Another busy week has passed and it’s also been another odd week.  Monday was ok, fairly normal, but on Tuesday I got sent home from school as I wasn’t well.  I felt ok but things were not right in the nappy department (eek!) so Mummy had to come get me.  Loads of kids were ill at school, and I wasn’t allowed back until I was completely better so I got to stay at home with Mummy for a few days!  Daddy was at home too because he’s useless at work with his broken arm and scabby head.  We didn’t do much but it was nice being at home for a change.  I called lots of people on the phone, Grandad, Auntie Christina and Granny and Auntie Ali and sang them songs down the phone. 

Mummy taught me some new songs this week: Bobby Shaftoe, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, Easy Beasy (Gran taught Mummy this one and Mummy taught me), Eenie Meenie, Minnie, Mo and stuff like that.  I still like that old chestnut, ABCs, though.  I know all the words to Sing a Song of Sixpence now too and that’s a really long song! 

I’ve been to the park with Maya a couple of times too, that’s always fun.  Mummy says I give her a heart attack climbing up the big slide and swinging on all the bars but its ok, I know what I’m doing.  I’m a trained professional and so is Maya.  I practice my moves at gymnastics and made up for lost time this week because I missed last week when I was ill.  I think the best part of gymnastics is watching Mummy and Olga do the warm up stretches.  Us kids are meant to do them but if you pretend to be distracted and watch the adults, they do all the silly moves like the kitty and seal stretches, the aeroplane, ribbet jumps etc and look like total fools!  Love it. 

This weekend has been pretty busy.  On Saturday after gymnastics me and Mummy went shopping.  I’m good at shopping so Mummy bought me a smoothie juice as a reward.  I am also partial to circle cheeses.  Then in the afternoon I went to see Jacob and baby Joseph!  That was ace fun as usual, Jacob has lots of nice toys and Victoria made banana cake.  Yum!  Daddy couldn’t come though because he was out buying Mummy her Mother’s Day present from me.  I couldn’t go because of my date with Jacob so I left explicit instructions with Olga what to buy and she took Daddy out.   I’ll tell you what I got Mummy, cos she doesn’t read this blog.  It was a cool hangbag!  It’s purple with a pink lining and very funky.  It’s a good job I told Daddy what to buy and that he had Olga to help him because bag shopping is not really something I’d entrust him to otherwise. 

Saturday was a bit different – I went to a pyjama party at my school!  There were loads of kids there, including my friend Mia, and we had a disco then watched a film with popcorn and went to sleep.  It was loads of fun.  Mummy and Daddy had a nice meal out and went to the pictures to see Wolverine and also said they had a nice night of freedom, whatever that means.  Mummy came to get me this morning and I’d just had a fight with Mia but we still hugged goodbye.  Then I got to see her again later at Hunter’s birthday party! 

Hunter is my friend from school and it was his 3^rd birthday.  He had an amazing bouncy castle and loads of toys and juice and snacks.  I saw lots of friends from school, including Isabel, Max, Zachary, Shane and Jarod.  We had loads of fun and I had a go on Hunter’s tractor, nearly running people over.  Isabel and I then had a shot on his car and I got my foot stuck on the pedal and nearly drove us into the water.  I swear I only drank juice all day!  I don’t know what happened.  I didn’t really want to come home but secretly I was very tired from my late night and busy day so I got a really cool party bag, said “thank you for having us” to Hunter’s Mummy and Daddy and went home to bed. 

Oh, forgot to say I got two very cool parcels this week.  One from Granny and Aunti Ali that had my Easter presents in it – thanks, you guys! – and another from Gran and Grandad.  They sent me new shorts for school which is ace and Mummy was especially thrilled with her Heat magazine.  I don’t see what the big deal was, Barney wasn’t in it.  Stupid magazine.  Auntie Christina once sent me a Barney magazine, man that was an awesome present.

This week I’ve watched a lot of Bob the Builder.  He rocks.    

