Took Oscar for his 3 year 4 month immunisations yesterday. (Incidentally found a great website explaining it all for UK people: http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/Vaccines ).

Oscar can be a bit of a drama queen, so was a bit worried about his reaction, however he completely fooled me! We went shopping first to buy a sweetie he could have afterwards, and then went to see the nurse. She did the first jab - and he was completely silent - then the second arm - still silence.

I gave him a cuddle and told him how brave he was, to which he replied "I was just a little bit surprised". He got his sweet. Good job Oscar.

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!