Wellsy's World

An unnamed woman in our office has been sending out boxes of brochures to various hospitals around the country and sometimes they get refused by the postroom. One got refused and the delivery guy put on the delivery ticket “refused by Joe Grayoldman”.

So Sian rang them up to find out why they wouldn’t take it and asked for Joe Grayoldman. The person there said in a slightly confused voice, “we have someone in the postroom called Joe, and he is a gray old man”…

Classic!

My family has got bigger…the latest addition is Holly Marie who was born on the 26th May; 4 weeks early.
With the biology lessons and the birth scenes in TV series I thought I knew what I was letting myself in for but nothing prepared me for when I saw them deliver the placenta. It looked like a red jelly fish like something you would see in a sci fi show. Holly who is only 3 weeks old is already causing mischief every time I change her nappy I end up covered in urine. Just when I thought that stage was over as Lucie is now out of that stage, except for puddles on the carpet, the joys of potty training.

Lucie has taken to her little sister like a duck to water, wanting to help change nappies etc. The funniest thing was she had got a large Tigger and Pooh Bear, I could hear her running about upstairs so went upstairs holding her Pooh Bear to put her back into bed. She came to the gate holding her tiny Pooh Bear and said “daddy need big Pooh” at first I thought she wanted her nappy changing so said “come on lets change your nappy”. Her response was “no daddy,big Pooh” pointing at the Pooh Bear that was in my hand.

Last night Lucie went to bed at the normal time and I could hear her running around her bedroom playing for a bit as she normally does until she’s tired enough to go to sleep. After about 20 minutes I heard her crying and she shouted “Daddy! Covers stuck!”. I went up to see what she was doing and she was trying to pull her dovet over herself but couldn’t for some reason. I went to tuck her in and found out the reason was because she’d gone to bed in her wellies again!

As Lucie has decided that she wants to wear as she calls them “big girl pants” instead of nappies we have started potty training, for some reason because I gave Lucie a biscuit once when she went on the potty she now asks for one everytime she sits on the potty whether she does anything or not.

She is grasping the concept pretty quickly although we are both on puddle spotting duty, as we nearly had a repeat of the incident from don’t take your eyes off them. Which I have to admit was rather funny to watch.

I can’t believe that it’s nearly 2 years since Lucie was born. The last 2 years have been amazing; she’s no longer a baby but a person with a very quirky but adorable personality, and as you know we’ve got another new arrival soon. Lucie has already settled into the role of big sister and keeps bringing Kirsty things for Holly (for those of you who don’t know we’re having another girl….more shoe shopping).

She will be starting playgroup next month, which could be interesting but I can’t wait, master pieces for the fridge my little girl is growing up so fast but am so proud of her and glad to be a part of it.

We were at a party and from the look of it Lucie managed to get her hands on a glass of wine

I know that kids learn by copying their parents but Lucie has taken this literally. Me and Wellsy are trying to encourage Lucie to say “please” and “thank you”, it was all going really well until one day Lucie forgot and I said “what do you say?” Lucie’s response was “what do you say?, please, thank you, good girl”. The look of confusion on her face when we started to laugh was priceless.

She now uses commonly used phrases to tell both of us what to do, for example as soon as we get through the door “coat off, shoes off”. It’s funny but I think it’s supposed to be us telling her what to do not the other way round but never mind, she’s even started giving guests instructions or when we go to people’s houses she tells us what to do.

A classic example was when we went up to Wellsy’s parents’ house at the weekend as soon as we got through the door she started telling us to take coats and shoes off, then told Wellsy “careful daddy” when he helping to move furniture. She then told Gail that she was drawing something wrong, “no nana like this ok?”.

Funny little bean

Since we moved into our new house we’ve had Sky which most people would think great. Unfortunately Lucie is fascinated with Cbeebies so its on alot in the evenings when I get home from work. I wouldn’t mind but when I find myself either singing along to the songs or getting them stuck in my head it’s usually space pirates that I get its just bloody annoying.

The worrying thing is when you know the names of the characters in some cases better than Lucie, or when you start googling who does the voices for the various characters.

We’ve now opted for one of three options:

• Just accept you’re stuck with it, till both Lucie and bump have grown out of it
• Change the bloody channel
• Play on the wii, or as Lucie calls it buttons

At the moment it depends what mood I’m in as to which option I chose.

Lucie can now talk properly, well most of the time anyway. It is nice now that she can tell me what she wants, and she seems to be saying a new word or several every day, I can now have proper conversations with her. At the moment she attempts to copy what we are saying, think the funniest example of this was yesterday when I’d cooked dinner and said to Kirsty: “Dinner’s ready babe”, then Lucie runs up to Kirsty and says: “Dinner ready babe”. We were laughing for ages although Lucie couldn’t understand why we were laughing.

Her memory is getting better though as she remembers that it was granchy Bob’s birthday and that she went to Tracy’s house for dinner. It was when she asked where Nana’s cat had gone, the cat had been put down last month, thankfully Lucie accepted that it had just gone, attempting to explain death to a 22 month old would have been interesting to say the least.

Another funny example was when she was looking at the pictures on my phone and said what sounded like “what the hell’s that?” looking at the picture of a cow suit. Funny little bean.

As many of you will know we are expecting another baby, due on the 23rd June. When Kirsty attempted to explain that Lucie couldn’t jump on her belly any more because there was a baby in there, Lucie’s response was “baby in mummy belly yum yum?”. We had to laugh she is so innocent that it was funny that was how she had interpreted it.

Over the weeks she has gone through lots of different feelings about the baby, at first she thought it was confusing, then through a phase of not liking the baby because it “make mummy poorly”. She is now in a phase of liking the baby, wanting it to play with her but tells it off when she’s having a cuddle with Kirsty and it kicks.

On the plus side when the baby is a bit older I’ll be able to get my lie ins back….well I can hope anyway. Alternatively the pair of them will gang up on me as Lucie already started pulling the duvet off or jumping on me when I’m lying on the sofa. We’ll have double trouble soon but I can’t wait.