again. This morning she announced she was going to get her doctor's set and when she came back she got the stethoscope out to listen to the panda's heart... :).

Tuesday 9 October

I was just about ready to throw Daisy out the window today. Making it worse was the fact that it was raining, so we couldn't even go to the park. Instead we had a drink and a cake in our front-room coffee shop.

Wednesday 10 October

Carrying on the cake theme, here she is enjoying a cupcake at Toddlers this morning. She gave herself a chocolate icing goatee then left the cake itself.

Thursday 11 October

Oh dear, I didn't do very well at all this week... Here's one from next week instead, as I have a choice of photos for Saturday in particular.

Friday 12 October

Another sneak preview of next week. In honour of what would have been my late Nanna's 102nd birthday, but mainly because I didn't take any pictures again today, here's Daisy's Nanna and Grandpa cutting the cake at their Ruby Wedding party.

2012: Week 40

Saturday 29 September

It didn't come as a surprise to me when Daisy didn't want to try on a bridesmaid's dress the other week, so I've resolved to get her used to wearing dresses over the next couple of months, because she will wear one on the day, like it or not :). I can just imagine her sitting on the floor, tears rolling down her cheeks, saying, 'No dress! No down the aisle!' so I'm determined to get her as used to the idea as possible. Here's one of the dresses I bought her this week - we have a couple already, but not many as it's just so much easier to put her in trousers, and the ones we do have are too big for her, despite saying 12-18 months on the labels. So this is my two-years-and-one-month-old in a 9-12 months dress, playing with her 'water mat' :).

Sunday 30 September

Nanna and Grandpa are here this weekend, and I inadvertently volunteered Dad to do some wallpapering next door (he didn't mind; he likes having little projects to do when he visits. Remember the balustrade?). Daisy wanted to come too as she likes to torment Izzy, the neighbours' dog, but as Izzy was asleep and not interested in being tormented, Daisy got stuck into the decorating...

Monday 1 October

Dad took this beautiful picture of Daisy at the park this afternoon before they left to go home.

Tuesday 2 October

We went to the Children's Centre this morning and Daisy embraced her inner Roger Taylor.

Wednesday 3 October

I love this picture of Daisy and Harry, who came round this afternoon with his Nonna to play in the park with us. It's slightly out of focus, but it looks like the kind of picture you see in a trashy magazine with the caption 'Neither Daisy nor Harry has publicly acknowledged their relationship, but our paparazzo's shot says it all...'

Thursday 4 October

Daisy wouldn't leave this cupboard alone today when she got back from nursery. Turned out she'd put a plastic fried egg in one of the saucepans that live in there and she was trying to get it back.

Friday 5 October

Usually I get Daisy's lunch ready then prepare my own while she's eating hers, which means she's usually finished when mine's ready to eat. Invariably, this is what happens...

2012: Week 39

Saturday 22 September

Jon and I went to Brighton this afternoon; he's staying for a couple of nights to go to the Lib Dem Party Conference. He went to the rally this evening before we met up with some friends for dinner, and as I didn't have a conference pass and I'd never been to Brighton before, I went to find its most famous building, the pavilion.

Sunday 23 September

When we woke up this morning it was already raining, and it didn't stop all day. I travelled home on the train this afternoon, but by the time I got to Brighton Station the rain had already gone through my shoes and socks and I spent nearly four hours with wet feet :(. I resolved to get straight in my pyjamas when I got home, but before I did I had to empty the bins, and I found this outside the back door. I had to take a picture of it straight away as I knew I was going to destroy it getting to the bins...

Monday 24 September

After I picked up Daisy at lunchtime we had a fairly relaxed afternoon playing at home. She picked up the AppleTV remote, gave me the satellite remote and told me to 'talk to me on the phone' :).

Tuesday 25 September

I love how casual she looks in this shot.

Wednesday 26 September

A friend gave me some little medicine cups the other day and as Daisy was a bit snotty today I gave her some medicine, which up to now hasn't been a pleasurable experience for anyone. Not only did she drink the medicine straight down, she asked for more and cried when I said no :).

Thursday 27 September

After she got back from nursery today, Daisy wanted to play on the slide. It had been raining so the slide was wet. She asked Jon for a towel ('Towel, please, Dee') then I held my hand out to take it from her and she said 'No Mummy do', and cleaned the slide herself :).

Friday 28 September

This week was clearly a week for asserting her independence. 'I put my boots on all by myself!'