Tolii adds the rice to the ice cream while Tosha mixes it all together.
Tosha discovered that he can have dinner and dessert at the same time!
It just takes saving a bit of the rice from dinner and mixing it in with the ice cream served for pudding. Tolii, once he saw what Tosha was up to, dived right in to speed the process along.
We love our cats - mostly. A week or so ago, though, they brought us a present that we certainly didn’t want: fleas.
Katya got the worst of them - bites all over her ankles. The kids had a bite or two; and Andew got one on his forehead! Yikes!
So - Friday turned into a disinfect-the-house day. Grandpa did amazing feats of cleaning under the close scrutiny of Katya as all linens were put through the wash; beds and carpets sprayed with industrial-strength, vet-approved flea killer. Grandpa knew a trick for dealing with the mounds of small clothes: instead of washing them, just pop them into microwave for a few seconds — ZAP! A boiled egg doesn’t hatch!
Fingers crossed that all is well in another two weeks…
Pirate Tosha and his ship, HMS Tosha
Pirate Tosha celebrated his 3rd birthday on the Millennium Meadow - a bit ahead of schedule because best friend Joshua is heading out on holiday. Many more photos are in our gallery.
Everyone was dressed for the occasion…except for our boys who point-blank refused any costumes. And what costumes there were!
Alien on Millennium Meadow
I just got back the digitized version of all of my dad’s Super 8mm cine film!
What does that mean?
It means we can watch films from my childhood in the 1970s without having to set up a projector!
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Tosha with a slightly swollen right eye
I have been off work sick this week. A summer’s cold. Or, just a cold summer. Either way, I had a call from the nursery at 11:40am saying that Tosha had come in from playing outside and his eye was swelling up.
No one had seen what had happened, but it appeared to be a bee sting. I said I’d come up to pick him up and take him to the local surgery.
I rang the surgery before leaving, just to let them know that I’d be coming…but they said the doctors were going into a meeting and that I’d have to take Tosha to the A&E. What!?
Anyway, up to nursery, and sure enough, his right eye was quite swollen and pinkish.
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I gave Tolii my old Panasonic Lumix FZ5 camera back in May. He’s been taking photos off and on with it for a little while. Its great to see the world through his eyes…
Tolii: A Clothes Peg (Or A Space-Ship Lands!)
Its been a terrible August: lots of gray skies and downpours. And its friggin’ cold (15C today). The only way through the gray, blah winters is to look forward to the summers…but is this now impossible?
Kayta’s British mates at work insist this is typical British weather, and that the hot, sunny summers of 1995-2005 were atypical.
The MetOffice does seem to concur with them though…
MetOffice says..."normal service will be resumed for the weekend with rain or showers at times"
No, we’re not expecting again. Its just that I finally got around to moving the “baby tips” from our very old website over to this new one.
You’ll find a link to all our tips, hopefully to expand to more than just baby tips, in the “Pages” list of this website.
A technie note … I’ve just upgraded this website to use Wordpress 2.6. It came out a couple weeks ago, but I wanted to wait in case there were any issues…there doesn’t seem to be, so I took the plunge.
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I popped over to the Rohde & Schwarz office in Aalborg, Denmark for meetings on Tuesday.
What a fabulous building! It used to be an old gas works - converting coal into gas. It was derelict for 20 years before R&S took it over about 4 years ago. They built up three floors inside it. Its is all tastefully decorate and felt very spacious.
It overlooks the fjord (for now - there’s plans for a building to go up right in front of it).
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No sooner had grandpa arrived that he departed…for a splendid day out on the Mid-Hants Watercress Line!
The weather, was bland, bordering on pouring rain (luckily not until we got home). However, that made for some great lighting for my photos — see our gallery!
This is a steam train line that has many engines and rolling stock from yesteryear. The volunteers are really into it, too. It ain’t cheap (£12 per adult/senior, £6 per child). Luckily, we had won a family pass at the Whitchurch Primary School’s fun evening.
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It was Tristan’s 3rd birthday party yesterday afternoon (its 2am and I’m just back from the pub celebrating with his dad, Coops).
No matter what Tristan thought of his bash, I have to say it was the coolest 3rd birthday party I’ve ever been to without being arrested for a firearms offense.
I mean, to give a three year old a chance to shoot a potato at some helpless sheep; Really; what a sense of coming-of-age.
Of course, Tosha (only 2 but oh-so-nearly-3) had to have a go too. And Tolii.
Its been a complete shock to us. For years (well, two) Tosha has point-blank refused to eat fruits and veggies. There had been rumours that he had fruit up at the Oak Tree nursery, but we didn’t believe them.
He reminds me of my childhood: for years, I’d only eat hot-dogs. Favourites: smothered in peanut butter; or (and!?), wrapped in Pillsbury dough and baked (lovingly called “Crescent Dogs“).
But in the past week, Tosha has taken a turn towards Katya’s genes: he ate a carrot. A whole carrot. And then tonight, he ate half an apple.
Stunning.
I’ve lost track of how many Power Picnics we’ve hosted over at the Millennium Meadow. I think today was the third. Sorry, yesterday. I really must start these blogs entries earlier, lest I fall further behind — forgive me…I was listening to music while sprawled on the sofa with my feet and legs twinging from the after-shock of having been stung by stinging nettles. Lots of stinging nettles. Katya still insists that its therapeutic.
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