Animal man

Caught Daisy painting Doodles with her 'dodot' (yogurt) thismorning doodles didnt seem to mind and quite happily licked it off and now has a faint wiff of strawberry about her .
The pixie's are now all recovered after a nasty case of the sicky's . My Ecoballs i ordered turned up just in time to help wash all the sicky clothes etc am really pleased with them and for some reason felt myself saying 'wow they actually work' ! ? have however swapped two poorly children for a slightly poorly dog who in the night ate my hairband and and then sicked it up , ugh! will the vomit never end (sigh).
for some reason which i have given up trying to find out this photo will only go in sideways GRRRR! it was a lovely moment captured of the pixie's playing together(without screaming and tears) with their stone and pinecone collection .who said children need expensive toys :)
In the afternoon was the much awaited Animal Man at the childrens centre it was a man who bought his pet collection to show and talk about with the children and it was brilliant he showed us a giant snail,cockroaches,giant millipede ,spider,snake ,rabbit and rat. all the children got to hold or stroke the variouse wee beasty's Ben loved it but Daisy was Facinated by it she couldnt get enough of stroking the cockroach and wouldnt leave the rabbit alone she even tryed to climb in the rabbits carry cage after it . Had a really scarry moment when i thought Ben was gonna step on the Giant Millipede!!! eeeeekkk

poorly day

Had a really sleepless night last night as both Ben and Daisy were sick in the night so lots of changing sleepsuits and bed sheets but in the end neither of them wanted to sleep in there own bed so they both slept in bed with me (Andy slept in the spare room he goes a bit funny over vomit) . Daisy really isnt one for co-sleeping she spent the night kicking Ben and singing which was all very sweet but just not in the middle of the night ! then she woke us up at 6.00am !!! with more singing !
They seemed ok in the morning so i gave them some toast and a little bit of milk ,BIG mistake both of them were sick again .
Think i have worn my poor washing machine out with the mountain of pukey washing thank goodness it was a sunny day so i could hang it all outside to dry . We spent the rest of the morning reading books together and feeling a bit sorry for ourselves.

In the afternoon they both seemed lots better so i stuck Daisy in the sling and we went for some fresh air in the park .
we were all starting to feel a bit antsy stuck inside .Daisy was happy to sit in the sling and cuddle up to me But Ben was full of beans and did lots of running about .
This was a nice horse we met, she let Daisy stroke her and posed quite nicely for photos unlike Ben who was much more interested in the electric fence .


little tree hugger .

i just had to get a photo of this today it really made me giggle ,after Ben was sick on the kitchen floor i thought id give it a good mop so when we came to make dinner it was still damp so i told Ben he would get wet socks if he came in the kitchen so off he went and came back with his cardboard stacking blocks on his feet so his socks wouldnt get wet :) its like a little peak into how his toddler brain works .

After we had our tea it all went puke ways again unfortunatly , Daisy didnt eat any food and she was a bit lathargic so i had her sat on me with her head on my shoulder and before i had time to move she covered me in puke all in my dreads down my top and my legs ! Ben started screaming and Andy ran off trying not to be sick !

poor Daisy she was really upset she had been sick all over her 'Toodle' (winnie the pooh blankie) thankfully i have a spare:) clever mummy moment :)

So on went the washing machine again ...

They are both asleep now so hopefully will stay like it with no 'incidents' in the night . fingers crossed all's well tommorow x.

choo choo

Today was Childrens Funday at Churnet Valley Steam Railway not very romantic for valentines day but we had a really good day and the pixies loved it .

Daisy got a snake made for her by a ballon artist which she chewed on so not surpisingly it didnt last long ( ive got its deflated body in my pocket still)

Ben had a teddy bear made which survived the day intact.

