: : : Here is the news for December : : :

Wednesday 31st December
Grandma came to see me today and she brought some VERY exciting gifts with her. I don't normally like to duplicate any news already mentioned in Andrew's news section but this gift was very special. It was a great big box with lots and lots of coloured paper in it! Hoorah! I said "Ooooh GRANDMA!". Grandma said it was from Maddy and Abbi, so THANK YOU! Even though the gift wasn't from Grandma, giving it to me won her a whole lot of points. There will be no stopping me with my sticking adventures now. I shall be using it in combination with my equally fabulous Father Christmas pen set that I received as a gift from Isobel and Joseph. I can assure them that it has hardly ever been put away for the last week.

Tuesday 30th December
We went swimming this morning. I am still a bit unsure about all the water getting into my mouth so I clung on to Dad for a while (like a little monkey). I persuaded Dad to take me on the big slide 16 times on this visit. I did some of the persuading while we were actually still going down the slide. Mum took me on the slide too. She was over the moon about the whole slide experience.

Later on I made some special cakes for Grandma with Mum. I helped with all the measuring of ingredients and even with some of the stirring. I also helped with some of the eating when I had a cake just before teatime.

I had witch and chips for my tea (no witch this time). I had lovely lovely chips. I made Mum put them in a little box for me so that I could get that official "chips from a chip shop" feel. Lovely.

Monday 29th December
I may just about be learning not to surprise Andrew by jumping on him. The problem is that the actual enjoyment of the jumping is a very great temptation. Anyway - I didn't do it very much today - only once or twice. I even gave him a few cuddles which didn'tend in Andrew falling over.

I did lots of sticking today. Mum has organised my large collection of special bits of paper, whether they be shiny, textured, character based or special special shiny material into one large box. Now I can tip EVERYTHING out all at once on the table and really get down to some sticking. It's nice to tip them all out and see exactly what I've got. I think Mum may be thinking of keeping them all in different places now that she's seen how much i enjoy the tipping.

Sunday 28th December
Dad took everyone out on a special day out today. FIRST we had to rush to get the train and that was fun and then we had to get on the train, which was even nicer. The train journey was even more fun than the rushing OR the getting.

Then we had an invigorating walk in the freezing driving snow until we got to the sea life centre. It was here that I may have finally overcome my fear of sharks. Dad asked me if I wanted to see one and I must admit I was a little apprehensive. Then he said that I had already seen one but not noticed. It was that long fish that I had said was smiling at me. Mum and Dad let me buy a furry one to take home with me. I chose it and he's coming to bed with me in my cot tonight.

Afterwards Dad took me on the Birmingham eye. It's a great big ferris wheel that goes very high indeed. I was very very cold when we had to stop at the top for ages because of the biting wind. I shouted a lot because of all the excitement.

To top the whole day off we had to go on another train to get home. it's an exciting way to travel I can tell you. Ticket colectors every minutes inside the carriage and all kinds of things to look at outside the carriage.

Saturday 27th December
I have created some trouble today and as a result I have been banished to my cot for a number of minutes.

Mum and Dad may have just worked out that I have an adverse reaction to chocolate. I have to say that they have taken their time. Eat chocolate : Go bonkers. Simple.

Friday 26th December
I managed to get into bed with Mum and Dad this morning and for this reason I was in a good mood for most of the morning. I even managed to do lots of my new puzzles on the kitchen table. If I do them there then Andrew cannot bother me with his puzzle piece stealing and chewing ways.

I should mention that sometimes when I'm talking I add the words: "Peter said" to the end of my sentences, as if I was telling Mum and Dad a little story. I think it's quite endearing.

Sadly the afternoon did not go so well.

Thursday 25th December
I woke up on the wrong sde of the bed this morning and I even managed to get out of the wrong side. I'm not sure why, but I was a tiny bit really grumpy for a long while. My mood got better when I discovered that I could finally open some of the presents that were downstairs.

I had such a lovely lot of gifts today, there were puzzles, books, fire engines and I'm even allowed to play with som eof Andrew's toys when he's not looking. Mum and Dad bought me a special personal stereo which I have been listening to nursery rhymes on for a lot of the day. I've only unravelled two tapes so far. Luckily Dad has been on hand to wind them all back up again. There was the video tape too - i'm not sure how that got unravelled.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Wednesday 24th December
Dad was ill today and he was very grumpy. THis made me very grumpy so most of the trouble was Dad's fault.

I made some lovely flowers with Mum - they are made of paper and chocolate wrappers and straws. It was all very creative. I'm going to have to ask someone to eat some more chocolates though - I'm running out of shiny paper for sticking.

I'm looking forward to christmas day - i've been told that there are some gifts to open. I've been looking at them under the tree for a few days and I've only tried to open one or two a few times.

Tuesday 23rd December
My Uncle Mark came to visit me today, we had a lovely time doing lots and lots of drawing. I turns out that he is a world expert in drawing tracktors and diggers. He drew me a lovely one which I coloured in. I coloured it green mostly as green is still my favourite colour. At least I have two different colours of green in my new felt tip pens. I use one colour for each leg sometimes, although Mum doesn't encourage leg colouring usually.

