Yeah yeah, terrible blogger, yadda yadda yadda. Working full time in a demanding job, two small children, big house, some semblance of a social life, a week's summer holiday, jewish holidays, pob's birthday, pob starting nursery, all of Pob's friend's birthdays (we are all friends from ante-natal class) it all adds up. Yes, some others manage quite well despite all these elements, but I don't know how they do it. I've been doing that old thing of composing posts in my head and not writing them down. Because I don't want there to be a(nother) whole month missing from the archives, I'm forcing something down on screen.
Pob snippets #9
At the house we were staying at in France, where the pool was not heated. Pob LOVES swimming
Thalia [in the pool]: Look how much fun the pool is, Pob!
Pob: [puts toe in the water] I'm not keen, Mummy
Two days later when visiting 7-year-old (B) has demonstrated that pool is quite braveable, really
Pob: I'm swimming Mummy, I'm swimming! [dog paddling around the pool with her arm bands on]
Thalia: I can see you sweetie, you're doing really well
Pob: Look, B and I can meet each other! [Pob and B jump in from opposite sides of the pool and meet in the middle] [lots]
B: Thalia, I think Pob needs to get out now, her lips are blue
Thalia: [In bad mummy rush] Oh Pob, let's get out now
Pob: No Mummy, I'm going to swim and swim forever!
Home again
Pob: [whine whine whimper whine]
Thalia: Where's your happy voice, Pob? [trying to resurrect what was, 6 months ago, a very effective parenting technique]
Pob: I don't want to talk to you in a happy voice, I want to talk to you in a whiny voice
At her birthday party
Friends: Happy Birthday Pob!
Pob: Happy Birthday!
Viewing her birthday tea
Pob: Oh my gosh! Wow!
On being given her third present
Pob: Another present! Thank you! Wow!
Pob had her party on Sunday, her actual birthday was Monday. Monday morning we went in to wake her up
Family: Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Pob, Happy Birthday to you
Pob: Is it my birthday again, Mummy? When is my other birthday?
Playing with her birthday present, a dolls house
Pob: So the baby goes here, and the table goes here, and the sofa goes here, [...], and everyone is eating lunch here
Thalia [viewing 7 room dolls house with all furniture in one room]: Do you think everyone might like to have lunch downstairs and leave the baby sleeping in his room?
Pob: No, Mummy, they are all being a family together
It's okay, there are those of us who blog far less than once a month, if ever.
I can't wait for Zeb to tell me he *wants* to use a whiny voice.
Posted by: Luo lin | Friday, 24 September 2010 at 17:31
Aw, so sweet. Yes, "Where's your big girl voice?" has become notably ineffective in our house, too.
Posted by: electriclady | Friday, 24 September 2010 at 18:07
"I don't want to talk to you in a happy voice, I want to talk to you in a whiny voice" -- this made me laugh my arse off. Pob's a darling little card, isn't she?
Lovely to hear from you.
Posted by: May | Friday, 24 September 2010 at 19:33
Good to hear from you and get more snippets of the adorable Pob.
I'm impressed your ante-natal group are still tight. 6 years on nearly everyone in mine has either gone to the burbs or the country or got divorced except the now multimillionaire one whose life doesn't really cross with mine anymore. I miss them.
Posted by: Betty m | Friday, 24 September 2010 at 19:43
She's very sharp. :-) And adorable!
Posted by: LutC | Friday, 24 September 2010 at 19:45
Never compare yourself to others--you can never tell what parts of their lives are in the toilet, and you always know what parts of your life are less than bright and shiny.
Posted by: Girl Detective | Saturday, 25 September 2010 at 04:02
Aw ... "all being a family together"... so sweet. Well worth remembering!
And it's okay that you blog when you get to it. I think it's been, what, two years for me? Gotta reform myself one of those days....
Posted by: Hetty Fauxvert | Saturday, 25 September 2010 at 08:44
Been wondering when we would get another Pob snippet post. So glad to see this one today!
Posted by: Summer | Saturday, 25 September 2010 at 20:49
Such precious snippets! I should do some snippeting of PB, really. I don't know how people get around to blogging sometimes, either.
Bea
Posted by: Bea | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 13:09
Pob is wonderful. And I'd love to have your reasons for no time to blog.
Posted by: conceptionally challenged | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 19:31
Glad to hear any news at all from you, anytime, because I too, am a very bad blogger... ;)
Posted by: Aurelia | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 17:27