What a week! So I went to get Yasmin from North Wales on Monday and she spent the week with us here in Cardiff. I went down on a Friday and it was so nice to have my mum to myself so to speak, we just chilled out, drank wine, went out for a meal, talked, watched New Moon. Just great :) Brought Yasmin down on the train, since the petrol is so expensive by car and I have a third off all train tickets with my student card. Plus, Nolan could work an extra day then while I went and got her. The train journey is like five hours and to be honest I thought she would act up a bit since it is such a boring journey, but she was brilliant. Talked non stop, ate her own body weight in grapes and apples, played "I spy", coloured in her colouring book and the hours flew! (Her version of playing I Spy is "I spy with my little eye something beginning with green" lol) A man actually stopped me when we were getting off the train and said "has she been on the train since Holyhead, she's been such a good girl, didn't even notice her sitting behind me!" Was quite chuffed with that lol bless her, I had SO many bags to carry and she helped me by carrying her backpack and pulling her suitcase. She was so excited to see Nolan aswell, wouldn't leave his side all week! She is so funny, she knows and remembers so many things it's mad! We were listening to Lady GaGa's "bad romance" and after she sang the line "I don't wanna be friends..." Yasmin turned to me and said "Kimmi, Lady GaGa doesn't want to be friends with us no?" haha I laughed so hard! Bless her! She is coming along with her swimming so well now, she jumps in and goes under and for her it's a big thing, because she has always hated water on her hair/head etc and we went camping one night a year ago and decided to go canoeing; the boat capsised and we all fell in including Yasmin which is ironic because the only reason we went canoeing is because Yasmin whinged to do it! So think she still remembers being underwater in a freezing lake, so for her, being underwater is a big step and we were so pleased for her. She won't let us hold her now, she HAS to swim on her own in the deep end even. So we went to Toys R Us and spoiled her a bit to show her how proud we were. We bought her a few jigsaws, books, toy instruments, racing cars (she is very tomboy-ish lol) etc for her room down here because we're always buying her toys when she's here and they just go back up North with her, so she's getting new toys every month and it's only just been christmas! So these toys can stay in her room here for when she visits. Bought her some Fifi and the Flowertots trainers and some pink boots aswell :) She's going home tomorrow and I'm a bit upset because the house feels like home when she's here, it feels "lived in" if you know what I mean. I love how the house is cluttered with toys and beakers when she's here. But, I suppose I get to see my mum this weekend again, which is always good news :) Going to read my Breaking Dawn book now (for the 8th time) while daddy and Yasmin are watching Pocohantas :D
Thursday, 18 February 2010
This week has flown :(
What a week! So I went to get Yasmin from North Wales on Monday and she spent the week with us here in Cardiff. I went down on a Friday and it was so nice to have my mum to myself so to speak, we just chilled out, drank wine, went out for a meal, talked, watched New Moon. Just great :) Brought Yasmin down on the train, since the petrol is so expensive by car and I have a third off all train tickets with my student card. Plus, Nolan could work an extra day then while I went and got her. The train journey is like five hours and to be honest I thought she would act up a bit since it is such a boring journey, but she was brilliant. Talked non stop, ate her own body weight in grapes and apples, played "I spy", coloured in her colouring book and the hours flew! (Her version of playing I Spy is "I spy with my little eye something beginning with green" lol) A man actually stopped me when we were getting off the train and said "has she been on the train since Holyhead, she's been such a good girl, didn't even notice her sitting behind me!" Was quite chuffed with that lol bless her, I had SO many bags to carry and she helped me by carrying her backpack and pulling her suitcase. She was so excited to see Nolan aswell, wouldn't leave his side all week! She is so funny, she knows and remembers so many things it's mad! We were listening to Lady GaGa's "bad romance" and after she sang the line "I don't wanna be friends..." Yasmin turned to me and said "Kimmi, Lady GaGa doesn't want to be friends with us no?" haha I laughed so hard! Bless her! She is coming along with her swimming so well now, she jumps in and goes under and for her it's a big thing, because she has always hated water on her hair/head etc and we went camping one night a year ago and decided to go canoeing; the boat capsised and we all fell in including Yasmin which is ironic because the only reason we went canoeing is because Yasmin whinged to do it! So think she still remembers being underwater in a freezing lake, so for her, being underwater is a big step and we were so pleased for her. She won't let us hold her now, she HAS to swim on her own in the deep end even. So we went to Toys R Us and spoiled her a bit to show her how proud we were. We bought her a few jigsaws, books, toy instruments, racing cars (she is very tomboy-ish lol) etc for her room down here because we're always buying her toys when she's here and they just go back up North with her, so she's getting new toys every month and it's only just been christmas! So these toys can stay in her room here for when she visits. Bought her some Fifi and the Flowertots trainers and some pink boots aswell :) She's going home tomorrow and I'm a bit upset because the house feels like home when she's here, it feels "lived in" if you know what I mean. I love how the house is cluttered with toys and beakers when she's here. But, I suppose I get to see my mum this weekend again, which is always good news :) Going to read my Breaking Dawn book now (for the 8th time) while daddy and Yasmin are watching Pocohantas :D
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Glad you had a great time with Yasmin!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the house feeling like home with toys around. My living room hasn't been tidy since Casey learned to crawl, lol (well.. it has, but 5 minutes later it's full of toys again). I can't imagine it any other way now.
Awesome news about her swimming!
LOL,yeah so true, I love the homely feeling, no point having a show-home is there! Yes, shes really coming along with swimming, I would have loved to have started taking her from newborn like you did with Casey! Maybe then she wouldnt have reservations with water!
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