Had a lie in in the morning, which was lovely.  Then because it was such a gorgeous day here, we went to Daisy Nook garden centre.  Along with the rest of the North West.  It was so busy that by the time we got there, they’d completely run out of cakes in the cafe.  Could have been a big disaster, but Missy Moo decided that a ‘hot cross mouse’ (hot cross bun to the rest of us) would suffice instead.  I bought her a couple of little plant pots for her bedroom, now just need to find a very sturdy and not at all delicate plant to go in them.  Also bought some sweet pea seeds, and my mum bought sunflower and green bean seeds.  We did try sunflowers last year, but I was rubbish, went on holiday and they died.

When we came home, I put together another Ikea Expedit storage unit.  Took a great chunk of skin off my hands in doing so – but it’s up, and Evie’s room is much tidier.  Still have three Benno DVD storage units to put up though.  Also made some celeriac puree for Henry, who has the most enormous appetite!  But celeriac is a stupid vegetable.  Yes, it tastes quite nice, but I’m really not sure it’s worth all the hassle of trying to peel it.

Today, M&S came, and finally actually delivered and installed the last of my furniture.  It’s now all OK, and all in place – only about 8 months after I first ordered it!  They did still try to deliver another two bedside tables that I’ve never ordered though….

Just been to have my haircut, and I’m really happy with it. My hair is really fine and rubbish, but it looks as good as it could do at the moment. I might even be really adventurous and have some copper highlights put in next time.
I would have taken a photo (well, actually I have tried) but they’re really bad – not good enough to post. Will try to get Newt to take a decent one later.

Evie also had her hair cut today. They have a special high chair for them to sit in, and when they put the cape on her, she looks just like a mini Harry Potter – very cute! She was very good as well while they cut her hair – didn’t mess about and didn’t whinge.

Other than that we’re all feeling rather poorly and sorry for ourselves at the moment. We’ve all got a cold – except Evie. It seems to have been one cold after another for months now – if it’s not me it’s one of the children or Newt. Roll on spring!

Evie, Henry and I went to a Christening today.

Evie had a really good time.  And apparently wants to go again next week.  At the ‘do’ afterwards there was food (good), balloons (good), music (good), and lots of room to play with balloons (good).  So what more could she ask for really?  Henry also seemed to like watching all the older boys running around and making a lot of noise!

She has an ear infection. She is not a well bunny. Well actually, she’s a lot better today now that the antibiotics have starte to kick in.

But last night I couldn’t get her temperature down at all, so we ended up at the emergency doctor who told me that she had an ear infection, and gave me antibiotics for her. I feel rather foolish for turning up at 1am just for an ear infection, but I couldn’t get her temp down, and it was starting to scare me.

Anyway, she’s on the mend now thank goodness.

I’ve decided that I’m going to have a go at looking at my family tree.  I’ve never been particularly interested in this, so I imagine I won’t get very far before I decide that it’s too difficult and boring, but I’m going to start at least.  Maybe I’ll manage to find other people who are doing a similar tree to me and we can merge them, who knows.  I’m doing it on ancestry.co.uk, and actually I think the internet makes it a lot more fun and interesting than it would otherwise be.  Problem is, I was never any good at remembering people’s birthdays when they were alive, never mind now they’re dead – and that does make it all a bit more tricky!

Just seen a job for a Midwifery lecturer. Not that I want a new job right now, but eventually I thought I might want to do this. But they ideally want you to have a PhD, and I really don’t think I want to spend another 5 years studying. And they definitely want you to have a track record in research, which i don’t have.

So, I then saw a job in Midwifery research – to get that, guess what I need? Yup – a PhD. Maybe I’ll just stay as a hospital midwife after all!

As I’m clearly not very good at this, let’s just start with some photos of Henry and Evie.  Mr Newt has apparently added some kind of Gallery plug in thingy to make adding photos easier.  But i’ve no idea where it is……

And here’s Evie – all dressed up and ready to go!

I see that.  Over 6 months.  That’s very bad of me.  And in the meantime I’ve had time to have another baby.  But now we have a very shiny new netbook, and Mr Newt tells me that there’s an addon thing for WordPress that will link it with Gallery and therefore make posting pictures so much easier.  So I’ll have no more excuses for not updating more often – well, other than looking after a baby and a toddler.

OK, so Mother’s Day isn’t until tomorrow, but we went out for a meal today instead because it will be insanely busy tomorrow.  We had a nice meal out, but it was still rather busier than when we normally go on a weekday, but never mind.

I wasn’t going to get a present, but then at knitting group, the shop owner had a pair of KnitPro Symfonie needles, and they looked lovely – so I splashed out and bought myself a pair, and they arrived today -  I’ve only knitted a couple of rows with them but so far I really like them!