I'm going to be a big sister!

In September I am going to be a big sister! I have known for quite a while now, but after the 20week scan, I am starting to get even more excited.

Since last September, I have called the new baby 'Tabby', but now I have decided that that is too much of a cat name, so the baby is now called 'Barracuda Stone-Fish'. I have bought Barracuda Stone-Fish a few little presents already and tomorrow I want to go to Mothercare to buy more things. Aiti bought some new cloth nappies (diapers) today so I think I should buy something as well!


Here is a little picture of my new baby...

Some art and writing

I drew a snail today on MS Paint!



I wrote this short story the other day when Aiti was wallowing in the bath.

The house of ill

I am ill again! I went back to school on Monday and went to gymnastics feeling fine. On Tuesday I had school and swimming, but swimming only lasted 5 minutes as some child had poo'd in the water and we all had to get out. I started riding my bike without stabilisers that evening and then went to school the next day covered in bruises! I was very tired on Wednesday, had a very gungy eye and was a bit hot. By Thursday morning I was roasting and feeling very ill. I missed school on Thursday and Friday which was a shame, I just lay on the sofa watching cbeebies and playing on my laptop. Saturday was much the same, I felt very hot and had an ear ache. By the evening I'd picked up a stomach bug which was not too nice. I felt a bit better this morning so we all went to Borders for a coffee and some cake. I couldn't manage my cake and just wanted to go home. I'm not going to school tomorrow either as I still have a upset tummy.

In the last 5 days I haven't eaten anything, my eye has been producing green stuff but it is now better, my ear hurt but that is now better and I am still hot. My temperature today was 102 degrees which is much better than it was.

My summer uniform

My summer uniform is so much better than my old school's uniform. I have to wear a pale blue and white striped dress with a blue cardigan, white socks with blue trim and a straw boater hat!

Our first camping trip of the year

We were meant to go camping last weekend but I had the chicken pox so was too contagious to be taken anywhere. We decided to go camping this weekend instead so we headed off on Friday night to Somerset. We stayed in a campsite in a place called Cheddar which is famous for it's gorge. After 10 hours of sleep we had a great breakfast of fried eggs in baps! I had a play in the play area whilst daddy went for a run, then I had to show daddy my new favourite thing...a zip wire!
We then headed off to a cider farm for lunch and cider...though only for daddy. The food was excellent and daddy said the cider was scrummy, so he bought some more from the farm shop. We then went to the sea side where I played on the sand and ate ice-cream. We had fish and chips for tea to round off a good day.
After another 10 hours of sleep I went on the zip wire again, then we put the tent down and decided what to do. I wanted to see Cheddar Gorge and the caves but it would have cost £35 to visit so we decided to save our money for when we had more time. I really enjoyed riding my bike at the campsite, looking at the camp fish and running round the empty pitches. I'm looking forward to more camping in a few weeks time.
Here is a video of me loving the zip wire...

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Bullocks or Bollards or just plain Bollocks!

After Gymnastics today, I was getting myself back into my normal clothes...

Me: I have a large bollock in my sock
A: You have a what?
Me: A large bollock, look
A: Oh, I think you mean a bollard
Me: no, a bollock, B-O-L-L-O-C-K
A: Ahh, a bullock
Me: No, a B-O-L-L-O-C-K bollock
A: um, ok. I think you are saying the wrong word, I think you mean something else, do you even know what a bollock is?
Me: Yes, un bollock, it is French for lump or bump, Poisson told me!

Aiti, by this point was trying very hard not to laugh at me. All the other gymnastic mothers commented on how good my spelling was!

Bike Riding

It has been a long time since I last sat on my bike...at least 6 months so I was very rusty. On Monday I tried it out and rode like a sloth. Last night (Tuesday) my confidence returned. I even tried riding down the slope backwards a few times until Aiti said no!

Here I am on my bike, there is a also a short clip at the end of me climbing.

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I hate surprises!

Seeing as I already knew about my Easter Egg, I just imagined it would magically appear from it's hiding place (which I never did find) and it would be mine! Alas, no!

Aiti and Daddy sprung a surprise on me. I had to find the egg myself by following some clues...an egg hunt they called it. I was not impressed at all and completely refused to co-operate. The clues were so easy to read and work out but I was not going to get egg-cited. I answered the first clue but did not move, I had to be dragged to the answer. I then refused to touch the boiled egg with another clue attached to it...where was my big chocolate egg?

Eventually Aiti had had un-oeurf and had a few select words with me. I then co-operated a little bit, but not enough to smile. Once I'd found all 6 boiled eggs I had to re-arrange them all (they had letters written on them) and the letters spelled out where my big egg was. I pretended to not be able to do this which made Aiti and Daddy bang their heads together. I think I heard Aiti screaming quietly! Eventually I gave in and found my egg- it was a Smarties one.

Aiti went for a lie down to recover from the ordeal of the egg hunt and I had a good shout and whinge at both her and Daddy. Finally I calmed down when I realised that I needed help opening my egg. I then cheered up a lot and ate my egg. I then tried to think of as many egg-cellent egg words as possible! What an egg-traordinary day!

Cracking the Easter Egg code

I've never had an Easter Egg before, but I know I am getting one on Sunday. I had this conversation with Äiti earlier.

