The Vacuuming of the Muffin Monster

Yesterday was my Athory session.

( Will the real Duke Lawrence step forward please ? )

Meanwhile, fed up with baby food, Beatrice had been eying up the session snacks. She started by trying a few grapes - but found them rather large for her mouth. Undeterred, she looked around for something better; and found it. She sneaked up to the closed pack of mini muffins. As soon as she was certain that all the adults were pre-occupied with their strange game, she opened it and pulled out two mini-muffins sticking one straight in her mouth. Then of course, she was spotted. Mummy confiscated both muffins, then relented and gave one back after peeling the paper off of it. Mummy also whisked out the camera and took photographs. There were many chocolatey crumbs and expressions of enjoyment. Then Daddy returned from the bathroom to be told all about it.

Beatrice in a chocolatey mess is always bateleur's baby (as opposed to mine). Daddy got out the vacuum cleaner. He vacuumed the crumbs up off the floor (despite Bea's best efforts to pick them up and stuff them in her mouth first) and then vacuumed the Beatrice. Bea didn't like this at all and burst into tears ("I've never seen her so upset" exclaimed chrisvenus). However a couple of hugs later and she had recovered.

chrestomancy stuck around to do his saintly babysitting bit, so bateleur and I went out for a curry after cotting the babies. It's been several months since I last went for curry. I usually prefer chinese because meals out since the babies have been rare and the chinese is better. However I enjoyed my lamb pasanda, boiled rice (I've not been able to cope with the richness of any other type of rice since my post-pregnancy diet), peshwari nan and carribean coffee.

And Dom's mother confirmed that the babies will be disappearing again in thirty-three days time...