tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76420912575886738492012-02-17T18:42:48.938ZJaninehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652113802137868824noreply@blogger.comBlogger1321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642091257588673849.post-66786084962071202762011-01-21T22:00:00.002Z2011-01-21T22:09:33.965Z

I need to record some of James' prized sayings somewhere, because lately they have me in stitches fairly often and I really want to remember them, so here it goes: 'Mommy, when I grow up, I want to be a Kitty Cat.'I am busy putting washing into the washing machine and James comes up to me with a Magnetic 'a' on his finger and tells me its a wedding ring, so I ask him who he is married to, his

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James turns 3 tomorrow, however unbelievable that seems. We had a little party for him today and had lots of fun. I do need to brag about the cake that Gareth and I made. We have never made a 'character'/shape cake before, but I do think that our fire engine did come out well.Birthday Boy waking up Is it ready yet?A Good Bye cuddle with Bebe Happy Birthday My Baby Boy!

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I found out today on Facebook that I am the Featured Blog, so I thought I would say Hi, welcome, and please feel free to ask me anything in the comments. I will then try my best to answer them later in the week.Thanks,Janine

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Happy Anniversary My Love! 4 years on and we are still laughing.

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Granny Pearce05 May 1933 - 07 October 2010Rest in Peace my Dear Granny. I will always love you. You are one of the most beautiful women that I ever had the pleasure to know. I will always remember how unbelievably strong you were. How happy you were, how you loved to have us around. How you always thought we all needed to be fed because we were all too thin. I will remember the holidays we had

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Well, I realise that normally that would be a bad thing, but this is actually a good thing. I have decided (once again) that I am tired of being fat, so I joined Slimming World last week Thursday. It is a lot easier than I thought. At first the 'diet' sounded really complicated, but once I tried it, I can tell you hand over heart that it is the easiest 'diet' I have ever been on. I have not gone

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Hi! We are back from camping, in fact we have been for a while... I would have blogged (I think), but well, I was ill. We got back from camping on the bank holiday weekend and then by the time we had caught up on the washing, seen the necessary friends, restocked the house with food, etc, etc, it was Thursday and I suddenly got a pain in my upper right side. I thought the pain would pass, it did

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(Although we may be back sooner than planned, as there are severe weather warnings out for heavy rain and flooding)

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Its raining, we have had very little sleep and James is getting sick....

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About 2 months ago we started a Star Chart for James. In order to get a star he needed to go to bed when we told him to (8pm) and he needed to stay there. Well, today he got his last sticker.The promise had been that if he completed all 28 sticker spaces that he would then get a scooter. James has been wanting a scooter since May month. He loves them and always wants to go on his friends scooters

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Hi, I know that I have not updated in a while, but we have been busy. I can't say exactly what with because I am not sure, but I do know we went camping somewhere in that not too sure what we were doing busy-ness. And guess what we discovered? James is allergic to the carpet in our house. His eczema disappeared completely while we were gone. We did start a new cortizone cream called Betnovate RD

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I visited Alanah's blog and found an idea on there that I quite liked. Its called Pay It Forward.Here is what happens:- I will make a handmade gift for the first 3 people who comment on this post.- I have 365 days to do it in.- What it will be and when it will arrive will be a total surprise.The catch is that you must participate as well:- You must have a blog- And before you leave a comment here

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As promised, even though it is a bit delayed, here is an update on the Dermo Nurses first and second visit.Visit One: She looks at his skin, and is happy that there is no longer a 'crispness' to the skin, it means that I am doing a good job on moisturising him often, but his skin is still red, angry and inflamed. She wants me to carry on using the antibiotic cream until her next visit. She is

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And I have the medal to prove it. I did the Race for Life 10k this morning, and while I must admit I only ran over the start line and walked the rest of the way, I am still proud of myself and Gaelyn for completing it. And I had expected us to finish in 2 hours, so when we finished in 1 hour 47 minutes I was very happy.And here is a dorky picture of me after I had finished. (The dermo nurse is

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Good News - the Dermatology Nurse is expected to be here within the next hourBad News - the GP changed one of James' creams yesterday and he reacted to it, which means that it started burning him and he started screaming. Thats the third cream that has done this. He also has an antibiotic cream as some parts of his eczema are infected again.*Most GP's only get an hours training on skin care, my

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Depending on how well you know me or my family or you know how severe James' eczema is. You will know how it rules our lives. How I only wear certain clothing at home as he needs to be creamed 5-6 times (sometimes more) a day and the creams are oily. How only getting 3 hours sleep is almost normal in this house because he is so itchy. How we can only wash his hair once a week because of the

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I decided that I would try and make dinner early tonight so that we can all eat together (this has not happened for about the last week) so while I was in the kitchen making some pasta dish for tonight James decided to stay in the lounge. I left him with no TV and what I cam back to surprised. I was very impressed with my son. We have some puzzles that we leave on a shelf at his height, and

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I think this gives a whole new meaning to a Lazy lunch.....

