ZSL London Zoo Butterflies (phone)

Ok this one isn't the butterflies at the zoo but I thought it was lovely and Rick enjoyed the grass!!

Photys of course.

Sisters by default, friends by choice!

Sian as one of seven snow whites for book day. (there were no dwarves)

Beth with her favourite tree.

We had lunch out as Sian finished early for Easter break. How big was her spud? And the cheese was super stringy!

Last day of term. Sian got a bronze reading award in her good news assembly.

Rick at stay n play. Always with the fingers LOL.

Out n about hee. I loved this one.

Picnic at the park. It was a lovely day so we got spontaneous.

Sian enjoying some lunch.

Beth coming back for a snack too.

Happy Smiles from Beth

She has her place at Afternoon Nursery for 2009 :o) 12-3 with lunch being 12-12.30.

I have to provide her with a picnic lunch to be eaten at school because as of September, Nursery is 3hrs not 2.5hrs (Although the way that Mrs Homer worked it this year was a 3hr session mornings only as there weren't many nursery students!)

I have to fill in her acceptance letter and I'll take that with Sian's dinner money to the office on Monday.

What a day.

It started with Sian falling over and ripping a hole in the knee of her tights. And then as we are about to turn round she wets herself. Definatley need to go home now. We have TEN minutes to get home and back to school!

Turn round and start speed walking home. Ask another Mum to tell Sian's teacher she's going to be late as I've got to get her changed.

Get to the end of our road, Beth falls over and I can't stop it. Cue two crying children. Pick Boo up and carry her some as we're on a time limit.

Get in send Sian up to change and tell her NOT to dawdle. She tells me she can't help it LOL.

Check Beth's knees.. she's got a nasty graze on one THRU her jeans. Spray it with some wipe solution hee. It's all about the delivery of it!

Go upstairs to check Sian's knees. She's not as badly grazed.. her tights took the worst I think. Help her get her last clean pair of tights on and put her school shoes back on.

Leave again and decide as we're late we'll get the bus. It's at the end of the road and noone at the stop before ours! RUN!! We now have one minute to get to school!

Get to school five minutes late. Poor Sian is mortified, but her teacher knows and she's not in trouble. I jstu could not find the energy to get her round to her class so we went to reception for them to take her down.

Go back and wati for another bus to get Boo back to nursery. Ironically she's earlier than usual! And as a result I didn't get a chance to tell them she'd been exposed to chicken pox. Msut do that tomorrow. And ask if she can go full time next term as thats waht she wants.

Walk a little slower to town to get the boy his last lot of Imms done. Get THERE with 5mins to spare and coughing like a smoker.

Rick is a little star. He didn't cry when Fiona did the first injection.. then the bottom lip went LOL. Then he did cry for the last one. A quick cuddle and he found his fingers. Ten minutes in teh waiting room and we were good to go.

I'm still coughing like a smoker. And I have a horrible feeling that my pregnancy induced remission from asthma is coming to an end.

Sian's first joke

What did the apple say to the banana?
Nothing, fruit can't talk!

Sian's first parent/teacher...and some pics of course!

I so did NOT make her stand in either of these poses. But I reckon I could be the school photographer LOL. I can just see her school pics coming back like this

Sian and her lil' bro. having a kiss before we leave for school

So, we've had our first "parents evening" (actually at lunch time so daddy could come) it went well. Her teacher is lovely, she was bringing down everyones work books, but having only been at school a couple weeks Sian doesn't actually HAVE anything in hers yet!

She's nothing like a new girl apparently. Has settled in very well and has a really good freind in her class. They're little chatter boxes and can talk hind legs off donkeys! Her reading is really good, as is her spelling. She'll be getting extra help with writing in a couple weeks as she still doesn't hold her pen properly, and when she does she presses so lightly it's unreadable!

Sian and the gloves....

