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It's all about the shoes...

SOS Swim Gala

Nicholas' passion has always been football, however he also enjoys his swimming.

So much so that his hard work paid off recently when he was selected as the only child in the Academy squad at SOS (Southend Swimming Club) to join with some other students in a team to enter the Braintree swimming gala.

I was gutted I couldn't actually go with him and support him as I was at Scouts Renewal of Promise with Alexander and Cassandra, however Lee went and supported by some of my friends whose kids were entering too, he did really well..

He got to swim in 4 events and did wonderfully for his first gala and overall SOS came in 4th!

Way to go little man, another proud mummy moment.

The big 6!

Well, that's it.  She's now six years old....

My little lady turned 6 last Thursday and she's now "a big girl" apparently... not to big to still want a wiggle scooter as I call it!

For her birthday, we'd changed the theme of her party from Frozen (which has been done to death) to Cinderella!

Invitations were sent out to 11 other princess (including Cassie's friend Lola who has the same great taste in dresses) to come along to a tea party and ball after school and  once everyone had arrived, "high tea" was served in the garden..

 Wonders of wonders..

 Cinderella herself stopped by in her ball gown in to wish Cassandra a very happy 6th birthday...

 Princess fun and games followed

and after singing happy birthday and blowing out her candles

 Cassandra was crowned a "real" princess..

 My heartfelt thanks go to Mandy of Tiddlywinks Parties and to Jenna - a most beautiful Cinderella!
tiddlywinks-parties

Pencils!

The theme at Scrap Africa was 'to use pencils on a project''.  I wanted to think outside the box for this challenge so actually used an overlay that is all pencils for a layout of the kids - the last one with them all together in 2014. 

30th April is the closing date so still time to enter the challenge.
http://scrapafrica.blogspot.ca/2015/04/pencil-challenge-no49.html

SO SO SO PROUD!!

Another very proud Mummy moment yesterday..

Alexander and Nicholas took part in a 1.5km swimathon for Marie Curie Cancer.  They each swum 30 lengths of Clements Hall pool to achieve this and managed to raise £100!!!!

Such an achievement for them both.

Thank you so much to anyone that sponsored them, the money will be put to good use.

Sketchabilities #137

I loved the simple sketch challeng over at Sketchabilities.. and this photo of Nicholas and Cassandra in the woods earlier this year was perfect for it..

Still time to enter as closing date is: 28th April 2015
http://sketchabilities.blogspot.ca/2015/04/sketch-137-design-team-reveal.html

Growing up...

My little lady will be 6 next week and as such decided that she wanted to get her hair cut!!!

So, after reading a review about a rather good local child friendly hair salon called Penneys, I took Cassandra this morning to get her locks chopped off.

My beautiful baby girl is growing up way too fast for my liking..

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Love Nicholas to bits, but returning from footie training with a shoe full of black bits... not so much!