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...

You've all been looking at a picture of me and my "big boy" Archie for a month or so now, so i though it time that Oscar got a turn in the spotlight on my avatar instead.

In fact, this picture was taken recently at my parent's 60th birthday party. Top tip for posh dresses - never wear a beaded dress when you've got little people who are a bit shy about strangers...see pic! I now have a lot less beads.

I was reading the advice on lego faces yesterday - see here

Anyway, I made a lego face for myself on the Lego site, so thought I'd put it up on my blog for you all to laugh at...haven't tried building it yet!

The interesting thing about Minti, is that it means I can post the following Blog entry without people thinking I'm disgusting and wierd...I hope! So here goes...

My husband just phoned me at work to tell me that (for the first time) Archie (nearly 3) had asked to go to the toilet and done a poo. I don't know who was prouder, Archie or us! He's been doing well with wees, but have had a lot of accidents with poos lately...so it's a breakthrough day I hope! We told him that if he manages to do a poo on the toilet we'kll give him chocolate, so he's actually been trying really hard for a couple of days to perform - but hadn't got the timing right till today...

Check out the new photo on my profile - I've just added one of Archie proudly wearing his new Minti t-shirt...in fact he was so pleased with it we couldn't get it off him after the photo so he's wearing it in bed tonight.

We got a new (well secondhand, but new to us) TV this week. I was really excited because it's widescreen and very smart and replaces our old, slighly humming TV.

But oh no, it's got a great big, light up power button right in the middle. It's like a magnet to little people. You press it and it goes off and then you press it again and it goes red and then it goes green (and Mummy shouts which is even more fun!).

My 2 year old is just old enough to sit and concentrate in front of a  DVD - and then my one year old constantly switches the set off and on...

The places they hide the remote controls is another story altogether

 

How on earth have you managed to use my photo for the favicon on my area - I've not seen that done before - very cool!