Quote from my SIL

This made me giggle and it just occured to me to post it on my blog.

My sister in law is looking after my little girl today. In fact she is now my new childminder (well, number 3 as CM2 is keeping Mondays for a bit until she has her baby). Anyway, she was telling me how she was trying to teach my daughter how to say "Aunty xxxxx" as she calls her "Mum". She calls CM2 Mum too. I'm "Mummy" but I think she just copies the other kids and doesn't get why she's "mum" to them and something else to her.

Anyway, so her text a little while ago said:

"Trying to teach her to call me Aunty xxxx (add name), got enough people calling me mum already" (she has 4 kids of her own)

Then her next text says:

"Starting to wonder if "mum" means "lady who can reach the biscuit tin"!!"

I had an out loud giggle and turned around to share with colleague J (who didn't respond and turned out I was talking to someone with earphones in - harrumph). In fact I giggled again as I typed this. So funny! Lady who can reach biscuit tin. Wonder if they'll put that in the Toddler Oxford Dictionary if they ever make one.

Ooooh topic of new potential blog post - "Toddler Oxford Dictionary in draft". Watch this space!

Conversation overheard while hubby corralling children up stairs

Husband: Come on, small furry children
Joshua: I'm NOT SMALL!
Husband: OK, Upstairs furry children.
Joshua: I'm not a child.
Husband: OK up small person
(me expecting him to say "I'm not small")
Joshua: I'm not a person

Hahaha so funny

Doggies & pickled onions

Was going to give blogging a miss tonight but as I'm here, sat on the sofa watching a new drama called The Fear. Having a whiskey.

Kids were funny tonight. Before bed they were running around (crawling technically) on all fours pretending to be doggies. Joshua was doing it and so Lala copied him and they were both going "woof woof" and I was patting them and stroking them on the head and rubbing their tummies like little doggies.

Oh, Joshua has made the Grandads jars of pickled onions. Well, I say he made them. He helped daddy make them. Daddy needed to do some more this evening too but Joshua wasn't interested so he got Lala to help.

Then they spent an hour and 15 minutes after hubby put them in bed climbing up to the top bunk, then climbing down again. And Joshua was in bed in the top bunk playing with Lala's hair clips I bought her. He loves hair clips. He'd make SUCH a cute little girl.... one for Daddy's wedding speech:

Am working from home tomorrow as I get my new car at lunchtime. Woo hoo. On both counts. Yay to cheaper fuel. New car. Shiny car. Car with iphone pluggy-inny-thing. Working from home - yay: no rushing around getting ready. No hour long commute. Hello, working in jimjams, working on sofa or in bed. Peace and quiet of house sans kids. TV on in background. Bliss.

Right, is 10 past 11. Bedtime. Just been to settle the coughy-coughy girl.

Night all.