Kosh he is gorgeous! I especially like the first piccie cause he looks so delighted and expectant
Claire wow that is a great present
Let us know how she takes to the fish? Hope she won't be like that girl in Finding Nemo
Not likely of course lol (Finding Nemo is of my favourite animated films btw, I just love it!)
Charlie about not wanting a girl for the whole body image thing, I totally understand what you mean there. I always wanted girls and it took about an hour after finding out that I was expecting twin boys rather than girls till I could be happy about them. But not passing on my really bad attitude towards eating and my body was one of the things that made me realise early on that I am lucky I would have boys. I realise of course that it is now also affecting boys but I do still think it is less so. Plus my OH has a great attitude towards food but one that makes me stare at him in open mouthed disbelief: He will actually leave a tiny corner of a brownie or biccie or bread roll when he has had enough and is full. I seriously don't understand how that is possible. I have never felt so full that one tiny corner of food would have to remain uneaten. I realise of course that his attitude is healthy and mine isn't but I just cannot understand him lol And to illustrate what size left overs we are talking of, I am going to include a picture I once took in sheer fascination.
Maybe my not leaving food if at all possible stems from my mum who is similar (even though slim all her life) but her attitude comes from her childhood in post-war Berlin where food was hard to come by.
But the whole thing is very complex of course and it isn't just one thing or another.
I hope Sophia will recover from her cold soon poor thing!
But I didn't realise that meningitis was contagious! How dreadful! But yes I bet your work does mean extra worry on that front.
How are you liking work now? Are you back in the swing of it or is the hecticness/hecticity (? <
) still a bit much?
Btw
Sabrina and
Charlie I too always wanted red hair! I wanted to have hair like Deborah Kerr or Rita Hayworth lol, so I too coloured it with henna. My father said it made me look Jewish in a non good way. How racist and mean of him but I know what he meant. It didn't suit me even though my skin is very light. Didn't stop me of course but now looking back I must say it wasn't a fantastic look for me. But other than that I have never coloured my hair and I am not looking forward to having to do it all the time when I start going grey. I had one grey hair last year or the year before, cannot remember, but mercifully none since. I find it annoying enough to use anything but the most rapid leave in conditioner. I imaging having to colour ones' hair would mean loads more time spent in the bathroom? Blah!
Storm I am sorry you have to go to a funeral. They are indeed horrible.
Hope all will be well with the MW this afternoon too.
And L always makes me smile. She has such character! I wonder if your second girl will be as much of a little whirlwind.
As for us, all is well. OH is out today again as he is working on his house. Tenants moved out and left the place in a dreadful state. So he has painting and repair work to do. None of which he particularly likes. I on the other hand always found painting and DIY meditative and relaxing. Not that I would like to do it for him, mind you! His house is in such a horrible part of London and is such a dreary place that I always call it his hovel lol He agrees with me btw.
Dominic is making great progress on his little sentences, if you can call them that? An example would be, he saw the cat outside the window and pointed at him and said "Mummy, like kitty!" to denote that he likes Alfie. And when I was brushing his hair, which he HATES, he said "Mummy please no! No like!" Aww how can I continue when I am being asked like that! At first I thought he only knows please in connection with food cause he always asks for "Biccie Pleeeaaaase!" but that brushing incident proved that he understood the word as such. I am so proud of him
Btw I don't know where he got please from cause although I always say please when I want him to give something to me, I only asked him to say please once or twice before handing something to him before he started using the word. As for like, I don't know how he picked that one up but it started with food too. He will go "Hmm! Like!" and Hmm sounds just like Yoda lol And he cracks me up cause he started saying moremoremore and nonono. Yesterday in gymbo he was saying "nonono no like" to the teacher when he said to him "come Dominic it is bubble time". Too funny.
But that reminds me:
Clio unless it is the gymbo dance ("Gymbo the clown goes up and down, up and down) and airlog time where they can bash the airlog in rythm to a song, or parachute time, neither of my boys consent to do what is expected of them and run in all directions doing their own thing.
Sebastian has been talking a tiny bit more. He said Ellie and Pati (Pato) and bubbles and tried saying treasure too. But the words don't come often and certainly not as repetitvily as they are with Dominic, who will repeat a word hundreds of time until you acknowledge that word by saying it back to him. Sigh.
But they are both so much fun now and such little persons. I love this stage!
Got to go, they are waking from their nap and I need another fortifying coffee before going in to them.
! It broke my heart to hear that 
. But I told her that she was beautiful the way she was. But she is surrounded by family members that are in a constant diet. But whenever I get to see her I always tell her how beautiful she looks 
. And the interesting thing about that article is first : I am so glad I don't have a girl 
.
!! When I got home and started looking at his hair I got so upset that I called the salon back and explained what happened and asked if I could take him in again to have his hair fixed by my lady this time. So we went today and she fixed his hair. A little on the short side cause she had to fix the other lady's mess but I am much happier now
