My Laminated List

Here's one I haven't done before. Lovely Kate over at Kate Takes 5 's Listography.

Basically this week it is based on the episode from Friends where Ross choses his top 5 woman he'd like to have a one night stand with and as they are famous and unobtainable he's allowed a 'laminated list'.

Most of my 5 will come as no surprise to those who know me. Some of them are slightly more out there. I have very strange taste in some men and theres no 'type' in there so stand by and hold on to your hats......

Here goes........

1/ Didier Drogba who Plays for chelsea. I am his ultimate female follower. I love a man with talent too and this guys football skills are second to none in my opinion and I adore his bad boy attitude. RARH!!

2/ Morgan Freeman. Amazing actor and I can't explain why he'd be on my list at 72 years of age he just does it for me. Sorry.

3/ Jared Leto. What more can I say other than YUM.

4/ Jamie Rednapp. Not only is he very handsome and stylish but a lovely guy from what I can see and has a beautiful family. Would just quite like to shake his hand I think though as his wife is too nice for me to lust after her man.

5/ Zac Efron. Sooooooo wrong but yet I can't help it. I would. He's adorabley gorgeous. Its a standing joke in our house that I'm a cradle snatching woman and need to NOT watch 17 again anymore. (only seen it ohhhhh 100+ times. )

So there you go. It's out there and I bet you're thinking I'm even more strange now. Go on tell me yours.

Off Colour but Not ill

Have your kids ever been just 'off colour' but not otherwise ill??? Caleb seems to be and I have no idea whats wrong.

He hasn't eaten more than a few bites of food in 3 days. He was a bit sick on Tuesday night but nothing since and doesn't seem to have any other symptoms. He's not that bothered about drinking either but I am managing to get him to take some milk in a bottle and the odd bottle of water.

You just know when your little one isn't themselves. I'm wondering could it be his back teeth or could it be hayfever season starting and although its not making him look unwell could it knock him off? Whatever it is I am keeping a close eye on him. I know when hes not right and in my opinion just now he is not.

New Wheelzzzz

On Thursday we went for a day trip to Largs to let the kids have a bit of air and a run around. When we got there it was really windy and cold. Caleb had fallen asleep in the car and was really Cranky when we stopped so we decided to keep driving back home via a park  nearby. When we got to the park however, it was absolutely packed with families and kids. There was no way they could've gotten on anything so we had to reassess what we were doing. Hubby needed to pop to work and suggested we swing past there and then go and look at some car garages as Caleb loves looking round at cars and we have been thinking of changing my car for a while. We went to the Kia garage as I have seen recent adverts for the new Sportage and really fancied a closer look. So, off we went. When we arrived all of us loved the new Kia but it was vastly more expensive than previous models, so we went for a look at some of the nearly new cars and there we spotted a Nissan Qashqai which is another car we had looked at recently. 

Within an hour we had signed up and its ours. Its identical to this model and I am super duper excited. Going to pick it up on Tuesday and trade my current car. This is where I am sad sad sad.

I love my Fiat Bravo. I bought it when just after Caleb was born and I have loved it. It's been a great runner with no problems at all. Its interior is so stylish as it is Italian after all and although the boot space is perfect for my prams its really not big enough inside for all of us and doesn't have great leg room for a growing family. So, it's bye bye bravie.
I have shed a few tears at the thought of parting with it but the time has come and I am excited to get a new car. Hopefully there will be no stopping me now with my confidence building driving.

Identical to my little runner.

Another Thank you to a Special Lady

This week I had another lovely surprise when I won a competition over at The Moiderer's blog. This is a truly lovely lady over there and it was a huge surprise to win as I'd forgotten all about it. I won £100 of tescos vouchers to spend at their Baby Event which is running all this week. 

Caleb and I went a bit wild when they came through and blew it all on things for him. Little monkey that he is fairly enjoys spending a bit of cash freely. He got lots and we are fully stocked up in nappies and wipes for the near future, clothes, toys and books too. 

some of the little misters new clothes

Funnily his favourite item is a hat that cost a pound that he spotted from miles away in store and he wont take it off now. 

It was such a lovely prize and we appreciated winning so much. Thank you so much again. 

Interflora and a Lovely Lady make my Day

Thanks to Interflora and the lovely Pippa over at A Mothers Ramblings, for the lovely flowers I received this week.

They arrived on Thursday after Pippa nominated me over on her blog to receive them.

I was having a particularly down day and they helped me a lot.

They're gorgeous and are now safely in a vase in my living room making me smile whenever I see them.

Thanks again Pippa (aka Brain. :o))

Love Pinkie.

Our Adventure

You will or will not know that I have had a lot of problems with my driving since a bad accident in 2005. gradually I have lost my confidence completely until I would only drive to very local areas.However, recently my husband has been making me drive more to further afield, but when I say making me I mean I've wanted to but normally wouldn't actually go through with it.

I've had a few practice days driving a little further each time and am now feeling a lot more confident. This week was  a bad week for me and I was feeling a little confined by my feeling and fears so on Friday I decided to take Caleb on an Adventure. We had been supposed to go and visit Gran and Papa in Aberfoyle on Wednesday which Caleb was really looking forward to but our plans fell through so on Friday i told him we would go on an Adventure to take his mind off it and he was so excited. Its not often we go anywhere other than for a walk locally together.

I packed up our stuff, we got in the car and off we set. I had no idea where but we just drove. At one point wondered about his first trip to the cinema but we missed the turnoff on the motor way and ended up travelling towards Glasgow.  So we decided that Silverburn shopping complex would be good fun and so that was the turnoff we took. Good plan it was too, we had great fun.

We went to build a bear and Caleb built himself a doggy, then for lunch to Frankie and Bennys, bought cupcakes and wandered round the shops.

Nom Nom Nom chicken.

When we got home we snuggled on the sofa with Doggy and watched some Cbeebies. Daddy and Sophie loved their cupcakes too. 

It was a great day and I enjoyed the drive. I'm hoping its the first of many days further a field. 

Great Day Out

Today we went to Eglington Park nearby and we had a lovely walk in the woods where Caleb found lots of sticks and enjoyed running around waving them and poking stuff with them.

Some of them were bigger than he is but he loved them. The weather was lovely and it meant we could just let him play as long as he wanted to and run wild which was lovely. We saw lots of doggies much to his enjoyment and there was a horse show on too which he loved watching.

We went to river and watched some doggies wading in for sticks and at one point Caleb attempted to jump in after them and when we stopped him lets just say he was disappointed. haha. So we got him moving and went to the park to play. He loved all the climbing frames, chutes and spinning cups. He made us spin him so much he was extremely dizzy and laughed himself silly.

He wasn't the littlest bit shy about playing like he usually is and made a few cute little buddies.

When it started to get a little chilly we enticed him out of the park with a packet of fruit flakes and a bottle of water.  We found a nice picnic area where there were adorable little birds around so we sat and watched them.

As we were sitting it started to rain a little so we headed back to the car and headed home for dinner. It was a lovely day and so great to get some fresh air. Good times.