Shrimp, Exercise and Haircut!

I've always known Kory was a little small, but this takes the biscuit! Have a look at this, then this and then this and hopefully you notice that he is wearing the same jacket. These photos were taken in Setpember and December. And the one on the left yesterday!! I bought the jacket last summer in Mothercare's closing down sale for £1 never thinking for one second he'd wear it this year too, it's 3-6 months!!

We went to Reja's house on Monday for a "coffee" before our group, then to Asda. On Tuesday, we had a nice lazy day at the house. Katy came to visit in the morning. James came home for lunch which Kory was delighted about, all I've heard is "Daddy Daddy Daddy" this week.

I decided that Kory's hair was too long, so I cut it :o) I took James' clippers and gave him a #8 all over. It looks much tidier, not tucked behind his ears like a girl! I think I did not bad for a 1st attempt, even if I do say so myself. We played in the garden after that, with mud, yuck!

On Wednesday I did something that will shock most of you! I went to the gym!!! I had my induction with a bloke called Chris who is actually a bit of alright! This photo is of Kory and Daniel playing in the house at baby group on Thursday. Daniel was giving Kory kisses, awww!!

Today was James' last day at work. I went to the gym, then took Kory swimming and then Hannah, Holly & Natalie came over in the afternoon. I forgot to take photos! So you can have a photo of cheeky chops in his bath last night instead. He's so funny now, he cracks me up!

And one last photo, this is his "I'm angelic....honest!" face!

Julie.xx

When I grow up I want to be a....

...Gardener

Not Been Well

I've had a yucky cold all this week so we have hardly gone out. But I've been playing in the garden which is my new favourite place. We went to our group on Monday but on Tuesday my nose was so snotty we didn't even leave the house, how boring!

On Wednesday we had Erin and her mummy over for a coffee then we got to go for a really big walk. I saw lots of grass, trees and even cows. I am so good now when mummy asks me to point at things, I know what they all are.

On Thursday we had baby group and on Friday I didn't get to go swimming because I still wasn't very well. Instead, Mummy took me round to James' house to play. It was very hot and I had this horrible stuff on my arms that made me look all white, and I had to have my silly hat on, I can't even pull it off!

James has this cool quad bike - there is a button on the bars that if you press it you zoom across the garden, I had great fun playing on it. I want one!!

That night Mummy went out - I heard her sneaking in at 4am and she was so sleepy in the morning when I got up! So as a treat today I slept until 8am and then had a 3 hour nap in the afternoon!!

I've spent a lot of time in the garden this weekend, Daddy has turfed the back and now it's all soft for me to play on. I got new wellies so that I don't wreck my nice shoes in the garden and yesterday Mummy and I planted some sunflower seeds so that I can watch them grow into big flowers. I like flowers lots.

I really don't like mess which mummy and daddy think is funny. I always put my clothes in the basket, my nappy in the outside bin and my shoes on the shoe rack. But Mummy takes her shoes off and just leaves them, so I have to put them away! Oh and I don't like my hands being dirty, I rub them to get the mud off. Everyone laughs at me though, I don't understand why, I'm just being tidy!

Love Kory.xx

When I grow up I want to be a...

....newsreader!

Holiday!

YAY, we booked our holiday today to Cyprus. We've known for ages we're going but never done anything about it, so we booked it today and I can't wait for 2 weeks in the sun (oh and it just so happens to be when the wine festival is on, last time I didn't like wine, now I do!) So when we were out today I got Kory some flip flop/sandal things and he paraded about tonight with them on for ages like he was the bees knees!

Last week was a bit of a nothing week, we saw Laura on Monday all day, went to Sarah's house Tuesday afternoon, did nothing on Wednesday, Thursday was baby group and Friday was swimming then Hannah, Holly & Natalie came over in the afternoon. Nothing exciting to report, so I won't bore you all! Although Kory is like a wee fish in the water now, he loves it. Sure he'll love Cyprus pool more this year than last year.

Kory is a real handful now, and becoming more clever by the day! He's trying to talk lots now, copies what we say, but not much is recognisable apart from hiya, yes, dirty, cheeky, daddy, mummy, juice. The rest is stuff we know he's saying, but no-one else would! He understands so much of what we are asking him to do, getting things for us and making animal noises when asked. Here is James and Kory playing tonight.

Kory fell off his trampoline one day last week and cracked his head off a table corner, we thought it was going to go to a black eye, but thankfully it didn't, just a little cut over his eyebrow. I tried to take a photo of it here, but he was being too nosey!

