Monday 31 January 2011

Day 1....

t was indeed a LONG day today...

As soon as we got back from the school run, Cassandra and I went to find a nice new pair of knickers for her to wear instead of her nappy...

She choose a nice pink pair with fairies on and the day ensued... we did okay, she's got the jist of pulling her knickers up and down quite quickly, but she hasn't quite got the hang of sitting on the potty and actually doing a wee....

Today, she preferred to wee on the carpet and then say "Mummy, wee wee"!

Tomorrow is another day and patience perseverance is the key here I think (why am I doing this)???!!!!

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Sunday 30 January 2011

We're going to try...


Well, after a lovely day spent with the ole in-laws and Hannah showing Cassandra what a potty is all about - I'm going to give it a go this week. Still not sure that our little lady is 100% ready, but she tells us when she's been and doesn't like to be dirty or wet, so I thought let's just go for it and see........

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Monday 24 January 2011

Circle Journal

I'm quite excited....

Karen at Total Papercrafts, the scrapbook club I attend twice a month has come up with an idea to encourage everyone to "get to know each other a little better" by taking part in a circle journal.

The concept of a circle journal is that you start a journal/album and send it on a journey around everyone taking part - in our case 13 of us, until it eventually comes back to you full of contributions from each member of the circle.

The hardest part for me was to finally settle on a "theme" - I had loads of ideas, from "Things I want to do before I die" or "My hero" or "Quotes that have touched my heart", but I finally settled on...


So basically, everyone's favourite film! It was suggested that if the theme's people chose were too hard then people would loose interest and that's not what I wanted and besides, everyone has a favourite film!

Mine is Titanic... We had to complete the first page/or two to give an example of what our journal was all about.


So, journal all complete with my pages done too, roll on February when it all starts!!

Friday 21 January 2011

Great White Sharks assembly

Yesterday, Alex took part in his school class assembly.

Their topic this term is Africa and they focused on The Lion King and the story/moral within it.


Everyone had lines to learn and nearly all the kids delivered their "bit" very well...

Some of the kids also had to make masks and Alex was very proud of his...

The fabby foursome - Oliver Knight, Alexander, Calum Harkes and Nathan Grey enjoyed their assembly, but more so the chocolate biscuits afterwards!!

Thursday 20 January 2011

Our little man is 5

Well, how did that happen?

Nicholas was 5 last week and although has been a year coming, it kind of hit me that my little boy is growing up...

Having a birthday right after Christmas is a real downer, but Nicholas still managed to come up with a "wish list" top of it being a double ended light sabre!


After a good day at school, things didn't quite go to plan on his actual birthday, but I ended up taking all 3 kids along with Mum over to Little Monsters for an impromptu play/tea - complete with a Spiderman cake!




Then on the Saturday, 30 odd kids joined him at St Lawrence Church hall for a few hours of fun and magic with Terry the Magician!


Terry had them all running around, playing loads of games and getting into the spirit of Nicholas' birthday party...

They then all had loads of E numbers, sugar, crisps, biscuits, chocolate and any other "party food" I could come up with before singing "Happy Birthday" to the special boy..


The best bit of the party then followed - the 45 minute magic show, which had all the kids in hysterics and kept them mesmorised for the entire time. He was brilliant and I can highly recommend him!!!




When it was all over, the girls all left with huge pink fairy wings and the boys went home with sharp swords and shields - fabby for stabbing a sibling with apparently...


HUGE thanks to Mum for helping me decorate, set up the hall and being on cake duty and to Tara, Michelle, Helen and Jo for assisting with the food and whatever else they could!

Nicholas told me at bedtime that he'd had a brilliant day. That's what it's all about and makes it all worthwhile...


Thursday 6 January 2011

Scrapbook layout yum!

I actually finished a layout!


I haven't scrapp'ed much since before Chrimbo, but last night's Total Papercraft's kit I just had to finish, so whilst Cassie was having her nap today, I got on and finished it. I'm so pleased with it too...