Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

Despite Blenheim being the ONLY school that was open this week - and rightly so I hasten to add, we all had fun walking to and from school every day - snowballs and that. Pushing a buggy in 10" of snow was not my idea of fun however, and I ended up trading one child for two with a good friend of mine, some mornings and afternoons to get round the prob...

Today, however was fun time, so Lee and I took all 3 kids over to Blenheim park with the sledge...

This was Cassandra's first time in snow and she wasn't too sure to start with but did end up running around with the boys after a bit...

Lee joined in on the act and got a good arm workout pulling both boys in the sledge around the park!

After a while everyone got a bit cold, so we headed off home. Think Cassie enjoyed the ride home the best..

It's official...

Blenheim sent home all the children's official school photos the other week...

Not quite sure what Nicholas was looking at..

And Alexander was pulling a very silly smile...

You got to love 'em!!

All Hallow's Eve...

Halloween came round all too quick and this year new costumes were the order of the day...

Nicholas was a Skeleton Pirate, Cass was origonally a witch, but then opted for the pumpkin, Alexander still loved his slightly too short Spider outfit.

As for me, this year, I became the Bride of Darkness!!!

I got together during half term and took the boys to Partyman with Michelle and her two and they had a great Halloween party, Nichoals got to go up on stage with Jimbo and I even won best dressed "Mummy"!

On Saturday 30th October, my good friend Tina had a party so we all trouped over the road for fun and games...

Then actually came 31st October and the boys and Lee had fun carving their pumpkins....

A session "Trick or Treating" was the final event...

I LOVE Halloween and I have loads of great photos to scrap now too!!

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....

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!

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!!

Time to Learn...!?!

This year is just flying by and before I knew it, it was time to iron all the dam labels in the kids uniforms and send them off to school again.

Alex was going up into Year 2 - Mrs Whiley being his new teacher and after a few moments of apprehension, he was pleased to be back with his friends...

Nicholas is now my big boy and is now full time in Reception with Alex's old teacher Miss Stephens. He's already making new friends and is loving school.

That just leaves the days for my baby girl and I to go to swim school, Jo Jingles, see friends, and I also really need to find a play group to attend....

Summer Holidays 2010

The summer hols are over and done with and this year they seemed to go fast. Maybe it's cos we had a week away as a family to Butlins down in Bognor and then Mum and I took the kids for a week to Pontins at Gt Yarmouth.

As usual, I filled our weeks with activities from kite flying, trips to parks, out with friends and family, playdates out and playdates at home, days out for picnics, to the beach, to Promanade Park and to various play areas. Nicholas learnt how to ride his bike without stablisers and Alex got to go to yet another Fire Station open day!

And then, it was back to school...