Julie.xx

When I grow up I want to be a...

...Vet

Mischievious Monkey

This week Kory has really shown what a monkey he is going to be and has a real mischievious streak as some of the photos will show! On Monday morning, he insisted on eating his breakfast with his sunglasses on. If I took them off, he wouldn't eat, so it was easier just to let him, silly boy!

We've just done our usual stuff this week, group on Monday afternoon, we missed toddlers on Tuesday morning because it was really pouring with rain so we didn't walk! We just pottered around the house and read lots of books, as I mentioned in a previous post, he's obsessed with reading books just now. This photo was actually taken last weekend when we were doing the garden.

One of his new tricks is stealing hair bobbles out of my hair thinking it's really funny and the other day he then managed to get it onto his own head!





On Wednesday I had a bit of Kory free time as he went to play in a creche in town for a couple of hours while I went for lunch! It was really nice to eat lunch and not end up wearing it and hold a conversation without being interrupted. When I collected Kory, I was told he hadn't even noticed I was gone and just played happily all the time! Here's Kory and James playing in the garden after dinner!

On Thursday morning, Kory decided he was in destruction mode, firstly when I was in the shower, he pulled all the nappy bags out and left a trail of them from his room across the hall and into our room.







Then, as I was drying my hair, he went into the bathroom, removed the spare toilet roll and undid loads of it, ARGH!






After baby group, Kory fell asleep in his buggy. I took this the second he opened his eyes! Kory went to Laura's for his dinner while James and I went to see a financial advisor who was rubbish! James and I managed to go for an Indian!

This is our new stair gate that James put up a couple of weeks ago, it has a space underneath it and Kory has discovered that he can see down the stairs and I keep finding him peeking!




Yesterday (Friday) Kory had his MMR in the morning. He yelped as the needle went in and cried...until I produced grapes and the world was a better place!! He seems fine so far, but we'll see what the next week brings!

Julie.xx

My Wee Magpie

Earlier in the week, I was in the living room and noticed Kory coming and going to the kitchen. I wondered what he was up to and went in to find him guarding a little stash of goodies which included - a remote control, 2 house phones, a ball, wipes which had been on the table, a cow and a hair bobble he'd actually stolen out of my hair!

Combining this with his recent obsessive behaviour for fruit, shutting doors, brushing his teeth, books, eating with a spoon/bowl, shutting the stair gate, putting nappies in the bin and brushing his hair, he really is a bit strange! He has little tantrums if you don't do these things. Funny wee man that he is!

Julie.xx

What a Mess!

Whoever told Mummy that me feeding myself would be messy was lying, look how clean I am!! I think it's hilarious to do this!

Kory
xx

I'm going back to school

Well Kory said we had a wee bit of news to tell everyone so here we go...

I've got a new job :D

On the 12th June I'm heading back to my old Uni Robert Gordon's University to join their web development team as a "Web and Applications Developer". It's going to be really weird going back there (it was weird enough going for the interview) but it's going to be fantasic to work with an institute as big as RGU.

Here's to better days for the Buckingham family :)

James

Big Boy Antics

Oops, silly blog, I've been trying to write to you all week, but it wouldn't let me put on my pictures. I know you all want to see how cute I am being so there was no point going ahead without photos!! Do you think I look like a big boy now in these 2 photos?





So all the way back to last Friday, Mummy took me swimming in the morning and then we went into town. I was very lucky, she let me walk and I didn't even need to see my buggy! We went to meet Jackie and Craig for lunch, he's getting to be a big boy now, it won't be long until he can help me get up to mischief! I forgot to take the camera with me though, so *still* no photo's of Craig!

Mummy called me a monkey lots as I kept running into shops - does anyone know what a monkey is? It must be one of the animals I haven't learnt yet. (I know lots of animals and what noises they make!)

On Saturday morning Mummy took me to the park to meet some of my friends that I haven't seen for ages. We parked my buggy in the middle of a big field and we all got to run about, it was brilliant and it was a very sunny day. Here's some photos from then.

Me walking











Me and Aaron trying to talk, but the grown up's kept listening







Aaron and his mummy Trish











With Mummy








When we got home, Daddy had fitted a funny white material thing to the wall at the top of the stairs. Sometimes it's there, and sometimes it's not, but it means they don't shout at me when I go near the stairs now so I can't fall down. I was really impressed that he didn't put any nails in pipes or drill through anything!!