I made my own toast today.

Monday 22nd December
I do not like Andrew so well, all he does is yell yell yell, I will not have Andrew about, when he comes in I put him out. That's what I have been singing today. See how cleverly I substituted Andrew's name in there? All my own work.

Sunday 21st December
Jenny has been my main ficus of the day - I made her another card before she came to visit and while she was here I brought her many and varied gifts of crisps and sweetmeats and so on. I'm not sure that she actually ate any after they had been pressed in my hot hand though. I believe Mum told her store them all in a special place for hygenic disposal after my bedtime. Jenny did some puzzles with me too, It turns out that she is quite good at doing them as well.

Saturday 20th December
I had a terrible nightmare all about sharks last night. Dad came in to rescue me from them. We had a little talk about them and then he went to sleep on my floor. Very brave of him, considering that the sharks generally live underneath my bed.

I think I'm starting to see the back of my illness now. I didn't feel too bad today- I was still a little bit floppy and sad, but I think that that is mainly because I'm tired. I expect things will be better tomorrow.

Friday 19th December
Last night was just as bad as the one before, only this time Mum slept on my floor for a while. She was very good natured about the whole thing despite the cold and the firmness of the floor.

When I woke up in the morning I was still ill. It's gone beyond a joke really. Grandad tried very hard to cheer me up but it didn't work completely. We'll be needing some more medicine for me soon.

Thursday 18th December
Last night I slept with Mum and Dad slept somewhere else. I wasn't very well in the night and I needed plenty of comfort. Mum needed warming up too, and I was lovely and warm.

I was feeling much better during the morning and I was well enough to accompany Dad to the shops once again. I held the shopping list and put the things in the trolley. I'm still don't have long enough arms to place each food item in the trolley so I have to resort to tossing them over my shoulder. I let Dad put the eggs in though - "Dad, you'd better put the eggs in or they will get broken." - He was very impressed.

My condition declined during the afternoon and I was asleep in bed by 5 to 7. Dad has started giving me my bath quite early so that he can sneak me into bed.

Wednesday 17th December
I can't believe that I'm STILL ill. Dad slept on my floor last night and even woke up just in time to catch me trying to climb out of bed at about 4.00am because there were sharks in my bed. I have to admit that I wasn't quite feeling myself.

As usual I spent a lot of time lying down on the sofa and feeling a little bit sad. Thechristmas lights brightened up my day though.

Tuesday 16th December
I'm still ill today and the tiny tiny doctor says that I am probably going to be ill for at least another five days. THat is normal for being this kind of ill apparently. I was mostly OK during the day and even went out to the shops with Dad and Grandad while Mum took Andrew to see the tiny tiny Doctor. I even had fun at the shop. And some ham obviously.

Later on in the afternoon my temperature returned to its high setting. Not quite as high as my record breaking 41.5 bu quite high none the less. I went to bed fairly miserable. I'm usually quite brave when I'm ill but there are limits to my patience.

Monday 15th December
I was still ill this morning but I did revive a little bit during the morning. I made the terrible mistake of using all my energy all at once and did "She'll be coming round the mountain". I did it very quickly. I had to spend the rest of the day lying down and being sad.

Grandad is coming tomorrow. I'm hoping he will be able to make me better.

Sunday 14th December
I had another temperature this morning and it was almost as bad as the one I had yesterday. Dad slept on my floor last night and he had a sore arm from bending it through the bars of my cot. No one had any sympathy for him though because I was so ill.

I managed to stay awake for a few hours but at 8.45 I fell asleep. Dad took me upstairs and tucked me in on Mummy's side of the bed and I stayed asleep until 12.30 or even later - no one is sure. I spent most of the rest of the day lying on the sofa.

Saturday 13th December
I'm still ill today but I do feel a *little* bit better. Not much though. My temperature has been up and downall day. I did get to play with the thermometer though - I tested Dad's temperature a few times - amazingly it was the same measurement as when I use the tape measure. 24.

Gramdma bought me a special tractor sticker book - Dad showed it to me and told me that we could do it tomorrow when I was a little bit better. I said I was feeling better straight away. I was allowed to do 20 stickers before I wentto bed.

Friday 12th December
We were going to go out today in the pushchair but I told Mum that I didn't want to because I felt ill. As I predicted I WAS ill. I have broken all known records for the house and now have a very high temperature. It was 40.5. Luckily Calpol and Nurofen brought my temperature down during the evening. I was very hot and fed up though.

Grandma came to see us and she has given me great cheer in my hours of need.

Thursday 11th December
I had a lovely time at BRAG today because Mum was looking after everyone in the creche. My behaviour was quite good but it wasn't really perfect. I invited someone to sit on a chair and then I pushed him off it. I did exactly the same thing last week.

Dad took me to see Uncle Chippy and Auntie Elaine today. I took a puzzle so that I had something to do. I enjoyed walking around their talbe and playing with Elaines keys. I fell over quite a few times though - their floor is very slippery. Eventually Dad took me home because of reasons I won't go into.

