big girl eye test

Today Evie had an eye check up at the hospital...

...in previous appointments she has had pictures to recognise from far away, but today (because she is the grand age of four and a half) she had letters ;)

I was a bit worried because she doesnt know all of her letters but it was ok because she had a sheet of eight letters and she pointed to the ones that the lady wanted her to say what they were.

She is getting some new glasses too and she has chosen pink ones again :)

Our next appointment will be when she has started school so I have asked for it to be in the school holidays so she doesnt have to miss any lessons.

writing her name

We were in Costa (Evie prefers it to Starbucks - she is such a traitor :)), and James got a serviette for her to draw on and I suggested that she practice writing her name...

...this was her best attempt :)

Evie by Evie

So now when I write the next birthday card (there will be a couple coming up) I can get Evie to sign her own name :).

I am so proud of her :)

it was all good

We went to the new parents induction meeting last night at Evies new school :)

Her teacher is really nice so thats good.

We have been given a ton of paper work that has to be in by 17th June!

I have booked the teacher home visit (I have organised it for the afternoon to give me time to tidy up) :)

I have also booked her storytime (which I am allowed to stay for too)

And her school dinner experience - typically (as we have pre school those days) they are only on Wednesdays and Fridays - Wednesdays are roast dinners (which I would have gone for) and Fridays is fish.

We went for a Friday one and as I dont like fish I am having vegetarian chili and for dessert it is iced sponge or muller fruit corner yogurt :)

I also have Evies timeline for starting school...

...we have one afternoon the first week, a week of afternoons (including having to bring in a packed lunch one day) and then she starts full time!

I asked Evie this morning if she liked her teacher and she said "no" and I asked her if she liked her new school and she said "no".

step one

Tomorrow we have our first induction meeting with Evies new school...

...I have written down a few questions to ask tomorrow relating to games & swimming.

The games one is to do with track suits (as in the uniform list they say it is optional) and I want to know if they will be having games outside in the winter.

I also want to know if we will be told what days she has games so I can make sure she is wearing trousers as I am not sure how she is going to cope with tights in the winter.

And swimming wise I want to know what age they start swimming lessons so I know if its worth paying out for a swimming cap yet.

LOL when I mentioned the tracksuit question to James he said "but we havent seen any kids walking home in tracksuits when we have gone to pick Evie up" not realising that they get changed back into their school uniform first :).

at the beach

My Mum is over from Holland at the moment...

So me & Evie (along with James Mum & Dad) went to Clacton to see them

While they all chatted while sitting on the wall, me & Evie played on the beach and paddled in the sea

We had a great time :)

buttons

Yesterday I decided to get Evie practicing doing up buttons as despite me getting as many buttonless things as I can, the polo shirts that I have bought her do have buttons (albeit only three).

So yesterday morning (before breakfast) and before the tv went on I got her cardigan and showed her how to do up a button, I then undid it and got her to do it.

She got a huge cheer and a high five with every button she did up :)

I even managed to get her to do four because shes four (something she always says to me if she wants something).

James then tried to get her to do up the buttons on her cardigan when we went out but she wasnt interested by then!

happy birthday me

happy birthday to me
happy birthday to me
happy birthday dear me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
happy birthday to me

I am 46 so am now officially in my late forties!

Evie has pre-school today so will have a bit of nice birthday quietness :)

she wanted to walk

The pre school that I take Evie to is just over 1 mile away from where we live, so I usually push her in the buggy (both ways).

On Wednesday 5 minutes before we were due to leave Evie told me that she wanted to walk...

...so I told her that we didnt have time to do it but we would do it on Friday (if she still wanted to).

So on Friday when she woke up I asked her if she still wanted to walk to pre school and she said yes.

LOL at every opportunity (if she starting dawdling) I would say to her to hurry up if she still wanted to walk.

She even finished her breakfast early and even got dressed relatively quickly.

Then 15 minutes before we normally leave we left the house and we walked all the way there :)

We even got there before they had opened the doors so tomorrow we will leave here 10 minutes earlier instead :)

I still bought the buggy with me for the walk home as a full day is pretty tiring for her.

dribbling and croquet

On Thursday me & Evie had a picnic in the garden...

So after I had sorted our lunch and got the bits that we would need from the garage it was ready to go into the back garden :)

Evie showed me how she had learned to dribble at pre-school

she pushed Lilly Rabbit in the toy buggy

and we played croquet

LOL it goes in easier if you push it :)

On Friday I got a letter from Evies new school with details of the process of starting school...

...including story time and singing and a school dinner experience for me & Evie :)

finally the nice weather

Yesterday the weather was nice enough that I put some sun cream on Evie :o)

Yesterday after pre school she said that she would like to have a picnic in the garden, I told her that it was too late to have one then but we can have one tomorrow (being today).

So after I have sorted out the laundry I will get us ready...

Evie has already decided that she wants a fruit salad (not containing fruit though) and a hopscotch egg :o)

And she wants to sit in her Minnie mouse tent :o)

night time sobs

Yesterday I woke up to hear Evie crying, so I went into her room and she was sobbing so I rubbed her back and told her that she was having a bad dream and she went back to sleep.

When she woke up a couple of hours later I asked her about her dream...

...and she said that Mummy & Daddy had left her!

So I asked her where we had left her? And she said in Sainsburys.

(Whenever we are in any shop/mall we always point out the security guards to Evie so that if she gets lost she can always go to them and they can ring the numbers on her tag.)

So I asked her if she went to the security guard and she said yes and I then asked her if he gave her anything to eat while they were waiting for us and she said that he gave her some sweeties and I asked her if she had anything to drink and she said some smoothie.

We did come back for her in her dream which was good :)

some mummy free time

We were out having a (post tap dancing) coffee and as the weather was nice (not raining) James decided to take Evie out for a walk...

...so after checking my e-mails and looking a sky news I decided to have a play with the peppa paintbox app...

my only excuse is that I couldnt change the brush size!

the duplicates were down to the app playing up

musical notes and vehicles

a tea party with balloons :)

lucky lucky dip

On Thursday I got an e-mail from the national-lottery telling me that I had won a lucky dip as I had matched 2 numbers :)

I checked on my phone this morning and there was a message saying that there was news about my ticket and sure enough I matched 3 numbers on my lucky dip so had a proper win :)

the first parents evening

So we arrived 5 minutes before our slot ], and the manager asked us who we were there to see and she then said that Evies key worker (the person who helps her do stuff) will be with us shortly and then handed us her learning journey :)

We were then called in and we were told the steps they were taking in conjunction with what were doing at home to get her ready for going to school.

The other area which has always been on the table was Evie socialising...

...she is now starting to play with others without having to be coaxed into it so thats good.

I have told them all of the social things that Evie does, tap dancing, tumble tots and swimming lessons, so they should all be helping her confidence with speaking to other kids and playing with them.

They must be paying off as she said that she even heard Evie singing/talking loudly the day before ;o)

I doubt that all parents evenings will be as good but we can hope :)

ps there are another 2 posts to follow... :)