Happy halloween

Happy Halloween and happy birthday Eileen ;o)

booked in for her flu spray

I met up with a friend yesterday (she has a daughter the same age as Evie) and her new baby who is 7 weeks old ;o)

She told me that she had to be back for 2 pm for the walk in flu spray clinic at her doctors surgery.

My Mum had said before about the flu spray for kids, so I called my doctors surgery yesterday and have booked Evie for Thursday next week at 3.37 precisely ;o).

drawings

Evie did some drawings yesterday...

a picture of a cat

Evie in bed

Evie

Evie Miller

Yesterday we were in town and saw in The Meadows Marriages had a Milling around the Meadows exhibition ;o)

So Evie had a go and this is what she had milled ;o)

as milled by Evie

We also had a coffee while we were in town, and Evie was playing with her new handbag (a present for not doing any poops in her knickers for a week).

hiding from me

say eeeuuuurrrrgggghhhhhh

we also hid behind some leaves that we had picked up

me hiding

and Evie

witchy Evie

Evie dressed as a witch for Halloween at pre school

Evie as a witch

showing me that her hat was too big

unfortunately she never made it in as she was ill on her way in (despite having some cough mixture before we left home).

parent tour #5 booked

Have just booked parent tour #5

I can take Evie with me so thats good ;o)

And its just me on my own again ;o)

parent tour #2 - school #1 was better

So me & Evie went on the parent tour on Tuesday...

I had been talking to Evie about it on Monday and was telling her that we would be having a look to see what she thinks of the school...

..just before we went to leave I took her to the toilet and she started whining saying that she didnt want to look at the school and she didnt want to have to think either!

So I gave her a cuddle and told her that I would be there with her and that I would do all of the thinking and she was ok-ish with it.

We got upto the school and there was a woman with a young baby walking around the school reception area and I was asked to sign in and then another couple turned up too.

There were four parents in all.

The head teacher then arrived (just as a little boy was having a bit of a meltdown (the head teacher was really nice to him and took him into a side room) thinking about it Im not too sure if he was still waiting in the room while we were having our tour or not!

She then came back and shook all of our hands.

We started b looking at the reception classroom...

...yes it was a single classroom for 2 classes of children!

She assured us that it didnt disrupt their learning (but I wasnt happy with that aspect of the school).

The year 1 classroom was the same again...

And the class representatives even came and introduced themselves to us - with the second class ones shaking our hands - I bet the first teacher thought to herself I should have got my ones to do that too.

Year 2 did have separate classrooms so that was good.

We were  then shown the hall where they have lunch and the library etc.

and we were then asked if we had any questions...

One parent (the couple) asked if they did swimming lessons - yes they do in the summer but only from year 2 (as the kids younger than that cant touch the bottom of the pool ;o)).

the other parent (with a young baby) asked if they would be having an extra class for 2016 (eg a larger intake of children) and she said that she wouldnt know until the council releases their figures.

\I asked about the toilets as Evie even has trouble at the moment sitting on the children sized toilets and she said that she didnt think that she would have a problem.

Another parent (I think for the couple again) asked what the kids had to be able to do and she said "basic social skills" so I am trying to get Evie school ready for those ;o)

I am getting her to take herself to the toilet (when she is in a co-operative mood) and to pull off the toilet paper she needs - I am still trying to get her to wipe her own bottom, and to cut up her own food (but not at the same time ;o)).

Simply because of the shared classrooms this school has gone down on the list.

And at 9 am - I will be booking parent tour #5 which is being held in November.

parent tour #2 today

Today Im taking Evie on a parent tour...

...James isnt coming with us.

It is the school that Evie goes into anyway to use their playground whilst at pre school so she already knows the school.

downloading boxsets

Our Sky+ box mainly has Evies programmes on it with very few things for me or James.

For the times that I can sneakily watch something, I have found the boxsets and am now slowly getting into Greys Anatomy ;o)

I am upto Episode 4 of season 1, I have 11 seasons to watch so they should keep me going for a while...

