Little Miss Bump!

Thursday 29th October 2009

Well as the title suggests I have had a busy week causing bumps and scratches!! It started on Friday at playgroup, in my excitement to go play on the climbing frame I fell over my feet whilst running and forgot to put my hands out to save myself so landed on my nose instead - which left me with 3 lovely red grazes on my nose. By Tuesday they had just about disappeared when I decided to add to them. This time i was running to mummy (who was in my room) and fell again but this time tripped forwards and banged my head on the door frame - this resulted in a lovely long straight bruise (about the width of the door frame) on my cheek and forehead and a huge golf ball shaped bump on my forehead - luckily I need a haircut so my fringe hid it quite well and I was still allowed out to play!! I was very brave both times and although i cried i soon forgot about it after a lovely cuddle from my mummy!!

Well aside from head banging i have had a busy week of socialising. On Friday we had playgroup again after the summer hols, as it is a new term there were lots of new people that had started which was nice and except for falling over we had lots of fun. I managed to join in the dances and songs at the end on my own this week as well. Then in the afternoon we headed over to Daniel's house for a playdate with him and Charlotte which is lots of fun. Izzy (Daniel's mummy) had left the sparkly strips up at his door from his party and by the end of the afternoon I was just about brave enough to venture through them on my own!!

We had a lovely quiet Saturday which consisted of a bit of shopping in the morning (daddy and I went to the shop and bought a full fish with head, tail and everything - not sure mummy was that keen!), lunch out and then daddy went to play football whilst mummy and I popped to the shops again for some bits to go with the fish. Then on Sunday we chilled in the morning before Ben and Oliver and their mummy and daddy came round in the afternoon. They have just moved to Singapore from Hong Kong and will be living around the corner from us soon, which will be really nice. Our daddies play football together so I can imagine some playdates happening around 3 o'clock on a Saturday in the future!! I have included a picture of myself and Benjamin playing.

Other than that this week we have been to music class (apparently I was not that well behaved if you listen to mummy) but we did have fun at the end when we all held hands in a big circle and danced around - lots of fun! Tuesday we caught up with Michael and Mary and their big brother David - we had loads of fun running around and playing chase whilst the shopping mall was quite empty. Then on Thursday we spent the morning at the Chinese Embassy trying to get our visa sorted for our holidays in a week and a bit - we are heading across to Hong Kong and then up to Beijing for a week - very exciting, I am going home!!!

Well that was this week I think - we have spent a bit of time resting at home this week, in between my head banging incidents and mummy has been encouraging me to do things that require me to be sitting still - apparently she was worried about concussion but thinks with the amount of times i fall over it is quite hard to tell whether I am dizzy or just silly.

love to you all and speak soon

Little Miss Bump xx

Coffee catch ups and teeth

Thursday 22nd October 2009

Hello all!

Well as ever we have had another busy week and I have not been unwell all week - yippee!! Friday was lots of fun as we met some friends who were over from Hong Kong - we had not seen each other since I was about 6 months old and Natalia was 5 months old - so we had lots to catch up on. We went to the Book Cafe which is fab as they have huge sofas in the corner and loads of books, newspapers and magazines for the grown ups (which clearly mummy and Nic did not get a chance to look at) but also loads of toys and books for toddlers. We had babyccinos which came with loads of frothy milk on top and 4 little marshmallows - very posh! I think it is fair to say the competition to see who could make the most mess was pretty fierce! Well aside from the drinks and toys our favourite games were playing going up and down the step, races up the toilet corridor and making our mummies sit on the little step tapping their knees and singing yippee-yi-yah! Hilarious!!

Then after a quick lunch and nap at home it was time to head out to Charlotte's house for a playdate with her and Daniel. This involved lots of biscuits (cunningly stolen by me - although i did give the choccie ones a miss and headed straight for the rich tea - much to mummy's delight!), playdoh and colouring, chasing around the house, the odd bit of fighting over toys and generally making another huge amount of mess which we left poor Hannah to tidy up when we left. Thank you Hannah and Charlotte though we had lots of fun!!

Well after a hugely busy Friday we had a quiet weekend. We went to Ikea which was fun as I spent about 20 mins in the bed section testing out the beds - as you have seen from previous pictures I like beds and pulling the covers over and snuggling - apparently not that appropriate to do it in a shop but never mind. We were also busy skyping again and I said another new word - Jasp (for Jasper the dog), I can also woof like a dog as well - animal noises are definitely one of my strong points, maybe I am a Dr Doolittle in the making?!

Well Monday saw the return to the grindstone with music and swimming classes. Music was lots of fun - we pretended to be choo-choo trains with hula hoops as wheels and I managed it on my own for the first time and we also made a return to the blanket river boat rides - my favourite! Swimming was also good - we timed it right with the dreaded rain again and we did speedboats, Humpty Dumpty and lots of swimming to mummy.