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Summer days are approaching us now, and we have had lovely sunshine this weekend. It was lovely and hot, and that only means one thing, its time for ice creams. But, Gareth does complain that I give James too much ice cream, so I thought the way to get around this would be to make him some yoghurt ice lollies. Yesterday I went to Poundstretcher and I bought an 8 pack ice lolly mould and then we

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I have been teaching myself to sew in the evenings while Gareth studies. And to explain my sewing ability, well lets just say that they only subject I failed in school was Needlework, its not a talent that I have. But today I finished my first project all by myself from start to finish.... and this is the result..... Now we are trying to convince James that he needs to take the romper off. As you

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As some of you know, James and I are hostages at home this week. James may not leave the house as he has German Measles, otherwise known as Rubella. We saw the doctor on Sunday and he said that the only treatment for German Measles is to rest, and paracetamol if the temperature gets too high. Well, have you ever asked a 2 year old to rest, its one of lifes jokes. I have been playing DVD's that he

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This week on You Capture the theme is yellow.... and I am afraid that this is all that I could come up with, sorry. I had thought about doing James wearing his yellow arm bands or wearing his yellow helmet, but my camera then died (I think the batteries went bye bye) so this is all that I have this week.

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This has been one of the best weekends that we have had for a while. During the week the colour on our TV went bye bye, your choices were yellow or white.... not the best idea. So yesterday we splurged a little bit and bought our first TV. We have never bought a TV before, I was given one for my 20th birthday from my family, in the US we lived in furnished accommodation and when we moved to the

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This week on You Capture the theme is sweet.I thought the dessert that I was giving James after his lunch today would be a good place to look.The hand in the picture belongs to James. He could not wait for me to finish taking a photo of his food. The After Effect....

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I love that James is getting older, and how well he does things now. His speech is coming along really well. Today he told me that he does not have a bra on (yes, maybe its time for a talk about boys and girls), and 2 nights ago I was running late with getting supper ready when in marches my son and says "Is my supper ready yet?". I was flabbergasted. He has started to pedal his tricycle and can

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I will never look at photo's the same way again. I think this Picnik might just become my new favourite website.From this:To this - (I know the second photo is not perfect, but I do think that it is still an improvement)

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I have decided to start partaking in You Capture, if nothing else it will get me blogging more often.This weeks topic was Fresh.This is what I thought of first: The fresh bread was still warm when I took the photo, and it smelled very yummy.

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I have just been busy having the In Laws visit, so I leave you with this....

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I just don't have much to blog about. Last week went fine, I am just waiting for the biopsy results. Thank you for all your well wishes, they are very much appreciated.Last week we managed to book James into a pre-school that I am very happy with. I had started to stress as I had heard that we should already have him on a list somewhere if we wanted him to start in January 2011 because that is

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There are so many things that I think about and think that I will blog about, but then when I actually sit down at the computer with the time to blog I tend to draw a blank. So, I thought tonight instead of blogging about James (which is normally the first thing that springs to mind), I will update you about me. Do you remember this post - 'Where to start?'?Well, I have since been for many, many.

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Sorry for the delay in answering the questions, but between the activities, James getting sick, Gareth getting Man Flu and me being lazy, there just was not time to blog.Thank you to those of you that asked questions, and here are your answers:Vegemite Wife asked Does James have a South African accent at all?Um no.... he even says Mummy and not Mommy.Fun Mama asked do you find the culture in

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I have just been looking at my trackers and I see that a few more people than I thought actually visit my blog. I know that a few fellow bloggers have done blog entries where they allow their readers to ask them anything and then they answer. So, feel free to ask me anything? I will answer the question to the best that I am able to. And to the lurkers out there, feel free to come out and say hi.I

