kaka cheezzzzz

Ivy has learnt to ask for crackers (kaka), it is very funy when she says 'nom nom kaka' since that's considered quite rude in some circles. She does prefer her kaka with cheezzzzz ontop. It's very dissapointing she's not getting to go visit Granny Grant and pops for newyear, they're fridge is usually full of exciting cheese.

I made fizzy snowballs for playgroup this morning, as sensory play. (citric acid, bicarbonate of soda and ALL the olive oil we had in the house....) the toddlers were fascinated by watching them fizz. I'll definitly make them again. Ivy and I didn't stay very long though because I was going home to have coffee with another mum in the village who is also having identical twins at the same time as us (something in the water) Ivy didn't want to leave, she protested using the word 'mon' which we think is 'more' and waving her hand like an elephant trunk (she didn't want to go until she'd got to sing the elephant song, but they weren't singing it anyway since they're on christmas songs)

On the way home the weather was awful- huge hailstones and an iccy icy wind. Ivy was on my back and she SCREAMED and screamed at me. It was like she was in pain- which she probably was, my face was certainly sore. Felt so sorry for her, but there was nothing I could do. I suppose if she was in a pram she'd have had a rain cover on, but it was probably too windy for our pram and at some point she has to learn that winter weather just isn't nice.

Ivy hasn't had a proper breastfeed in the past few days, which a less stubborn person than me might call 'self weaning'. However lots of things i've read suggest that they don't really self wean, just go on a nursing walk out for a few days and will go back on. So I kept offering and giving it to her whenever she signed for it and today she had a proper feed. I was very pleased.