So this week had been a bit of an odd week.  Firstly Daddy had a big accident on Monday night.  The official story is that he was jumped by half a dozen rugby players and beaten up but the truth is he fell over playing tennis (tennis!) and broke his arm and cut his head open.  I think it’s cos Mummy and Daddy had been up at the Ritz on Sunday watching the Tennis Legends Championship and Daddy forgot he had never actually played tennis and got carried away.  Anyway, Mummy said she took Daddy to the doctor but when I asked, she said it wasn’t Doctor Who!  What’s that all about?  Doctor Who would have sorted him out instantly.  He’s got his arm and head all bandaged up but it’s ok cos I keep giving him hugs and kisses so he’ll be better soon and back on the tennis courts, hee hee. 

Then at school this week people kept getting sick!  Poor Cameron got a sickness bug so I helped look after him until his Mummy came to get him.  Then Max got ill too and his Daddy came and gave him medicine.  I like medicine.  Tasty and pink!  I don’t like to see my friends ill, it’s not nice.  Nursery was a bit up and down this week, I must admit I did have a few temper tantrums and sulky fits.  Miss Annabel, who’s a nice teacher, said I must not behave like this but she was nice about it too and said I was still a good girl.  Miss Taryn, who’s my other teacher, says I am a clever girl.  I think I probably am because I can count to 15 but I keep forgetting the number 10.  I don’t imagine that matters much, how helpful can maths be in real life?  Look at Mummy, she can’t even count to 5 and she manages! 

One night after school, Mummy’s friend, Rachel, came home with us.  Her and Mummy and Olga were getting a pedicure from a guy named Romeo.  For some reason, they kept sniggering every time they said his name.  I don’t get it.  I was a bit perturbed by Romeo cos he seemed to be using a sanding belt on Rachel’s feet.  She said it was tickly though which made me laugh.  I got to choose a colour to paint my toenails and I chose red because that’s the same as Mummy’s nails.  However unbeknown to me, Mummy changed her nails to purple and now we don’t match!  I’m not happy, that is what we call ‘a breakdown in communication’.  I went to bed so didn’t see Mummy getting her feet filed down but I could hear lots of giggles and screams.  Honestly, girls! 

I saw Rachel another day after school too, cos me, Mummy and Rachel went to where the fountains are and they were having a farmer’s market.  We all tasted some sausages which was nice but it was more fun getting juice and coffee.  I didn’t get to play in the fountains as it was too late and a bit chilly but I’ll go up another time.  It’s not as much fun without Maya and Jacob anyway.

And then another day after school I got to go play with Maya!  That was fun, I like seeing Maya.  We went to her house and Olga fed us nice snacks and I played with all her puzzles and toys.  Maya has loads of nice hair bobbles, I like to see them all and try to pinch a few.  I would give Maya my hair bobbles though, so it’s not stealing.   I saw two frogs on the wall outside Maya’s house when we left.  One big one, which I think was the Daddy frog, and a little one which was probably the baby.  Frogs go ‘croak’ or ‘ribbet’ and Daddy is scared of them.  How silly, they are friendly! 

I was meant to go to gymnastics on Saturday, which I love, but I woke up and was sick.  That’s not nice, I don’t like being sick.  I guess I caught it from school.  Mummy hates sick too but she looked after me and cleaned me up.  She even laid on the sofa with me and watched Barney so I know she really felt sorry for me.  Mummy taught me that if I think I’m going to be sick, I need to run to the bath or tell Mummy so she can put me in the bath.  I think if Mummy put as much effort into toilet training me as she did sick-training me, I’d be in pants by now…  Anyway, I feel much better today.  Maybe even well enough to eat ice-cream… ;-)

Well, here I am finally.  Been a while so I have a lot to catch up on. 

I’ve been a busy girl at nursery all week.  This week we’ve been learning about family.  We have a Family Tree at nursery and have put up pictures of our families.  Most of my family is in Scotland which is quite far away so it’s nice to look at pictures and speak to them on the phone.  We’ve also been painting lots of pictures and playing out a lot.  James hit me in the face with a shovel.  Well, at least I told Mummy and Daddy that but I do get quite mixed up so even I don’t know if it’s true.  I do know it’s true I had a proper fight with Isabelle one day but I can’t remember what it was about.  Oh well, it’s all water under the bridge now. 

