bisonbaby's Journal

6:07pm: Behind the mask!
This is what I have been making this Christmas:

2:23pm: I Love Mum

2:20pm: Grass Head

9:09am: Easter Egg Competition

4:33pm: Wot I have been doing (part 2)
Last week, for half term, we went to stay with Ninny and Pops while my big sister Issy was away. We did some good things, but one of the best of them was when we went to a pottery painting café and I painted a picture of me with lots of dots on it and a big FLO at the bottom. They kept it at the shop but they are going to make it all nice and shiny and I can bring it home soon and eat my toast on it if I like.

12:00pm: Me going to a party!

11:08pm: Pretty Dress!

11:58am: bisonbaby's half term holiday
Yesterday we went to Oxford, where we met smallclanger and my cousins, and we ran around in the sunshine and ate lots of yummy food and our dollies had a picnic too with a tea set and their own special biscuits. Afterwards I told my mummy and daddy that it was the Best Picnic in the World Ever.

This morning I had a parcel in the post! A lady who works in the museum in Southwold had found my dolly which I left there, worked out where we lived from a form that Ralph had filled in, and sent my dolly back to me. Not only that ... but she had made her a new dress! She said that my dolly had told her that she didn't like being naked all the time. She must be a very kind lady.

And today we are going to meet Pretty Lady and the Pretty Lady Man at Flag Fen. I like holidays!

6:45pm: How to spice up a boring day by bisonbaby
This afternoon I went to hostible, like Miffy in my book. I gave my mummy a big scare - an even bigger scare than when my brother had a pretend heart attack last morning - by going cold and floppy for a long long time, and then the doctor came and I was still a bit cold and floppy, so she called the ambulance. It didn't go nee-naw nee-naw but the man did have green trousers and a top, so I told him that and said snap, and he looked at mummy and asked how old I was, so I said eleventeen and they both gave each other a look and said that I was looking much better.

There were some nice people in the hostible who put a funny tight thing on my arm and asked me to say ahhh! and put a cold thing on my tummy. Then we went to another room where a lady put stickers all over me (I had put some stamps on my tummy this morning but mummy said they weren't stickers and got a bit cross) and some wires, and they took some pictures of my heart beat. We have a song at Music With Mummy about some chicks and their heart beats getting stronger in their eggs, so I thought the picture might have some chicks on it, but it was only some spikey lines. Then the really nice ladies said that I had probably just fainted for a long time and it might not happen again so we shouldn't worry, but if it does happen again I get to go in and have lots more tests. That sounds quite fun, really.

10:13am: Eleventeen!
Well, the birthday which I have been waiting for since September, when my cousin had hers, has finally come and I am now very, very big. My mummy has had eleventeen parties for me so far: one with Pretty Lady and the Pretty Lady Man on Saturday, where we had roast beast and I had lovely presents; one on Sunday with smallclanger and his family, where I had more lovely presents including a smallclanger jigsaw puzzle; and then on Tuesday (my real birthday) I had a CAKE! to take to playgroup with me, and when I got home there were balloons, and party food on the table, and three friends and their mummies and some games. I liked the party food, especially the cherry cakes!

Yesterday, because I am very very big, I went to play with my friend who has the same name as me, and I stayed for tea and didn't want to come home! I've never been to play on my own before, without my mummy, and it was Great Fun. When I got home my mummy had sorted out my toy chest and my kitchen and it's FABLOUS!

12:45pm: Being eleventeen
I can write my own name! Look!



Nobody knew I could do this (my Mummy certainly didn't). I can do some more big girl things, too, like walking through the rain with my underbellella, and twice this week I have slept all night in my big girl bed and Mummy has taken me to Pauline's to buy a treat. I used to sleep all night in my cot, but since I've had my big girl bed it's been quite fun to wake my Daddy up before his alarm goes off. Still, I'm easily bribed.

Next week is my birthday and I am going to be eleventeen three which is really big and huge.

9:25pm: My Big Girl Bed


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9:00 pm

7:26pm: Pumpkin!
Yesterday Mummy asked me to draw a face on a pumpkin, so I did a big scribble, and then she carved it out to make a lantern. It is quite scary. My cousin Isaac made one too, and we lit them today and had a Halloween party with pumpkin and goats cheese gratin (which I didn't like) and apple and blackberry crumble (which I did like). And some teeth and worm sweeties from Isaac's Daddy (which were yummy)!

10:34am: Songs wot I have been listening to
Tagged by my Mummy!

Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
The Gruffalo Song
Pop Music (M)
Radar Love (Golden Ear-ring)
Incy Wincy Spider
Here is my little house
Baa Baa Black Sheep

6:58pm: Billars!!
On Sunday, at long last, we went to a Real Zoo to see Real Billars. When we went to London Zoo there were little billars, who were the size of shrews with long noses, and I quite liked them, but I knew that Real Billars were meant to be big. We saw them almost as soon as we got through the gates, and got really close to them, and when they went back from their arena to their house, they linked tails and trunks as if they were holding hands.



The next animals we looked at were The Bisons! I insisted on having my bag, and found my plastic bison which I carry around everywhere, and showed it to them, saying It fits. I think they liked it.



We did lots of walking, and saw hippos, and camels, and zebras, and ostriches and flamingos, and before we went home we went to see the chimpanzees. They had all gone to bed (note: Mummy, Daddy and children all sleep in the same bed) but I got to have a hug with this one.

1:14pm: Another picture of me!
This is a picture of me at Grimsther Castle. We went there when lots of people were staying with us, and they all went in the castle while Mummy and I stayed outside. It was great fun: splashing in puddles and eating ice-cream! But I didn't get to climb under ropes and sit on chairs with signs saying "Keep Off", like I did last time.



It's something called Summer Holidays at the moment, which means that I don't go to playgroup, and Mummy is meant to find me things to do instead. Most days she fails miserably, but on Monday we went to the Living Rainforest where we met smallclanger and buzzy_bee and their mummies, and elleblue, who gave me a lovely cutty-out cat thing. We had lunch in a special running-around-and-escaping place, and then we went into a hot room with butterflies and monkeys and spiders and snails and turtles and a real live crocodile!!! I loved it in there, but I loved the shop even more and I got a tree frog called Ribbit and a jigsaw puzzle. Then we went to smallclanger's house for CAKE! and came back home in the Mummy Pretty Car. It was a long way.

2:14pm: Party! Baby! CAKE!
This has been a Very Exciting Week. On Wednesday we went to Grimsther Castle on a Playgroup Outing. It looked exactly like the place we went to on Sunday with my Nan and Pops, only the ice-cream shop wasn't open which was a swizz, and the playgroup ladies were there so we all had to be good and do as we were told. But it was quite fun. I think I should live in a castle because I want to be a princess when I grow up and get some more hair. Then we went to meet hartleyhare and some other ladies, which was really good fun. I got to eat crips and chocolate CAKE! and I ran around a lot. Then we went to sit by the river and feed the ducks, only I ran around by the river instead, and brushed hartleyhare's hair.

Then on Thursday my friend smallclanger came to see us! I'm always asking whether he is going to come, and on Thursday he really did. Not only that, but he brought a baby wth him for us to play with, called buzzy_babe, and their mummies-with-milk, and lots of strawberries, too. I liked the baby very much, and so did everyone else!

On Friday we went shopping for nogbad_the_bad's party, and I bought a present for her with some money from my billar purse. Then on Saturday we had the party and my friend Georgie came! He was very puzzled to see the beetle in our driveway, because it used to live at his house. He calls it Betty. And Heather and Sam came, too! I had a lovely time playing with Heather in the playhouse, and bouncing, and we all ate lots of yummy barbeque food and CAKE!, so it was a very good afternoon. When my Daddy put me to bed I was still so excited that I used my bed as a bouncy bouncy.

Everybody is being very boring today, though.

This is smallclanger and me, doing a drawing:

11:05pm: Being busy
Lots of things to talk about! On Thursday my friend smallclanger came to stay at our house. We went in the shiny car to meet him (and his Mummy With Milk) in Stamford, and went to my favourite Panama Joe's to eat chips and other yummy things. The best thing about Panama Joe's is that they don't have highchairs, so you can run around really easily! smallclanger likes my bouncy bouncy, so we had quite a lot of fun. He doesn't fight very much, like some of my friends do, so that is cool (although I would like to steal his book called Monkey Puzzle, and I think he would fight me about that).

On Friday we all went in the shiny car, to a funny place, a station with no café, nowhere near a town centre. Mummy bought a picnic while we were asleep in the car, and we found a patch of grass to sit on. We were very excited because we were going to meet a very small baby called Item. She came with a Mummy With Milk, who was very nice, and a Daddy who was very nice, and we had some nice crisps and raspberries and biscuits. After a little while smallclanger and I had to get back in the hot car to go home.