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James and I have been trying to find activities to do this week, and have found some fun ones.Today I signed James up at our local Leisure Centre. This allows him to do differant classes everyday, except Sunday, for £17.25 a month. So next week he is signed up to do the following classes:-Adult & Under 4's Swim Session - Learn through play in the water in a session designed for you and your child

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Last week I watched a show on Really called 10 Things You Need to Know about Losing Weight. I found the show interesting and that the presenter Michael Mosley asked all the right questions.This is what I learnt:1) Don't skip meals - When we skip meals our brain craves for high calorie food to compensate. This is caused by the hormone Ghrelin. Ghrelin is the hunger hormone. It’s made in the

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I do not believe in New Years Resolutions, I have tried them and I never stick to them, but I do believe in change,especially if it is for the better. And I have been thinking of ways that I would like to change our lives, how could I improve them? And these are the small changes that I wan to make:Household-1) Instead of using harsh chemical products, I want to start using green, friendlier

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James was doing so well, he even asked to use the potty when he needed to wee on day 3, but I have decided to stop and wait for the summer time for 2 reasons. Number one - his eczema has flared up terribly. Its all raw and has spread to his bum. And no, its not just from the wee going down his legs when he wee's in his pants. It is on the outside of his legs as well. My Mother In Law thinks that

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Accidents in pants 9Wee's in the potty 6I am happy with yesterdays results. I am just hoping that today goes ok as I am looking after another little boy this morning and he is slighty younger than James so he is not potty trained. And the 2 boys usually get up to lots of mischief together.

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Accidents on Floor 7Wee's in the Potty 4Yesterday I started potty training James. I am using a version of Gina Ford's method*. I have taken away all nappies, except for the sleep time ones and put him straight into underpants (big boy pants). We have a potty in the lounge and the bathroom. And we have a sticker chart, for every 5 stickers he gets a treat (jelly tots/milky bar/ice cream/raisins),

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A few nights ago Gareth, James and myself were sitting in the lounge. Gareth watching TV, James playing with his pirate ship and me busy with the laptop, when I sneezed, and James does not even look up from his pirate ship, but says "Bless you Mommy" and carries on playing. No prompting, no nothing. My kid has manners.

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.... for the last quarter of 2009.

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The NewbornThe One Year OldThe Two Year OldHAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BABY BOY! May you have many more. Mommy and Daddy love you lots and lots and without you our lives would not be complete. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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I stole this questionaire from Liane, who stole this from Vegemite Wife who stole this from someone else.... but I am going to go with um, sharing is caring?1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping Paper, unless I run out.2. Real tree or artificial? I love real tree's but scrooge(Gareth) said that we will have an artificial tree that we bought on clearance when woolworths closed down last year.3.

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James is having his 2 year old check up on Friday with the Health Visitor. The last time that James and I saw our Health Visitor we had a little conversation that went a little like this:Me: So, what foods should we be avoiding with James?HV: Anything with nutsMe: Um, he likes Peanut Butter sandwichesHV: Ok, thats fine. And he should avoid shellfishMe: Um, he had scallops for lunch yesterdayHV:

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James had a message from Santa tonight. Click here to watch it.

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Choo choo train, choo choo train, choo choo train, Bob, car, bus, roary car, bus, choo choo train, Mommy poo, Bob, choo choo train, bottle, tea bottle, car, bus, Daddy, roary car, mieow, mieow, choo choo train, juice, choo choo train, mommy poo, choo choo train, Bob, ice cream, car, roary car, bus, Mommy poo, bottle, tea bottle, choo choo train, car, bus, choo choo train, juice, milk bottle, ice

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Ok, so this might surprise, but these 2 are both my sisters.... so here is my question. What the hell happened to me? And why did I get all their fat genes? Because seriously, this is my mom - And now I am going to take my chocolate biscuits, curl up on the couch and sulk......

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For Christmas this year Gareth is buying me a Winter coat as I have been living in the UK now for 2.5 years and still do not own a winter coat. I needed to know what sort of coat to look for, seen as all the jackets I have been trying on have all made me look like a giant marshmallow. So, I turned to Gok Wan for some advise. And this is the advise that he gave me (well, at least his website did):

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I love my son and I love him just the way that he is. In my eyes he is perfect even when he is having an off day or an off moment. Yes, I am aware that he has moments and that they need to be dealt with, I don't think that he is always an Angel and I would not ignore him pouring grape juice over anyone (as I recently read about on a travel forum) or doing anything like that, in fact I am usually

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This morning James and I had some messy play and we played with some Cornflour Gloop. It was lots of fun and wonderful to see my little boy who does not like getting his hands dirty getting really messy and having the gloop run threw his fingers while he was giggling.To make the gloop you need to mix 2 parts cornflour with 1 part water, and thats it. It goes runny and hard at the same time.