Pauly was here during the week but he’s gone now.  Mummy says he’s gone to London to find gainful employment, whatever that is.  To say goodbye, Mummy and Daddy took him to a restaurant that specialises in serving Meat.  I’ve given that a capital ‘M’ because Daddy and Pauly spoke about it in a reverential tone and you could just tell they couldn’t wait to stuff themselves so full that they got the meat sweats.  I think they had fun (and made themselves sick with overeating, the gluttonous savages) but I missed out because I was sleeping.  I know Olga came to look after me.  She should have brought Maya, I’d have woken up to play!  Anyway, I know Pauly went away on a big plane.  I hope he comes back and brings me another Barney DVD soon. 

I’ve had a good day today – I went to gymnaxtiks!  That’s gymnastics to all you grownups but I’m only two, cut me a break.  I’ve missed gymnaxtiks, it’s really good fun.  I remembered how to use all the equipment and even learned how to swing on a bar, climb a ladder and balance on a beam properly today.  I did roly-polys (back AND front!) and played on the bouncy castle.  Ooh, and I went on the big trampoline which was ace.  Next week I’ll show the instructor how to do a seat drop.  Maya was there too which was nice and I was definitely only playing when I pushed her over on the long trampoline.  Ahem.  She didn’t seem to mind too much. 

After that we went to get a raspberry roll (that’s a kind of cake, not a gymnaxtiks move) then Daddy looked after me while Mummy got her hair cut.  I like it, I said “I love your hair Mummy, wow!” and she seemed happy.  To be honest, I’m not really sure she got it cut but just washed it – shhh….  I’ve never had my hair cut, expect my fringe which Mummy does as long as I keep really, really still.  I have yellow hair. 

This afternoon was interesting too because we had to go buy Ciara a first birthday gift as it’s her party tomorrow.  I’ve even got a new dress to wear but I haven’t decided whether I’ll actually deign to put it on.  I promised Mummy in the shop I’d wear it but it was all talk.  After her trick of forcing me into an outfit against my will this morning by declaring it my ‘gymnastics outfit’ and making it sound compulsory that I wear it, I’m looking for the just the right opportunity for payback.  So we got Ciara a present and I got some new play-doh!  The last lot grew bumps and changed colour because Mummy forgot to put it back in the pots.  Weird stuff.  Do the Centre for Disease Control know about it? 

Oh, and then after that I went round to Olga’s house and stayed there playing with Maya for ages while Mummy and Daddy went to the tennis championships.  They said they had a good time and saw our friend, Simon, being a line judge.  He got them tickets actually, why didn’t he get me one?  Mummy doesn’t understand tennis, she just clapped when everyone else did and asked “what’s happening?” a lot.  Daddy finds that annoying but he’s used to it as that’s what she does at rugby too.  I had a good time with Maya though and Maya’s Daddy, Alex, took us to the park to play for ages!  I was pretty tired after that though, so it’s time for me to have a long sleep.  It’s Daddy’s day to get me up tomorrow so hopefully I won’t forget to wake him up nice and early.  

Well, here we are again, nearly the weekend.  What a busy week I’ve had!  Of course Monday was a holiday so we stayed at home – no school, yahoo! – and were all very lazy.  I read a lot of books.  My Mummy asked why I don’t watch more TV, like ordinary kids, but I just like to read.  Mummy should know what I mean, she reads a lot too but her books are boring.  No pictures in them.

School has been a bit different this week cos it’s still holidays here so there weren’t so many kids at school.  They call it Easter camp but I heard Mummy say it was just “regular school but at twice the price”.  Still, my friends Max, Mia and Zachary were there so I had lots of fun.  I get a bit upset if I get there in the mornings and the kids aren’t already playing outside.  I don’t want to hang around inside, I want to get out and commence the daily roll-in-the-sand exercises.  We did lots of painting and today we baked corn bread.

