The Buckingham Blog

This is our first week of the holidays we've not spend travelling somewhere and it's been very nice.  We've had some pyjama mornings, and seen some friends.  Like on Monday we were allowed to be in pyjamas until lunchtime!  Then we had to go shopping for some food.  That was all we did, it was fun. 

On Tuesday I had my friend Emily round to play.  Normally it's Kory's friends who come round, so it was nice to have mine over.  Mummy forgot to ask if it was ok to put a photo here, so I better not until we check.  Afterwards Kory went to boxing, it's been ages since he was there.

Wednesday was chilled again in the morning and then Mummy took us into town in the afternoon to go to the new Baskin' Robbins ice cream shop.  I chose a banana & strawberry one with sprinkles, Kory chose mango tango with mixed berry sauce and Mummy got raspberry sorbet with marshmallow sauce which made her tongue go blue.  I want that one next time!

On Thursday morning we did some craft with paper plates, felt pens and some glitter.  Kory showed me what to do, he found it in a book and copied it.  Mummy just left us to it for the first time ever.  I think she expected a big mess but we didn't make one. 

When we got dressed we went to Burger King for lunch and a play, then to Jessica & Sophie's house as we'd not seen them for 4 weeks with all our travels! 

 And today was a treat day.  First we met Daddy for lunch at Pizza Express and then he went back to work and we went to the theatre to see The Singing Kettle show.  At first I was a bit scared to clap, but I saw Kory and all the other kids doing it and I started to join in and it was fun.  We sang lots of songs and danced in our seats.  We even got the DVD to watch it again. 

We had to wait for Daddy to finish work again and went to the bookshop to look while we waited.  Mummy kept telling us to get off the floor, but it was the best place to read.

I've really enjoyed my week and tomorrow is a Daddy Special morning so I'm looking forward to that too.

Love
Krystal
xxxxxxx

P.S. Here is Daddy and Mummy last week...

We've been very busy this week with all of our classes that we go to.  Now I'm 3, I get to go to Rising 5's with Kory on a Monday.  He then has boxing on a Tuesday, and I have Rising 2's on Wednesday morning and gymnastics in hte afternoon.  Kory also has his nursery.  So we don't have time for much other stuff.

On Monday afternoon we watched Countdown.  We really liked it and didn't know Mummy sneaked this picture of us from the couch!

We went into town yesterday with Mummy, we got my gym shoes and Kory spent some of his birthday money on Transformers pyjamas.  I even got to walk like a big girl and not go in the buggy. 

Mummy has a sore mouth again and has been back at the dentist.  So today we had a bit of a chill out day and we even got yummy snacks while the football was on.  Kory is excited about his new football chart and watching the thing called "World Cup" - I don't really understand it all though.  Football is for boys, I just went to play princesses.  Mummy seemed to like it though. 

Last weekend at a party, Kory got his face painted like a scary lion!

 This is Tiger Tom that he drew in nursery.

And lastly a photo Mummy took of me today when I was a bit upset.

Love
Krystal
xxxxxxx

I love Boyzone, Mummy has the CD in the car and I ask her to put it on lots.  I was playing with my toys last week and Mummy filmed me singing! 

As I have said before, she's not been well with a diarrhoea bug type thing.  Well it went on for ages and i took her to the doctor last Thursday.  They think she has a temporary lactose intolerance and as a precaution (with my stomach problems, her lack of weight gain as a baby looking like lactose problems and my brother Jamie having Crohns Disease) have referred her to the childrens hospital.

That seemed to be clearing up, but when I got back from the Hen weekend on Sunday, things had taken a new turn and she was crying every time she did a wee and thinking she needed to go again 5 more times in the following 10 minutes. 

Monday I gave her cranberry juice and made sure she drank lots of water.  I didn't want to be dramatic Mummy back at doctors so soon!  But by yesterday I gave in as it hadn't improved at all.  They took a sample (it was clear) and some antibiotics.   Time will tell if that does anything.  Poor kid has had weeks of hating going to the toilet.  Not that you'd guess all this from the photos eh?  How rose tinted things can seem sometimes on a blog!  She's spent the best part of this week crying her eyes out. 

Julie.xx

Today was Krystal's 3rd birthday.  She was up again in the night last night so didn't get up until 8:10am.  She was so excited to see this pile of presents waiting for her. 