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As requested by Jelena, here is the recipe for pizza base that I make:300g Strong Bread Flour1 teaspoon Instant Yeast1 teaspoon Salt1 tablespoon Olive Oil200ml Warm WaterPut the flour into a large bowl, then stir in the yeast and saltMake a well, pour in the warm water and olive oil and bring together with a wooden spoon until you have a soft, fairly wet dough.Knead dough for +-10 minutesBrush a

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I miss being able to pick up the phone and order a FAB pizza. FAB for those of you that don't live in South Africa means Feta, Avocado Pear and Bacon. Its been 2.5 years since I have been able to just pick up the phone and order one, and if I mention this to a British person they will look at me as if I have 7 heads. Its not an unusual pizza in SA. Although here in the UK you can order sweetcorn

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So our computer has still crashed and I have about 100 photo's on my camera to load. We are using my SIL's computer for now until we buy a new one. So here is an update of everything that we have done since I last posted.In October we went to Butlins in Skegness. It was lovely. I was a little worried before we went that it was going to be very Chavvy (yes, I am a snob), as the price was really

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Dear Any Readers,I have not just stopped blogging again after blogging for a week, but our laptop has crashed and therefore I do not have access, except where I steal someone else's computer and seen as I am not in the habit of stealing I don't think that I will be online for a while.Love,Janine

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What is James pointing at? Why, his Masterpiece of course!Yes, he is very proud of himself for running off with the glue.......And now its time for a rest.

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Today went better than yesterday.... no weather conditions, except for bright and sunny were felt in my house. James learnt to say leaves today. We went to the Woodland Walk this afternoon and must have spent a good 45 minutes throwing leaves in the air and chasing each other. We then took the actual walk, crunching the leaves under our feet (and using it to get rid of the dog poo that James had

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On Friday at 12:45pm I was called into the office, informed that I no longer had a job, and by 1pm I had packed up my desk, been escorted out of the building and was no longer employed. So now I am a Stay at Home Mum, which means that I now work for loves and kisses instead of pound sterling and my hours are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. And instead of getting upset about it I

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Well clearly I am not meant to be a person who updates their blog on a regular basis. Oh well......James has turned into a monster and discovered the art of throwing a tantrum, great! It just means that I am ready to murder him at any given time, including when he finds it funny to empty out his box of muesli on my kitchen floor and draw pictures in it. I think it is safe to say that the terrible

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Gareth has gotten a promotion at work, which is great - its a step in the right direction and its more money. The down side - he has to go to Brentwood (near Basildon) for 2 months, only coming home on weekends and our trip home that we had planned for May has to be postponed until later in the year, probably October or November..... So we have compared it to a sour lolly pop - its a treat, but

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So, its been a few months since I last posted.... oh well. Lots has changed, I no longer have a baby, I now have a toddler that tried to walk everywhere. He has had his circumcision and has lived to tell the tale. I have gone back to work, and James has started nursery. We both love it, although I am probably going to be cutting down my hours to part time soon, and only work 2.5 days a week. We

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Hi To Who Reads this.... we have photos and video of James' birthday, and I promise to upload them soon, but right now we are so exhausted from yesterday that I can not actually describe it. I know that I need to complete my list as well, all in good time.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Here is a video of what happens when we let James feed himself. The video is 3 minutes long and I do apologise for the sound of my voice (and the Top Gear background). You can expect lots more videos in the future, as the charger for my video camera arrived from South Africa this week, so my son has now become a movie star!

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#21 - I love his eyes#20 - I love when we blow raspberries on his tummy, and he squeals with laughter#19 - Gareth loves how James' face lights up when he gets home from work#18 - I love how he wants to copy everything that I do, even if it can be enduring.#17 - I love the way he smacks his lips together when he eats something that he especially likes#16 - I remember how nervous I was the first

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23 - I love how much James loves books. He is always on the go, but give him a book to read and he will sit there for 20 minutes just paging through the book.22 - I remember the first time we discovered James' first tooth. It was the 16th August and James had refused to sleep in his cot the night before. We had been shopping in Bournemouth Town Center the whole day and had bought the first

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25 - I love the way James' sleeps with his bum up in the air.24 - I will never forget the first time that James smiled. He was exactly one month old, and James and I were sitting on the bed, I was talking to him holding him up to my face, so we were face to face. And suddenly there was this big gummy grin.... it was totally differant to the 'gas smiles'.

