Half Pint Pixie

When I was a wee child, my dad made us a doll’s house. It was lovely, it had the same floor plan as our house, he painted each wall the same colour as the corresponding room, actually, I think most of the rooms had patterned wallpaper (well it was the 80’s). Each little room had a thick carpet made from offcuts and the little kitchen had a lino floor which clashed nicely with the brown & yellow 70’s wallpaper. The little house was fully wired, with lightbulbs & switches in every room. There was no stairs though, the dolls had to go outside and jump up through the open front to get upstairs. And it had a big removable roof. Very cool.

I thought of this house as I applied myself to the mammoth task of building a little house for Littlepixie’s family of teeny people, fairies and animals yesterday. I remembered the wonderful floor plan as I constructed the dividing wall for LP’s house. I was inspired by the work and care Dad had put into my house as I lovingly crafted this beautiful house for LP using only the best of materials…

Cardboard, parcel tape, purple markers and stickers! Oh well, she loves it, and that’s what counts after all I’m sure Dad will be suitably impressed when he sees it, the proof that his house building skills have been passed so brilliantly onto the next generation (me!).

On another creative note, I invented toast pizzas today for LP. A very yummy snack of pizza-shaped toast topped with avocado & sunflower seeds! I was inspired by the Tesco babyclub mailer which arrived in the post and mentioned toast toppings, so I thought “toast pizza!”.

And, on an aside, there was a two page spread in the Tesco thing on how to boost your toddler’s immunity through the winter. No mention of breastfeeding, not even a token mention, nothing! Wonderful.

Would it have killed them to include something like this:

In fact, some immune factors in breastmilk that protect the baby against infection are present in greater amounts in the second year of life than in the first. This is, of course as it should be, since children older than a year are generally exposed to more sources of infection.

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