I didnt hear the doorbell

Yesterday I was thinking to myself "I wonder wen my Christmas tasting box will arrive"

Anyway I was changing Evies nappy and thought that I heard a ding (as in the doorbell) so I put Evie into her cot and looked down the stairs but couldnt see anyone and then I looked out of our bedroom window and couldnt see anyone from there either.

I didnt think anymore about it...

...then just after James got home from work the doorbell rang and it was our next door neighbour holding my package of Christmas Chocolates!

The delivery man must have been very quick to decide that there was no one home :o(

seeing celebrities suffer

After hearing from my (now ex) co workers about how funny Im a Celebrity is I have wanted to watch but never did because I knew that I would get into it...

...well I decided to watch it this year and it is really funny especially how all of the (or rather most of them) bush tucker trials have been carried out by Helen Flanagan ;o)

And I have an upset stomach which may or may not be the Novo Virus :o(  I just hope that Evie doesnt get it.

finally got her...

I finally managed to video motion picture Evie crawling ;o)

Blogger wouldnt let me upload the video motion picture directly!

more finger foods

I took Evie to see the health visitor yesterday because she is always being sick and she suggested that we give Evie more finger foods so that she can fill up at her own pace.

When I said that Evie just tends to throw them onto the floor she said to give them to her before her food as "she needs to learn to feed herself"

So from my dinner last night I saved her a couple of potatoes and a couple of broccoli florets to give her tonight and I will buy some apple slices while we are out today too ;o)

four teeth

Me & Evie were sitting on the floor in the library yesterday for Rhyme Time and Evie started sucking on my arm with her teeth! ;o)

The marks stayed on there for a good couple of hours.

Its a good job she only has four teeth ;o)

what does he think we do after?

We have been upping Evies food after the health visitor told us to.  It inevitably results in her being sick as her eyes are bigger than her belly ;o)

As she has been sick every day since I upped her breakfast I decided yesterday to give her a smaller breakfast to see if that helped...

...unfortunately she was still sick while eating her big dinner.

Perhaps today I will try cutting out her mid afternoon snack and will see if that helps.

Going back to the post title James said to me yesterday as I was giving Evie her last feed "try not to make her sick after" hee hee does he think I throw her up in the air after I have given her her feed?

we didnt have to rush our lunch

Us Mums from our NCT group decided that we should have a pre Christmas girly lunch...

...yesterday was the only date that we could all make (we made it a Saturday afternoon so the Dads    could look after the little ones ;o)).  As it was it ended up being just six out of the eight of us as one had started back at work (she only works Saturdays and this would have been her third one so she didnt want to take holiday so quickly after going back) and the other one couldnt get a babysitter as her hubby was working.

We went to the Bay Horse and had a really lovely time...

...and the best bit was that we didnt have to rush our lunch ;o)

maybe I will get it later

First we had Evie going around in circles ;o)

Then she was crawling backwards....

...and this morning she actually crawled but when I got the camera out to video motion picture her she stopped and wouldnt play ball (I wasnt trying to get her to catch a ball dont worry ;o))

Maybe I will get her later ;o)

from twinkle to dumpty

A few weeks ago we bought Evie some number four nappies...

...this morning I finally opened them ;o)

A while back (just after Evie had moved up to the number three ones) the design had changed to nursery rhymes ;o)

The number three ones were twinkle twinkle little star and the number four ones are humpty dumpty ;o)

 its a shame that they changed the design to late for us to have all of them!

big girl dinner

As Evie cant eat slop for the rest of her life, we decided to try her on some baked beans ;o)

And I bought some fish fingers too ;o)

She probably ate most of the pot of beans and 3/4s of a fish finger - she was having too much fun knocking the bits of fish finger onto the floor!

is the romford restaurant no longer there

Me & James have been discussing what to do for Evies first birthday...

...we have settled on going out for a lunch somewhere ;o)

We had decided to try Outback Steakhouse but when I tried to book the number was unobtainable for the Romford one so I tried Basildon got an answer I made the reservation and then I said "is the  Romford restaurant no longer there"  The bloke then said "oh you wanted Outback Steakhouse they went into liquidation in the UK" and then said "we are Grand Central" so I asked what there menu was like and (unsurprisingly) he said that it was fantastic!

So I told him that I would think about it and get back to him if I wanted to keep the reservation.

We didnt really want to go to Basildon so I decided to book Frankie & Bennys instead ;o)

They even do baby food ;o)

another try

I had an e-mail on Friday saying that you can register to be a giver for 2013 world book night.

So I have given it another try...

...the books that I have gone for are

Treasure Island

The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

The Island

And interestingly enough a Graphic Novel has been included in the lineup ;o)

hee hee if it wasnt weird enough my Mum reading a football book last year we will have to see what she thinks of Judge Dredds antics ;o)

I wasnt picked last year so fingers crossed...

sitting in the shopping trolley

Ever since Evie has been taking more notice of whats going on around her I have wanted to sit her up properly in the supermarket shopping trolleys.

I have been wary of sitting her in there as she wasnt too good at staying upright.

Today we decided to give it a go...

...and she absolutely loved it and was holding onto the handlebar for dear life ;o)

Infact she enjoyed it so much that she cried when we put her back in the car ;o)

iplunger

Me & Evie were looking around Primark yesterday...

...I was just having a look around before we heeaded home ;o)

I ended up buying some Christmas socks for Evie ;o).

As I was in the queue waiting to be served I saw these and bought one each for me & James ;o)

more meerkat for Christmasses

Ever since the first Compare the Meerkat adverts came out in 2009 I have been hooked on waiting for Aleksandr and Sergeis next adventures ;o)

A couple of years ago I bought Aleksandrs autobiography A Simples Life hee hee I was even reading it with his Russian accent ;o)

Last weekend I had an e-mail from Amazon advising that a box set of Meerkat Tales is out ;o) so I ordered them ;o)

I had an e-mail this morning saying that they have been dispatched so Fifty Shades is going to have to wait ;o)

no going back

I e-mailed my bosses this morning telling them that I wont be going back...

...I said that I was enjoying being a Mum too much and didnt want to miss a minute of Evie growing up ;o)

Although I did think about going back just to spite them and both James and my Mum would agree that that is a definite thing that I would do ;o)

So no more thinking about whether I want to go back or not although the answer was always no.

houdevie

I was just thinking to myself "what am I going to blog about today?" and I looked down as Evie was making some "look at me" type noises, only to see that she had escaped from her gymbaroo!

It was lucky that I saw her on the floor as she could easily have been wheeled over by the chair I use while on the pc :o(

I dont want anymore incidents! ;o)

I am now going to have to make sure that the gymbaroo is placed further back.

feeling put out

I have just received an e-mail from a colleague of mine after I sent her the link to this photo and I noticed that the address on the footer of the e-mail had changed!

My bosses had told me that the company had been bought out by a larger one but they never bothered to mention the office move!

I am feeling quite put out :o(

sliding and falling

So far this week Evie has not only slid off of the sofa but has fallen off of our bed (both on my watch too).

Luckily they have only been a drop of a foot or so but have still been enough to make me feel bad, and after a cuddle from me she has been smiling and laughing after so no harm done.

So no more leaving Evie on elevated surfaces...

...I know as she gets more mobile and older we are going to have loads of scrapes and falls :o(