I think her face says it all in this photo when she opened her pink iPod.  She might only be turning 3, but she really wasn't needing anything, Kory has one and they both love music.  Getting one of the old style ones like his but in pink wasn't the easiest thing! 

We got all ready and headed to the cinema for 10am (yawn) to see a film about mermaids.  The write up made it sound like a rewrite of "The Little Mermaid" but it wasn't what we expected at all.  It was japanese cartoon.  They enjoyed it though, and I got into it as it went on!

We then headed to Pizza Hut for lunch.  We met a couple of the kids friends there which they loved and the food went down well too! 

We came home for a while after that, to make phonecalls to people who'd been trying to get us all morning and to chill for a bit.  Krystal was a bit huffy and tired, so we scrapped any plans we had for the afternoon and decided just to head to Johnstone Gardens for a walk and then to a playpark. 

Though this ended in disaster when Kory was on one of the wobbly things (you know like a horse on a big coiled spring) and made it go so fast it came back and smacked him in the eye!  

We came home, fed the troops (again!) and sang Happy Birthday and blew out the candles.   The cake was very yummy even if I do say so myself!

When we went upstairs to get ready for bed, Krystal wanted to try on one of her presents from Nana.  She got it last year in China and kept for her birthday.  I think it was meant to be for dressing up, but I love it!  Only not sure when I'd ever put it on her.  Only time I can think is on a holiday in the evening for eating out.  It's so pretty.  She was so funny bowing in it too. 

I think a good day was had by her, she's come so far from this...

Happy Birthday Princess Krystal

Julie.xx

On Wednesday, we came home from school/nursery and it was nice and warm so me and Kory wanted to play in the garden when Mummy made lunch.  We had so much fun that we kept playing and playing and we even asked if we could eat our lunch out there.  Mummy said it wasn't warm enough but we were too pleased to be outside that we didn't want to go in!

After our lunch we walked down to the bus stop to meet Auntie Laura, Uncle Jamie & Baby Owen (We decided he's Uncle Jamie as that's what Auntie's have, but it is a bit confusing as we already have an Uncle Jamie [Mummy's bother] )  We came home and played for a wee while before dinner and bedtime.  I was a bit nervous of Owen, but he realy likes Kory.  Kory makes faces at him and he laughs. 

On Thursday I stayed with Auntie Laura while the others took Kory to nursery.  When they came back we went to a garden centre as Auntie Laura wanted more of the chocolate we got her for her birthday!  Owen fell asleep in the car and stayed sleeping all the way to nursery in my buggy. 

As the 3 grandchildren won't be together too often, Mummy and Laura got her a photo frame for mothers day.  So in the afternoon we needed to take the photos to put in it.   Here are the 4 that were chosen in the end. 

As soon as they said they wanted to take our pictures, we thought it was like when Grandpa was here and got down on our fronts! 

On Friday morning we went to Asda to get the pictures printed off then after we got Kory we went into town to meet Daddy for lunch and do some shopping.  We got the bus into town as we don't all fit in the car, and it was so exciting!

Kory trying on a bow in town!  Doesn't he look cute?

Yesterday morning they all had to get the train home again.  We really enjoyed having Baby Owen to stay, and it's very quiet here now!  In the afternoon we went into town (again) to get Kory fitted for his kilt for Jenni & Dave's wedding, then Kory's passport photo taken. 

Today was Mothers Day - we got up early to give Mummy her card and present.  In the afternoon, Mummy had to go bra shopping, then we went to get me some new shoes.  Because I have funny sized feet, I ended up getting the same shoes as I had last year, but I think they are beautiful!

Love
Krystal
xxxxxxx

On Saturday it was sunny so we went to Dobbies and then on to Hazlehead Park.  We took our scooters, but I didn't want to take mine out the car and decided to run instead.  Kory scooted on his one. 

First we went through all the trees and Kory used his camera to take some pictures. 

Then we got to my favourite area in the park - the play bit.  It was a bit muddy and dirty but we managed to have some fun too. 

It was a bit cold so we went to explore the rest of the park for a while, before heading back to the car.  It's nice to get to the park again, maybe spring will be here soon. 

