Kids say the funniest things...

Yesterday morning Mimi tried to bite me.  At first I thought she wanted to give me a kiss or a lick but I was horrified when she sank her teeth in.  This is the first time she has done this.   So following all the usual tips from Joe Frost Mimi spent the next two minutes sitting or in her case screaming on the naughty mat. When her time was up I went and asked her to tell me what she had done wrong and why she had been made to sit on the naughty mat to which she replied all the correct answers.  I then said to her what mustn't you do and she replied "No Eating Mummy."  How I laughed.

Mimi is such a skinny mini that the new skirt I brought her from Gap didn't fit her and kept falling down.  This is happens a lot with trousers and skirts especially Monsoon ones.  I really wish all baby clothes came with  adjustable elastic waistbands.  So I had to carefully un-pick the waistband seam, pull the elastic a bit tighter (I cut off about 2 inches of elastic) then stitch it all back together.  It worked however it bunched the material up a bit too much on the waistband and made poor Mimi look like she has the biggest set of hips and bottom.  But hey she was happy with her new princess skirt and she is too young to worry about things like that.

Then we had a bit of a baking session.  We started out making pastry for a chicken pie and we kinda got a bit carried away.  First up we made some Cheese Stars.

Then we made some jam tarts

Eventually we made our chicken pie.  Which was delicious.  It was a bit of a mummy special - (I made it up as we went along!)  I meant to take a picture before it was cut up but totally forgot.

Having been stuck indoors for a few days I decided to take Mimi out for a couple of hours.  We popped over to Mama Feelgoods.  We had a lovely lunch and visited the amazing cake craft shop they have.  They have everything you could ever wish for when it comes to cake decorating.  We brought some lovely pink cake cases with flowers on and some purple glitter for the tops.  Now we just need to make them!!!  Maybe tomorrow?!?

Check out these great looking sandwiches we had a Mama Feelgoods.  Mimi had a Jam Sandwich and I had a toasted Brie and Bacon YUM YUM!

Last night I finished my latest book.  "Caught" Harlan Coben.  I brought this book ages ago but I found it so difficult to read in bed with my old glasses that it kind of got put to one side.  When I got my new glasses a few weeks back I picked it up again.  I would highly recommend this book.   It is a tremendous book with several story lines which all link together to keep you guessing right up until the end.  Basically a 17 year old girl goes missing for 3 months and the whole community imagines the worst.  A local reporter gets caught up in the twists when she embarks on her mission to bring down sexual predators via a televised sting operation.  

Does anyone remember the program on channel 4 a few years back called "The Book Group"?  I think I am talking 2002-03.  Anyway it was a great program which used to be on after "Teachers" (another great program).  It was about a random selection of people who got together on a regular basis to review a selection of books,  I used to watch it with my old flat mates, we thought it was great.  Check it out on you tube.  A few years ago after returning home having lived in London for a few years I thought it would be a good idea to set up a book club locally.  Nothing too serious somewhere to meet have a few glasses of wine and maybe discuss a book or two.  Trouble was no one was interested.  I did try a few on-line book clubs but they all took it far too seriously.  It was expected that you would try and read a zillion books a week.  I suppose it was one of those things.  Anyway - what to read next?   

Today I finally got round to making some cakes to take to my sisters tomorrow.  Check out the pink cases and purple glitter!!!

Strawberry Mark and Sleepless nights.

Jobs for today:

• Take Mimi for eye appointment at the Hospital
• Tidy the house

When Mimi was born she developed a strawberry birth mark (hemangioma) right beside her eye which is why we have to have regular eye appointments.  Everyone said that it would disappear and I found it difficult to believe as for a time it just kept getting bigger.

Just before her first birthday

About 18months old

However here we are two years down the line and it is almost unnoticeable.  I used to get really fed up with people who would stop me in the shops and say "Oh who's she been fighting with?" or "That's a shiner".   Its really strange it wasn't there when she was born and popped up about a week after I had her.  Even more strange my nephew has a quite a large one on his bottom.  Poor little thing it became ulcerated and they were referred to Great Ormond Street.

Hardly noticeable now.

We thought that Mimi would be discharged today but from the little tests they do she seems to possibly be a little bit short sighted so we have to go again in a years time. 

After our hospital appointment we went in to town to pick a few bits up, Mimi was being a little horror and kept touching everything - one of those cringing I REALLY want to disown you type moments.  

By this time I needed some coffee to calm my nerves and wake me up after a rather sleepless night.

  

I just love this shop - Not only fab coffee
but great cakes & pastries.

The "BEST" coffee

Mimi decided that she would have a sleep after lunch - THANK GOD and I was finally able to get on with some of my jobs ready for the various guests & visitors we have coming this week.

Then we spent a couple of hours in the garden with Daddy, picking blackberries, playing in the tent and finishing a bit of gardening.

Mimi took her broom with her - Don't ask!
Something to do with cleaning and jobs.

Before Daddy got stung and stomped off.

Do we think Mimi will sleep through the night?

Until we went camping in France Mimi always went to bed between 6 & 7 and very rarely woke up in the night.

Since coming home she refuses to go to bed and tonight she spent an hour and a half screaming her head off.  She kept shouting "Mummy, Mummy Help, Mummy sit in chair"  when I said no it's bedtime, she started crying and then said "Get Mike, Mike sit in chair".  I had to reminder her that it's Daddy not Mike and that its bedtime.  What a little monkey.    

She said that she didn't like it in her bedroom because of the snail and the slug, which she said were on the ceiling.  So I got my feather duster and we removed the (imaginary) snail and the slug and flushed them down the toilet, then to make doubly sure we then got the Dyson.  This did the trick with the slug and the snail temporarily.

This is pretty much the same as last night expect that this went on between the hours of 10.30pm & 1.30am.

We have a busy week planned in our house so lets hope we all get some sleep.  

• Hospital appointment today
• Off to the beach tomorrow with J&I & D round in the evening for Facebook CPD!?!
• M coming over Weds Lunch to discuss business ideas
• Dentist on Thursday
• Mimi & I have to go out all day Friday - Mike has a business client coming down to the seaside for the day
• My brother and his girl friend to stay for the weekend plus my sister, her little boy and my other brother are home.  My Mum & Dad are away so this probably means that we will be the main port of call and we will end up catering for everyone!