I got to see Maya on both Wednesday evening and Thursday evening.  On Wednesday we picked her up from school which was interesting.  That’s the second time I’ve been to Maya’s school and it’s very different from my school, but there’s lots of stuff going on.  I wanted to stop and play with the toys but Maya wanted to go back to my house for a smoothie so we didn’t hang around.  On Thursday we picked her up from her Mummy’s house, just to be different, and again she came to my house.  I was a good girl and shared all my toys and books.  I even let Maya play on Alfie (my ride-on giraffe that my Auntie Jill and Uncle Petie gave me) for quite a long time, which I think everyone will agree was most generous of me. 

On Thursday I had another surprise as my Mummy’s friend, Pauly, came to visit us!  He’s from a faraway land called Australia and Mummy says they have killer spiders and kangeroos there.  Pauly also says “g’day mate” a lot, or at least Daddy says that’s right.  I haven’t heard him say it myself but it’s only a matter of time, surely.  He brought me two DVDs, one of which was a Barney one so we became great friends immediately.  He brought Mummy some crisps and a Curly Wurly so she was very happy too.  Tonight I had a great game of football with him in the living room.

I’ve had a bit of a cough and cold this week but that’s ok, I get to practise holding my hand across my mouth when I cough and wiping my nose with a tissue and absolutely, definitely never my t-shirt.  It’s actually working out well because if I cough enough in the middle of the night, Mummy brings me some water and I can usually get an extra song or two out of her.  She’s extra croaky at 4am but I’ll take what I can get.  Must remember to wake her up tonight!

Not sure what the weekend’s plans are but I hope they involve the park, friends and ice-cream in that exact order!   Note to self, wake Daddy up early tomorrow.  Tee hee…..

It’s Easter weekend and I have had a fun time so far.  We should have more four day weekends, even if Mummy and Daddy say it’s harder work than being at work.  Pft, what are they talking about?

Ok, so what have I been up to?  On Friday we had breakfast with Olga and Maya then in the afternoon me, Mummy and Daddy went for a walk on the beach.  I was only meant to be getting my toes wet but went too far into the water and got my top wet too – oh dear.  So I ended up running around in just my nappy, which was fine by me.  We saw a HUGE bird, I think it was a pterodactyl.  Or maybe a pelican.  Definitely one or the other.  I thought it was going to start snatching tourists out of the water, it was so enormous.  After that, searching for shells seemed kinda boring so we went home and had some chippies.   

Yesterday was a mega good day – we went to an Easter party at Jacob’s house!  I had so much fun.  First of all I helped Mummy fill some plastic eggs with sweets.  And by ‘helped’, I do of course mean I ate some sweets.  Mummy said I was like a sweetie assassin as I kept pinching them without her seeing me.  She just wasn’t paying attention because she was concentrating on fitting the eggs together.  She was sticking her tongue out and everything.  Concentrating is not her strong point.  After that we made more eggs, but this time we made REAL eggs! 

Mummy hard boiled them for an hour (not really, but it felt like it) then we painted them loads of different colours using food dye and a paintbrush.  We were meant to use vinegar to stain the eggs but Gran used it all when she was here.  Seriously, how much vinegar does a normal person need in two weeks?!  I think she was drinking it.  So we managed without.  Mummy and Daddy held the eggs while I painted which worked out well for me because they ended up with food dye all over their hands and I was relatively clean.  Unfortunately Daddy looked like he’d been chopping someone up because his hands were so red and Mummy looked like she had a bad disease as her hands were a yellowy-green.  Most amusing, especially when the dye wouldn’t wash off and people kept asking Mummy what was wrong with her hands.  The eggs came out well though, that’s the main thing.