When we got home we had hot ribena to heat us up and Kory had a snuggle with Mummy on the couch reading one of Daddy's work books.  I think he might turn into a geek too.  Just as well me and Mummy are both girls.

Love
Krystal
xxxxxxx

P.S.  When we grow up, we want to be.......trees!!

This got a bit sidelined for the weekend blogs, so thought she deserved one of her own! 

On Friday it was finally Krystal's turn for a party after ferrying Kory about all week to his!  It was in the afternoon, so we killed some time in the morning by going to the end of term service at Kory's school.  I like going there, it's very Christmassy and I leave all happy. The photo is the kids hoping for snow!

After lunch Krystal got on her "pretty dress", her sparkly tights, her shiny shoes and her new ring (from Gran for Christmas, but was allowed to wear for parties!)  I did her hair in matching ribbons and she was ready to go. 

Of course she wanted to wear her fur coat too!  She can be such a girly girl when she wants to be!

I took her down, then James and I went back down to see Santa arriving.  Kory stayed with Coral at the house, showing her a thing or two on Mariokart Wii! 

This is Krystal with Josh (Maria's son, Daniel's brother if you are a regular here!) both waiting patiently for the big guy to arrive. 

Some of the kids were scared of Santa.  Not Krystal.  She was sitting shouting at him "Santa, when is it going to be my turn?"  and "Santa, do you like my ring?" (while sticking up her middle finger to let him see, he replied it was lovely) then "Santa liked my ring Daddy!" 

 She sat for ages, her present was the last one in his sack! 

When we came out of the party, the snow started.  Krystal was so excited about it.  It was a bit like it was symbolising the start of Christmas. 

Remember Kory got a dog (Scruffy) when he gave up his dummy?  ( See here if not! ) Well this is Curly, Krystal's sheep with her dummy inside.  Her story is rather different to Kory's though.  With him, he was built up to the dummy going, and accepted it along with the bribery.

Krystal however, gave up her dummy without a word.  In fact she didn't even notice!  It had always been attached to her sleeping bag, so when the weather started to get colder we said she could have her quilt on her bed to make a big girls bed.  The day we did it, I said to James that we could try just not giving her dummy to her and see if she asked for it.  She didn't!  In fact she never mentioned it, just accepting it was on her bag. 

It was 2.5 months before she did mention it, in Asda and saw dummies on the shelf.  She said "oh look, a dummy.  I don't have a dummy, they're for babies and I'm a big girl" and that was that!

In the past she had known about Kory's Scruffy and said when she was a big girl she'd like a sheep with a dummy in.  So I thought that despite the fact she did it without a fuss, she deserved to get her one too.  So yesterday we went into town and did it.  True to her word she chose a sheep and wouldn't be swayed.  She's called her Curly.

They both also got Santa hats for them - Kory has recently been playing with his a lot and took him to Mums last weekend too.  I have to say they look cute, but the whole "buying clothes for teddies" is not something I want to start! 

So now I have 2 big kids with nothing baby left!  Yay!

Julie.xx

On Friday when I went with Mummy to collect Kory from nursery, he had a friend with him.  His name is Jim and he's nearly the same size as me!  He has a friend called Rosie who was going home for the weekend with one of the girls from nursery.  Jim was going to join us in the things we were doing at the weekend. 

Our Saturday was spent playing games mostly.  I went shopping with Mummy while Kory and Daddy went to Maria's house to fix their computer. 

At night time Mummy went out to a ladies night.  I can't wait to be big enough to go to one of them. 

On Sunday we went into town to see the Santa parade and to see his reindeers.  We wore our Christmas hairbands with Santa's and Snowmen on them.  I really liked the man dressed up as a reindeer too, but Mummy and Daddy thought it was strange. 

After the parade, we went to get Daddy some new shoes and then for some lunch.  It was yummy!  We then bumped into Matthew and his family, went to the car to get warmer jackets and then went back to Union Street to wait for the Christmas lights to go on.  We had some glo sticks and sweeties and it was fun.

We watched the parade and dance to the music and saw Santa again.  We had a really nice day.  And I think Jim had fun too! 

Today was an extra day off and we spent it doing fun things.  Well me and Kory did, while Mummy did cleaning and stuff.  Then we all went out after lunch and then the best bit was making cake.  Banana cake.  And it was really yummy!

Love
Krystal
xxxxxxx