I think this trip to the park was more for mommy than me or Reagan Mommy loved this and actually, so did Reagan
This next video was in fact taken the day before but we didn’t have the video camera so used my phone quality is not so good but it is THEE first time
This is what we hear all the time nowadays, I love watching her and hearing her learn to speak UNLESS GADGET SHOW IS ON THEN YOU NEED TO TONE IT DOOOOWWWWN!!! my little sweet pumpkin…
Watch this video of me and Reagan and how fascinated she is with whats on the screen then look at the photo below taken five minutes after the video was taken…
Leggins made by mamma!
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| Fascinated huh? |
Yesterday morning this sewing machine was in the wardrobe and had been there for a few years, by last night Jamie had read the manual and set it up (with very little help from me) downloaded how to’s on making leggings for cloth nappy wearing babies and was merrily making them for half the price of shop bought ones. She even had time to fix the hole in my shorts pocket too…my wife is ace! (I may have mentioned this before?)
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| Why do we have to stop every 5 mins for photos? |
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| …thats better, I love going for walks with you Mommy |
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| Reagan & Daddy playing on the sofa |
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| Reagan gets bored and switches on CBEEBIES!!! |
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| Dad you make me sick! |
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| Now Dads gone, can we relax Mom? Aw Yes, give me the laptops, you can watch CBEEBIES! |
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| Hummm, I wonder what them two are upto at home? |
Ok as you may or may not know we have a dodgy boiler at the moment, and when I say dodgy I mean it was\is not working ie not heating water…which is it’s job! This morning I switched it back on and tried to have a shower and although it didn’t fire up straight away IT WORKED!!! and I managed a warm shower before work, and I went to work a happy chappie and didn’t think any more about until Jamie IM’d me at 5 o’clock to say she just returned home to a scorching hot house as the heating had been on all day?
This happens when it is working correctly and the electricity goes off and comes back on the clock resets itself and the timer always goes to twice daily I think as frost protection or something. So we have a boiler that has something small wrong with it because it does\will work but we don’t know when, tonight it was my turn to put Reagan to bed and thankfully it decided to work and a crying sobbing Reagan (don’t ask) got a lovely warm bath before bed.
We have an expert in combi boilers coming tomorrow to asses and hopefully fix it but it does beg the question Will it see us through the winter? For now I would be happy with constant hot water and time to sort out whether its time to cut our losses and buy a new one…but they are big money and necessary!
A knock came on the door today and it was for Jamie, a lady from along the street who has also just become a parent wanted to know if Jamie was going to a baby meeting today and to let her know she was going into town so would meet her there. No biggie for most people but that was the first time one of her friends had knocked without pre arrangement to make sure Jamie was going out!
We have no hot water again, the boiler I believe is knackered with a capital F
Jamie just gets on with it and Reagan is oblivious because of this, I just feel when things like this happen I don’t do enough to sort the problem out. We needed a new boiler 2 weeks ago but I was so confident that I knew best.
Sorry…
A few years ago I had a problem with my boiler, and after British Gas trying to charge me £360 on top of the full cover insurance on boiler breakdowns that covers everything except this actual fault, I got a friend of mine who is a plumber to come and remove the heat exchanger so I could clean it out and he came back later to refit it once it was clean. This is a common fault with “combi boilers” and since that first time he has been back again to do the same job once more but that was 5 years ago now at least. So a couple of weeks ago when our boiler started playing up I was almost certain that it was again time to clean the exchanger, the problem now though is its not just me but we have Reagan to bath and feed which could be tricky with no running water for 24 hours.
We have been muddling along with this fault progressively getting worse for the last 3 weeks when on Tuesday morning I had a shower followed by Jamie a little while later and hers was freezing cold (to say she had a ‘moment’ would be understating what happened next but right at the end of it she said “JUST GET YOUR MATE ROUND TO FIX IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE”
Anyway he arrived yesterday morning and took the offending part out and left while I filled it with the first of 3 doses of Fernox it was going to get over the next 24 hours. When you have no running water for whatever reason it makes you appreciate the convenience of it like filling a kettle or washing pots etc, it all becomes difficult we had a bath full of cold water so we could flush the bog at least and I had filled all our pans with water so that we could at least exist without asking for too much help.
The adults of the household survived and the Reaganator did not realise anything was wrong even when dad did bedtime last night and she was bathed in the sink downstairs because it was closer to the kettle although the stress of bedtime did turn me to drink (whiskey)
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Reagan and me in our eliment setting up 2 laptops
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Reagan and me had plenty to occupy us
This morning the plumber returned and fitted the now clean heat exchanger back into the boiler and tested it and upto now we have piping hot water and heating when required FINGERS CROSSED
I might just have a lovely hot bath tonight, why? because I can!