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I love James' cheeky grin. The grin he gives me when he is about to do something naughty and knows it, or the grin he gives me when I say No..... he knows how to wrap Mommy around his little finger already.

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I love how proud James is when he climbs the stairs and then stands there calling us.

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I love the way he stops whatever he is doing to eat his grapes! James loves grapes!

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I love the way he claps his hands when we sing 'If you happy and you know it', and how he now makes his Tiger or Mini Mouse clap their hands too.

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James is 11 months old today, which means that there are only 30 days left until he turns 1. So, I am going to try and do the countdown each day by mentioning one thing that I love about him, or a special memory from his first year.Number 30: The way he throws things on the floor and then lifts his hand out open to show me that its all gone.

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Good News - The insurance company confirmed that I have the job and the salary is decentish.Bad News - They only want me to start in January 2009 instead of December 2008, so now we will be broke and Christmas won't be as festive as it could have been. Gareth has reassured me that we can still afford to buy James a birthday and a Christmas present though.... but also mentioned that I can't spend

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I have not been posting lately because I have started to worry about internet security, I know its a bit late, but rather late than never right? I am still going to post, but I think that I need to be a bit more careful about what I post.So what have we been up to?Gareth - well his books have finally arrived and he is studying every night, thus leaving me at a loose end. He writes his first 2

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So apparently our family is going through a bad run, and no I never started this blog to moan about sickness, but..........Gareth came home on Wednesday sick and never went to work on Thursday and Friday because he had a nasty cold, and this morning James and I have woken up sick as well, so now all three of us are sick with a cold. James has had a fever again, but luckily we managed to break it.

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Today was a beautiful day so we went to the beach. James had an absolute ball and loved every minute of it. He has also become a tea boy. He loves rooibos tea, and drinks about a 9oz bottle of it a day. And the good thing is that the rooibos tea is good for him too. Yay! Here are some of the photos my Sister in Law took with her mobile phone. Drinking my bottle of Tea!!! Football player in the

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Thats how long I was pregnant for and thats how long I have been a parent for. 39 weeks and 4 days ago I was in labour now, and James was born at 11:55pm. The last 39 weeks and 4 days of my life have been terrifying, exhausting and rewarding. I would not change them for the world. I am trying to work out which felt longer, my long pregnancy that had me visiting the hospital for constant issues,

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I always like getting the bad news first, so here it goes:James went back to the doctor on Wednesday to have his urine checked that he did not have an infection anymore, and the good news is that it was gone, but he has send it off to be tested anyway. But!, James has been referred to the paediatrician and for an ultrasound. The doctor wants to check what is causing his UTI and if there has been

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It is now 12:39am and I know that I still have a long night ahead of me. James has a temperature of 39.4 C, and it just keeps climbing. Tepid water clothes and paracetamol just don't seem to bring his fever down. He has been in his nappy and vest since 2pm this afternoon when I first discovered that he had a temperature of 37.5 C. I am too scared to go and sleep in case James starts having

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Yesterday the doctor phoned to say that the urine sample that they tested last week showed that James has a bladder infection. So, he is on another bout of antibiotics and then he has another doctors appointment next week for more tests. If it shows that the infection has not cleared up with this second antibiotic then he is going to refer us to a specialist to see that there is no damage to his

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Look, I can stand..... You weren't looking properly?

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I was tagged by Holly, so here are my answers.1. My uncle once: played imaginery balloons weith me.2. Never in my life: will I touch a snake.3. When I was five: I got bubblegum stuck in my hair, and my dad took it out with peanut butter4. High school was: fun.5. I will never forget: the first time I saw James6. Once I met: Chris 'O Donnel7. There’s this girl I know: who only found out she was

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On Saturday we went through to the town center to go and buy a gate for the kitchen because James keeps thinking that the kitchen is a play area and keeps crawling there. We also went to H&M and I think that my heart stopped there. Gareth and James had left to go down the elevator while I waited for Gaelyn and then was going to meet them downstairs. But a minute or two after they left the fire

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I still can't? Not sure what to do about it. If you can, please pass on some advice.Thank you.