...hee hee hee I just hope that they will still be available when I get to the latest seasons ;o)

plausible and really

Evie was at her swimming lesson yesterday, and just as her lesson was coming to an end an older man sat next to me (I had remembered him from the week earlier as he mentioned that it was his first week of going with his grandson), so I said to him "oh your here with your grandson" and then asked him if he had enjoyed it the week earlier and he had said that he had.

I then said (just to make conversation) that my one (being Evie) was in the pool with the pink swimming costume on and the bloke said to me "your son and grand-daughter" (stop laughing Mum I know you are doing it).

I then (without screaming Im pleased to say) said to him that it was my daughter, and as he was apologising I said "its ok as Im an older Mum" and then to add insult to injury he said "and I bet its not the first time either" I wanted to tell him that it was but I stopped myself ;o)

Ok I admit that being 45 I could be Evies grandmother, but James' Mum - I dont think so...

...I was then wracking my brain to think what the other little girls were wearing and if they were in the pool with their Dads and how young they were!

The only one that I definitely remember having a pink swimming costume was a girl with her bearded Dad and he definitely didnt look young enough to be my Son.

James wasnt much help when I told him what had happened, he just said through hysterics that the man was probably talking about someone else!

glaucoma clinic today

Today I have my appointment at the glaucoma clinic...

...hopefully they will say that my eyes are "a ok"

The joy of pockets

We were in town this morning to get evies haircut and we treated ourselves to a hot chocolate with cream and a skinny pumpkin spice latte.

As usual I gave Evie my Starbucks card to pay with (she likes to help) and she then surprised me by putting the card in her pocket, she then put the receipt in her other pocket.

Lol the only I was able to get my card back off of her was to get her a blank card, which is still in her pocket ;o)

a little bit more

When I do Evies breakfast it always starts with a slice of toast (normally with chocolate spread on).

Then when she finishes she has cereal...

...just recently she has wanted to come out (with her toy monkey) and help me ;o)

they hold the bowl and I pour in the cereal - no matter how much I pour in Evie always says when I ask her if its enough that she wants a "little bit more" ;o)

disappointed

I was walking by the big Boots in town and saw that their Christmas catalogue is out so I eagerly picked up a copy so I could look through for ideas ;o)

So I had a look through it this morning in town, and it didnt really have that many products in it and was just saying check the website to see the full range (or something like that anyway).

I know that they wouldnt have room for everything but they could at least shown a bit more!

Cooking meets poker face

Earlier in the week while watching masterchef Australia I saw an advert for humble pie with marco Pierre white and Melanie sykes on watch, and it starts next Friday.

So I had a look at the on screen TV guide and I saw that the first episode is available to download already, so i downloaded it and have started watching it.

It is good and I will definitely put the series in to record ;o)

parent tour #4 booked

Our final parent tour has been booked ;o)

But because it is on a non pre school day I will be taking Evie with me, and James has already said that he doesnt want to go on anymore of the parent tours, so her school choice will be down to me then ;o).

lower back pain

On Saturday I woke up with lower back pain...

I have just looked it up on the NHS website, and it says to keep active which is fair enough (and with a three year old I dont even have the option to not move around ;o)).

But one of the reasons for seeing the doctor is if ts worse at night...

...well because I am now lying still in bed then when I have to get up its worse! ;o)

I am now looking forward to being able to roll over in bed ;o)

It also says to go to see the doctor if its no better in six weeks time.

parent tour #1

On Friday we did our first parent tour...

We were in a group of 6 sets of parents.

We were shown the three reception classes - normally they only have two classes but because of a "bumper" three years they are having an extra class (and kiddie intake) for three years running.

The headteacher seemed really nice and the kids were quite happy answering her questions, and telling us what they were doing in class.

The reception class playground was nice too - it even had astroturf ;o)

I finally managed to do a photo of Evie in her Tap Dancing clobber ;o)

Evie loving her tap dancing stuff ;o)

parent tours #2 & #3 booked

Two more parent tours have been booked...

...one of them is when Evie is at pre school and the other is an evening one.

And we are still waiting for another school to come back to us with their dates.