Sian has very little fat on her. If you've ever met my kids you'll know they are NOTHING like Clive and I in build (well, except height maybe, Clive's short) So with this chilly weather Sian's hands tend to get cold very quickly (Beth's don't, but she is "fatter")

Yesterday she was wearng her mittens when she got TOO school. But when I picked her up, she'd lost them. Result, melt down. Anyway, she'd taken them off to play in the water (shock #2 this week, she's organised!!! shock #1 was being told she's quiet!) So, this morning I put her gloves on her and told her that if she lost them she'd be gloveless. I get to pick her up this afternoon and she has two pairs of gloves! Her mits had ended up in teh play house!

She was star of the day again today. She got three stickers.. one for spelling "dream", one for tidying up and one for doing her spellings. Her teacher told me she has been whizzing through her sounding out words. She brought home 2 sets tonight and went through them 4x each with ease. I always suspected she could read more than she let on, and I was proved right. She read a whole book to me the other day. The only word she needed help with? "aeroplane"

I'm quite looking forward to meeting her teacher next week and seeing her work. Today she brought home a kite she'd made at shcool. On the back was a VERY good attempt at writing her name (she can't hold a pencil properly yet) *and* she'd rememberd the "hat" over the a in sian. Homeschooling hasn't held her back at all!

He's how old?

Ok, I know the answer to that. He's 16wks tomorrow. (4mos NEXT week)

I left him iwth a train on his mat. I left the room to do something. Next thing I hear? The train chuffing away. You have to push down on the funnel to acheive this. He has the train in his hand and a satisfied grin on his face. I know what my little man likes.. well at the moment. Trains. This one in particular. And he wants me to go play with him some more so I am.

I'll get pics of him and his train later.

Inspiration to me

comes from a friend. Her son is just 3wks younger than mine (and about 3x smaller LOL) and she managed to lose weight all through her pregnancy. You can read her journey and how it IS possible to lose weight AND have a healthy pregnancy on her blog http://skinnydreaming.blogspot.com/

She's now about 50lbs lighter than I am, and I want to tell her how impressed I am with her acheivement!

Some randomness

Sian ready for her first school disco (Feb 11 2009)

Beth showing me just HOW BIG her mouth is LOL

Trying to escape his big sisters clutches!

Lovin' my lil' bro. Not that he appreciates it!

more of the boy.

I used to suck my fingers like this too! He really is mine LOL.

Who needs a pushchair? He's happily asleep in there!

Tummy Time.. oh and showing off his cute yellow nappy too!

Hitching a lift with Daddy

Just too cute!

Rick's first snow

Frederick didn't want to miss out on the snow fun either so on the Tuesday Mama bundled him up in two jackets and put FIVE layers of blanket down on the still untouched snow in the front garden. The back had been demolished by his big sisters and their teenage friend the day before!

Star of the Day

The title says it all! Day 4 and my little girl was her teachers "Star of the Day" All I could get out of her was that she'd been good all day to earn it. So what ever the reason for the award, Mama was proud that night.

Snow Day!!

Beth's 1st Day

Beth's not such a picture freak as Sian LOL. She'd much rather be BEHIND the camera! But here are some from her first day at Groveley Hall Nursery. She'll be there till September when she'll go to KMS Nursery for a year.

Sian's 1st day

Monday, 26th January 2009. Sian started at Kenyngton Manor School. She had a good day from all accounts! Her teacher told me she'd been good as well so I was happy!

I heard all about snack time (apple, orange adn water) and school dinners (jacket potato and beans with a yummy pie and custard) and she drip fed me information through the evening. She did t (tuh) and T (tee) and adding up and painted a flower and stuck wrapping paper on a ladybird

Enjoy the photos :o)


Signing "school"

Waiting for her teacher

All smart in her uniform (didn't last!!)

PE Kit

Have I got everything now?


With the begining of school though, Sian has to leave her sign language classes. So we made a video for Dom before we left for the school run. She understands a LOT of signs, and also the grammar. I'm hoping that she gets to use this skill in teh future as she really does have another language at her finger tips (they use makaton in her class as some of the children have speech difficulties)