My 4 year old is a die hard mac fan...and I'm quite proud of that!

He's getting his first printer today (on my other blog)

Funny how his little brother has terrible mouse skills - because he can just get his brother to click for him.

Am also trying to find a way of monitoring their YouTube usage...there's so much on their that they love, but its not the sort of site I can let them on unsupervised...!

 

Hi gang

I know - it's been a month apparantly since I last blogged, but I have a GREAT excuse! Yesterday was my PhD viva (for those that don't know, thats the oral exam at the end of a PhD where they grill you on everything you've said and done and generally rip your thesis to shreds). Well, I passed! So bar the final administrative stuff, I am now Dr Katie.

Of course, I can't explain this to the boys, because telling them that Mummy is now a "doctor" is just too confusing, but I can tell you all, and be generally smug for a little bit.

It's taken almost 10 years to get this far - during which time I've changed jobs twice, got married, had two kids, moved house and been in full time employment. It's been something of a struggle, and for the first time in a very long time I haven't got a great big weight of what I ought to be doing while I'm tapping away on Minti! So you should get to see a bit more of me...

signing off for now...
Dr Piatt (it's going to make me giggle for a while to come I expect!) 

Hey Gang - it's been a while. Just got back from a week's holiday where I managed to stay offline (and off Minti) nearly the whole time (I did sneak a peak at email via a dial-up connection, just to check in at work - yes, I can't disconnect ever!).

Anyway, we had a lovely time in Swanage - a place I thoroughly recommend to families with little ones. This is us at Corfe Catle, which you get to on the old steam train:


And part of the pupose of the trip was to celebrate Archie's 3rd Birthday. So here he is doing what 3 years olds like best - playing in the sand and eating ice cream:


So now I see I've been tagged twice so I'd better go and rad what all that's about!

Oscar likes to be settled to sleep with use cradling his head. But then stirs as soon as you mvoe your hand away...