New Year New Me

Emily attended her first party yesterday, she was invited to Digi's 2nd Birthday Party - complete with a very cool indoor inflatable bouncy castle!

Fun was had by all, even though a young kid decided not to heed Phoebes warning that she was holding a baby and bounce ontop of Emily and Phoebe in the Bouncy Castle. This made Emily cry as well as upset Phoebe - I was non too pleased neither but hey kids get knocked and bumped about all the time (well not by my own personal hand - eek hope the police don't turn up at my door!) . Anyway transpires that bouncy kid comes from a family where there are no or very little rules - it became apparent after just 10 mins of this family's 3 kids charging around, wrestling and hogging the slide. I had to wrestle my hands to my side to stop me taking a swing at the little cherubs >:!

Anyway this picture is of little angelic Grace (it was her birthday too - Happy Birthday)

(not sure how this kid managed to get his head in the shot!)

I think this is Bam Bam - he was quite chilled despite the fact he was in the same room as 18 nutty kids :)

Awww so cute when she sucks her thumb :)

Shop Till I Drop

I got up at 2.30 am today, not of my own doing of course that would be mad. Phoebe had a nose bleed and woke me up. I just told her to forget about the fact that she's dripped some blood on the bathroom carpet - hey she's an expert in handling her own nosebleeds these days. Anyway she was fine, it was a small nose bleed but I couldn't get back to sleep afterwards as I was getting up at 3.45 anyway to head off to the Next Sale. How mad is that? Some of you may point out that this is very mad indeed. So I've had 3 hours sleep, been to a Next sale and was home by 8.20am in time to feed Emily (yes she slept from 9pm till 8am - what a trooper!). Oh but I wasn't done shopping as we've been busy over the last 2 weeks preparing Emilys room. Walls have been painted Russian Velvet and cream, the woodwork has been spruced up and Drew built the cot. All we needed now was some bedding - so off we went to Kiddicare in Peterborough - purchased some white bed linen and a baby monitor. Hey presto it's now 9.05 pm and Emily is sweetly asleep in her own room. I'm blogging and listening to a baby monitor at the same time - multi-tasking is a full time job eh!

Coolest Kids!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Santa's arrived!

The House that Phoebe Built

Handy tip - if you are fed up of the Xmas holidays and the kids are bored and driving you nuts, pop over to Ikea and purchase a cheap Ginger Bread House Kit. Glue the kit together with some sugar and water that's been boiled in a pan for 7 mins. Give the kids a couple of tubes of coloured icing and bags of gummy sweets - this took Phoebe 4 hours to complete (mind you it took me 3 hours just to glue the thing together!)




Tomorrow we tackle the Chocolate Yule Log.

Loss of service

Normal blogging activity will resume once we've watched all episodes of Lost Season 2.

In the meantime enjoy some festive fun...

Parental Leave

Last night we made it out on our own and togther for the first time in 3 months! It's a strange experience not having Emily around, I'm so used to being constantly busy with her or some other household chore. It was nice to get out as we had a lovely meal, which I think was Heinz tomato soup, followed by salmon on vegetable mash (with added brussel sprouts from the other guests) and then for dessert a lovely chocolate mousse. We caught up with some friends from work, Drew played blackjack and then we headed home just after 11. Norty babysitters had let Emily stay up with them, so we had to get her to bed. But I'm glad to say that after a bottle she went to sleep pretty well, no sleeping in though she still woke at 6.30 and 8.30 for a feed - ha hence why I'm blogging at 9am!

Ah lovely the postman has just arrived, I'm of to check out my large collection of junk mail.:)

Funniest thing I've heard over the last week "Pump and Dump" - thanks again to MrsL for this one. Us breast-feeding chicks know what that means!

Don't Get Done Get Dom!

He he i'm still laughing about this, but here's the story.
Whilst watching daytime TV (yeah I can hear the groans already!) I watched a programme called Don't Get Done Get Dom, which involved Dominic Littlewood, of To Buy or Not To Buy and Beat the Burglar, blagging bargains for everyday consumers on the street. Ok fast forward at the end of this show they asked people to email in if they would like to go on the show. So I did. I emailed Dom saying that I was after a recordable DVD or failing that if it made their programme more interesting I was after a newer second hand car. Well I got a call yesterday morning from one of the producers asking if I would like to go to London (they pay the train fair) and go on their show to try to purchase a DVD recorder. Brilliant I said, I'm up for that! Today they rang to arrange more details where I will be going to London on the 9th January, pretend to be a punter on the street looking to buy a DVD recorder and hey presto Dominic gets me a bargain DVD recorder - sweet!
This is my second claim to fame - my first being in Murder in Suburbia, which I have hanging around on DVD somewhere, in which I played a SOCO (scene of crime officer). Ah the life of stardom.

Autographs anyone?

13 days to go!

Well the panic is on now. I've only managed to send out my Christmas cards this week, and have only bought presents for a few people. I still have loads more to get and my diary is chocca! Today I've been for a 2 mile run (this time I managed to get my speed down to 9mins per mile - horrah!), watched Phoebes Christmas play (well an hour of it at least), bought a new Digital Camera (Canon A710 IS with 2GB SD card, a leather case and battery charger) and had a chat with the producers of the daytime TV show called "Don't Get Done Get Dom" so I may be appearing on TV soon if I get a call back :) Now I have to go to the gym and do some weights before the kids get back from school, and try to get some Xmas shopping done on line whilst dropping off and picking up Phoebe from another Christmas play tonight - aw well another busy night in the Henderson-Scott household.

Christmas Bunny

The Christmas Bunny is here!

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3am Wake up Call

After deciding to go to bed early and setting our alarm clocks to make sure we were awake to prepare Phoebe's lunch for today, Emily decided to scare the bejesus out of us at 3 am by screaming her head off. I flew out of bed to pick her up and see if it was just a bad dream or she was hungry - nope it wasn't that and she continued to scream. We've never heard her scream and cry so loud it was heart breaking to listen to. We decided to do a pant check in case she had an upset tummy - so the pair of us ran downstairs and opened the nappy. Nope, nowt not a thing to see, and she still screamed. We were now worried as this was really begining to scare us. I picked her up and she decided to let off some ahem steam (fart) that seemed to help a little, so we put a nappy on (just in case it was more than some wind that was being released) and proceeded to hug and rock her. Drew somehow managed to calm her down and she finally fell asleep in his arms after a few sobs. We still aren't sure what the heck bothered her. Was it was an upset tummy or being too hot?

She's fine today - as if nothing had happened. Unlike the pair of us who look slightly frazzled :)

Nappies and Nerds

I think I've finally succumbed to placenta brain syndrome. All I have to blog about are dirty nappies (Em's producing 2 horrendous ones in 2 days - mmm thanks!). I keep forgetting to phone people, to do things and when I sit at the computer to fulfill a particular need I get sucked into something completely different. I did manage to make an appointment to see the optician though - lets hope I don't forget to keep the appointment next week. :)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html - oh this bit is for the nerds

Yo Babe In Da Hood!

Sleeping Angels!

Emily slept from 9pm last night right through till 7am today - woo hoo! I hope this sleep pattern continues.



On another note I wish Mr and Mrs D good luck today with their scan.

Sending some big hug vibes your way - :-)

Raving Mad

Once again I wake up to find some local scroats have wrecked my car by smashing off my wing mirror. Grrr - it really annoys me that they continue to trash people cars on this street and the police continue to do very little about it. Luckily I met Ian from another house down the road who is also a victim of this crime. He advised to keep getting onto the police and maybe (ha yeah right) they can get some action from the council to install CCTV that will cover this street.