In the afternoon we went to Asda and Daddy hung some flowers up outside and cleaned our car out which is good, now I'm not embarassed to have my friends in it! On Sunday we had a bit of a lazy morning and in the afternoon we went to look at some new houses because my toys are taking up too much space in our house and Mummy moans about it lots.

Monday was a nice day again and Daddy came home for his lunch which he hasn't done for ages. Then Mummy and I went to our group. I didn't want to be there though, I wanted to be outside playing, so I let them know I was unhappy and cried the whole time we were there. Eventually we left to get Daddy and play, yay! This photo is me on a toy I got from Grans work when I was born.


On Tuesday morning our car was going into the garage, so we couldn't go to toddlers. Instead Sophie came over to play with my toys. We were too busy playing to take photos! I had on my nice new shorts dungarees that my Grandpa and Tricia sent me from their holidays.





Later Mummy put my tent and tunnel set that Auntie Laura got me up in the garden. It was very hot so I had this yucky stuff rubbed on me that suppossedly made me look like Casper the Ghost. I'm not sure what a ghost is, but know it makes a scary noise like ooooooo!

We also had some good news which we'll share with you tomorrow, then we went to pick up our car. This is where the good news turns to bad...it's going to cost a lot of money (I think the man said £800) to fix it. Mummy said some naughty words, but I heard her!





Cute or silly? Nana and Grandad got me this hat for my birthday, it's annoying as I can't pull it off!






Me eating grapes again, they're my favourite







On Wednesday morning Katy came over and she brought cakes - I got a pancake which I gobbled up very fast. When I woke up from my sleep, Joe was here playing with my toys! I was pretending to be all shy, but gave a little smile when he gave me a cuddle.

The afternoon was very hot again, James came over with his mummy Suzanne to play in my garden. I was too hot, so we had to go inside. Mummy looks all brown today! Once Daddy came home he left his drawer open and I walked into it. I have a big bruise on my head!

Today I got up and decided it was a grumpy day. I have been upset all afternoon, I went to baby group and there was a soft play area set up, but I didn't want to play, I just wanted to cuddle Mummy. When we came home I was so disappointed when Daddy didn't come home to give me my dinner, so I cried some more until he came home, then I ate it.

I was so tired after dinner and I fell over and banged my head on the door, so now I have a matching bruise on the other side of my head. Poor me!

Love Kory.xx

Shopping and New Shoes

On Tuesday morning Kory and I got up and took James to work as we needed to go food shopping, argh! We came home and spent the morning pottering about, housework and stuff like that. Then Kory went to bed and slept forever! So by the time we got out to go food shopping it was already 3pm. So in a rush we went to Lidl to get all the fruit juice and then on to Asda.

Typically when you're in a rush, everything goes slowly. I'm sure every old dear in Asda wanted to talk to Kory, and if I heard "oh he's blonde isn't he?" once, I heard it thirty times. What on earth do you say to that anyway? "I hadn't noticed, is he?" So that slowed me down. Kory was bored, and kept pulling things out of the trolley and throwing them away, also wanted to know what everything was, pointing to every shelf. It was hard work; note to self, don't shop with Kory again when in a rush.

To complete my lateness to pick James up I was cornered by a journalist outside Asda asking my opinions on the WPR (Western Peripheral Route - new controversial road round Aberdeen) and wanting to take my photo. For those who saw it, I might add I was stressed and had no make up on! Maybe I'll get James to scan it in for you all to laugh at!



Yesterday, we went into town at 9am to meet Laura to shop and have lunch. Poor wee guy was in his buggy for ages and was just delighted to get out to walk in the shopping centre. We had lunch then dropped Laura off and headed over to Tesco for a nosey about. We got some cool clothes, including a nother mac in a sac for Kory for next year - I love his one for this year.

Today James had the day off work, instead of the Monday holiday. In the afternoon we took Kory shopping for his first shoes. We got him StartRite ones and he was so well behaved in the shop getting them, walking up and down. The lady thought he was so small to be walking! We went round to Laura's afterwards to show off his shoes! Here he is in his chair tonight looking puzzled as to why we're taking pictures and not feeding him!

Julie.xx

Grape Thief

I came into the kitchen the other day to find Kory had opened the fridge, got the grapes and was on the floor eating them, making sure to pull off the stick bits! He is obsessed with fruit and veg, which is obviously a good thing, but we have to hide the fruitbowl, especially bananas, if he can see one, there is no way we get away with "no". Obviously he's onto where the grapes go too! Yet he couldn't give a monkeys where the biscuits are! My little fruitbat!

Julie.xx