http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog -- Sylke's mutterings to herself on an island not so far away Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:08:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Personally, profanity doesn't bother me much. I think it's just words and the value they have is attached by the listener/user. If you can't do a debate without using such words, this just means your debating style is really poor. And if children like to say words they shouldn't as ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/06/24/profanity/ Before you get any ideas, no, I'm not pregnant! But that's what all this is about, other people are having a second child or trying for one happily and I'm sitting here not knowing what I want. On that note: congratulations to Stanley and Nicola who just had a baby girl ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/06/22/another-baby/ Oh my, I've been tagged by Solveig for a meme! My first time!!! :) All right, here we go, some of Yannick's favourites: Trucks and diggers Well, I could have put about 20 other vehicle related books here. Yannick loves anything and everything about trucks, diggers, tractors, trains, motorbikes, etc. - as ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/06/19/childrens-book-meme/ What can you do as a mother but love your children as they are! I'm in love with this photo of father and son: When I look at those soft baby arms I just want to cuddle him!!! http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/06/18/the-boy-has-grown/ So Frank finally got round to installing the new operating system on our web server, yippee! I couldn't post anything until then as it would have had disappeared after applying the back-up that was done a while ago. And I was too lazy too (could've made a copy myself, couldn't ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/06/06/its-been-a-while/ We have a new car, one that I'm not very keen on - yet: I don't know what's wrong as I don't dislike the colour, the shape, or the make. The only thing I really don't like is the spoiler. I think it's just a combo of how it all works ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/03/08/new-ride/ Gosh, it's been a month again. Where did the time go??? We recovered well from that stomach bug, Yannick was so hungry after a week of starvation that he started to eat his banana porridge in the morning all by himself and within a record five minutes. Needless to say that ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/02/25/mixed-ride/ Sometimes I wonder how I deserve this... Yannick is 21 months old now and still not able to sleep through. This in itself is not as bad as it sounds, as I can get by on about 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night as long as he doesn't ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/01/23/sleep-please/ First of all: Happy New Year! After two weeks in Germany I feel completely out of synch with home. First of all we are still on the wrong time - but somehow the wrong direction. Germany is an hour ahead of us so in theory 8am over there is 7am over ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2008/01/03/disorientated/ I was lucky enough to catch this view the other morning (would have never happened before I had Yannick!): #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/12/14/cloud-or-ufo/ Of course after the great night we had the day before, last night was the normal stuff. Yannick woke up about five times with a stuffy nose and had trouble going back to sleep. By six I felt so not rested that I gave him Tixylix and we slept another ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/12/14/back-to-his-old-tricks/ For the first time ever my child slept through! This is unbelievable! From 8pm to 5:25am! OK, for my sake he could have slept longer - but for him this is sensational. He woke up once, only to go back to sleep seconds later without wanting any milk. I only helped his ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/12/13/nine-and-a-half-hours/ I've put a photo album together with photos of our relatives in Germany, so that I can teach Yannick who they are before we get there. Even though he's seen my mum, my sister, and my nephew before he's not very likely to remember them all. Maybe my mum, but ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/11/26/noni/ After a conversation with a mummy friend about how many words her daughter knows I started noting down all the words and signs Yannick comes out with. Not to compete, simply because I like to make lists for a start and I was also interested in keeping this information. If ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/11/21/so-many-words/ Finally, I managed to upload all missing photos of Yannick. Yay! http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/11/17/yannick-photos-up-to-date/ I am utterly confused by this habit of the British people. Everybody knows the Brits are driving on the left, while continental Europe is driving on the right. Back home in Germany I not only learned to drive on the right, but also to walk on the right. I always ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/11/15/driving-on-the-left-walking-on-the-right/ I finally got my act together and started publishing some Yannick photos again. I had stopped sometime in July, and now we have November! A couple of days ago I added some more July photos and last night I added all worthy photos for August. So, please take a look ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/11/14/slowly-slowly-adding-photos/ This year we made it down to the huge charity bonfire that is done every year in Winchester around 5 November (Guy Fawkes day). As it was done on Saturday it coincided with my birthday, which was fun as nothing else was going on that day. They even sang Happy ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/11/07/birthday-fireworks/ Ha, we are going to Germany this Christmas! Yannick's first trip abroad! We, finally, finally went to get a passport for Yannick. This involved a two hour trip to London (and two hours back of course!); the German embassy is in Knightsbridge. Yannick did really well, he never complained and even ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/10/26/yannick-may-leave-the-country/ We had a great September - Frank was off for the whole month (minus one day)! He took out Yannick every single morning and they went to the playground, with Yannick walking part of the way. Now daddy is at least as popular as mummy, which I find great, as ... http://www.sylkeweb.com/blog/2007/10/03/september-over/