Archive for May, 2006

Thyroids ahoy

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Today’s post is dedicated to that humble gland in your neck, you know the one that controls your metabolism and goiters up when you are not looking.
Anyway…got my most recent test results back. Thyroid hormones are back in the normal range, TSH is still being a recalcitrant child and is not joining in the […]

Snot happy, jan

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

The poo monkey and I are into her second week of all things mucusy. Both of our noses are running, not like taps but veritable hoses, and we have gone through so many boxes of aloe vera tissues that I am sure we are both personally responsible for the destruction of at least one […]

You’ve got to whistle while you work

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Does anyone else out there have a fifteen month old that can whistle?
It is alternately hilarious and kinda spooky to hear the poo monkey make a tuneless but authentic ‘woo woo’ as she toddles around the room.
Talk show circuit, here we come.
[NB: Thanks to the small but select group of readers who kindly responded […]

Come out and play

Friday, May 5th, 2006

On the other site where I also post most of my blogging material I have started a delurking post to see if I can find out a little bit about my regular readers. And I know I actually have regulars there, a ‘number of times viewed’ ticker tells me so.
Which got me to wondering […]

Q and A

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Q: What do you do when your mum gives you a shockingly dodgy haircut in a last ditch attempt to keep the hair out of your eyes?
A: Poo in the bath for the fifth night running.
[Two posts in one day. Must be a record or something]

Fifteen months

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

And so my little poo monkey, you are now fifteen months old. You are growing up so fast!
In the last couple of weeks you have made the leap into true toddlerhood, with your first couple of tentative steps. Now you are known to burst out in one of your big vocal “ooh-hoo” grins […]

I survived

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

My first week* back at work is over and done with, thank your choice of deity.
Gotta love the way you can be relieved to be back in the adult world whilst desperately missing your little one with your whole heart….
Seems like the more things have changed at work, the more they have stayed the […]