Me: Where is the Easter Egg you bought me for Sunday?
Ä: What Easter Egg?
Me: The one you text Daddy about, you asked him to buy me one
Ä: um...no, I didn't
Me: Yes you did, here...
I then show Äiti the text message she sent to Daddy on her phone, it was in the 'sent' folder!
Me: See, you asked Daddy to get me an Easter Egg
Ä: How long have you known about this?
Me: Since Monday
Ä: and why has it taken you so long to ask me about it?
Me: I've been looking for where you hid it
Ä (now exasperated): and how do you know you'll get it on Sunday?
Me: I saw in Tescos that it said Sunday 12th April and that is on Sunday

Some art work!

It has been a long time since I posted some art work. So here are a few pictures.

In order... an Okapi, a parrot fish talking to a parrot, my toy giraffe head on, a leopard (I was trying to get the ears to look like they were behind each other), an Angler Fish in the midnight zone, a tree by the beach/sea/midnight zone.

Poxxy Pox!

I am a spotty beast! I started the afternoon with 12 spots and now I have 25, I think they are doubling!
Yes, I finally have Chicken Pox! I somehow avoided it when we lived in Finland, there were lots of kids catching it and I never did. I think I got my spots from one of my friends at school.

Not much other news really. It was Äiti's birthday at the weekend, I went shopping with Daddy and bought her a cake, a new top and a card. She also got several hours to herself without Daddy or ,e being around. We all went out for dinner on Friday night. We went to the Thai restaurant near my school. I ate prawn crackers and rice and Äiti had a fish that kept looking at me in a funny way!
On Sunday we went swimming and then out for lunch. We also had our first barbecue of the year, in fact we had one on Saturday night and then again on Sunday night!

A day in the life of me...written by Äiti

Aiti wrote this on her board, so I thought I share how I spent my day yesterday.

A day in the life of Sophie!

According to Sophie she woke at 6 something, she stayed in her room drawing shapes (why? no idea) and proudly brought us a few sheets of ovals, diamonds, hexagons etc at 7.10am. After breakfast she watched a bit of TV (Bob the Builder, Numberjacks) before we got dressed. We had to go into town today for some bits, neither of us like shopping so we promised each other we'd be quick. Over breakfast she asked her first ever 'deep' question, "how old do you have to be to die?" I answered truthfully.
In town we managed to get everything we wanted surprisingly easily. I got Sophie a new Nintendo DS game, she picked 'Dolphin Island', we then went to the camping shop and got an airbed for our upcoming camping trip...I am not sleeping on a therma-rest! We then went to a charity shop (Oxfam) and found some more 'Mr Men' books. We then went to Starbucks for a 'babyccino' (aka warm milk with chocolate sprinkles) and a cup of tea so that Sophie could start her new game. After I'd caught up on email via my phone and Sophie was done playing the DS we went to the supermarket where Sophie sat inside the shopping trolley and continued to play the DS. This made for a quick trip round and I wasn't badgered for gingerbread!

Back at home she ate all her lunch (cheese sandwich and some apple and cucumber) in record slow time. She then got out her 'bits and pieces' box and proceeded to make a variety of things including a flag. The flag poles were the wooden stirrers you get from Starbucks (she'd pinched a few, read handful). She also made a car and some paper food. This involved lots of pots and pans and several wine glasses! Once she was done making things she pulled out a few musical instruments and she made a um, noise! This then led her to ask for her piano keyboard so we went upstairs and she pretended to play the piano. She then put the piano on 'demo' mode and leaped about on her bed counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. I thought it was a perfect teaching moment so gave her some sums...she turned the music up, thus ending my teachable moment! lol
She then found a yellow blanket, changed into a pair of shorts (just shorts), picked up a computer mouse and a Playstation controller and ran round the house being controlled! Daddy then came home and she made him walk like all the symbols on the controller!
We then had a game of Snakes and Ladders, which she won by cheating. "I just have to win" she declared and moved her piece on when I wasn't looking.

We then went into the garden where she became a tuna fish and later a salmon! I had to catch her with the yellow blanket (now a net) and put her in a tin can! She spent some time practising leaping off the top of her slide wearing her blanket, she played football with the cat until he got the ball, bit it, punctured it and then tried to drag it through the cat flap! She also played in her sand tray, lobbed a hoop round the garden and ran away from flies!

It was then time for me to do dinner. Thursdays tend to be 'Sophie can pick night', so she'd picked pizza. She hates pizza so this was a surprise! She played with her vet surgery and on the DS whilst I sorted dinner. I lovingly cut her pizza into the shape of a cat knowing full well she wouldn't eat it...olives for eyes,nose etc! I called her to the table to which she shouted 'I don't like pizza, I'm not going to eat it'. "Fine" Daddy said, "bed then". She came to the table and with the help of some tomato ketchup she demolished the entire pizza for the first time ever! After dinner, DH cleared away, loaded the dishwasher etc whilst I check my site. Sophie decided to draw glasses- eye glasses not wine glasses! We'd taken Great Granny to the opticians a few days ago and she was quite interested in the racks of glasses. She drew square ones, oval ones, hexagon ones etc.

We then all went to the play park, Sophie scooted there to burn off some extra energy. She practised sliding down the 30ft slide on her front, standing on a swing and leaping off anything. Back at home we fed the ants (we have an ant farm), fed the cats and she had a drink. She then turned her beaker into a 'fart machine' and made interesting noises by suctioning her face into the beaker!
Then we headed upstairs where I supervised her getting ready for bed. She picked a new book to read (a Mr Men book) and read that to Daddy. He then read her a few chapters of an Animal Ark book. He left her room at about 8pm and she read herself to sleep by about 9pm. We didn't need to go back up to see her.
So a busyish day. She was in a great mood all day which was just what we needed after a horrendous day yesterday. She was full of a lot of energy and spent the entire afternoon in constant motion.