walkabout bargain spotting

Me & Evie did our usual walkabout following her lunch and an "I dont want to eat this yoghurt I want to go for a walk tantrum"!

We went to La Senza where Evie nabbed another couple of draw tabs (I did return them before we left to go home ;o)), I am now getting quite chatty with the girls in there ;o)

We then went into the Body Shop and I saw that they are having a 3 for 2 on their toiletries ;o)  So I had a look at their shower gels to decide which 3 I was going to buy ;o)

We then went into Boots where Evie decided that she didnt want the draw tags anymore but wanted this instead! I quickly put it back and told her that she couldnt take stuff that had to be paid for.

I got her back in her buggy and we went back into The Body Shop and I bought 3 shower gels coconut shower cream, cocoa butter creamy body wash and mango shower gel ;o)

eee eye eee eye but no oh

Yesterday whilst changing Evies nappy I was singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm...

Because she loves it when I make a roar sound I sang that "he had a lion with a roar roar here and a roar roar there" next thing I know Evie was singing "e-i-e-i with a roar roar here"

I definitely wasnt hearing things because James heard it too ;o)

Yesterday (being a bank holiday) we took Evie to another soft play place it was absolutely huge and had a gated place for the under 5's to play...

I was even crawling through the stuff with Evie and helping her up the bits that were too steep for her :o)

We then did a bit of shopping and I saw that in Gap they had 30% off everything and ended up getting Evie this dress and some tights.

on the inside again

When Prisoner Cell Block H was originally showed in 1986 I watched religiously (I even got James into it too ;o)).

Anyway I was looking through the tv guide yesterday and saw a she Wentworth Prison and it is described as an Updated PCBH.

I looked at the information on the onscreen guide and it seems to be a direct copy.

I have put it into record and I just hope that it has the warmth of the original...

Yesterday because we had horrible weather we decided to take Evie to a Soft Play place that I had heard about.

We got there and there was an a-board outside and there was a sign on the door saying to ring the buzzer so I rang it and there was no answer...

...I rang it another couple of times and one of those times I kept mu finger on the buzzer for a much longer time (so they knew how I felt).

Anyway this other family turned up and the woman said "oh they are shut" apparently the doors are open downstairs if they are open.  She had rang them earlier that day and there wasnt any answer!

Having looked at their facebook page they were shut yesterday anyway!  They really should have put a sign up saying that they were shut.

Needless to say we wont be going back again as they have a shoddy way of going about things.

We ended up going to the Grove Centre so that Evie could have a walk around as she wasnt very happy about being let out of the car and having to go back in again so quickly :o(

and he thinks that I dont make the most of my phone

Ever since I got my new phone in March James has been moaning that I dont make the most of it...

...I think that I do...

as I do internet searches, blog, upload photos, play games - I have even got upto level 5 on Angry Birds, I look at how far away places are and even looked up what restaurants were near by once!

Anyway the point of this post is that on our way home from town yesterday a woman in her car stopped me to ask where Chestnut Walk is (and that it isnt far from the golf club!  I told her that the only golf club that I know of isnt anywhere near here).

I then saw that she had a smartphone in her hand showing a map so I asked her where her satnav said it was and she said that she didnt know how to work it and drove off.

I looked it up on my phone when I got home and the place she was looking for is in Boreham which is a neighbouring village that is part of Chelmsford.

So I told James and then he said that it was a bad choice of words on his part ;o)

kisses finally

For the past few weeks Evie has been kissing her cuddly toys but not me or James!

Yesterday I was watching Jo Frosts Family SOS and she told the Mum to kiss her Son like he was a 5 year old (he is 14).

So wanting to give Evie a big kiss I told her to come to me and I gave her a kiss and then I said "are you going to give Mummy a kiss" and she did ;o)

She gave James a kiss later on too ;o)

first messages and now contacts

We all remember me not getting all of my text messages...

...well now my contacts keep on disappearing!

So I went onto the three website, and followed the "fix all" and hey presto my contacts came back ;o)

The next day I went to see if my contacts were still there and they had disappeared again!

So yesterday I decided to go into the shop to see if they could fix the problem for me...

I explained what was happening and what I had done to "fix" it and the bloke had a look at my contacts and said "they have all been deleted" except for four that are always on there (for some reason) and then I told him again what I had done to get them back and he then asked who from my text messages is a contact that is missing, so I showed him one that I had received on Friday and told him who the contact was.

He then downloaded a contacts app to see what contacts were on my phone and told me again that there were just four of them and that my phone had deleted them!

And that I should give my phone a couple of days to see how I get on and if I still had a problem then I should go back in and they will send my phone in for repair!

He thought that he had gotten rid of me so while he had gone out to the back I did the "fix all" thing again and hey presto all of my contacts had appeared again...