Wednesday 10th December
Oh-oh. Not too much news today.

I did have a haircut though, and afterwards I had to have a shower because I was itching on my neck quite a lot. I took ages in the shower and tried to blame a wee incident on Andrew, but Andrew was nowhere near me.

"I'm going to the shop to get a new Andrew because this one is a little bit rubbish"

Tuesday 9th December
There isn't much to report today. Generally things went quite badly today.

Monday 8th December
I went to a special Christmas party today WITH ACTIVITIES. My favourite acivity was included - sticking bits of brightly coloured paper to other bits of paper. I did a really good one today. There was a little bit of paper to represent every member of my family. There were only four bits of paper stuck after that so I threw some other bits of paper on for good measure.

While Mum's back was turned for only one second today, I managed to get the special Fimbles chocolate advent calendar down from the high shelf and ate ALL but 8 of the chocolates. I'm saving those for the next time Mum's back is turned.

Sunday 7th December
I have been playing with my word match puzzle today. I managed to match nearly the whole box of words. I do have the general shape of the puzzle to help me out a little bit but I do know some words. "egg" is my favourite one so far. It's easy to recognise.

I've done lots of special sticking art today. I came up with a new way of doing it too. Previously I have been applying glue to the things i'm sticking and then pressing them onto the paper. Today I tried applying glue to the whole piece of paper and then pressing the various bits onto the paper. It's a bit messier than the other method, but Idon't have to clear everything up so it doesn't matter too much.

Saturday 6th December
I went to the shops today with Dad. I made sure we bought some ham and some gingerbread men. They didn't have any single gingerbread men so we had to buy a box of 35. Hoo-rah for me.

I had a lovely time with Mum doing some special art. Mum gave me lots of little pieces to stick onto card. Some of them were sparkly and some weren't. I stuck them all, almost every single one. I now have ten beaaaaautiful pictures that are stuck on the "art wall". I believe that some of them are being considered for christmas cards.

Dad made me a special corner today. There's a bit that's behind the sofa and a bit that's by the side of it. It's a very cosy place with just enough space to do a small puzzle, or perhaps play with a little car. There's even a cushion for me to sit on. I got into a little bit of trouble because I got over excited and filled it up with about 100 toys.

Happy Birthday Grandma.

Friday 5th December
Even today I couldn't go to work with Dad. They seem to have some rule against very tiny people being in the office. I suspect that it's because I would consider my main task to be pulling all the wires up and generally rearranging things.

Mum got me a special video from the library today - it was a clifford the big red dog one. Clifford the BRD is my new all time favourite video of all time. I watched it about 4 times today. It seems to be mostly about an enormous dog called clifford. He's red too.

Thursday 4th December
I have spent most of the day singing a variety of popular nursery rhymes. The funniest is "Daisy Daisy" - that one always has me rolling around on the floor with laughter, and today was no exception.

I asked Dad is I could go to work with him today. He said that I couldn't today but that I could at some point at a later date. I told him that "I would put that piece right there". I'm sure that all Dad does all day is do puzzles.

Wedmesday 3rd December
This is my fifth day of being extremely well behaved, I think the only thing that Mum had an issue with today was me wanting to watch Clifford the big red dog about 30 times. I only wanted to watch it as many times as Andrew wanted to walk around the room. Mum wanted me to watch the story makers as they were my favourite things at the start of the week. Today though, they are just a tiny tiny bit rubbish.

I've got a new favourite corner - it's the bit behind the sofa. It's a very cosy place that Andrew can't even get to. I'm going to ask Dad to put a cushion in there for me.

Tuesday 2nd December
Hooold on a minute.. Mum and Dad are both ill so Dad doesn't have to go to work. In the lottery of illness, Dad has been designated as the less ill of the pair, so he gets to look after us all day as Mum cannot get out of bed. I suspect he will bribe us with gingerbread men. I'm looking forward to that part of the day.

EVENTUALLY - after Andrew had had his nap[ we managed to get out of the house and go for a walk. Dad was a bit slow on his feet though. We went to the park and sat in the little house and had a cup of tea. I gave out imaginary brightly coloured sweets to everyone - obviously in everyone's favourite colours. We also had to have a walk into town so that Dad could get the gingerbread man that I had been promised. Sadly there were no SINGLE gingerbread men so Dad was FORCED to buy 25. We also bumped into all the webbs. Dad tried to palm some of the surplus gingerbread men off onto them but they had also just bought 25. Good for Joseph I say.

Anyhow - Dad did a reasonable job today, despite his illness. 4.5 out of 5.

Monday 1st December
Today I have been very nice to everyone, and I mean everyone - including the smallest and newets member of the house. Despite his continual moaning about his teeth. I spent a lot of time today sticking plasters on everything. By the time Dad came home I had 2 on my face, beegirl had 20 on her and mum had lots too. Dad, however, had none so we had to take care of that.

I'm getting very good at doing puzzles now - I can even manage to do some of them upside down. I showed Dad this evening - we turned the three tractor puzzles upside down and I picked out the right pieces for each puzzle, and in the right order. I'm like a puzzle sorting machine.

 

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