I feel like I have a touch of blog block! It's proving quite tricky to blog while the boys are off school as the days are so full of this & that & I am just so tired at the end of a fun day I can't quite seem to manage to think creatively about photos & words.... Sorry about that! I am also a bit distracted by a sudden enthusiasm for sorting paper work having discovered that I can make boring paperwork pretty & creative. I have been having a lot of fun customising some little wooden drawers that I bought 10 years ago & never did anything with! Anyway, while I wait for inspiration & clarity to arrive here are some random photos for you! The photo above I took while we waited for a table to be available at Pizza Hut some months ago. Timmy thought peering through the restaurant letter box was good fun & I couldn't resist taking a piccie (much to the bewilderment of the other diners I think!). I smile every time I see this photo! I think it says it all!
A while ago Jordan did football training after school with his class mates. Jordan loves to go in goal & during one session he saved a goal in the most sensational way ever! All the parents watching cheered wildly & the Dad who runs his own kid's football team came up to me afterwards & said he wanted Jordan for his team! When I told Jordan this he asked if he would be playing in a stadium in front of a huge crowd. I said no & asked why, wondering if he was setting his sights on a footballing career. He replied simply that he just wanted lots of people to see him & cheer for him. I said 'Did you hear everyone go wild when you saved the goal this afternoon?' to which he said 'No! I just closed my eyes & saved the goal!' He's a funny one sometimes! ;o)
While we waited for Jordan to get changed after football training Timmy & Luke had fun reading the books in Big School. They sat so beautifully reading books on anatomy & the like! I was so proud of them!
These are the thankyou cards the boys made for their teachers at the end of term. (L-R: Luke, Jordan, Timmy). We had a lot of fun making the cards & I love the way the same design has each boy's unique interpretation. Luke chose beautiful colour combinations from opposite sides of the spectrum- brown & red, yellow & pink, orange & blue, green & turquoise, blue & red. Jordan chose his papers for the star punch outs so carefully & Timmy enjoyed adding a bit of sparkle with some acrylic gemstones. He also insisted on branching out from the design by adding an extra button! The one thing all 3 boys chose to use though was a brown button which they thought looked like a chocolate button! Each boy also stamped the wording onto their own card too.
The necklaces above were the gifts we gave to the teachers. They were hand made especially for the teachers by our friend Rachel (who is also the twins Godmother). I had wanted something extra special for the nursery teachers as it kind of felt like the end of our time with them. Having seen them both almost every day for 4 years it will be strange not going into nursery regularly again until Annie Joy is 3 years old. I think the necklaces are fantastic & so did the teachers! A few weeks earlier Miss H had commented on how lovely the necklace was that I was wearing which was one that Rachel had made so I thought it would be a great idea for a thankyou present.
Here is my customary end of nursery photo of Timmy & Luke with Miss H & Mrs S. (If you look closely you can see they are already wearing their necklaces!)
For our wedding anniversary Lee bought me a Giant Splongy Bun!! It's from Roald Dhal's The BFG story apparently (I don't really rate Mr Dahl's stories although I have read The BFG) & it is a really giant fairy cake covered with butter icing & sweeties! We all enjoyed sharing it one lunch time. Yummy!
Jordan disappeared off into his bedroom for quite some time the other day & was very very quiet. That in it's self isn't really unusual- he likes to play quietly with his cars & bricks especially after a busy day at school, but on this particular day he came down the stairs after 20 minutes of so wearing his 'eye plugs' & ear plugs looking a little grumpy saying 'You're making too much noise everyone! I'm trying to have 20 winks!' After a little persuasion I got this cute piccie of him! Bless his little heart!
A while ago Jordan did football training after school with his class mates. Jordan loves to go in goal & during one session he saved a goal in the most sensational way ever! All the parents watching cheered wildly & the Dad who runs his own kid's football team came up to me afterwards & said he wanted Jordan for his team! When I told Jordan this he asked if he would be playing in a stadium in front of a huge crowd. I said no & asked why, wondering if he was setting his sights on a footballing career. He replied simply that he just wanted lots of people to see him & cheer for him. I said 'Did you hear everyone go wild when you saved the goal this afternoon?' to which he said 'No! I just closed my eyes & saved the goal!' He's a funny one sometimes! ;o)
While we waited for Jordan to get changed after football training Timmy & Luke had fun reading the books in Big School. They sat so beautifully reading books on anatomy & the like! I was so proud of them!
These are the thankyou cards the boys made for their teachers at the end of term. (L-R: Luke, Jordan, Timmy). We had a lot of fun making the cards & I love the way the same design has each boy's unique interpretation. Luke chose beautiful colour combinations from opposite sides of the spectrum- brown & red, yellow & pink, orange & blue, green & turquoise, blue & red. Jordan chose his papers for the star punch outs so carefully & Timmy enjoyed adding a bit of sparkle with some acrylic gemstones. He also insisted on branching out from the design by adding an extra button! The one thing all 3 boys chose to use though was a brown button which they thought looked like a chocolate button! Each boy also stamped the wording onto their own card too.
The necklaces above were the gifts we gave to the teachers. They were hand made especially for the teachers by our friend Rachel (who is also the twins Godmother). I had wanted something extra special for the nursery teachers as it kind of felt like the end of our time with them. Having seen them both almost every day for 4 years it will be strange not going into nursery regularly again until Annie Joy is 3 years old. I think the necklaces are fantastic & so did the teachers! A few weeks earlier Miss H had commented on how lovely the necklace was that I was wearing which was one that Rachel had made so I thought it would be a great idea for a thankyou present.
Here is my customary end of nursery photo of Timmy & Luke with Miss H & Mrs S. (If you look closely you can see they are already wearing their necklaces!)
For our wedding anniversary Lee bought me a Giant Splongy Bun!! It's from Roald Dhal's The BFG story apparently (I don't really rate Mr Dahl's stories although I have read The BFG) & it is a really giant fairy cake covered with butter icing & sweeties! We all enjoyed sharing it one lunch time. Yummy!
Jordan disappeared off into his bedroom for quite some time the other day & was very very quiet. That in it's self isn't really unusual- he likes to play quietly with his cars & bricks especially after a busy day at school, but on this particular day he came down the stairs after 20 minutes of so wearing his 'eye plugs' & ear plugs looking a little grumpy saying 'You're making too much noise everyone! I'm trying to have 20 winks!' After a little persuasion I got this cute piccie of him! Bless his little heart! Hope everyone who reads is well. I really will try to blog again soon with piccies from our friends wedding in July & our recent trip to Erdig! I've just got to narrow down the photo selection.....!!!!
4 comments:
Ha ha nice blog love,great to catch up on your news x x x x
Hey I sympathise with J on the noise. Perhaps everyone should read more anatomy books! (they are SO sweet with books!) Luke was telling EVERYONE in Oswestry that he'd seen a weathercock after Ken read all 3 of them a story about one. You could have heard a pin drop! Love the cards and tell Rach the jewellery is fab. Sweet pic of Annie Joy and the cake- glad you shared it though.
love Mother xx
ps You could have called the blog 'Bits and Pieces' since you have had a lot of song titles lately! "I'm in pieces bits and pieces" The Dave Clark 5 (ancient history)
Hello i love the necklaces they are lovely. Im sure the teachers were thrilled .
Glad your doing well . love Charlotte
Aw isn't it sad when they leave nursery! Lovely necklaces tho! Bet the teachers were chuffed! And I realise too what you were talking about in the forest the other day about Jordan and his desire for 20 winks!! Bless him! xx
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