IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!

So this is Christmas & what have we done? Oh no I'm writing in Christmas song lyrics!! Haha! We finally have our tree that's what we've done! We went to buy it this afternoon & got a rather gorgeous 6 foot real Nordman tree for a bargain price. (Lee says we got a better deal this year coz I went instead of him! I must say they went out of their way to make sure the tree wasn't leaning over like last year's was!) Squashed tree into front seat of car as back seats full of children & boot too small & then squished myself into the seat behind the tree & lay almost horizontal as had had to recline seat to get tree in! It was most uncomfortable but very amusing! Arrived home & began decorating the house......
First Lee & Timmy put up the window lights.....

...& once switched on Luke shouted 'Happy Birthday!'

Next in came the tree....

...which the boys decorated with great enthusiasm! (This picture is Luke trying to reach up to put crackers on the branches!)

This is gorgeous Jordan also decorating the tree beautifully.

And Jordan posing for a photo in front of the finished tree. He is wearing an angel halo that he will wear at church tomorrow for the children's nativity procession that I am leading! (Eeek!)

Luke took an instant love of the singing Father Christmas that Lee's mum bought for all three boys last year & didn't let it our of his sight until bedtime (when he reluctantly left it downstairs because I told him he couldn't take it to bed). Luke snuggled up to Lee after the tree was decorated & they enjoyed a cozy father son moment. Gorgeous! Timmy spent most of the afternoon playing with a small fibre optic tree that sits on a car dashboard. he loved switching it on & off 'all by myself' as he said. All in all a great time was had by us all decorating the tree for the first time as a family of 5. And now we are all excited & feeling festive!

Just to let you all know (coz I know you have been lying awake at night wondering!) that the hairy grass heads we planted a few weeks back have sprouted & now have fabulous green hair! the boys loved planting & making the heads & have also enjoyed watering them & playing with them. A great present - thanks Sharon! :O)

Well, I may not get to post again till after christmas Day so have a great Christmas & a very Happy New Year.

God bless you all! :O)

I Won!!!!!

A little while ago I posted that I had entered a small competition to do a scrapbook page on the theme 'the best thing that ever happened to you'. Well, I won with the layout above (click on it to see it better if you like). It really was only very very small competition but it was very encouraging to win! I have won some scrapbook supplies which will hopefully arrive soon (Christmas post is taking ages to get through here- 5 days on of our cards took!)

Well, I shall post again later with more piccies. Have a great day! :O)

I am trying to post!

Just a quick hello to let you know that I haven't forgotten about my blog! I have been trying to upload piccies tonight & Blogger just won't let me! Well, it's either Blogger or our internet connection playing up (we are trialing something for BT so they told us things would be a bit hit & miss for the first few days). Anyway, as soon as possible I will get some photos posted.

A quick update then before I go to bed.... Jordan had a fantastic time in his school nativity play. He was an angel which actually turned out to be a bigger deal than I had thought although it wasn't a big part in the whole scheme of things. The nativity play was performed by the whole of the Infant School so not everyone got a part. the main roles went to Year 2 then a few smaller parts to Year 1 & in Reception I think there were only 6 of them that got up on stage, Jordan being one of them. Anyway, my pesky camera decided it was going on strike for the play so I have nothing to preserve that memory which is gutting especially as Lee couldn't be there to see the play. (Jordan's class teacher says she has got some photos of him in costume from when they went to perform the play for the outpatients at Aintree Hospital so that is good). Jordan did an excellent job of remembering his part & all the dance moves but doesn't yet know how to show off his natural exuberance on the stage. I am sure it will come though... it runs on both sides of the family! I was so grateful to our friend Jean who agreed to look after Timmy & Luke last minute so I could watch the play unhindered not least because it meant I could focus on Jordan's performance but also because the school hall was so packed out with parents that it would have been awful trying to contain 2 toddlers either in a double pram or standing at the back squashed between other parents & having to push past to take the boys to the loo if needed! So thankyou so much Jean! You are a star!

Timmy & Luke are doing really well with their potty training. I can hardly believe that they will start nursery in January! They seem to have grown up so much lately. I must tell you a funny thing that Timmy said tonight. I made carbonara for tea with peas in it. This was the first time I have given the boys peas in ages as Luke & Timmy had been refusing to eat food that had peas in it even when they liked the rest of the meal so I decided to stop doing peas for a while. Well, they both tried a pea & then left the rest. I said to Timmy 'Are you going to eat your peas? They are yummy!' to which he replied 'Mummy I can't eat them, I'm too young'!!!! That boy has a real sense of humour! We all had a good laugh at that!

We have had thick fog all day today in Liverpool. Lee was due to go to watch the Liverpool match tonight with his niece, Lauren & a friend but they cancelled it coz it was too foggy. You couldn't see from one end of the pitch to the other! It was a shame that they didn't get to go especially as the fog lifted just after they made the decision not to play! Still, we got to spend a bit of time with our niece which was lovely. Jordan was fascinated by the fact that Lauren had blue eye shadow on & kept saying to her 'You've got blue eyes all round here' pointing to his forehead! You can tell all the females he knows don't wear make up very often!!

Well, I must get to bed. I will try to post piccies & more news tomorrow. Hope you are well! :O)

All Sorts of stuff

It's been a busy week here in the Davies household! We are in the middle of potty training Timothy & Luke so I am being kept on my toes! It is going well though- much better than expected really. We are so proud of our little boys (who suddenly seem not quite so little any more!). Luke fell asleep on the stairs on Friday after we had been to pick Jordan up from school! Bless his little heart! He has been playing so hard!
Luke & Timmy have been really into their toy prams this week & have been looking after their Fimbles (bought for 10p at Jordan's school fair last Saturday) & beanie duck very well, pushing them all over the house including upstairs!
Yesterday we had fun making these funky Hairy Heads that a friend bought Timmy & Luke for their birthday. There was only stuff in the box to make 2 really but I found an extra pop sock & eeked out the grass seed & saw dust into 3. The boys absolutely loved making them. They all had a turn spooning the saw dust into the tights & stuck on the eyes & mouth. I really hope that the grass grows & that we will have some wild grassy haired people to show you soon! We also had great fun on Saturday playing a game called Hungry Frogs which the boys also got for their birthday. It is so simple (you press a lever that makes a plastic frog jump forward to catch little yellow balls underneath it's body that then drop down into a tray. The winner is the one who has the most balls) but we laughed & laughed playing it!


Jordan never ceases to amazes us with his abilities. The above 3 photos are of his school homework (click to see them better if Blogger will let you!). I could not believe how great he is at writing! He is only 5 & has been in school for nearly one term- wow! Jordan has been chosen to play an angel in the infants nativity play this year so that is quite exciting!

So, some other news, Lee is ill at the moment with a coldy thing that we have all had at least once the past few months so he has been resting a lot this weekend as he had to speak at a church in Wales tonight. I hope he gets on alright coz when I came into our office to use the computer I noticed he had left his memory stick here which I think had all his power point slides on it! I have been busy doing lots of scrapbook pages & have entered a competition with one layout. I shall let you know if I win or not! I have also been learning how to upload videos to my blog. I am just waiting for YouTube to put my video on their site then I can share a sweet video of Timmy singing with you!

Well, nothing else to report really.... have a great week! (Please do post a comment on here I love to hear from you! It takes a while to show on the blog though as I check it first before it gets added. Thanks!)