Been watching Jimmy's Food Factory.. interesting, I'd say.
Although I can't really say I'll be attempting to make my own cornflakes or square ham. Somethings are definitely too much trouble and some things have too much added.
It'd be interesting if we could all make these foods - I'd need a barn or out house, and at least one spare tumble dryer and a cement mixer!! Not sure how the family would take to green home processed ham though. Hope he does another series.
Life's hectic - as might be noticed from my "missingness".
Work was dodgy there for a while - new processes and procedures (phrase of the moment). But now ideas abound, if only they are actioned! Other than that it's a struggle to stay awake what with all the repetitive copy and paste work. Things are still iffy as the big phrases banded around from on high are "cost cutting" "pay freezes" and "money saving" - we now have to prove our worth!
The other half still spends more time on the "super information highway" than is good... hence another reason I ain't here much. It seems I have to account for everything I do online in the brief hour a week I get whereas other half is addicted to Farmville but very rarely gets to go on at all- except first thing in the morning, when I ring at lunch, when I come home from work, after dinner and before I go to bed I hear the sheep bleat, cows moo, ring of money in the cafe etc.
We have been struck by colds, bugs and now the little one has chickenpox. Poor little mite - the nurse told us it was nothing to worry about and gave C the MMR jab so now we have to look out for the symptoms of "a mild case of measles"! I'm furious at this as I've never seen chicken pox but knew the instant I came home and changed C for bed time. The nurse should've at least said to wait and see what develops before jabbing C in each arm. At least (touch wood) she's not been scratching or moping around. In fact apart from the spots C is very much a handful - demanding, climbing and addicted to Iggle piggle.
Ok so two in one go is a lot from me but I thought I'd divide up to give a Little C progress report.
Slimline Little C hasn't progressed with any more toofypegs - we have random days of red rosy cheeks and drooling and once I even thought I'd found a little toof appearing but alas nothing seems to have happened. We're active little'un, started crawling, walking and climbing all in the last week.... oh when I say walk it's not quite independent walking it's "can you hold my hands please" - this I don't mind as Little C is wibblywobbly still. We've been through the sudden thrusting onto feet just to topple over and bang head on floor phase and Little C has decided to climb people who will hold on and not let such nasty things happen. Except sometimes I'm a baaad person and blink and in that moment Little C always slips or slides down something - at least the crying isn't so bad now.
Talking - I do, I'm trying not to fall into the raspberry-blowing-googoogaga that the other half and other halfs family do. I'm asked if "dada" is on the list and noooo its "a-bprrrrrrrrr" - well that's what dada does to Little C. We do have "mama" generally when Little C is frustrated or hurt, I guess it's as good a time as any.
Food - yummy, Little C eats it all! Well eats what we've tried - baby rice, veggies, fruit, lamb, beef so far and all mushed to a pulp. We've choked on carrot sticks and sucked bread crusts and this week rice cakes (they really are polystyrene, aren't they?). We've reached the stage where Little C can be stuffed yet still cry when the bowl is empty - I did this last night as we were too late for baby rice before bed so I filled her with dinner. Ok so it's not as bold as bolognaise or lasagna which you can get in pots from any supermarket but I thought starting bland with individual flavours would provide a good start, at least then Little C can recognise different flavours rather than a mushy mix. You may thing bread is bland but apparently for little mouths it's a startling taste that needs serious consideration.
Oh it's a horrible thing to happen - been there done it myself now the other half is going through it all. And what could be worse? Being at home with the other half underfoot, in my way and basically hogging everything I used to have al day to do..... hence the lack of blogging ...coz I can't get on the Internet as it's always occupied!
One is informed there is a gadget that can be got which will allow all interested parties access at the sametime - but it's like the curtain rail in Little C's room, one day it will be removed from it's wrappings and actually fixed to the wall (we've had it for 4 months already!).
It as been nearly 4 weeks since the news was announced and the p'd off other half came home, and it's been a battle to get things that are normally done with regularity done once. Saying that things have improved slightly, the other half does now fill the dishwasher and make tea without too much complaining and sometimes I'm lucky enough to hear the phrase "can I help" (usually around lunch or dinner time when I've started cooking). The other half has even ventured to feed Little C once or twice, and I've started "it's your turn" when Little C starts moaning.
Perhaps I just demand too much too quickly?!?
We had two toofypegs for christmas and they were quite easy to produce.
This next set are real trouble. We're gnawing thumbs in particular and others things we shouldn't have our little hands on - and I've just been shown how negligent I was at putting away the Christmas "toys" as Santa is getting a good chewing.
Ya know I did a lot of reading about sleep and teething and basically I'd advise myself to throw it out the window if I were to be looking for the information again. Little C is obviously NOT a typical baby - we do not want to sleep the required 12 hours at night with between 3 and 5 naps during the day, we will not be lying or sitting around entertaining ourselves with our own toys and no way will we sleep the whole night through. Sometimes I think I should swap Little C for one of the quieter less mobile models I can find at the baby & toddler club......