It was terribly exciting at Jacob’s house because Lizzie made us all bunny ears and painted a bunny nose and whiskers on our faces.  We all looked SO cute.  Then the Easter Bunny came to see us!  Actually, we didn’t technically see him because we thought he was inside and he was actually outside, though Daddy caused a near riot by walking in the door and us kids all got a bit excited because we though the Easter Bunny was coming in.  Suffice to say, we were all rather disappointed when my Daddy appeared, looking slightly startled to find 14 kids hunting for the Bunny Rabbit in the living room.  By the time we got outside, the Easter Bunny had been and gone but left loads of eggs for us to find!  We all ran around searching for eggs and I filled my bag with goodies.  I was quite tired after that so sat down with Maya and Leo to eat some chocolate and sweets.  After I’d done that, I felt filled with new energy and somehow found the strength to run around like a maniac for six more hours with my new friend, Emily.  Good stuff, chocolate… 

We also had an egg and spoon race using the eggs we’d made earlier.  That was hilarious because let’s face it, how many two year olds can take direction and run in a straight line?  The parents had no sooner managed to get us all lined up in what you might describe as a row, if you were feeling generous, when we had our first false start.  So once Jasmine had been dragged back to the starting line, we all tensed for the signal and had our second false start!  Guy, who’s just little, took off like a bat out of hell which made the rest of us start running too.  Maybe that was the ‘go’ sign, who knows? 

Anyway, there I was, clutching on to my egg like Daddy had told me to, bashing into Connor who was running the wrong way, approaching the turning post (a ride-on doggy) when I got a bit distracted.  Despite Mummy and Daddy shouting encouragement and telling me to come back, I thought it would be a better idea to follow Emily in a totally different direction and off we went!  I have no idea who won, and care even less.  All I know is when I did cross the finish line, a few minutes later, Mummy and Daddy still said I’d done a good job.  To be honest, it was pretty tough going out there in the baking sun.  Thank goodness we didn’t have a Gladiator obstacle course set up like John (Jacob’s Daddy) suggested.  I’d never have made it up the travelator.   Personally, I think the highlight of the race was spotting Maya riding off on the goalpost.  Good for her, she’s a rebel!

I got to stay up a bit late at Jacob’s house as my Mummy and Daddy were having too much fun to go home.  Jacob’s Mummy, Victoria, broke out the homemade mojitos (that’s Daddy’s favourite cocktail, in case you don’t know, and in no way gay or so Daddy says) and then all the grown-ups basically forgot us kids were there so we started playing a little game in the porch we like to call Lord of the Flies.  We were just about to eat Madeline (Emily’s little sister and clearly the weakest child present due to her only being a few months old) when Mummy and Daddy decided to go home.  No matter, we can pick up the game next time.

It was quite late when I got to bed but I still didn’t sleep in.  I should have, because I was tired, but I like to make sure Daddy gets up nice and early.  Mwahahaa!  We didn’t do too much today because we were all a bit tired but I did speak to Gran on the phone although I refused to speak to Auntie Jill no matter how much she begged and/or threatened because she said my blog is too long.  I also talked to Granny and Auntie Ali on the webcam and showed them my funny faces.  Then this afternoon we went to the East End to look at the blowholes.  They are funny.  When a big wave comes in water shoots out of the hole and up into the sky.  That was entertaining…for a few minutes at least.  The ice-cream that followed was better though.  I hope we have more ice-cream tomorrow.

I’ve seen lots of my friend Maya this week because her Mummy brought her to my school to play with me.  Wasn’t that nice?  Maybe she’ll move schools and be at my school all the time.  We also went to the park the other afternoon after school and work.  I really love the park and my favourite thing is the big slide.  I climb right to the top, swing on the bar and slide down at warp speed.  Mummy always looks really pale when I’m doing all this but its fine, I’m good at stuff like this!  So is Maya, I like to copy her a lot as she is good at climbing and swinging.  There are no swings at this park which is both odd and stupid.   My friend Jacob had his last birthday party at the park, with a big bouncy castle.  It was ace!

After we’d played for a bit, we went down to the beach and played in the sand and on the amphitheatre they have there (isn’t that a cool word – amphitheatre.  I have absolutely no idea what it means).  Anyway, we just climbed up and down the big stone steps.  I had some goldfish (the biscuits, not the actual fish, durr!) in a bag and I shared them with Maya.  I’m nice like that.  Mummy only had to threaten to take them off me once.  The waves at the beach were really high and crashing into the rocks, making big splashes.  Luckily I didn’t get wet.  Hopefully we’ll get to go to the park this weekend too.