This is daddy and Ben charging up the hill to catch the bus home we were cutting it a bit close so we all power walked up a huge hill so gonna have thighs of steel after that mad dash . Thankfully we didnt miss the bus or i might have cryed as it was a 2hour wait for the next bus .

me and Daisy posing by the toilets

This cute little train was brilliant it kept letting off huge clouds of steam so much that you couldnt see for white steam ,kind of like the train equivalent of a fart i suppose :)

It was the best valentines present a mummy could have spending it with my little happy family x

The week in mostly pictures

He gives fashion tips for spare change :)

Ben getting his groove on , this was what we did when we were getting the pixies ready for bed its a slight imrovement on the naked dancing he'd been doing earlyer in the dark with his torch .cant wait to get these photos out when he's older heee heee .

I saw this on the crafty Crow, so after a very tiring day at soft play i thought we would make a T.T.T (tired toddler tent) or a T.M.T(tired mummy tent) it worked a treat, i got to lie down and Ben was quite happy to lie next to me and read books for an hour while Daisy had a nap upstairs. When daddy got home he got dragged in and made to read Ben's favourite book 'Penguin'.

We will definaley be doing this again i think as Ben wont have napps anymore its the perfect way to get him to recharge his toddler batteries so hes not too tired for the rest of the day and gets grumpy. Did however notice the underside of the dinning table is a bit gross so will have to give it a clean before we make another T.T.T .

Found a perfect use for those horrid trays that come with some fruit and veg from shops they make a brilliant paint tray for doing sponge painting hurray! couldnt find a old sponge so cut up the pixies bath sponge (ooops bad mummy) but we had a lovely time sponge painting with some rather naff paint i got from Woolworths closing down sale (was only 75p!). and it wasnt long before the sponges were abandened in favour of hands .

icey ducks

Today was very cold so took some bread and old cabbage and went to visit the ducks at the nature reserve . Only a small part of their lake wasnt frozen over so they were all slipping and slidding on the ice .Ben kept eatting the stale bread which was meant for the ducks but we managed to feed some of them .
It was so cold Daisy didnt even want to have a walk which is most unlike her so it was just a quick walk round the lake then home which took us ages because Ben said his bottom hurt ! so it was a very slow shuffle home where i discovered he had done a big poo in his pants ! (toilet training going painfully slow *sigh*)
Ben said this was the moon !

Had a nice afternoon looking at photo albums with Ben while Daisy had a nap then it was out with the playdoh which is their favourite activity at the moment . Had a bit of a curtain crisis when the curtains along with the rail fell on me when i was getting daisy up from her nap ,it pulled some plaster out with it so i couldnt get them back up :( thankfully its doesnt get light too early yet ! thats now 2 rooms of our house with no curtains (our bedroom has no curtains either ) theres a job for D.I.Y Daddy :) yeah right !

snow snow snow and more snow

We've had lots and lots of snow so as we dont have descent snow very offten i felt we had to make the most of it, so we were out in the white stuff everyday .grandma and grandad (my mum and dad) came down from lancashire for a couple of days so we dragged them out with us on our many walks in the snow .

Me and Ben made some Spelt flour bread which was deliciouse and everyone really enjoyed it with our homemade butternut squash soup they enjoyed it maybe too much as Andy told me i have to bake bread everyday so we dont have to buy bread anymore !! so as a compramise ive decided to bake bread every other day ,i really like the idea of not having to buy bread anymore no plastic bags ,E numbers and large amounts of salt ! so we will see how we go with our bought bread boycot :)

snowballs

Today we woke up to lots of lovely snow so as soon as we were dressed in our hats and coats we headed to the park which we had all to ourselves . The sun was out so managed to get lots of nice photos of the snowy park and the pixies.

Ben discovered snowballs but also found out that snow is cold to pick up so cryed till i found him a pair of gloves from the bottom of my bag . I discovered that i need to get thicker gloves and socks before more snow comes !

Not quite sure what they are both looking at here !?

Daisy loved the crunchy feeling of snow under her feet .

We latter went swimming which we havn't done in ages ,Ben and Daisy Loved it ,i found it very tiring its supprising how exuasting bobbing about in a baby pool and playing with Ladybird floats can be ! or am i just very unfit ? mmmm anyway we must go more regularly as we all had alot of fun,although had to bribe Ben to get him out of the pool by telling him when we got home we would do some baking so we made Apple muslie crumble which was scrummy and just what we needed after all that swimming .