Mummy has mentioned a man called Santa Claus over the last few days and he appeared on the TV as well today. It has something to do with loads of toys, singing silly songs, being good and a strange looking man in red with a big white beard from what I can work out. I will keep you posted if I find out anything else - watch this space!!

As well as this funny man mummy has been trying to convince me to dress up strangely and keeps cackling at me. We looked at lots of costumes in a shop on Tuesday and sadly they were all too small or too big. I have however got a fabulous new black hat with orange sparkly witches on - I was not that keen to start with but have taken to wearing it around the house today whilst carrying my umbrella - need to work on the cackling and the turning the umbrella into a broomstick thing though before next week!

And finally today we had another adventure - we went to the dentist!! Mummy went first and whilst she was sitting in the chair daddy explained what was happening - I found it all quite interesting and at one point tried to help the dentist out and also make mummy laugh by ticking her toes - oops! I was desperate to get my hands on the swirly watery thing that mummy kept having to drink and spit out into the little bowl that looked lots of fun. Poor mummy had to have a filling and she was very brave, I watched carefully (I quite like teeth and mouths) and then it was my turn to go in the chair. It was very cool - first i tipped backwards and then i went up, however once the chair stopped moving I got bored and was not keen on opening my mouth for the dentist so I got down and made way for daddy. He had to have some work done which needed an injection as well, so me and mummy spent some time walking up and down the stairs loads of times whilst we waited for daddy. So that was quite an interesting trip and hopefully next time we go I might be able to get my teeth counted!!

Well bye for now

Love El x

This weeks pictures are me sitting in my doll's pushchair, putting my cycle helmet on and my ladybird tattoo from my party bag last week. The party bag also had some bubbles in and I have finally worked out how to blow bubbles now - that is my skill of the week!!

Active again - weather permitting!

Thursday 15th October 2009

Well a much better and more exciting week this week! Yeah!! Friday was good fun as daddy was at home so I got to play with him in the morning and have sausages for breakfast - mmm yummy!! Then in the afternoon mummy and I went to Daniel's 2nd birthday party. It was lots of fun and Daniel's mummy had hired a slide for the house - weeee!! There were so many toys to play with and then we sat at the big table on proper chairs to eat our dinner - more sausages and some crisps, followed by jelly with strawberries inside (Daniel's grandma brought the jelly from the UK especially for the party!!) and birthday cake. Daniel did a great job of blowing out the candles on the biggest birthday cake ever (it was a giant Bob the Builder). Sadly we all had to leave for bedtime but we went home with a balloon, a party bag and two ladybird tattoo's which daddy was a bit shocked about!!!

We had a fun weekend as well - we went swimming twice (once it decided to stop raining for long enough), skyped the north and south of England and did loads of tidying and sorting (again!) and a bit of Ikea DIY!!

I have been busy perfecting my skills this week. i can now very easily walk up and down the stairs all on my own, without holding hands or railings - clever me!! I can also name all of the characters in ITNG, when mummy says their name i point to them after my bedtime story - mummy was impressed!! I am also perfecting my gym techniques - I have been having loads of fun creating things to climb over - daddy's legs are a fave, as is the Wii box and also the coffee table (although i do tend to get shouted at when i do that one!!)

The rest of the week we have been busy avoiding the rain - unsuccessfully as we were rained on on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday!! and getting back into all of our activities. Monday was music and we got the harmonicas out - picture the scene, 10 children under the age of 3 trying to blow the harmonicas in time to the music whenever the dog on the tape barked - absolutely hilarious!!! Maurice was back as well, which was nice although he is heading back to Germany soon. Then in the afternoon we headed off to the shops and got rained on - well mummy did i was nice and snug inside my rain cover!!

Tuesday we headed down to the East Coast, however as soon as we got there and mummy had ordered her coffee it started raining and so off we headed back home, luckily it was only fine rain until we got home, but i do not think mummy has walked so fast before. Then in the afternoon we got rained in so played at home instead of going out. Silly rain!!

Wednesday morning we headed off to do some jobs and then in the afternoon it was swimming again, but it started raining again!! So we headed off and kept our fingers crossed and headed off to Tanglin - just as we got there it started raining, so we hid under the big umbrellas, but Dave came out and said we could swim as it was easing off - yeah!!! I did lots of swimming to mummy, did some surfboarding, jumped in from the edges, sang songs and did a flying aeroplane splash!! I have definitely missed swimming whilst i was poorly!

Finally today we went to Werners and played and created havoc whilst the mummy's had coffee and chatted, then we headed off to the shops to buy dinner!!! And more importantly we stayed dry - yippee!!!