On Saturday smallclanger's Daddy came. I didn't want him to go home, because I like him staying in our house, but in the end it was alright because we all went to London to see my friend mzdt who was having a party. Some of my other favourite people, like elleblue and rainsinger, were there too, and I got to stay up late and eat CAKE. Then we went to Pops' London to see the picture of the billar and go to sleep.

In the morning I gave Daddy a card I made at playgroup, and a present I had never seen before, and we went out for breakfast. What a silly thing that is, having to sit in a highchair for ages and ages! Still, I had eggs and soldiers and did lots of scribbling with crayons. Then we met up with my Pops' Aunty (who is my best friend) and went to the zoo to see billars. Only there were no billars! They had moved to another zoo!! So we saw giraffes and monkeys and slugs and some lions and a tiger, and ate ice cream and more strawberries and some cherries.

Today I was very tired, and after playgroup Kathryn (she is my best friend, too) told my Mummy that I had wanted my thummy all morning. So for once in my whole life I went to bed with no fuss. It was a good weekend, but I wonder when we will go and see the real billars??

3:42pm: Holidays!
We went on another holiday in the aeroplane in the sky. We only went there for 5 nights, but I packed my ladybird suitcase and Mr. Jeremy (Mr. Jeremy does love me) and my Beatrix Potter books. There was some seaside there and some friends called Bénédicte and Sandrine and their sisters, and lots of funny food. I liked eating the langoustines with the funny scissors, but I don't like moules very much. One day we built a sandcastle with some shells, and it lasted for a whole day. This is where we started to build it, outside our flat.



Then we came back to see the Miaow Sit-dow, Ribbit Sit-dow and Table, Annit the chick and my playgroup.

9:47am: Thank you, smallclanger!
It seems that you don't just get presents for birthdays and Christmas, but sometimes for being ill, too! I got a parcel in the post yesterday morning, addressed to me, and in it were two books which I like very much (and haven't got already) and read all day long. In the afternoon Mummy thought that I was well enough to go to my friend Safia's birthday party, and I took the books with me. Everybody said I was very quiet and well behaved at the party, but that was probably because I am not feeling quite myself, after all, but I got to dress up and sing Happy Birthday To You, and there was some lovely CAKE, although Mummy ended up eating most of mine. Why can't people have parties when I'm feeling better?

Thank you smallclanger. The books really made my day!

6:32pm: Book meme
1. Total number of books I've owned:

A few hundred

2. Last book(s) I bought:

The Hungry Hen (from Bourne Bookworld)

3. Last book I read:

Miffy's Birthday (I wish it was my birthday!)

4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:

Gene Zion: No Roses for Harry
Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler: The Gruffalo (Crummle)
Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Froggy Dancing Mr. Jeremy Fisher
Giles Andreae/Guy Parker-Rees: Giraffes Can't Dance
Shirley Hughes: Bathwater's Hot

5. Five people to take up the meme and answer in their own lj:

smallclanger, buzzy_babe, littleindigo, matthew_monster, squ33ky

10:48pm: What, no camels?
Lots of things are exciting at the moment. The best thing is our new chick called Annit (sometimes I call her Chick). She bumbles around a lot pecking at the ground and she's growing some real wings with feathers. She's also getting bigger every day (I'm not, though, I don't get bigger even though Mummy says I do).

Then there's playgroup. I didn't know whether I was going to like it, but I do. There's painting there, and lots of pink paper and pink paint, and sometimes we do glueing. I like milk and biscuits, too, and raisins and banana and kiweed. I don't say boo hoo any more when I go in, but I do cling to Mummy's or Daddy's legs quite a bit and ask whether they are coming back. Avi says boo hoo a lot, and I just stare at him in a superior sort of way.

Then there's the potty. Mostly I do stuff in there and sometimes in the loo. I also like to argue, and if they say it's time for my potty, I go and sit on my toy cow instead.

And I've got my own tomputer. It came from Asherlee next door. I use it to send emails (I don't know what an email is, but I know it's what you are meant to do with tomputers).

And I've discovered TV, particularly Bannanorny.

8:03pm: Bouncy bouncy!

5:54pm: Sandman

8:42am: Camels!
Well, we went to Tunisia in an aeroplane in the skies. There are camels there, and pictures of billars (I didn't see any real ones), and lots of men and women who kept trying to steal me and make me laugh and bring me ice-cream. One man offered 40 camels for me but my mum said that it wasn't enough. I bought two furry camels (both called "Camel") and rode on two, one in the night time and one in the day. I like camels.