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I am really trying to get onto the board, but the stupid Nest keeps kicking me to the home page and won't let me do anything else, but stare at the homepage. Are any of you experiencing this horrible error? I have a new post that I am curious about.Abby, if you do read this, its about reuseable nappies. We are looking at using them from now on seen as James' is now finally 16lbs and won't need to

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James does not have an UTI, he has Balanitis. That means that the tip of the penis is swollen. Balanitis can appear in uncircumcised boys as a germ can get under the foreskin and cause the swelling. Treatment is to complete the course of antibiotics and more regular nappy changes. Its not that we weren't doing regular changes before, just at the moment it needs to be done hourly. I have to take a

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Or was that just me? By 10:30am this morning I had been for blood tests for me, been to the doctor twice for James, being peed on at least 5 times, screamed more times than that and done my days shopping. I then had to go back to the doctors office for a third time to pick up a script.James hardly slept last night, he kept waking up screaming all the time, 7am this morning we worked out that

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Today has been a nice lazy day, I have done Nothing, in fact I am still in my PJ's. I never had to cook, Gareth went out and got us the Reggae Reggae Subs, well I had a wrap, from Subway for lunch and that was very yummy, then Gaelyn made us cannelloni with spinach and ricotta for supper also very yummy. She also cleaned the kitchen and Gareth did most of James' nappy changes and fed him his

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Good Old Fashioned Fun.....

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Oh I hope that James decides to eat today. Yesterday he refused point blank to eat anything for breakfast, only had some of a fruit pot for lunch and then ate spaghetti and a yoghurt for supper, only to later throw up twice. He was also very clingy yesterday, but only to me, not to Gareth and me. I could see that Gareth got upset that James never wanted him and cried when I was not with him,

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Here is the photo that was in the Echo Newspaper for the protest. I have the article cut out at home for James' baby book.

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On Tuesday James and I saw Tara and Bebe, and while we were sitting at the coffee shop Bebe (she is 11 months old) started coming out with spots, looked like flea bites. During this time Bebe drank from James cup and then James drank too. She also played with his toys and being a baby she put them in her mouth. It turns out those spots were the Chicken Pox, so there is a good chance that James

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So, today like every other day, while I make up our bed I put James into his cot to play with his teddies, but today was different. Normally if I take too long he starts to scream and lately he has taken to head butting the end of the cot as he tries to crawl further, but not today. Today as I came around the turn there was this little, proud face smiling at me. He was standing in his cot,

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Here is a laugh that I found on www.badmothersclub.co.uk:For all the guys who ever get dragged round Tesco against their will and perhaps some of the girls, should try a few of these too - may liven thingsup. Proof of what can happen if a wife or girlfriend drags her husband or boyfriend along shopping.This letter was recently sent by Tesco's HeadOffice to a customer in Wigan : Dear Mrs. Cater,

Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652113802137868824noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642091257588673849.post-65514215908289647602008-07-22T12:56:00.002+01:002008-07-22T13:02:23.890+01:00

This is an email I received today that I thought I should share:CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's !First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and

Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652113802137868824noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642091257588673849.post-31621181501550829122008-07-21T20:16:00.007+01:002008-12-11T11:04:55.651Z

Today is a day that we are going to remember for months. James and I went to our first protest. It was a protest called 'Protect me, protect my baby'. In the UK a new bill has been passed that it is illegal to ask a mom to stop breastfeeding her baby in public, if the baby is under 6 months old. We were protesting the fact that there is the 6 month limit, why? We should be able to feed our baby

Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652113802137868824noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642091257588673849.post-90725167966700095212008-07-20T21:23:00.004+01:002008-12-11T11:04:56.012Z

Yesterday Gareth turned 27 and today James was 7 months old! Yay! So, 7 was our lucky number this weekend. For fun, I compared the weeks/days that Gareth had been alive to the amount of weeks/days that James had been alive, so Gareth has been alive for 1409 weeks and James 30 weeks, Gareth has been alive for 9863 days and James 213 days. If you want to work out how many days, months or weeks old

Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652113802137868824noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642091257588673849.post-15355850826529868402008-07-17T21:58:00.002+01:002008-07-17T22:02:44.288+01:00

I really, really, really want a cleaning fairy. I want one that will come into my house while I am sleeping and clean my kitchen. I am so sick of washing dishes, I just wash them and then they are dirty again........and wash them and they are dirty again.... and then I wash them and they are dirty again. I wish that one morning I could wake up and find that someone else has cleaned my kitchen...

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