Sunday today which meant Mummy got me up.  I did let her have a little sleep-in but she still stumbled into my room all bleary-eyed and recoiling from the light.  She’s really not a morning person.  We had a busy morning though – we met my friends Olga and Maya for breakfast!  That was nice, we are ladies who do breakfast.  I had a cranberry juice, some bacon (I like bacon), some of Mummy’s bagel, some of Olga’s home fries and two squares of jam.  They call it jelly here, which is obviously something else entirely so I’m not sure how the name mix-up came about but there you go.  Americans…

A dog scared me.  Why are they so loud with their stupid barking?

After breakfast we went to play for a bit.  There’s a surfing thingymabob next to where we ate, although there was no water in it today.  I’m not allowed on it, I’m too small, and I’m especially not allowed near it when there is water in it.  It looks like fun though; maybe when I’m bigger I can have a go.  Me and Maya also played in the little playground, jumping and screaming on the bridge and in the little house.  Olga and Mummy pretended to hide then jump out and scare us, and I got a bit over-excited and punched Olga on the nose.  Oops.  She was ok about it and didn’t give me in trouble.  Mummy taught me a new word yesterday: accident.  I reckon I’ll be using it a lot.

I didn’t nap today.  I must say, I do like a nap, but now and then I like to freak the parentals out by skipping it.  I went to bed and lay there for quite a while.  I’d talk and sing to myself then fall quiet for a while, just until I knew they thought I’d fallen asleep.  Then off I’d go again!  Hilarious.  They didn’t know whether I was sleeping or not, hee hee.   Daddy got me up after a while, looking resigned.  He even looked after me all afternoon after Mummy went to help a lady pack clothes for the Mustard Seed children.  She was outside in the heat packing clothes into boxes.  She said most people are very kind and generous but some people are just weird and donate very odd (and occasionally gross) stuff.

While Mummy was out, me and Daddy called Granny and Auntie Ali who live in Scotland.  I didn’t talk to them on the phone though, because the phone freaks me out.  I mean, how can they fit into such a little device?  There’s no other explanation for how I can hear them speaking out of it though.  Gran and Grandad and Auntie Jill live in Scotland too.  That’s where I’m from but I don’t live there.  It’s quite far away and much colder.  I think they have polar bears.

After Mummy showered (I wanted to get in too but Mummy said no because there wasn’t time for games), she wanted me to change out of my dirty clothes.  Frankly, I didn’t want to so I had a big crying fit on the hall landing.  I pulled out all the tricks, crying, throwing myself around, throwing things, kicking – you name it.  Mummy and Daddy seemed oddly unimpressed and said they would leave me home alone and go for ice-cream themselves.  So in the end we compromised and I put pyjamas on and we went for ice-cream.  I had vanilla again but didn’t eat much of it this time.  Then me and Mummy played chasies in the square.  I love that game, it makes me laugh so much. 

I was pretty tired after all that activity and no nap so I just went straight to bed when we got in.  Mummy sang me some songs (out of tune, as usual) and I curled up with my cuddly toys and books and went to sleep.

Ps: Hi to Gran and Grandad!  Thanks for reading my new blog and commenting on it.  It’s nice to read your news too.  Love you! 

PPS:  Mummy did finish her book and went to her bookclub.  She said they spoke about the book for 20 minutes and spent the rest of the time gossiping.  Daddy was not surprised.