‘…a pixie, the faeries, a grumpy troll and the witch’

Tooth Fairy didn’t make it - we couldn’t find the ‘tooth box’ (which still has the last £1 coin in it!) WILL try and find it tomorrow!

Natalie has been playing with Logi-Shape Fun, - I know it’s under her age group but she has been using the shapes to make tesselations and symmetrical patterns and attempted to take photos of them with her bratz camera - sadly the camera only seems to work outside ‘cos the lense is about the size of a pencil tip and doesn’t let any enough light in! She also spent alot of time on my ‘pooter today, learning how to use Google (with strict filtering enabled!) to look for Doctor Who stuff (she has a serious crush on David Tennat….sshhh, don’t say I told you…..bless! - I wouldn’t mind him popping round for a cup of tea either tho!), and looking though the Classic Doctor Who Series on the Beeb’s site. She has well and truly finished with Year 2 on Education City… I am moving her up to Year 3 now…..

….OK done that … and it looks like we can still Year 2 - great! She has also been DSing in bed with her Nintendogs - she permanently put one back, put one on a long holiday and has now earnt enough money with her first puppy (Daisy) to buy another. I’ve had a go now and must say Daisy is quite cute, reminds me of the dog we had when I was youger - Ben, a big black lab/terrier cross, sadly arthritis got the better of him when he was 12. We (apart from Alex - but 3 against 1 wins!) would like a dog someday, when we move to a bigger house (see… I said when..not if… must mean I’m in a slighty optimistic mood today no?) - we can’t decide whether we’d like a black lab, a collie or an alsation..we’d also like chickens, ducks, and Igunana, tropical fish (again) and a goat!

Hermionie had a go at trying to match the shapes on the simpler cards of Logi-Shape Fun- she can put the circles on the train no problem - we keep working on colours with her - she pretty much has yellow, and red sorted, she can count to 10 and recognise when there are 2 or 3 of something and can kind of sing the alphabet - we also use Jolly Phonics alot with her - she loves doing the actions and singing the songs. When she draws or colours she really get’s quite engrossed (holding the pencil quite low to the tip and bending right over the paper so she’s 3″ away) in trying to stay in the lines or draw a ‘bubbit’ (Rabbit…sometimes frog…..usually rabbit!) She has been quite mummified today - which is nice - she has come up to me and said ‘wuv oo Mummy!’ several times (without someone telling her too)

Got a phone call that Natalie won the colour competition for her age group she entered at the Carnival on Saturday (she may possible have been the only 7 year old entrant? - A fruit bowl is being later as her prize - all Fair Trade products, as was the theme of the Carnival - nice!

We received our English Heritage Learning Magazine with the Learning Resources Catalogue today and saw this book (only this one is A2!), I rememeber seeing and even bigger one in Portcehster Castle a while ago and Natalie enjoyed reading it so that’s on my book list.

I’ve been busy tidying - I tidy and clean ALOT! I’m obsessed (some would say!) and while Alex was at work - we sort of had a routine, I would clean the place while the kid’s ate breakfast, I would clean up after them after their breakfast! (Hermionie feeds the floor) and the day would go on with sparadic bouts of playing with kids, cleaning up after the, feeding them, cleaning up after them, trying to make it upstairs to clean bedrooms and bathroom etc etc … you get the picture …since Alex has been home, he has has taken alot of the cleaning duties - I didn’t tell him too - he just did and now I’m pregnant I should be locked in a padded room apparently?… anyway me tidying up - It hasn’t been done properly for ages, you know moving everything and cleaning under, in and around not just what you can see… anyway done now.

Alex has been very busy trying to make sure we can pay the mortgage.

Alex and Natalie went round G’s to sort some stuff out, she had a nice time playing J&K. Hermionie and I watched some of Ice Age 2 (she loves the scenes with Scrat and his acorn - has her in hysterics - makes you wonder about a 2 year olds sense of humour!) before falling asleep on the sofa for an hour. She was very careful where she sat though - she didn’t want to squash the baby! - ahhh!

Read somewhere on the www today that it’s very unprofessional looking to use lot’s of and !!!!!!!!!!!’s - oh well - guilty!

No tummy pains today - hope everything is okay - not long until Doctors appt - first hurdle, then midwife, scan appt, etc - every day seems to take so much longer when you’re pregnant - I find myself needing confirmation every minute! and when the baby get’s big enough to feel movement - if I don’t feel movement for 30 mins or so I get paranoid - probably not just me - especially when you’ve lost a baby.

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Don’t try and blog while watching Bottom Live, it really put’s you off - our escape from reality tho!
“…another perfectly good pair of underpants ruined!”