I have spent a lot of the week dancing as well - i am getting quite good at it and often go to the computer and put daddy's music on so that i can dance around. I am very good at head banging! We have been doing lots of races around the table as well and daddy has set me up with my own laptop in the study so i have been busy playing my kneebouncer games and obviously typing up my blog.

Hope you enjoyed reading this week and i will be in touch again soon

Loads of love

Eleanor xx

PS This week's pictures are me in my party dress, playing boxing with mummy on the Wii, taking pictures with my camera (say cheese!!) and hiding from mummy with daddy. xx

Cold and boredom!!

Thursday 8th October 2009

Not a very good week as i still have my nasty cold and cough so we have not been able to do very much this week. no swimming and no play groups. In a bid to cheer me up mummy bought me a magazine when we went to the shops - it was a Teletubbies magazine and was really good, there were loads of stickers in it, some colouring in and some stories as well. i never used to like stickers very much as they would stick to me and i could never get them off, but now i have learnt how to stick them properly i think they are great fun. Mummy now lets me put the stamps and air mail stickers on all of the cards we send back to the UK - i usually get them in the right place with a bit of help from mummy, but sometimes things end up a bit lop-sided or upside down!!

At the weekend we were busy skyping people again and daddy and I went for a bike ride which was good fun. We also had a nice walk down to the East Coast on Sunday and a lovely roast dinner, which i sadly did not eat very much of. The good news on that front is that i am starting to get my appetite back, I was refusing fruit and even yoghurt during the week, which as regular readers of my blog will know is not like me at all. I think I have survived the last week mainly on pineapple juice and frothy milk!!

In another attempt to cheer me (and possibly mummy) up we did some baking as we could not go out to music class. We made some yummy chocolate buns - which i actually think might have been the thing that made my appetite back - mummy had to hide them in the top cupboard in the end as i kept grabbing her hand and pointing at them on the side. Mmmm, chocolate buns and frothy milk - anyone else drooling?!

Well that really was all we did this week - short walks, naps and much more tv watching than is recommended for 20 month old toddlers. Promise that next weeks blog will be completely action packed - starting with a 2nd birthday party tomorrow -mmm, more cake!!

Love and chocolate kisses

Eleanor xx

PS This weeks photo is of me in my Leitrim shirt that Shaun, Marie and baby Hannah sent over for me. As you can see daddy has a matching one - and yes we did go out together wearing them!!! Mummy did not have one so she had to stay at home!!!

Brum brum, choo, choo, shake!

Thursday 1st October 2009

Well the week started off well as we headed off to play group again. It was lots of fun and lovely to catch up with all of my friends again. We did some gluing and made a scary teddy bear for daddy, we had lots of yummy snacks and played outside on the big playground - lots of fun!!

We spent most of the weekend going brum brum as the Singapore F1 was on. We could not hear anything from our apartment (which is just as well as it was at night and would have kept us awake!!) but we watched some of it on TV and mummy and daddy went to see the cars race on Sunday. Mummy and I set up a circuit around the lounge and had lots of fun chasing each other round and crashing!!!

Then on Monday we had music - it was lots of fun and very loud this week - we played the drums, danced with scarves and went around pretending to be trains on a track - choo choo!! And Tuesday saw a return to Polliwogs - it was very busy but i had lots of fun running around, shooting balls at people and even went on the big curly slide which goes down two floors!!!

Unfortunately after that the week went down hill, by the time we got home from Polliwogs i was so tired that mummy took me to bed (at 5 in the afternoon) and i slept for an hour and woke up feeling very hot and needed lots of cuddles. So on Wednesday we spent most of the day at home with me sitting on the sofa under my duvet (I have attached a picture) but i did get to have some lovely medicine - strawberry flavour - yum!! Then on Thursday we headed off to coffee morning, but i still did not want to play and sat with mummy most of the time, we headed home and i had two naps(!) and tried to play but often ended up having to rest - see attached picture of me having a quick sleep on the Wii Fit board. Hopefully with a bit more rest and some more yummy medicine i will be fit and raring to go again by the weekend!

Other big news of the week was that i experienced my first earthquake - there were two quakes in Sumatra this week, which is only 300 miles from Singapore, so we felt both of them, we had a bit of dizziness with the building moving and the blinds were banging against the wall and the lights were swaying across the ceiling. Mummy was very busy trying to get me out of the way of the lights in case they fell from the ceiling (they have done before so she was not been overly paranoid!) but i was far more interested in watching Teletubbies to care that the building was shaking!! It is very sad though that so many people have lost their family, homes and belongings in the earthquakes this week and we are thinking about them.

Well on that note I am going to send you all big hugs and kisses and will update you all next week,

lots and lots of love

Miss Eleanor Mary xx