Friends and fun

Well, I met up with a few ex-classmates [from 25 years ago] this week, for drinks at a bar in town after work. This was an interesting venture, but just when I was warming up to it I had to scoot over to the movies to meet a friend who had free tickets to 'Because I Said So' [Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore] and needed me to come with her. A fun feel-good girly flick. We were given free perfume samples and choccy pud on the way in too! Can't complain about that... and Fraz certainly didn't when I bravely gave him the pud when I got home, despite having only consumed beer and popcorn since lunchtime and being ravenously hungry. I broke out a frozen packet dinner and it was utter crap. Sigh. If only I was the organised sort with a freezer full of meals ready to be heated and eaten... hahaha.

This morning I had some of my old PIN [Plunket In the Neighbourhood] Group over for a play. Two mums and 4 kids came and we had a lovely time. Bella proved very good at sharing with so many kids [she often surprises me] but things started getting a little hairy closer to lunchtime and a few tears later, they left. Two of the kids are identical twins, who are only two days younger than B. She tends to call them the 'pink one' and the 'blue one' [depending on their clothing of course] - and I too have trouble telling them apart.

Toilet training is going well, with only one or two accidents per day. A bit stressful for me though, having to remember to plonk Bells on the loo every hour and planning outings carefully too - short and sweet as she is not keen on public toilets. She'll be right, mate.

After school today we are having more friends over to play. I hope Bella survives more kids rifling through her possessions again! She is waking in the night regularly at 3am, crying and talking about 'bad dreams', and then she's up bright as a button at 6:15am... oh boy. Can't wait for a newer [and easier] sleep pattern to develop, as it invariably will :) Anyway, by late afternoon she can be a bit wilt-y and weary and prone to tears for no good reason... Fingers crossed she'll behave.