Basically the joys of deciphering my daughters speech, for those interested Laloo's are cutlery, Bupdy's are birds and BBBBBBB's are the Tomliboo's off "In the Night Garden" which I am the undisputed expert in all things "In the Night Garden" at the moment.... There are other words she knows which she puts her own twist on like Jeece which is Juice, and of course she knows me as Dada or Dad and Andrea as Mum (which she is a bit gutted about as she prefers "Mummy" but you can't have everything can you ?)... she also says car, bus, tactor (tractor), bed, bar (cereal bar) and Gack Gack (Go figure but it means Biscuit), frog, and quite a few others which I've forgotten at the moment... Basically she is stringing sentences together it's just that she fills in the gaps with complete and utter rubbish at the moment... but it will come .... probably sooner than we expect... she certainly understands at least 90% of what we say to her, possibly more.......you can tell her to go there pick that up or put that there, or give that to me or her/him, or where is your so and so.... it's all in there she just can't quite vocalise it all yet.... bless......She is starting to show remarkable intelligence on a par with the inmates of Colditz, she would be an asset to any escape committee in any prison worldwide, she has realised that without the back door key her efforts to get outside are pointless, so she has taken to moving the chair across the kitchen to the work surface (rather noisily thankfully), climbing up, grabbing the key, getting down then walking over to the door putting the key in the lock, turning it and opening the door and getting outside in less than 30 seconds all told.... so I have had to take on the role of chief jailer and I have to carry the key around with me in my pocket !!! ..... it won't be long before she uses sleight of hand and manages to pick pocket me and escape again at the rate she is going..... hmmmmmm....I may have to nail gun her shoes to the floor ;¬)......
I'm just getting over the most horrendous stomach bug, I spent the last day or so feeling as if I had drunk the contents of a car battery, nothing touched it, Gaviscon only briefly then it came back with a vengeance within minutes, needless to say I didn't get much sleep.... thankfully I'm over the worst of it now. Andrea had it first and fair do's she managed to drag herself out with me to Ffion's 18th birthday party in the Angel Vaults in Carmarthen.... got to take my hat off to her, because having experienced this bug first hand, there is no way on earth I would have gone, bit of a trooper my other half :)
and speaking of her determination, her marathon training is going well, although she is complaining she is a bit behind, she has a 10 miler to do at some stage.... it's a pretty punishing regime she has signed up for, but she is sticking to it, I'm really proud of her :).... she has the Cardiff half marathon in about 6 weeks or thereabouts.... I'm sure she will sail through it (although running is probably preferable)
We've given FOMO boy his own computer in his bedroom, it's running Ubuntu 9.04 Linux which he seems to like, originally it was my step daughters but she has an aversion to anything non Microsoft and especially anything that isn't MSN.... so it fell into disuse, so we gave it to Xbox boy but he didn't use it either.... so it's eventually found a home in FOMO boys bedroom.... I can control what he can and can't do on it internet wise so no worries there it has squeaky clean internet and keeps a log of any attempted indiscretions ..... I can also shut him down remotely after he has been sent to bed .... much to his disgust :) not to mention saving on electricity bills !!!
Other than that the kids are back at school, much of a muchness really .....
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