...so I showed the bloke and he decided that yes my phone was faulty and that it should be sent off to be looked at.

Anyway my phone is now waiting to go to the repair centre and I have a loan phone (as I am on a contract)

returning "aquired" items

When I take Evie into town now I let her have a walk around before we leave to come home...

...she normally leads me to where she wants to go.

On Thursday we went into La Senza (several times I may add ;o)).

They have metal labels on their drawers and they are at just the right height for Evie to nab one.

Anyway she took this label off the first time we went in there, then she had her lunch and when we were having another walk around I returned it to its rightful place and Evie decided to take it again!

I fully intended to put it back on our way home but totally forgot and shall return it this morning (honest) ;o)

She is definitely getting more like me ;o)

the nice chocolate biscuit lady

One of the Mums from our antenatal group invited us all around to hers as the weather wasnt very nice on Friday...

...we were supposed to go to Marsh Farm but it was raining.

She was braver than me I wouldnt want eight kids wrecking my house (although sometimes you wouldnt know the difference anyway!)

My friend had out a bowl of Cadburys Animal biscuits and I was handing them out to the little ones (I wanted to give one to Evie so offered them around to the others too).

The little boy whose house it was kept on pointing to the biscuits while sitting next to me (so after asking his Mum that it was ok) he had three of them and then his Mum said that he couldnt have anymore so I told him that they were all gone, and then he pointed to the kitchen (as if to say "they are in there go and get me some more") so  told him that I didnt know where they were kept.

Anyway when it was time to leave the little boy put his arms up as if to say "can you take me with you" so I told him that his Mummy would miss him and it was much nicer there anyway ;o)

His Mum then said that I was the nice chocolate biscuit lady ;o)

the V pound

I am all for traders getting their share of the V Pound, it actually surprises me when they dont make an effort...

...after all this weekend will be a real money spinner for Chelmsford as a rule ;o)

I shall remind myself of this when I am moaning about all of the festival goers tomorrow!

sharing mummys banana

Evie likes to share my lunch ;o)

And if my banana is ripe enough then I will let her have a bite or three ;o)  If they arent ripe enough then they make her ill!

James takes a banana to work with him too and he normally takes the ripest ones but yesterday (because I said that Evie was sharing them with me) he took one of the less ripe ones so that we could share one today ;o)

What we did on Thursday

On Thursday we had an another eye appointment for Evie...

...Evie was not a happy bunny while we were in there - she started to cry and James took her over to the mirror (that always cheers her up) so that she could look at her reflection ;o)

Anyway Evie is still long sighted and the lady said that it looks like she will have my eyes (poor thing)!

As James had taken the day off we were deciding what to do...

...I suggested Hylands Park so that we could go to the Adventure Castle Play Area but the area it is shut because of the V Festival! :o(

So we ended up going to Krazy Kids - Evie enjoyed herself ;o)

And then we went on to Freeport and we saw some more giraffes ;o)

We even had lunch at Chimichangas ;o)

piggy love

Back in December we bought Evie a harness buddy ;o)

Now that Evie is walking we have finally been able to use it ;o)

Evie walking with James

Evie giving Piggy a kiss (she still wont kiss me or James mind!) ;o)

And Evie holding Piggy ;o)

big girl bunches

Yesterday I decided to put Evies hair in bunches

she looks like a proper little girl now ;o)

she wriggled about so that I couldnt get a straight parting, but it added to her cuteness ;o)

finding her co-ordination

In the last week Evies co-ordination has really improved ;o)

She can now do the movements to the wheels on the bus ;o)

her arms go around for the wheels, claps her hands for the doors going open and shut, touching her nose for the bell going ding ding ding, and moving her hands for the wipers going swish swish swish ;o)

And James was doing one two three four five and she was doing the swimming with her hand, shaking her hand for the fish biting her, and she is counting (well sort of) her fingers too ;o)

Evie is also copying what we are saying more now too and doing a lot more babbling ;o)

nothing nasty lurking

I so wanted to alliterate the post title! ;o)

Anyway I got my results through and it was all normal ;o)

And I dont have to go through it all again for another three years ;o)

no longer the youngest customer

Me & James have been really proud of the fact that Evie has been a customer in Starbucks since she was eight days old ;o)

Well yesterday we saw two very young babies so we asked what their ages were...

...one of them was six days old and the other was four days old! ;o)

Evie was a bit miffed by them upstaging her but then remembered that she did do her first steps in there ;o) so her crisis was averted ;o)

paddling pool

Following the fun that Evie had around our friends house we bought a paddling pool (although it was called an inflatable swimming pool).

And from Ebay we bought 50 plastic ducks ;o).

Yesterday I blew up the paddling pool swimming pool and put an inch of water in and the ducks ;o)

Evie liked climbing out of the pool

and getting back in again!

and getting her playmat wet ;o)