We made Easter cards and eggs at school this week – my egg was blue and purple and made my hands blue and purple too.  I didn’t eat it (it wasn’t made of chocolate).  Then the nice teachers there gave me a chicken (not a real one) that opened up and there was a stamp inside it!  I love stamps, I like to stamp loads of things and make them bright and colourful.  I even like to stamp my forehead sometimes.  Chickens go “pok pok”, did you know.  And roosters (boy chickens) say “COCKADOODLEDO!”  How noisy.  We have chickens at school and indeed all over the place.  They run wild around this island, it’s very odd.  You can always tell tourists because they are inevitably following the chicken around with their cameras, looking amazed and taking photos.  For us ex-pats, the novelty wears off pretty quick and once you’ve seen one chicken trying to gain access to the police station, you’ve seen them all.

Mummy was very happy today as a parcel arrived from Auntie Christina!  It had stuff in it for me too and I was excited.  Auntie Christina sent me a very cool Barney magazine (I didn’t know such things existed!) and some sweeties.  I ate some milk bottles.  Thank you very much, Auntie Christina, for the sweeties and magazine!  I hope you like your Easter egg we sent and lots of kisses to Baby Lachlan.  Mummy has already read the magazine Auntie Christina sent her (twice, actually) but heroically restrained herself from eating any of the sweets.  Her willpower knows no bounds.   And also Sue (our neighbour, remember?) gave Mummy and Daddy each a Wispa bar!  Good times, people, good times.

Daddy put me to bed tonight because Mummy was off having her hair done.  She just gets it washed, blow dried and straightened so it’s long and pretty.  Daddy says it’s a waste of money because “we have water, shampoo and a hairdryer in the house!” but Mummy just says “you don’t understand” and off she goes.  She says because she has to wash her hair at the evil gym it’s always a bedraggled mess so she deserves a treat.  Getting your hair done doesn’t sound like a treat to me but to each their own and all that.

Talking of the evil gym, Mummy was amused today because she said the instructor had on tight, demin cut-off shorts and this made her laugh.  I heard her tell Daddy it was distracting.  I am not sure what she meant.  She said she enjoyed her workout because there was a lot of punching and kicking and Daddy replied “oh dear” and looked worried.  Poor Mummy has had a sore back and legs so I kissed them better for her.  I would offer her one of my Dora plasters but I have to draw the line somewhere. 

I prefer it when Mummy puts me to bed rather than Daddy as Mummy is better at the whole routine.  Daddy forgets to sing me songs out of the book (that part is highly important) and doesn’t leave gaps for me to fill in the words either even though I know al the nursery rhymes off by heart.  Tonight he only sang me three songs before I got fed up and told him to go away.  He was getting it all wrong so I put us both out of my misery.  Luckily I heard Mummy come in and shouted to her to come upstairs and sing me some songs, which she obligingly did.  She sang seven songs, all out of the book, and remembered to leave gaps for me to sing too.  Then we had a little chat about the weekend’s plans and I went to sleep after that.  Usually I don’t go to sleep straightaway, I prefer to read some books (Mummy leaves the light on for me but I know she sneaks in when I’m sleeping and turns it off again) and make up stories or sing more songs then I have a good sleep.  I think I will dream about the Jelly Babies Auntie Christina sent… Bite off their heads!

I’d like to share something with you that I’ve observed over the last few months.  Did you know the moon changes shape?  It does!  Over the weeks it goes from being a crescent moon, to a half moon to a circle moon!  It’s amazing.  I don’t know how or why it does this, but it does. 

I like the moon, I call him Mr Moon and I know some stuff about him.  For example, when he comes out then it’s nighttime and my bedtime.  Sometimes the moon hides behind clouds.  Mummy told me that black clouds carry rain and white clouds carry sunshine.  Also, the moon is very far away.  As are the stars and the sun.  The sunshine makes your shadow, did you know that?  It’s all rather amazing. 

I don’t know any songs about the moon, like I do about the sun, but Mummy knows a poem about the moon and a man on a horse.  Its Daddy’s favourite, I’ll go ask him how it goes again.