Tuesday 19 October 2010

Autumn is officially here....

The second layout for Total Papercrafts this month is a deep orange colour, and not having any appropriate photos, we took the kids over to Thorndon Country park woods last weekend to see if we could get any good piccy's of them...

Lee didn't disappoint - armed with his new birthday toy, he got some great shots...





Roll on Wednesday - just got to pick "the one" to use now....

Friday 8 October 2010

Our brave little man...

At the beginning of October, Alexander got his appointment through to go and have surgery on his ears.

He'd been having quite a lot of ear ache's and that for quite a while so after numerous appointments he finally got to have grommets put into both his ears.


He was SO brave, when the nurse came to put some cold cream stuff on his hard to numb it, and when he was being wheeled down to theatre, he was saying how much of an adventure it was.


Even when he was hooked up to all the machines that monitor him he was okay. It was me that had the wobbles..


I spent an anxious 45 mins in the cafe and bombed down to post-op when they called me. Alex was a little groggy and tearful, but slept for a bit and recovered quickly.

His hearing has def. improved and he's a changed person. It's like I've got my scrummy little boy back again - all cos of a wee bit of plastic in his ears!


Wednesday 6 October 2010

If you go down to the woods today...


Well, we didn't see any bears, or any other creatures really, bar a squirrel or two, but the long weekend we spent playing in the woods at the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire a few weeks ago was just fabby!




It has to have been one of our best "holidays" yet, all the kids loved walking through the woods, digging in the dirt, looking for crawlies, and generally running around in the leaves.

Alex and Nicholas enjoyed a couple of sessions with one of the rangers, learning about fungi and how to survive in the woods and Cassie simply toddled around!




Teamwork was the order of the day on Sunday when we found a good area and built a rather large den....


Can highly recommend it!!