St Valentines Day by the sea

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We got up and head out to Bridlington for the afternoon. Fish and Chips for lunch at a great little chippy near the sea front – Elliot’s choice and it was GOOD.

Then some fun in the amusement arcades around the promenade before getting our wellies on and taking a nice walk along the beach paddling in the sea.

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It was cold in the wind but the sun came out to help make it a fun afternoon. Olly had a little power nap on the way home and the boys enjoyed a cheeky McDonalds on the way back to the house.

We definitely had a fun St Valentine’s Day this year and will be back on the coast soon.

New office beginning to look GREAT

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All the important stuff is in 🙂 still LOADS to do but wow – why oh why did we not do this sooner?

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Looking forward to the house becoming more normal again – maybe on Sunday we will be through the most of the moving about – then we have around 5 Bruce loads of crap to take to the recycle centre….

Congratulations Olly

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Even though he does not know why he has received the Silcoates Year 1 Presentation Award, our little monkey has taken it this week 🙂 Apparently he received 4 presentations this week and that was enough to clinch it.

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Well done Olly – keep at it and your concentration will improve no end – this award is testament to that 🙂

Parents Evening…

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Tonight was parents evening for BOTH boys at school – Oliver at 16:45 for 15 minutes and then Elliot from 17:15 for a similar 15 minutes.

They are both doing pretty well it seems although (not unexpectedly) Oliver continues to have attention challenges in class. He is apparently (and this we were worried about but it seems we have no reason to be) exceptionally well behaved in class and is as good as the perfect gent. This we were surprised about as we were worried that he would potentially be a disruptor in class. He clearly saves it all for us at home 🙁

Olly needs to pick up his game when it comes to writing as well as maths – he was struggling but has been popped in a lower group for maths and this has begun to have a positive impact. We will meet up with Mrs Chambers at the beginning of next term to review the situation and ensure that he is properly on the right tracks.

Elliot on the other hand has scored 100% in his spelling tests over the year so far, has really moved forward with regards to his grasp of English and is doing pretty well in maths finally 🙂 He is even playing well in groups at lunchtimes etc – something that we were pretty concerned about so this is great news.

So, overall, we are in a pretty good shape thankfully although we need to continue to work on Oliver’s focus and attention during class. We were considering dropping Martial Arts because of Olly’s inability to concentrate but this just reinforces the need for him to continue with his training as Brian, Tony and team are certainly helping Oliver with his attention and focus – basically we just need to continue through with it all.

Room preparation

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Today has been a day of destruction – we have emptied Oliver’s, Elliot’s AND the new office of all furniture and carpets – all in the readiness for Sharps to deliver the goodies next Wednesday so that the fitter can crack on from the 9th Feb.

We have some decorating to do as we will need to replace the skirting boards into Olly’s room before the weekend – repainted of course. Before this we hope to have the walls coated with at least one coats of paint.

The new office is hopefully going to be treated to a new real wood floor to help with castors for new office chairs.

Elliot will be getting his existing carpet back for the time being and Oliver will need new carpet since the old dining room carpet is around 6″ too short 🙁

So Elliot is on the spare room for now and Olly is sleeping on his own mattress in mummy and daddy’s room.

Oh it is all fun at Fork Hall for the next few weeks….