first parents evening

We have our first parents evening tonight at pre school ;o)

When I pick Evie up I always get told if she did well at stuff or not so well at anything, so Im guessing that it will just be a longer version of that.

We have got a good slot too (the second of the evening)..

Evie is allowed to come with us so thats good...

...I wonder if they will have any toys out for the kiddies to play with?

almost all bought

On Friday on hos home from work James asked me if I wanted him to look in Matalan for the rest of Evies school uniform.

So I said "yes please" and rattled off a whole list of what we still needed...

...he then texted me back to say that there were till issues in there and he couldnt be bothered to wait for them to sort them out.

So yesterday after doing the grocery shopping (in there I managed to get one packet of 3 polo shirts and some PE shorts), we went via Matalan and I had a look in there while James kept Evie entertained :)

So I went in there and found there school shop...

I bought her a couple more summer dresses, a couple of pairs of trousers, 6 pairs of white socks, and a couple of cardigans :)

I only have a few more bits to buy for her now :)

school dress

On Monday after we had finished Tumble Tots we walked around to Asda to see what school uniform that we could buy for Evie :)

I managed to buy her a summer school dress :)

Evie trying on her school dress

school place offer

You will be pleased to know that I managed to wait until I woke up :)

So as not to crash the Essex website I decided to check my e-mails first...

...and there waiting between metro and flickr was our school place offer...

...so what did we get?

we got our first choice :)

So today after Tumble Tots we are going to pop into Asda to buy Evie a school dress (with a zip rather than buttons) so that she can start getting used to her school uniform :).

will I or wont I

Tomorrow we find out which school Evie gets into...

...apparently the information is available from midnight tonight!

The question is am I going to be one of those parents who logs an at 12.01 tomorrow morning as I just have to know or can I wait until I get up tomorrow morning :)

I think I know that I will wait until tomorrow morning as I like having my sleep too much :)

happy birthday James

I forgot to wish James happy birthday...

...so happy birthday James :)

photographer Evie

On Tuesday we were watching tv and Evie picked up her camera and turned it on and said "say cheese" and she has been taking photos :)

We have tried to explain to her about keeping the camera still and what she sees in the screen at the back is what she gets on the photo.

She sees it as a game at the moment which is really good :)

She doesnt like it though when we try to look at the photos either...

...but I did manage to get all 165 photos off :)

a photo of mummy

mummy & daddy

her very first selfie

her camera has a "me & you" feature on it as well which I had a play with :)

Evie Evie and mummy the ballerinas :)

all the fun of the (steam) fair

When I was having my hair done last week I saw a sign for Carters Steam Fair and that they would be in Chelmsford this weekend, as James had always wanted to see it I texted him ;)

So this morning after going to tap dancing and our post skinny latte/kids hot chocolate after we went to have a look at the fair ;o)

Evie and James ended up going on the swing boat ride

having a swinging time

I wanted to go on a ride with her as well but Evie decided to do "hook a fish" instead :)

Evieplaying (everyones a winner) hook a fish

she caught one

Evie then decided that she wanted to play in the playground

at the top of the slide

and at the bottom

gruffalos child moneybox

The other day whilst in Hobbycraft I found some "paint your own" things that were half price ;o)

so I bought Evie the Gruffalos Child moneybox.

Yesterday I got it out for Evie to do ;o)

it started so well

more layers of colour

this is what brown, orange, yellow, black and white looks like mixed together :)

sorting out

Now that the weather is getting nicer, it is time to sort out Evies next load of clothes :)

I shall bag up (and give away) Evies old 3-4 age stuff and wash her 4-5 stuff.

And then I can see what else we need to buy.

I got Evie some more pjs today (so she should definitely have enough of those) :)

Evies jewllerybox sale

Yesterday at the secondhand market in town James bought Evie a jewellery box for 50p.

So after giving it a wipe over with a babywipe we put her jewellery in it.

Now every couple of minutes I have to try and buy something from her shop but whatever I chose I can't wear because it's too "quiet" :)