Early Birthday Presents…

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With Elliot’s birthday falling on Tuesday this year, he has had a few gifts brought round over the weekend and he has been allowed to open them.

Aunty Jenny and Uncle Justin brought a Star Wars pinball machine that frankly hasn’t been switched off all day. Both Elliot and Oliver love it. They have no idea how to actually play it for its etc, but have probably put an hour of continued play in on it this afternoon 🙂

Grannie Cuckoo brought a Angry Birds game which has been repaired with Sellotape three times already – again though heavy use. 🙂

We have tried to buy him a bike today although we struggled to find something suitable so we are hopefully going to a local bike shop tomorrow after school.

Second week of school already passed…

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Incredibly we are now two full weeks into the Autumn term and the boys are well settled in. Oliver went fro his first swimming lesson at the big school with mummy yesterday afternoon. Apparently he had a fab time and was definitely a little tired when he got home.

Mummy has been making some really cool cupcake icing toppers (can’t say anymore just yet as it will spoil the surprise) for Elliot’s birthday cupcakes for his school friends. Oliver stayed home with Daddy and Uncle Tim while Mummy went to collect Elliot from school – he snook a couple of the decorations without anyone noticing – until that is when Mummy came home 🙁

Elliot has his first swimming lesson at school on Monday and given how many of the children in Oliver’s class that could swim, we are wondering if we need to get the boys some extra swimming lessons in order that they catch up with their classmates.

We have a birthday party for a couple of Elliot’s classmates tomorrow, with Elliot’s next Saturday and then another of his classmates a couple of weeks later, the birthday party season appears to be well and truly open 🙂

Weekend with the Connors

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Matt, Sara, Eleanor and Jessica came on Saturday afternoon and stayed until early this afternoon. Itcwas great to catchup and to watch the kids enjoy playing together. It really helped that we were lucky to enjoy wonderful weather with blue skies both days and lovely hot sunshine to boot 🙂

The kids have played together wonderfully, inside and out. They got on so well, that they even slept in the same rooms 🙂 Jessica and Olly kept each other company and Eleanor and Elliot did for a while. Elliot feigned some arm injury so ended up sleeping with us in the end though 🙂

We (the adults) cracked open a few beers,Chen bottles of wine (red for the boys and champagne for the girls).while we played with the Kinect on the XBOX. Vicky demonstrated that she was somewhat unbeatable at Kinect Boxing, while Matt showed us how long jump and javelin was done 🙂

Some muppet suggested sambuca and it all got a tad out of hand, so we decided enough was enough just before 2am 🙂

A great weekend with great friends and wonderful weather that enabled TWO BBQs 🙂

Happy days…

First week at Silcoates

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Well, we have endured our first full week at the Wrenthorpe based schools at Silcoates.  Elliot was overwhelmed for the first couple of mornings, but today we did not have any tears before walking into class with the rest of his classmates AND we almost had tears tonight as he realised that he is not going to school tomorrow !!!! So, something has really worked for him in tis last day or two, as he has turned from being non-committal about the whole going to Silcoates thing to being adamant of wanting to go even on the weekend.  He has even migrated from only eating a sandwich and cucumber sticks for lunch (Monday thru Thursday) to a hot meal of pasta, meat balls and chips today 🙂  He still had the cucumber sticks and also took on a jelly for desert.  We are really pleased with his progress in what must be a very daunting thing – going from a school with just 100 pupils across all ages to one where there are more like a 1000 pupils rushing around etc.  BIG change for the big guy 🙂

Oliver on the other hand has loved being at Sunny Hill all week, although it has REALLY tired him out being there all day 5 days 🙁

We have taken Bobby to Joseph James to sell ASAP as we need a proper family car with decent fuel economy, as Simon runs around with his new business.  The registration plates have been requested via DVLA to be taken off Bobby and Tina – Tina is next – once we get the new V5 documents back, Tina will be up for sale on Piston Heads.  So, we are looking at the end of Aston Martin ownership feeling great that we have owned one (even if only for 10 months) and actually feeling reasonably good about selling her.  One day, Simon hopes to own one again, but we’ll see if that happens in good time.

Interesting Bobby is actually up for nearly 1000 UKP more than we paid last November for her – just shows the fluctuation in value of convertible cars over the months.  Fingers crossed we can obtain most of that grand 🙂

Between the cars, we have covered just 3,000 miles in Bobby in the last 10 months and Tina has seen shy of 2,000 so hardly been used in honesty.

Great weekend ahead – Matt, Sara and the girls are coming tomorrow and depending on whether they are up for a camp style sleep over, may be staying overnight – thankfully we have plenty of sambuca….. 🙂