Teaching Your Toddler About Colour

Fascinating!

Dad Without A Map

‘Red car, red car” Little B shouts excitedly as we set off to the park.

“Yes, clever boy, that IS a red car!”

I feel a glowing pride at our boy’s developing understanding of the world. How does he know it’s red? A-maazing.

“Red car, red CARRRRRRR!” he screeches again.

Oh dear. That is not a red car. That is a blue car. (As the narrator of Peppa Pig might say.)

I begin to wonder if he’s learnt a new phrase and is simply shouting it out at random…

“Red CAAAARRRRRRR!”

“No, that’s a pigeon.”

OK. We clearly have some way to go.

So how do children learn what colour is? And how can us parents help them discover this whole new way of categorising the world?

I find the underlying concept incredible and baffling. I mean, we never stop to think about it, but what is a colour?

I don’t…

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Christmas Office Chair Dodgems!

Just to round of the year with a bit of fun we decided office chair dodgems was on the cards….. Here’s the results!

Google Christmas Goodies!

One of the upshots of spending thousands of pounds of other company’s money each month (other than the percentage fee) is that the likes of Google with whom we spend that money are very appreciative. Heck, give anyone a six figure sum each month and they’re bound to like ya!

Google have shown their appreciation by sending us this snazzy little gadget in it’s own snazzy box, with snazzy “Happy Holidays” card.

It’s a digital photo frame that you simply add photos onto and it loops through them. Plus, it can play MP3s and MP4 video files as well as record through a tiny little microphone in the front.

2006

I thought about doing something like this a few weeks ago but thought it was too early. Now my friend Joe has done one, I’m gonna copy him!

Did you do something you would never do?

Yes! I walked up to countless strangers and started talking to them. I would never have done that last year. Confidence, baby!

Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

Naaa I don’t do new year’s resolutions

Did anyone close to you give birth?

Yes! My sister, Julia, to Little Lincoln :o)

Did anyone close to you die?

No, thankfully.

Did you visit any countries?

Yes! I went to Hungary to see our client Josey at Stag Republic.

What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

More money (obviously)

Will any date from 2006 stay etched in your memory forever?

Little Lincoln being born 24th August

What was your biggest achievment of 2006?

Making so many great new friends!

What was your biggest failure?

Either I forget about my failures and move on or I’ve not had any….

Did you suffer illness or injury?

Nope

What was the best thing you bought in ’06?

Not really bought, but my new pad!

Did your behaviour change over the year?

Ohhh yes. If it hadn’t I wouldn’t have made so many friends and met so many new and nice people.

Where did you spend most of your money?

Cidarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Are you happier than this time last year?

Absolutely

What song will remind you of 2006?

Hmm… no idea!

What do you wish you would have done more of?

Relaxing.

What do you wish you would have done less of?

Working.

What did/will you do for Christmas ’06?

Get drunk and then chill out with my Mother!

Did you fall in love in 2006?

No.

Did you get your heart broken in 2006?

I don’t have a heart, mwahahahahaha! No.

Favorite TV program of ’06?

Pffft TV is so last year

Do you hate anyone now that you didnt hate this time last year?

Naaaa don’t hate people

What was the best book you read and/or movie you saw?

THE AMBER SPYGLASS! By Philip Pullman (thanks Dave!)

What was your greatest discovery?

Keeping with the cidarrrrr theme – Magners!

What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?

I was twenty-one! I went out in Lichfield with all my chums and had a jolly good laugh!

Friends

Who was the best new person you met in 06?

Joe (stud!), Jenny, Gibbon, Hannah… and all my other new friends in Lichfield and Kate and Grace in Newquay.

Who did you wish you did not meet?

No one!

Who was your best friend?

Oooh…. I think it has to be Mr Joe

Who was your enemy?

That guy who tried to drink-drive at Jenny’s party before I took his number plate and threatened to call the police…. should have seen the look in his blurry eyes!

Who do you miss?

Laura!

Who will you never forget?

Everyone… soppy, I know.

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:

What have you got to loose?!

What will you always remember about 2006?

Newquay, crawling down the street with Hannuman, drinking Taboo with Gibbon, the LOVE SHACK!!!!!!

Aspirations for 2007…

What do you want to do in ’07 that you couldn’t in ’06?

Making muchos dollar.

Any resolutions?

I don’t do resolutions…

Whats different about 2007 than 2006?

No idea yet!

Anything you want to change about yourself for 2007?

Even more confident :o)

Do you want to make more friends in 2007?

Ohhhh yes!

What a great year.

Who needs recycling!

Who needs recycling!

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This is the way to make the most of holiday boozing. Make yourself a nice symmetrical display in the caravan window. Precious!

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Peter Kay ‘Funnies’

Had these sent to me today – very funny!

Peter Kay Funnies:
1) I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said Thyroid  problem?’
2) When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked him  to forgive me.
3) I’ve often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to Go swimming.
4) I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don’t Get on with my real ladder.
5) I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
6) A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Bypass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
7) Well I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But  one day I turned to my bullies and said ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’, and it worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way.
8) My Dad used to say ‘always fight fire with fire’, which is probably why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.
9) Sex is like bridge: If you don’t have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
10) I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’
11) If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
12) I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
13) You know that look women get when they want sex? No, me neither.
14) Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don’t understand, such as working for a living.
15) I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.
16) Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before

Peter Kay’s Universal Truths:
1) Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
2) At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.
3) One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.
4) Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.
5) You’re never quite sure whether it’s against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.
6) Nobody ever dares make cup-a-soup in a bowl.
7) You never know where to look when eating a banana.
8) You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.
9) The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.
10) Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee, flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.
11) Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.
12) Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.
13) Old ladies can eat more than you think.
14) You can’t respect a man who carries a dog.
15) Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.
16) You’ve turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.
17) Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Some great questions, brought to you by Peter Kay:
1) Why does your gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed?
2) If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?
3) Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
4) Is it possible to brush your teeth without wiggling your arse?
5) Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, ‘My name is Peter and I am an alcoholic’?
6) Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?
7) Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
8) Why does mineral water that ‘has trickled through mountains for centuries’ have a ‘use by’ date?
9) Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?
10) Is French kissing in France just called kissing?
11) Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ‘I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out’?
12) What do people in China call their good quality plates?
13) Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don’t   point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
14) What do you call male ballerinas?
15) Why is a person that handles your money called a ‘Broker’?
16) If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
17) If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
18) Why is it that when someone tells you that there are over a billion stars in the universe, you believe them, but if they tell you there is wet  paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

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