As I've already mentioned the C word and it is now officially acceptable as it's December I'll start there!! I am pretty sure we have finished Christmas shopping. I'm so excited for the kids. We may have (definitely) gone a little OTT.. but it's Christmas so if you can't now, when can you!? Danny asked Santa for a grow your own crystal kit this year ( I know what Craig will be doing all Christmas day! Ha!) Connor a Blaze monster dome and cars and Evelyn originally 'asked' for a Ragdoll but as I spent so long looking for one I thought she (I) would like with no luck Santa will be delivering her a soft cuddly elf doll. From me and Daddy she will be getting a bunny. I had a beautiful pink bunny I adored as a child but it got lost somewhere throughout the years so choosing my daughter a bunny to love, hoping it's as precious as mine was to me, was so lovely. We (I say we, Craig lost interest weeks and weeks ago and just let me loose online, just to shut me up no doubt!) chose the jellycat grey blossom bunny. She's adorable!
Last year I made a conscious effort to take a picture of something Christmas related every day for the month of December. So that once the big day is here and over you can look back and remember and enjoy the build up of it all. I'm going to try and do the same this year, just thinking it's going to be a little more difficult with Danny at school and Connor at nursery 3 days a week. Honestly, I love that he enjoys it so much and have no plans to start home educating noo way! But we never seem to have any time for anything fun these days. By the time he's home and we have done his reading or homework or whatever else it's time to.cook dinner, bath and they are both in bed for 6.30! Really looking forward to the weekends! Although, saying that by about 11am Saturday morning it's all gone to pot, we are all still in our pj's, I'm drinking 4 hours old cold coffee and trying not to loose my shit as the boys are arguing over whose turn it is to pick which flipping paw patrol episode to watch next on TV.
Danny has just turned 5. 5seems so grown up! He had his first birthday party at pirate Petes which was a great success. He has made some lovely friends and seeing him so happy was really lovely for us both. He has been getting on amazingly at school. His little mind seems to have exploded and he is eager to learn something new every day. He loves coming home and telling me about the new letter sound he's learnt that day and his writing is super impressive. His first parents evening was fantastic and I'm continuously amazed by this clever little dude I'm lucky enough to call my son.
Connor is also doing brilliantly. His maths skills totally amaze me. We were playing maths games on his kindle a few days ago and he's sitting there sorting shapes and colours into groups, recognising numbers up to 100, adding and subtracting with help and counting in twos! He is still a super whizz at puzzles and his duplo trains and buildings far exceed mine! He may struggle a little with his speech but he's improving every day and it doesn't stand in the way of his ability to make friends and he always gets his point across. I do think sometimes because of his speech people tend to automatically think he must struggle with everything but it's so not the case. if anything, it's even more impressive that he does what he does! I'm so super proud of him too. Especially, as lately he has found it hard adapting to life as the middle child. We have had our struggles... drawing on the sofa being one!! I've just made sure that we have had some time together just us two, just to let him know he's still my super scrump! He came along on a Costa date with me today. I was dreading taking him,thinking he would be a nightmare. when actually, I never should have doubted him he was a total angel and enjoyed his hot chocolate and yule log muffin!!
His parents evening went as wonderfully as Danny's. I'm so lucky to have two brilliant boys!
Evelyn has had her first little cold (a perk of having older brothers!) and has spent most of the last week covering me in snot and puke. Not that I really mind! I've found dark grey is a great colour to wear as it hides a lot! Haha! She's slowly starting to discover her hands and goes completely cross eyed staring at them which is stupidly cute! She's always smiling and I've heard the beginnings of her little laugh. I really hope she's laughing by Christmas! She seems to really enjoy her baby massage group. As do I as I never got to take Danny as he would have just screamed the place down as soon as I dared put him down and I never took Connor as I always had Danny. Hoping to sign up for baby yoga for when she's a little older too! She's still the most happy chilled little baby I've ever met. She feeds like a mad baby from about 7ish but sleeps from 11-6 every night! I'm one of those annoying my baby sleeps mums! Hooray! third time lucky I say! The boys were horrors for sleeping and Connor still wakes me up every time 2/3 times and Danny is always there to wake everyone up bang on 6am every single morning!!
Anyhoo, Evelyn has decided she is having a little nap so I'm going to grab a shower (I've been puked on more times than I care to admit today so I definitely need one!!) before she wakes up!
Hopefully I'll post again before Christmas, but I make no promises!!
Thanks for visiting!
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