jules nora yati

We were supposed to go to the Common on Saturday with Lina and Baby Maya, and Lizzie and Baby Ivy. But the heavens decided to open and we cancelled that at the very last minute. I was literally just putting my shoes on when it started raining.

With all of us dressed and no where to go, we then decided to go out anyway… there’s grocery shopping need to be done and why not go to Wandsworth as there is a shopping mall there that we could just stroll around for a bit.

As we were strolling around the mall… we strolled in a toy shop. It is going to be Nora’s birthday soon, so we thought why not get her something. We haven’t really bought many toys for her… since she is in nursery most of her time and they have loads of toys there for her to play with.

I can’t remember what we were looking at when Nora suddenly went mental! Clapping her hands, pointing, clapping her hands… and we looked down and there was Makka Pakka and Igglepiggle soft toys right in front of her. They are characters from the In the Night Garden which Nora loves.

Since she was so excited, I just had to buy her one of the soft toy. Jules was against Makka Pakka as he thinks Makka Pakka is just too weird… so Igglepiggle it is.

And after months of not getting attached to any toys, she slept with Igglepiggle that night, and when she woke up, I found her standing up in her bed… one hand on the rail… and the other holding on to Igglepiggle. Last night… she fell asleep hugging Igglepiggle.

So I will get tickets to In the Night Garden Live… for her birthday.

In three weeks time, Nora will be one!!

Time does go so quickly… and hopefully in September, I will have an extra day to spend with her each week for the next six months.

Both Jules and I are suffering from food poisoning. This is the worst food poisoning I’ve ever had! I did go to the GP yesterday… but it wasn’t that bad and I thought it will pass in a couple of hours, as it usually does, so I just talked about my eczema and to find out what was wrong with Nora… which turned out to be inflamed tonsils.

Oh… don’t worry about Nora. Although she’s on antibiotics and was throwing up for two days, Godzilla would have been proud of her!

She is fearless!!

She will be a climber!!

So the past two days, as I couldn’t really move, Nora was at her element!

Yesterday, she was just doing her usual stuff of trying to eat the Argos catalogue, clearing the lowest shelf of the bookshelf of all books and eating any dust she could find. Poor girl… I was really suffering that I couldn’t even change her nappy because every time I move, I will have to run to the loo.

Anyway… Jules is suffering today and I’m on the mend… not much but at least I didn’t have to run to the loo every five minutes.

So, today, most of the time I was lying on the sofa watching Nora… and today, she decided to be a bit more adventurous. she now climbs onto the bean bag in front of the other bookshelf and has figured out how to switch the PS3 on and off… and also eject the disc. Which is quite annoying when I have a DVD in there that I was watching.

She’s also climbed higher to clear off the PS3 shelf of all the games. The best thing was, before she did it, she looked at me with a very cheeky smile… and then she’d pull one game box off… then looked at me again… and pulled another box off.

Part of me thought it was funny… but part of me thought that I’m not well and I don’t think I could run fast enough if she slipped… so after she cleared half the shelf, I put her in her jail (cot). Which of course she didn’t like… but it gave me a peace of mind for 15 minutes.

Once I’m better… I will have to figure out how to make some area Nora proof.