In the Night Garden....

As we settled down to watch Cbeebies last night during the bedtime hour, I was intrigued to watch the new programme In the Night Garden....

My daughter loved it especially as one of the characters shares the same name (don't worry it's not Makka Pakka).

The characters are unique, colourful and fun I especially love the Tombliboos.

If you have not seen it, take a look I think you will like it.

If anyone knows anywhere I could buy toys from the programme please let me know, I know my daughter would love one.

Playing nurse

Since 11.45pm on Sunday evening I have been playing nurse to my little girl. We put her to bed as usual on Sunday evening and she seemed fine and just as I was dropping off to sleep I heard a noise, my husband and I ran into her room and she had been sick all in her bed. She was so upset.

We cleaned her down and sat her on our bed to comfort her. She was sick again all over our bed this time. After several changes of clothes and lots of cuddles she settled down again.

All day Monday she was sick and developed an awful cough.

On Tuesday the cough got worse and her temperature was raised. She was very sleepy and confused, so I took her to the doctor. He examined her and told me she had an upper tract infection, her ear drums were inflamed and bulging and that would be causing the other problems. So now she has some "yellow medicine" as she describes it and she has improved slightly, but the medicine has now given her diarrhoea.

Poor little girl, she is so tired and weak, it's awful seeing her like this. I cannot wait until she is running around making lots of noise. Hope you feel better soon x

Mother but no baby

Warning, this blog may contain a lot of moaning.

I went to the supermarket today as usual with my daughter, to once again find there were no mother and baby parking spaces. I would not mind this if the spaces were genuinely taken up by fellow parents with their little ones. But oh no, week after week, the spaces are filled by beloved old age pensioners and people with disabled badges. Just because they are old they feel they have the right to park wherever they like and the same goes to disabled badge holders, who may I add have their own parking spaces much nearer to the door.

It's not that I am lazy and want to be closer to the door, I just really appreciate the spaces as they are wider which is vital when you are trying to get a child in and out of a car seat.

I have often thought about challenging these selfish people who choose to take our spaces, but I know it would be wasted energy as they think its their god given right to be closer to the door just because they are older than me.

Has anyone else experienced this annoying situation or is it just me? I would love to hear.

Party

Today my daughter went to her first party of the year.

Armed with a beautifully wrapped present, card, my little one all dressed up like a princess and directions in my hand of how to actually get to the venue, off we set. After about ten minutes in the car my daughter fell asleep and was snoring loudly, so I enjoyed some piece and quiet whilst listening to the radio.

I found the venue straight away but arrived a little early so I sat in the car whilst my daughter finished her nap. Luckily she woke up just in time for the start of the party. She insisted on carrying the present, which was nearly as big as her and she became very excited as we entered the Church Rooms. The room was decorated with balloons and banners and a large bouncy castle filled the top end of the hall. There were lots of people there and my daughter was not phased by this and headed straight for the bouncy castle.

The party was only two hours long, but my goodness I was shattered by the end of it. It was great fun watching her with the other children and enjoying herself so much, I even enjoyed having a bounce on the castle with her (I had forgotten what good fun they could be).

On the way out, she was handed a party bag filled with goodies which she was so pleased with. All the way home she talked of the bouncy castle and she could not wait to tell her daddy when he walked through the door.

So one party down and another two to go in March, what a party animal she is.