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!!