The happy learning room!

Yesterday the men from Hughes were coming to take away our old oven.  They were supposed to ring me first to let me know when they’d be there.  To fair they did and I missed the call.  Consequently, when they did ring back they were sat outside the old house and I was still in the new house.  As quickly as we could we dashed through town.  I had got half way down the road, fortunately a very short way, when N said to me:  ‘Mummy why are you wearing your slippers?’  I rushed back and was pleased to find 20 minutes or so after receiving a phone call that, kindly, the two men waited. 

HB is very pleased we have the internet back.  She has been playing reading eggs this morning and has insisted on reading 4 other books this morning too.  She’s trying to conquer Oxford Reading Tree stage 4 at the moment.  I, on the other hand, am a little less achy today!  I’ve made sweet pastry for jam tarts with N, tidied away a few more things and looked around at the house and I have decided we don’t need so much in our house.  I think having the space to give everything a home has made this more apparent.   It was lovely catching up with all my scrabble games last night.  Although I seem to be much more tired these days; I’m struggling to keep my eyes open past midnight. 

In our new house there is a new room…

Baby H's birthday!

I've been so wanting to blog about my baby!  How is my baby H already two years old?  She’s still very much my baby though.  Chiara seemed to grow up so quick and N too.  HB, I suppose, is in many ways is still my baby still feeling the need to co-sleep and very dependent on my cuddles to comfort her.  Sometimes I wonder if the younger ones enjoy being younger for longer - it certainly seems to appear that way in our house.

I think I got more excited than anyone else Saturday morning, my baby H's birthday.  H came into my room at 8am.  She had slept 11 hours straight - I love it when that happens - I told her it was her birthday, she said no.  I asked her if she would like to open some presents, she said no again!  It all changed once she saw the huge pile of presents and cards!  There wasn’t one she didn’t like.

Crazy killer Seagulls!

There is still no sign of Bob.  It’s very, very sad.  I miss my Mr Bob.  When I was putting the washing out to dry this morning I heard a meow.  It turned out to be our other two cats.  Marley has really settled in, Nelly (our more timid cat) is very nervous – she missed her feed last night.  When I was coaxing them in the house for some breakfast, out of nowhere, a seagull flew down and tried to attack Marley the cat.  She hid under a car at lightning speed and then the gull came for me.  Waving my hands frantically and shouting loudly I managed to scare him off a little.  I called to the girls to bring me a broom!  Then I realised I had baby in my arms and rushed her inside. 

By the time I was out again the gull was gone and my neighbours had come out to what all the commotion was about.  I’ve made friends with most of the neighbours round here already and they are super friendly, one was hanging out of their window to let me know where the cat was hiding.  Marley happily came in for her breakfast once she realised the seagull had gone.  No amount of encouragement pulled Nelly from her hiding place; I could still her mew from the bushes!

Well, the girls are settling back into some workbooks.  They’ve drawn so many beautiful pictures this week.  HB did the solar system puzzle too; she was delighted when she completed the 60 piece puzzle all by herself.  We also played Orchard Toys tell the time game and a dinosaur board game.   

It took me ages to get out into the sunshine.  It was quite funny really: I asked HB to get her shoes and skirt on and she came out of her room, or should I say mine, dressed like this...

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Finally she found herself a dinosaur top - she doesn't care that it was in the boys area and why should she - and my high heeled boots!  I tried not to laugh I really did.  I told her she looked fab but unfortunately it wouldn't be safe to wear them out so she opted for her own shoes fortunately!

Only a few more days of using the free Wi-Fi in the coffee shop and I’ll finally have full use of internet in my house.