Meet Henry The Ice Monkey. He’s the newest member of our family, adopted from our friends at Scarybird Stitches, he’s made himself right at home already and is much loved by his new owner Edward.
Henry chilling after a hard day of being a helicopter, performing in a production of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and eating all Mummy’s ginger nuts
Almost there……It’s ‘Almost’ Christmas……He’s ‘Almost’ 4…..
He’s almost 4. I can keep repeating it, but why does 4 fill me with dread? More dread and fear than 2 or 3 ever did?
Almost 4. Crap. No longer a baby, no longer a toddler. ‘I’m just a big boy’ he tells me. He’s growing up, becoming who he’ll be for the rest of his life, deciding what he loves and what he doesn’t. Grown up Big Boy. Crap.
What to do with those pesky kids
He’s a Roadie today, yesterday he was a caring Dad to Winnie the Pooh, carrying him to Nanna’s and back in a make shift sling, holding his hand and cuddling him until he’d had enough and cuddled up with Winnie on Daddy’s lap under his favorite drum blanket (a gift from Imperfect Mama’s crafty swap) and fell asleep.
Edward & Pooh bear
Pooh bear got ya back!
Today, he’s fixing his microphone with one of my crochet hooks. It worked because now he’s miming along to R.E.M (his new favorite band) and asking me if I’ve seen his crush, with eyeliner.
He picks up our Guitar Hero Wii controller, strums along and pulls some shapes before breaking into a crescendo on the piano (or coffee table for us plebs) he switches between roadie and rock star mode. Demanding original artwork from the greatest artist he’s ever met A.K.A: Mummy and then telling me ‘I’m with the band’ in that knowing way, all he needs is a wink and he’s got the look.
Last week he was a Pirate at the annual bonfire at Nanna & Poppa’s. Running round in his anchor shorts (a great buy from Baby Moo’s. I highly suggest you take a look, Anna is great, her Calfling’s even better) pulled over his trousers to keep warm, pirate hat and telescope. He then became a drumming pirate, what do all pirates drum with? Glow sticks.
I ask him what he wants to be when he grows up, he artfully ignores my question. Instead, he puts on a character, Roadie, Rockstar, Pirate, Daddy, Disney Princess (yes I know he is a boy, surprisingly I was there when he was born) Cat, Tiger, Dog, Adventurer and this weeks new one: Santa or satan…..both wear red right?
Duck Face!
Looking more like Stig of the Dump, Edward has a nasty cold. He refuses to let me near his head to brush his hair so I’m suspecting he’s got a headache and he is very bunged up. We’ve spent the morning listening to Damien Rice and seeing to the chickens but all he wants is cuddles and “cheese on sandwhich”…..today that takes the form of poppy seeded bread and some welsh mature cheddar, not forgeting the choco libenz biscuit!
I had a surprise telephone call earlier this morning from Brett’s sister asking if we’d like to go over for the afternoon……..Of course we did!
We had a lovely play and some great cuddles before a lunch of ham and cheese sandwhiches, grapes, strawberries and crisps followed by some singing
It was a really lovely relaxing afternoon and Edward had a brilliant time on the trampoline and the slide 🙂
so this is Edward. Also known as Monkey, Tinker and Nut Job. He’s just turned 2 and I’m not sure who’s having more fun, us or him. He loves music and helping Brett fix computers and at the moment he’s enjoying Toy Story and The Muppetts!
He is a total boy, most days I come home from work to find him climbing over the sofa or running around half naked singing Queen’s Bohemian Raphsody at the top of his voice (well his version of it any way)
So here I am….little late in the day for getting the blogging vibe but there we go! It’s been a mad few years getting here, some losses, some laughs and lots of loves. I’m going to try to post a little as and when I can, some about me, lots about my little man Edward and maybe some about the stuff we get up to.
So who are we? I’m Kerry, 32 and still growing up. I’m currently (and hope to be for a long time) attatched to Brett, we have a 2 year old little boy, Edward who is BONKERS!!! They are my world. Together we’re a little bit hippy, we love Folk music, recycling and natural parenting. We jointly made the descisions to breast feed, cloth nappy and use slings and taking a more alternative route rather than the ‘norm’ because it felt right and we thought it was just the way you did things.
Sadly breast feeding didn’t go to plan for us, I will tell you all the tale but here and now is not the time. I think it made me determined to cloth nappy Edwards squishy bum and to carry him when I could.
So, there we were cloth nappying him and I was carrying him when I could (I did have a pram and it did get used) I slowly began to realise I loved nappies and had a small obbsession with them lol as Edward grew my obbsession transfered onto slings and then back again! I will write more about my nappies and slings too, but not right now lol
Being on maternity leave encouraged me to re discover my love of knitting and sewing, and while I’m not that fantastic at sewing I like to think I can hold my own when I knit – all thanks to my lovely Nan.
Brett’s a Jack of all trades, if any of you say master of none I may beat you with a feather duster because in all honesty anything he puts his mind to, he masters. He mainly does computering type thingies and likes to tinker with Motherboards and SATR cables, but he also hosts servers and the like.
So to Edward, I never know how to describe him to people. He’s as mad as a bucket of frogs and as gentle and loving as a 2 year old can be. He loves music! very often I catch him singing along to stuff and have a little smile to myself.
We all live together in Leicester, with our Reliants on the drive, computers on the table, wool stashed behind the sofa and toys, books and countless other junk littering the place!
